http://www.startupmentality.com What keeps me up at night Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:31:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Verbs 2.0 -- tweeting, digging, blogging, emailing (ok, that one is 1.0) -- can now make you some extra change for doing what you do already. All you need to get is a Google AdSense account and add it to your MessageDance profile. Send YouTube videos, Songza songs, Digg articles, ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/07/09/finally-a-way-for-us-schmucks-to-make-money-in-social-media/ I've been thinking a lot about oil lately, not surprisingly. I'm convinced its price is approaching bubble status but based on the reasons for its rise, it may not have quite reached the point of popping. Some analysis has almost 50% of oil's price increase solely based on the depreciation ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/06/23/a-backseat-economists-view-on-how-the-oil-bubble-will-burst/ It's probably been over two years, but I actually clicked on one today. Because Gmail thinks I'm a spammer, I've been getting tons of delivery failure messages. Gmail served up an ad for help (for a price) for getting email accounts off spamming blacklists. Geez, talk about a perfect revenue ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/06/12/i-clicked-on-a-web-ad-today/ I will admit I thought the Apple Store was a bad idea when they first opened. I saw them going into high-end shopping centers like the store in Walnut Creek, CA located next door to a Tiffany store. How could a traditionally low-margin business justify expensive-as-hell retail locations? I figured ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/05/30/apple-store-is-genius/ With the Safari browser and the iPhone's sweet touch screen functionality, I can look at any web page and do what I would do on a laptop. Granted, browsing on the AT&T Edge network can try your patience, but when connected to wi-fi (and soon 3G), the browsing speed is ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/05/23/i-dont-need-a-special-ui-for-my-iphone-thanks/ The title is apropos for the election season, but I'm going to propose an idea here and I hope to get some feedback. Lots of people are talking about the disconnect with comments and conversations happening on Twitter, FriendFeed, and their blog. For example, you make a blog post and ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/05/23/its-the-blog-stupid/ On a FF item, I clicked on "More" and then "Link to this entry". Using iPhone's "Email Link" feature, I emailed it to "blog @ messagedance.com". Voilà. The URL is nicely expanded with blog post. ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/05/22/sharing-tip-for-friendfeed-entry/ Just read this piece about FriendFeedLinks on TechCrunch and the first thought I had was -- will FriendFeed have a problem with this? After all, could you imagine a MicrosoftLinks or GoogleLinks? Corporate lawyers live for this kind of stuff. But that was before Twitter. Twitter really changed things by not going ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/05/13/will-friendfeed-be-as-kind-as-twitter/ Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says he will reinvent Nokia into an Internet company as detailed by Anders Bylund of Ars Technica. It's a clear reaction to the success of the iPhone (with the frenzy of activity around jailbreaking it and the new SDK), the poorly kept rumor about the Google ... http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/05/09/i-sense-a-disruption-in-the-force/ Another installment of a "how-to" video from MessageDance. See how to break away from your blog platform and blog from virtually anywhere. BTW, it's pretty darn easy making YouTube videos using Snapz and iMovie. Only wish the video quality was better on YouTube. Blogged with MessageDance using YouTube http://www.startupmentality.com/2008/05/01/messagedance-jailbreak-your-blog/