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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek &# by Tim Ferriss. It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives.

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Interview with Steve Adler and Danielle Mead, Biddees

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Yesterday, Los Angeles-based Biddees (www.biddees.com) launched a new web site, which combines gift cards, a reverse auction system, and microdonations to nonprofits. We spoke with CEO Steve Adler , and Vice President of Marketing Danielle Mead , about the firm and what it's hoping to do. What is the site all about? Steve Adler: It's a reverse auction site that exclusively sells prepaid cards.

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Limit… less: Ignore Limits – Focus On Opportunities

InfoChachkie

During the late 1800’s, American author Horatio Alger wrote 129 novels, most of which recount the deeds of impoverished young people who overcome their modest means to establish independent lives as self-sufficient, middle class citizens. Years after Alger created this new genre, it was derisively (and incorrectly) termed “rags to riches.” A common critique is that Mr.

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Eric Greenspan, not Eric Greenspan (or Eric Greenspan)

Eric Greenspan

Time to clear this up. I’m Eric Greenspan, not Eric Greenspan (or Eric Greenspan). Eric Greenspan's The Foundry on Melrose. I’m not the chef Eric Greenspan. He owns the Foundry on Melrose. He was up for the Next Iron Chef on the Food Network but lost to grasshoppers. He is the master of the grilled cheese amongst other culinary delights.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest.

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Mogreet Powers Hotel's Mobile Marketing Campaign

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Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile video marketing firm run by James Citron, said earlier this week that it has powered a mobile marketing campaign for Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica. The firm--which recently expanded its offerings from video greeting cards to also include mobile video marketing services--did not disclose the financial impact of the deal.

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OrigAudio's Rock It: Sound from Anything

Tech Zulu Event

"Rock It," a device from OrigAudio, brings your music to just about anything dense enough to carry a vibration. Though not a traditional speaker in itself, when paired with another hollow object (like an empty box of Cheerios), the device sends vibrations through the object, producing sound. The Rock It doesn't produce Bose-quality sound by any means, but I liked that it's capabilities only seem limited by the objects at hand.

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Inaugural Open Angel Forum Was a Success

Both Sides of the Table

Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. As a former entrepreneur, I’m a big supporter of Jason’s goals.

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TrueCar Looks To Predict Hot Cars

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz. The firm said the new vehicle pricing prediction service will offer prediction in consumer interest in new vehicles, based on site traffic, automotive media coverage, blog postings, dealership pre-orders, and other data.

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Hollywood Web Television Meetup

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- Hollywood Web Television Meetup. Join us for Tubefilter's Hollywood Web Television Meetup on January 21st, 2010 in Los Angeles. This month? We're delving into independent content production with Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf of Epic Fu. See [link] (more).

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TechPunch - The Real CES: Day One

Tech Zulu Event

January 7th, 2010 marked the beginning of the 3D television extravaganza in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), was very anti-climactic. After the first four hours of walking through it, and nearly four days left on the schedule to fill with curiosity, Jacob Nahin and I were given the green light to create a satirical video of our take on the show.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism.

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Break.com Rolls iPhone App

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Los Angeles-based video site Break.com said today that the firm has launched a new, iPhone application, which allows its users to view its various video channels. According to Break, the app was launched December 31st on the App Store, and is available for free for iPhone and iPod touch users. The new app includes access to its homepage videos, comments, ability to share videos, and browse and watch videos by channel.

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LAVA's 7th Annual Venture Awards Dinner

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- LAVA's 7th Annual Venture Awards Dinner. Master of Ceremonies: Ken Rutkowski, METal International. 2010 LAVA Hall of Fame Inductee: Jake Winebaum; Best Exit Life Sciences: Corevalve, Inc.; Best Exit Internet Technology, Networks In Motion; Best Funding in New Media/Internet: Rubicon Project, The, HauteLook.com, Zag; Best Funding in Software/Services: OpenX Technologies, Inc.

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Get your groove on with Mobi Headphonies

Tech Zulu Event

If you've ever been to TechZulu's Hollywood HQ, you know that Domo and Totoro stand guard over my Mac. I'm a sucker for the cute stuff, and at CES , the Headphonies from Mobi Technologies were no exception. These three-inch designer mini speakers feature a hi-fi amplifier that surprisingly pumps out the same base as a regular boom box. You can also purchase a splitter to connect two of these characters for stereo sound.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess Deny Access to Certain Bots/Programs How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com I received requests from a few webmasters some time ago asking me if there was a way to block unwanted bots from their website.This article shows you how you can do this using.htaccess.

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Tandem Diabetes Nabs $31M

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San Diego-based Tandem Diabetes , a developer of insulin pumps, has raised another $31.0M in funding, bring its current funding round to $52.3M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm lsat week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed by the company. Tandem has previously raised funding from Domain Associates, Second Technology Capital Investors, and TPG Ventures. $21.3M of the current funding round came in May.

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Defining the Target Market and Meeting Marketing Needs

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- Defining the Target Market and Meeting Marketing Needs. OCTANe. Come learn from industry experts on how to sharpen a critical entrepreneurial skill: the ability to recognize opportunities and identify which are worth pursuing. Program participants will build their skills and confidence to research an industry and its market characteristics, potential competitors, and customers.

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Hands-On: Sony VAIO X-Series Notebook PC

Tech Zulu Event

With all the traveling we do here at TechZulu, we're always on the lookout for ultra portable gear with high computing power and decent battery life. And if it looks snazzy, all the better. Which is why I was so excited to come across the Sony VAIO X-Series ultra thin notebook at CES. This super-sexy notebook computer weighs in at just 1.6 pounds and is a mere half-inch thick.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Don’t necessarily understand it as a part of my ongoing jihad holy war on URI shorteners.

