How To Establish a Digital Trust Fund For Your Children

December 11, 2011

Kids will face horrific levels of competition for their own identity in the not too distant future. Think about how many people scour GoDaddy each day hoping to snag their own domain name. Now consider how much cash an individual might have to pay some squatter who owns the rights to their name (Politicians and [...]

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Guess Who’s Got $3,000,000,000,000 in Disposable Income

December 10, 2011

“I think this is the last game that Grandpa is going to be able to go to, Joe,” my Dad told me. My Dad had brought my soon-to-be 90 year old grandfather to watch the last home game of the season between Michigan State University and Indiana University. It was great that Carl got to [...]

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How To Start A Digital Company Using Your Birthday Money

December 8, 2011

The young woman at the bank counter was wearing sunglasses. Well, not with dark lenses anyways. But I’m positive they were sunglasses frames. I wasn’t sure how easy it would be to open a business checking account and sign up for a debit card. Certainly I couldn’t set things in motion on this trip to [...]

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Why You Need to Fail More Quickly Before Age 35

December 6, 2011

I started crying in the outfield. Hard. There might not be any crying in baseball, but I cried like an infant fighting against their first tooth when I had to play T-ball on a sweltering day in August. Couldn’t help it, I guess. I just really, really hated the sun beating down on me while [...]

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Ambient Sharing: The Social Future of the Mobile Web

December 5, 2011

How much fun would it be for your wife to know you stop in at Dunkin’ Donuts every morning on the way to work, especially if you’d to work ‘extra hard’ at sticking to your diet? Donut scenarios like the one above may become more common in the future, thanks to the advent of ‘ambient [...]

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Do We Owe It To Our Employers To Start A Company?

November 28, 2011

Maybe I’m just batshit crazy, but it seems like we owe it to our employers to learn harder in the pursuit of excellence. By starting a company and learning like a champ. I don’t mean the next multinational corporation, just a small side business to reconnect our creative pathways inside our collective cortex. How amazing [...]

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Why Spotiseek is the Essential Spotify Plugin

November 22, 2011

I plunk down $10 each month to listen to a relatively unlimited selection of music via Spotify. But there’s a problem with instant access to millions of songs: New music remains a mystery to me. Unfortunately Spotify is quite lame when it comes to recommending good songs. The service does offer ‘Top Tracks’ and albums, [...]

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What Are The Implications Of Microsoft’s Socl Project?

November 15, 2011

Props to The Verge for breaking new details of the Microsoft Socl Project story. “Find what you need and Share what you know” is the stated goal of the Socl project. There are several moving parts being developed, but one in particular caught my attention: I’m sold on the concept of ‘Social Search’, a key [...]

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How To Build Your Killer Resume Website Using Flavors.me

November 15, 2011

Yesterday I stopped redirecting JoeMescher.com to my LinkedIn profile, but instead of installing WordPress and building out multiple pages, I opted to use Flavors.me instead. Flavors.me is best described by ReadWriteWeb as “10 code-free minutes to a sexier web presence.” In other words, you can build a simple homepage that contains an attractive background image, [...]

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Gain Street Cred By Skipping The Social Media Singles Bar

November 14, 2011

Stop trying to get a piece. You’ve got a Facebook Fan Page, corporate Twitter feed and/or YouTube channel for your business? Then it’s time to fixate on people who will come back to you over and over again (And drop the obsession with the quick score, in this case new fly-by-night fans). Why? Simple. While [...]

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