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Wisia is a new social recommendation service launched out of IWIlab, a startup incubator. This was started by Brian Kim, the co-founder of Hangame and former CEO of NHN Corp. Hangame, which was the leading online casual gaming company in the world, merged with Naver.com several years ago to form NHN Corp, and today they dominate the search market with approximately 80% market share in South

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"Facebook Connect Launches with 24 Partners Including Digg and Six Apart" "35+ Examples of Corporate Social Media in Action" "Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why It Will Win" by Om Malik "Major shareholder advisory firm backs Yahoo board" "Forgetting the Forgotten War" By Philip Klein HatTip to Mingi. Obama needing history lessons again. "John Edwards is busted!" "The Triumph of Peter

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More than two decades after immigrating to the U.S. my parents returned to Korea to establish a coffee chain. They were young when they first emigrated from South Korea and their formative business ventures were in the United States. So this was their first time doing business in a foreign country and, though they started life in Korea, the business conditions were unfriendly waters to them. In

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HatTip to Jai. This concept in China is pretty cool. From Duo Guo's website: DUO GUO (多果) owns and operates China's leading network of retail stores exclusively selling mobile content and services. Based in Shanghai, the Company has developed partnerships with China's largest retailers and leading global media companies to bring the best games, ringtones, software and other mobile services to

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"Zynga snags $29 million in VC funding" "Brainstorm Tech: Getting down to business" CNET's coverage of Fortune's Brainstorm:Tech conference this week. Several good posts here. "Is Facebook’s redesign aimed at Silicon Valley, not everywhere else?" VentureBeat "Newspapers not dead yet, but still looking for revenue" VentureBeat "Hyper-Inflation: The Storm Before the Calm in Brazil’s Economy"

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This past weekend I saw "The Dark Knight" and walked away thoroughly impressed. Rarely would I rate a movie four stars and rarely do I enjoy comic book adaptations since I grew up as a fanatic. I collected comic books and sadly read thousands of them during my youth :) My favorite was Frank Miller's limited series, "The Dark Knight Returns." It displayed a gritty, darker world and Batman

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"Why I became a Gmail convert" CNET "Is the Internet Destroying Real World Interactions?" Good post by Mashable's Steven Hodson "Why Silicon Valley Should Be Worried" by Om Malik "Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds" ReadWriteWeb "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" Y Combinator's Paul Graham "Obama's Op-Ed on Iraq - Premise Untrue, And a History Lesson" American

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My guest post at Mashable just went live today, "Google’s Lively: Another ‘What If’ at Google?" As most readers here know, my wife works at Google, but to be clear I never told her about this post until it was completed. I never asked her for information or insights about Google or Google's products related to this piece. Anyway, check it out! Feedback, disagreements, etc. please :) Also

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This past week I attend a seminar on public speaking since Christine signed me up for it. She knows that I wanted to improve on my public speaking skills, so being a great wife she was looking for such opportunities. I've never been a natural public speaker. During high school and college I was a horrible public speaker. Afterwards through training and seminars, I've improved tremendously and

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Our U.S. financial system is a mess and it seems that Ben Bernanke and others are scrabbling to fix it. I haven't study this problem carefully, so I don't know what "it" is. I do know that it was a problem people thought they could sweep underneath the rug, but the dust pile got too big. My CEO, Allan Lunsford, and I were talking late last year and he was telling me that there is over a

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"Twitter has its search, now it’s time to embrace mobile" "Intel 2Q profit jump reflects healthy PC demand" "E-commerce soars in China: study" "10 Brilliant Social Networks You Don’t Know About" "Online advertising during a recession: 5 key trends for ad-based startups" "Barack Obama purges Web site critique of surge in Iraq" "Obama's Op-Ed on Iraq - Premise Untrue, And a History Lesson"

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Christine set up this TechTalk at Google for Jennifer Lahl, Founder and National Director of the Center for Bioethics & Culture and Founding Director with Hands Off Our Ovaries, an international campaign raising awareness of the dangers of egg harvesting. ABSTRACT One quick Google search on "egg donation" will demonstrate how prevalent the ads are to "make dreams come true" or "help create a

