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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Barack Obama on MySpace TV
I definitely agree with the point Obama made in the following video — that the single biggest thing our next president will need to do is repair the damage that has been done by our current administration to the United States’ reputation around the world. Part 10 ‘Single Most Important Issue’Add to My Profile | More Videos There are twenty questions that Obama answered – click here and then look in the lower right of the screen under “More Videos” for parts 1-20.
What Does OpenSocial Mean to Facebook?
Big news — Facebook has a new & VERY formidible competitor — “OpenSocial”. The New York Times is reporting that Google and a slew of partners are going to launch OpenSocial on Thursday. What is OpenSocial? TechCrunch says it is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: Profile Information (user data) Friends Information (social graph) Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff) In addition to Google’s solution to social networking, Orkut, the partners in this project are LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning — a pretty impressive list (though I didn’t realize anyone still used friendster) … Continue reading
EDUN ONE Video
Here’s a video from the EDUN program. You can learn more about the edun LIVE program here. [via ONE Blog]
A Young Internet Millionaire – Max Levchin
There is a story on Max Levchin, one of the founders of PayPal & current CEO of Slide.com, in the New York Times that is a great read — After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again. Max Levchin was one of the early founders of PayPal, which was acquired by eBay in October 2002. Max, now 32 years old, has a net worth of roughly $100 million and could retire if he wanted to — yet he is still working 15 hours a day at his new company. It’s refreshing to see a young millionaire not blowing his millions of dollars on wortheless material crap — upscale dining, fancy cars, dozens of houses, etc.
Who is the Real Peter Griffin?
or A friend e-mailed me the picture today, though I just found more info here.
Holy Smokes – Facebook is Valued at $15 Billion
Microsoft is investing $240 million in Facebook for a 1.6% stake in the company. WOW. There have already been dozens of people who have blogged about this, so I’m not going to bother to write anything more. But this is HUGE news — check out Techmeme for further reading.
New Zealand Aims to be World’s First Carbon Neutral Nation
New Zealand is targeting to become the 1st carbon neutral nation. Even China is making strides in the right direction. Why isn’t the US taking a more pro-active approach to clean-energy development?? Oh yeah, I forgot — short term economic stability & growth is more important than cleaning up this planet for our children and grandchildren.
