July 2009
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Jul 31st
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Jul 27th
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On Quantum Philosophy and The Long Tail →
Some thoughts on the Quantum and the Long Tail at henry.sztul.com/blog
Jul 27th
“The other thing I like about the FT’s model is that its an elegant...”
– Monetize The Audience, Not The Content
Jul 25th
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Jul 22nd
“A key competency of the Web 2.0 era is discovering implied metadata, and then...”
– Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, October 20 - 22, 2009, San Francisco, CA
Jul 21st
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“If your partnership doesn’t cause you to edit your Excel spreadsheet, it’s...”
– A Dozen Don’ts for Entrepreneurs : The World : Idea Hub :: American Express OPEN Forum Guy Kawasaki (How to Change the World)
Jul 21st
Jul 14th
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“Take a walk down the aisles of Target, Wal-Mart or any big box store, and you’ll...”
– Want to improve your odds? Think hardware | VentureBeat
Jul 8th
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“Many new consumer electronics ventures can flourish in a state of semi-success,...”
– Want to improve your odds? Think hardware | VentureBeat
Jul 8th
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RE: Google Apps Standard Edition
From Google: “In experimenting with a number of different landing page layouts, the link to Standard Edition was inadvertently dropped from one of the variations. We are in the process of restoring it and you should see it soon. We have no intention of eliminating Google Apps Standard Edition, and are sorry for the confusion.”
Jul 7th
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Bait and Switch? -OR Just- Realistic monetization?
Google Apps for a domain, a service that lets users that own a domain, like say Sztul.com, host email (gmail style), a calander, online documents, a start page and more is now a paid service. If you go to http://google.com/apps you will see that now it costs $50/user per year after a 30 day free trial.  It used to be free (as in beer) for up to 50 users. hmmm… I guess I am glad I have...
Jul 7th
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“The more power you shift to edge, the more inventive the area is. Inventions...”
– Andy Lippman, associate director of the MIT Media Lab (via http://bit.ly/5Tf3N)
Jul 6th
Henry's Triathlon Fundraising Page →
I’m only $300 away from my fundraising goal!  Whoever puts me over the mark gets an autographed picture of me swimming in the mighty Hudson River!!
Jul 6th
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Jul 6th
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Google Voice
I have been using Google Voice, and previously GrandCentral, for some time now.  I don’t use it a lot, but I have been using it to give out to people who I don’t want to necessarily have my actual cell number. Well, today I did something that will keep me a user for a long time I think… I got a new number: (646) 80-SZTUL Thats right, I have a vanity phone number.  Take that...
Jul 6th
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“…the Internet allows an entrepreneur to enter a market with a free...”
– Freemium and Freeconomics Very interesting topic and well said by Fred Wilson.
Jul 5th
Regarding Palin's rapid departure
marco: Nobody suddenly announces a resignation on the Friday evening before a holiday weekend if it’s a positive thing. This isn’t a bid for the presidency. It’s a scandal.
Jul 4th
“For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson’s...”
– Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code - WSJ.com
Jul 2nd
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Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator... →
Kinda glad I didn’t pursue this back in September… ie babeleze.com  (anyone want to buy a domain name?)
Jul 1st