I have been a serious user of social networks since joining LinkedIn several years ago&8211;the fourth person in Utah to join, as I recall. My friend Michael Tanne, now CEO of Wink.com , turned me onto it. Of my 858 connections, I think I personally know about 98% of them. I have turned down a ... Read more

From CES. The bit with Bono is particularly amusing! Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5w3X4R8b4 ... Read more

World Vital Records President David Lifferth keeps the company well informed about our key metrics. I got this information from him yesterday in an email: "Yesterday, Jan 8th, we set an important traffic record on WVR. For the first time ever, we surpassed 300,000 page views in a single day. ... Read more

In this morning's post I mentioned low cost cars coming from India. Today Business Week reported that Ratan Tata's new $2,500 car, called the Nano , is being met with "extreme enthusiasm" and is going to put India on the map in the auto world. CrunchGear indicates that Tata plans to introduce ... Read more

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Thanks to my brother Curt who taught me to be inspired by visionaries, I always make an effort to hear the great thinkers and movers and shakers in person. It is so much different and better than hearing about it later. Nothing, for example, was better than attending the Facebook Platform launch e ... Read more

I'm in Las Vegas for CES 2008. Last night on my drive from Provo I listened to some podcasts in the Stanford Entrepreneur Lecture Series. (You can download them for free from iTunes or from Stanford's web site.) The most interesting was Mark Zuckerberg's talk 2 years ago when Facebook had 5 mill ... Read more

I'm in Las Vegas for CES 2008. Last night on my drive from Provo I listened to some podcasts in the Stanford Entrepreneur Lecture Series. (You can download them for free from iTunes or from Stanford's web site.) The most interesting was Mark Zuckerberg's talk 2 years ago when Facebook had 5 mill ... Read more

I wrote in my last post that soon after installing Memeo I couldn't figure out how I had lived so long without it. I had a similar - in this case instantaneous - experience last night after installing my new Sonos . I'm not entirely clear why I waited to long to buy one (actually I am clear - ... Read more

I have a few pet peeves about personal business habits that I've joked about in the past (see How do you sign your emails and Where was that you went to school , for example). Here's another one that's been bugging me lately: outgoing voicemail messages With apologies to my many, ... Read more