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ClearMyGuilt.com Goes Live! Confess Anonymously

Today I was a part of a 3-person team that launched a new website called ClearMyGuilt.com, a simple concept one might consider “crowdsourced confessions” or something along those lines. ClearMyGuilt.com encourages visitors to submit confessions anonymously. The best confessions get posted on the site each day where visitors rate them forgivable or unforgivable. Confessions with more forgivable votes go to Heaven, while those with more unforgivable votes go to Hell.

So, if you need to get something off your chest and would like to confess anonymously, ClearMyGuilt.com is your solution!

The Internet Without Ads : Thoughts about the future of online advertising

Over the past few weeks I’ve researched and contemplated a few things about the internet, the state of e-commerce, and the future of the web. I’ve asked myself whether the “freemium” business model has a future and what would the web look like without ads? For a little more backdrop on this topic read the article titled “There are no free lunches on the internet“, by John Naughton at The Guardian.

Typically, most internet start-ups jump on the get-big-quick-by-making-it-free bandwagon and subsequently find themselves monetizing the business with advertisements galore. Google did it, Facebook is doing it, and Twitter is trying. Countless others have too, some wildly successful (so far)

Halloween 2011 – Las Vegas (Avicii, Tiesto, Deadmau5)

What a weekend it was! Halloween 2011 is officially over, but the memories will last forever. A shot out to Z-French for joining me for an awesome 3-day weekend in Vegas to see (and listen to) the likes of Avicii, Tiesto, and Deadmau5, back-to-back-to-back nights! For various personal reasons, this was set to be my last major vacation/trip and party weekend for the foreseeable future, but I surely went out with a bang- in Las Vegas!

Income Inequality Means Slow Economy

From the Washington Post (10/17/2011) Wonkbook: Will Obama occupy Wall Street? http://is.gd/QjCiCB

…Equality helps economies grow, writes Nicholas Kristof: “In his important new book, ‘The Darwin Economy,’ Robert H. Frank of Cornell University cites a study showing that among 65 industrial nations, the more unequal ones experience slower growth on average. Likewise, individual countries grow more rapidly in periods when incomes are more equal, and slow down when incomes are skewed. That’s certainly true of the United States. We enjoyed considerable equality from the 1940s through the 1970s, and growth was strong. Since then inequality has surged, and growth has slowed. One reason may be that inequality is linked to financial distress and financial crises. There is mounting evidence that inequality leads to bankruptcies and to financial panics. ‘The recent global economic crisis, with its roots in U.S. financial markets, may have resulted, in part at least, from the increase in inequality,’ Andrew G. Berg and Jonathan D. Ostry of the International Monetary Fund wrote last month.”…

SongKick.com : My new favorite music events app

This is interesting. In my quest to find an existing solution (or build my own) to solve the problem of finding music events, while at the same time being able to coordinate with friends, and make plans, I stumbled across something very cool. It’s called SongKick!

Seriously, SongKick has about 90% of all the things I envisioned building myself. It has a few minor shortcomings, but still a great service and I know it can only get better over time. Best of all, its FREE! Not only can you seek out and plan your music event, concert, and music festival literary, you can also record your attendance history in

Steve Jobs Remembered : A visionary and inspirational leader

As it was certainly sad to hear about the passing of Steve Jobs today, it was only fitting that I would heard of the news from a friend (former Apple employee), via text message on my iPhone 4. I quickly jumped on my Macbook Pro to check Facebook & Twitter to see if the rumor was true. Yep, and although Steve Jobs is gone, his legacy will never die. His company, his vision, and crazy ideas, have certainly changed the world and will continue to do so. Steve was a legendary and iconic leader who change the course of history and helped blend science with art in a way we can all appreciate. People can debate all they want about his personal idiosyncrasies, character flaws, but his is human after all, and at the end of the day he will be remembered for his accomplishments- remembered for his vision, creativity, persistence, insight, resolve, and passion for life. With that I bid farewell to a man who has certainly inspired myself and so many others for generations to come.

The Next American Revolution : Occupy Wall Street

Over the past couple weeks I’ve had public and private conversations with friends and family regarding the general state of affairs in the world, in America, and what’s going on with the economy. It’s not good. Among other things, I continue to express my concern about the growing income gap in America and it’s consequences if nothing is done to reverse the trend. This along with corporate greed, corruption, corporate welfare, an a growing national debt and deficit crisis. Inequality is back to 1929 levels and if nothing is done stop the madness, people (with nothing to loose) would ultimately rise up and take back from those who have everything to loose. Revolt! It’s happening.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people