John Budnik

This is fantastic. Must-read for a newbie entrepreneur. I found it 500 times more useful than the stuff you find for "how to incorporate" on Google. :-) - Sid Yadav via Bookmarklet

I agree. Wish I would have had someone explaining things to me BEFORE I hired a lawyer to help. It was still a good idea but not COMPLETELY necessary. - Dave Ploch

Typical rww style - simple, essential info. Very helpful indeed. - Jamie Dool

I like this for the Argentinean economy. Less debt equals a stronger economy. However, while this will reduce inflation and increase the purchasing power of ordinary Argentinians, this may make it more difficult to sell Argentinean products abroad. - John Budnik

@Mario Sundar and @Robert Scoble: Damn the video is gone. What did it reveal? - Nicholas Helke via NoiseRiver

You can get to the video following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - John Budnik

I just watched Oprah on Youtube. What was I thinking? - possible248

"Once limited to companies with the resources to hire advertising agencies and production companies, online commercials are now within the reach of smaller firms. Software and services sold by companies such as Spot Runner Inc., Mixpo, PixelFish Inc., TurnHere Inc. and Jivox Inc. allow small companies to create, deploy and monitor video ads at a fraction of the cost of hiring an ad agency to do it for them." - Morgan via Bookmarklet

this article features my company, TurnHere - I'm super-excited!!! - Morgan

This all makes complete sense. If I'm looking local and I'd like to know more about a contractor or craftsperson, I'd like to get a little more than just the company's hours of operation and their location. Give me some substance and let me hear from the owner or the employees. Content like this makes me a very curious customer and the more I can see, the more likely I am to follow through on my purchase. @Morgan Congratulations on the mention. - Christopher Harley

Thanks Christopher. That's the idea. Instead of making a salesy :30 second TV commercial for the web, we create a profile of the business that meets the viewers information needs. It gives the viewer the opportunity to make a decision based on what they see and then take action should they choose to. Instead of an over-produced sales pitch it's an authentic look at a local business that let's the viewer gain more info and helps the small biz stand out from the competition. Thanks for the comments! - Morgan

It sounds as though the facts are starting to support my hypothesis that the lack of available credit would help correct the inflationary trends. I even said that I believed 'the worst was over' regarding inflation, but this has yet to be proven definitively by the markets. - John Budnik

Was this any surprise after the crack down on 'preferred lenders'? - John Budnik

I never met him, but Bernie Mac just seemed like a warm, genuine guy. I'm sorry to hear about his passing. - John Budnik

This is great advice for anyone who has to make presentations, whether in tech or not. - John Budnik

"Californians have the right to move from one company to another or start their own business and can't be prohibited by their employer from working for a competitor in their next job, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

That's right: even if you signed a noncompete at friendfeed, it's unenforceable and shouldn't prevent you from coming back to your friends at Google. Just remember lawyer Eric Kastner's condition in that article, "As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information", that is, secrets still have to stay secret. For example, as a former Microsoft Employee I'm not allowed to disclose the location of the secret army of evil monkeys. http://www.bbspot.com/News/200... - Jorg Brown

Jorg: :) Google's secret army of good robots would totally pwn Microsoft's evil monkeys. - Tudor Bosman

""i herd on the news that rusia has invaded but i dont see them no where wats going on."" - MG Siegler via Bookmarklet

OMG. And they said WE were the Northern Aggressors. - Cyndy

@Cyndy, no that's just ya'll Yankees - Jason Carreira

Maybe the Y Combinator model is too messy for a big company like Microsoft, but Google seems to be doing a good job of promoting innovation through their app engine. Google and Amazon (even with the recent challenges with S3) are helping developers reduce the time and cost of bringing new ideas to market. There may be some way for Microsoft to explore creating external pipelines for new ideas that are not as labor intensive as is Y Combinator. - John Budnik

This is a great look at old Las Vegas. What I liked most was the sense of elegance the town exuded. - John Budnik

I have been very disappointed with the TV shows and movies I can get on iTunes. Hulu is better, but I've probably been spoiled by NetFlix, which has just about any program I could want. - John Budnik

I'm a mindmanager junkie. Lately I've been experimenting with mindmeister, doing real-time collaborative mindmapping with clients --what a great way to grow ideas visually while talking on the phone! - Leif Hansen

Hmm mindjets mindmanager has online functionality as well those days.. haven't played with it yet though - Marcel Ekkel

http://bibliotech.livejournal.... mostly about ranting/fandom and sci-fi type stuff. - eve shot first

http://silas216.com. A little bit of everything. - Steven Perez

I've just started blogging about economics and monetary police at http://www.johnbudnik.com/blog . I'm not sure that anyone will find it particularly interesting, but I have gotten a few people following me on FF based on earlier comments on monetary policy. - John Budnik

http://www.google.nl/search?q=... - Peter

it would be far more useful if i didn't have to go to a third-party site to search...without search, FF is limited in usefulness as it doesn't give me great ways of easily discovering new people and/or groups if just starting out - Aaron McCullough

It would help if there were an index ordered by ((sub-)sub-)category. Creating a room should require to assign a category to the room. - Peter

very misleading title - you are actually planning on integrating friendffeed as your commenting system, correct - you're not claiming that ff is actually "stealing" your comments intentionally, that would be silly and highly provocative of you svetlana - ff can do more good for you than you would do for them... - mike "glemak" dunn

Let's all use UTC and forget about different time zones! ;) - Markus

@silpol: I actually have a really good reason, sil: Because if the default ownership of a thing is he who created it, you can give it up or keep it as you will. If it's owned by someone else, you have no choice in the matter. From the early 60's, the Net has functioned on the underlying assumption that ideas, writings, creations are the possession of the author and that while redistributing them can be OK, claiming possession is bad. Locking things up is bad. Thus open email architectures, open web architectures, and open RFCs. I suppose the Finns might have tried to create a competing environment. If they were capable. Experience suggests they weren't, and didn't. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver