I’m just about to make the last payment for our trip to El Salvador in June. Me, my cousin Jeremy and a few of my friends will be surfing some of the best rights you can find in Central America. All this in warm water. Mmmmm warm water… Las Flores is a 4-star boutique resort [...]
Continue reading...28 April 2008
Is Microsoft Google’s biggest threat? Nope. Is it Yahoo? Think again… Ben Kunz at Business Week wrote a very good article about how Google is actually its own biggest threat. Google makes money by having ads displayed on your screen, whether when you’re doing a search on Google (these ads at the very top and [...]
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Foxconn Electronics has reportedly landed orders for the assembly of second-generation iPhones from Apple supporting 3G, with shipments to begin in June this year, the Chinese-language Commercial Times has quoted sources at foreign institutional investors in Taipei as indicating. The Commercial Times also cited sources at component suppliers as saying they have been instructed by [...]
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This month’s Internet Trends Report by Morgan Stanley is mainly focused on social applications. The report shows us that 6 out of the 10 top Internet sites are social (youtube, live.com, facebook, hi5, wikipedia, orkut). For the information, none were on the list in 2005! Is email about to die???
Continue reading...26 April 2008
Alexa.com has this rating system where they give websites a rank. The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). While it’s not as relevant [...]
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Cracked.com came up with the 6 worst foods in the world. While they might have forgotten a few ones, I’m sure they are pretty close to the truth. Among the worst food, we have:
Continue reading...25 April 2008
Here is the one artist that made me buy music for the first time on iTunes. Yes, I spent $.99/song for the first time this week. And you know what? It was well worth my money! Walter Ferguson was born in Guabito, Panama. His family soon settled in Costa Rica and he spent most of [...]
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Engadget got the scoop (as usual!) about iPhone 2nd Generation. Here are some details about the new iPhone:
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A retired veterinarian who was swimming with members of a triathlon club was killed Friday morning in a shark attack north of Fletcher Cove. A marine expert said the wounds appeared to be from a great white shark, an attack he described as “practically unprecedented” in the area.
Continue reading...24 April 2008
I just called a franchise company (I’ll keep the name for me) to ask them if they wanted to be listed in the upcoming edition of our top seller publication, the Bond’s Franchise Guide. I knew I was gonna be a hard sale. I met the franchisor at the International Franchise Expo in DC a [...]
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