Google Earth is definitely one of the most fascinating playthings in the company’s toybox; it was impressive when it launched in 2001 (under the name ‘Keyhole Earthviewer’) and it remains impressive to this day. I remember logging on as a teenager at home and finding the Eiffel Tower in Paris; back then, the only option […] Today I finished reading “The Startup Owner’s Manual” by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf. It came as highly recommended, and is currently ‘the book’ on startups to get. The book has material for every type of entrepreneur and really tries hard to be a blueprint on how to build and scale a startup. It tries […] Continue reading → It’s not wrong to be worried over your privacy, but you can’t be upset when you’ve handed your privacy over voluntarily. I make this statement in regards to the class action lawsuit accusing Google of violating federal and state wiretapping laws. The lawsuit states that it is wrong for Google to be scanning e-mails for […] This summer I put together a Facebook contest for a client. Up until last week, the social media’s site rules were explicitly clear: absolutely no promotion-related content could be administered within Facebook itself. If you wanted to make a promotion, you had to build it on a third-party app developer and host it as a […]