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Biddees Launches Gift Card Auction Site

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Santa Monica-based Biddees , a new startup founded by a number of veterans from Shoes.com, has launched a new web site today focused on decreasing reverse auctions of gift cards. The site allows consumers to buy gifts cards from such companies as Amazon.com, Walmart, and other brand name retailers using a reverse auction, combined with donations to nonprofits.

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Clean-Tech Investor Summit

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- 6th Annual Clean-Tech Investor Summit. This year, as always, The Clean-Tech Investor Summit will offer its high-level audience a series of keynotes from some of the greatest minds in clean tech. Audience members will be privy to a provocative presentation by Dr. Craig Venter, whose fame for sequencing the human genome may yet be surpassed by his efforts to apply "biological robots" to global energy and environmental challenges.

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TechPunch - The Real CES: Day Two

Tech Zulu Event

Some of you no doubt watched TechPunch's "The Real CES: Day One," where Enrique Gutierrez (@nrek) and I took on the CES show floor and show-cased some pretty laughable products. Between Central hall and South Hall, Enrique and I found mp3 players with 1-inch screens (it displayed E-books!) and Cansonic camcorders. We thought CES couldn't get any more peculiar.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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home contact RSS lets get you on the web | josh can help with site & wordpress design, development & strategy get help about portfolio subscribe: RSS email twitter categories archives recent search Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons 1/14/2010 by: Josh posted in: Technology Marketing , Wordpress Development share: Increasing the page load speed of your website has been proven to increase conversion rates (reduce the number of people who get fed up an

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Slacker Expands Radio Service To Canada

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San Diego-based Slacker , the personalized Internet radio service backed by Mission Ventures, Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds, reported Thursday that it has expanded its service into Canada. Slacker said that it has expanded its service to Canada through its web site, along with free applications for BlackBerry and Android phones.

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SoCalBio Networking Forum

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, January 21, 2010 -- SoCalBio Networking Forum in Orange County. Featuring presentation and panel discussion on the state of the medical device industry beyond the current economic downturn. See https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jyvsj. (more).

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Talking Tech Trends With Rich DeMuro at CES 2010

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During CES TechZulu's own Amanda Coolong talks tech trends with Rich DeMuro from TechMeme at the Sony Tower. They discuss everything from e-Readers, Android powered devices, hottest phones, 3-D televisions, tablet rumors, and much more. Definitely stay tuned to TechZulu as we release some of the greatest gadgets and tech from CES 2010 in the days to come.

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When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

SoCal CTO

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. I’m constantly struggling with trying to figure out the best way to pull together solutions, especially with how fast things move. In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Fr

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Aerovironment Selected By Nissan For Electric Vehicle Charging

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Monrovia-based Aerovironment has been selected by auto maker Nissan to supply and install electric vehicle home charging stations, Nissan said today. According to Nissan North America, it has selected Aerovironment to supply home-charging stations and installation services for the firm's all electric Nissan LEAF, starting later this year. Nissan's LEAF is a five-passenger, electric car, which uses a 220 volt charging station.

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iPhone Developer Happy Hour

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 -- iPhone Developer Happy Hour. Our next happy hour will be co-hosted by Los Angeles software entrepreneurs Ryan and Evan Rifkin from.app/ads.app/ads is a new network agnostic ad platform for iPhone developers. Anyone building iPhone apps that serve ads should come have a drink. Hope to see some new faces! See [link] (more).

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Tiny Projector, Big Screen

Tech Zulu Event

The Microvision Show WX is another in a line of smaller and smaller handheld projectors. It projects VGA-quality video and runs about $500. Unfortunately, it can't be bought in the U.S. yet. The rep we spoke to said he hopes that will change sometime soon. Still, in a world where projectors are being combined with cell-phones, can a device like this thrive?

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Use metrics and a dashboard. ACT upon variances.

Berkonomics

Have you ever driven a car that had no speedometer? I had that thrill when a student at the Richard Petty Stockcar School of Driving recently at a motor speedway in California. With a wide track, angled aggressively at the curves, and being told to hug the wall on the straightaways, there was little reference available to a novice driver as to speed.

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CyberDefender Sees Boost From Anti-Malware Products

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Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , a developer of PC security, antispyware, and antivirus software, reported today that the firm saw a boost in sales in Q4, boosted by its anti-malware products. The firm said it saw unaudited cash receipts grow to $9.8M for the fourth quarter, or 128% over fourth quarter of 2008, when it saw $4.3M in cash received. The amount was also up over the $6.7M in cash received by the firm for Q3.

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21st Century Sales Strategies

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 -- 21st Century Sales Strategies. TechBiz Connection ([link] will present a panel of Orange County-based seasoned sales professionals who will discuss how companies can prepare for the new sales challenges now confronting them. See [link] (more).

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Twiistup is just 2 weeks away and there have been a whole slew of announcements within these past few days. The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). The speaker list just keeps on growing with some amazing talent (full speaker list below).

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Impact Radius Launches New Online Advertising Firm

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Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , a new firm which includes a number of the founders of Commission Junction, said today that it has launched a new, multi-channel performance advertising company. According to Impact Radius, its founders include Wade Crang, Todd Crawford, Lisa Riolo, and Roger Kjensrud and Per Pettersen. Impact Radius said it has created an open, central directory of advertisers, media partners, and agencies engaged in performance advertising, and will also offer advanced tools