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Christine has been using Remember The Milk for a while at work. It's a to-do list service that has been around since October 2005, but their continual development and integration into iPhone, Blackberry, Gmail and others has fueled its growth to over 600,000 users. I recently caved in and downloaded its Gmail Firefox extension, and loved it. I like it that my to-do list is shown side-by-side

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(heads up since this post has religious references) Following up from last week’s post on connecting, I wanted to examine other approaches to communication from a biblical perspective. An obvious choice is looking at Jesus’ manner of connecting with people. The difficulty of course is appreciating his humanity and the limits he experienced in his human form. Many people, including me, tend to

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Got some requests to send these job postings out, so I'll put them up here. CRAIGSLIST FOUNDATION: Operations Manager LOCATION: San Francisco, CA ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW: Founded in 1999 to harness the tremendous goodwill generated by craigslist.org, Craigslist Foundation provides knowledge, resources, and visibility to the next generation of nonprofit leaders. While Craigslist is about

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Christine attended Dan Ariely's TechTalk at work and recommended that I watch the video that was posted on YouTube. Just sharing this with you. Here is the full description: Professor Dan Ariely visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions." This event took place on July 1, 2008, as part of the Authors@

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"New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for An Ugly Fight" WSJ "Fannie Mae Ugly" WSJ "Midnight hour for Fannie and Freddie There is no shortage of chatter about a possible bailout of two of the most important companies in the world. What would that look like and is it even necessary?" "Five trends driving the mobile web" "Yahoo Takes A Gander At Demand Media To Plug Some Holes" "How to

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I serve on the board of the Center for Bioethics & Culture. Through this position I have come to learn about the atrocities of the egg donation business and how it damages the reproductive capabilities of thousands of unsuspecting women. Check out the video and read Jennifer Lahl and Josephine Quintavalle's article, "Unscrambling the Human Egg Donation Debate"

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If you love the old Simon game or enjoy memory games, download Lumina to your iPhone. Just go to their iTunes page here. Some more news on the iPhone App Store from VentureBeat, "iPhone App Store first impression: Sublime beyond belief"

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added 8 new natural wonders to the World Heritage List: * Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Canada) * Mount Sanqingshan National Park (China) * Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems (France) * Surtsey (Iceland) * Saryarka - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan) * Monarch Butterfly

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Over at IntoMobile, they are reporting that "Sprint's Instinct is now the best-selling handset to have graced Best Buy's inventory in the past two years." I wonder how many Instincts have been sold over this period? Doing a quick search didn't bring up anything. Q1 of this year there were nearly 31 million handsets sold in the U.S. and Samsung was number two after Motorola. Putting Apple's

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A few random blogs I came across that you can check out: Startup Meme Startup Meme is dedicated to reviewing Internet startups. In addition to this, we also profile existing companies that are working hard to make gadgets/services more usable for the rest of us. The Social Path HatTip to Jim. By David Griner who is a social-media analyst for Luckie & Company and a contributor to Adweek's blog,

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"Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively" "I Requested That Verizon Drop Their Deal With 1938media" "Video surveillance firm gets $10 million in VC funding" "Hitachi announces second-generation terabyte drive" "Deadliest job in America: Working on cell phone towers" "Chasing Best Practices, Part 2" InsideWork

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"Harvard Says The Long Tail Is Really Short" "Huge German company makes the switch, goes from PC to Mac." "Survey: 8 in 10 businesses now using Macs" All this is impressive since Apple has barely marketed to the enterprise sector. "The Art of Conversation - It's About Listening Not Marketing" by Brian Solis "Chasing Best Practices, Part 1" InsideWork "Carly Fiorina touts McCain's tech

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This should have been written months ago when it was released, but our household avoids video games like the plague due to Christine's belief that they degrade the mind. Since we're expecting, we've been limited in our activities so she finally gave in and agreed to test out Rock Band. I never got into Guitar Hero, but I gave series a try with Rock Band and was pleasantly surprised this past

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