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Will “no product” become the new brand? John Hockenberry provocatively suggests that given the global economic crisis, “no product” is now plausible. But how plausible given our society organized around economic growth? I'm talking here about consumerism as both the primary purpose of growth, and its principal driver—the high product context.

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data API for google maps – not the javascript part, but the server "My Maps" part

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Disclaimer upfront: any opinions expressed in this post are the sole opinion of myself and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of any of my employers, past and/or present.

In part one of this article, I described the situation with IE8 and the X-UA-Compatible header that the browser uses to decide what rendering engine to use. By far the most important takeaway from that piece is that detecting a browser by sniffing its UserAgent string is a terrible practice. It was already an unreliable method of doing so, but now, with IE8, it is fundamentally broken and you simply cannot rely on it to ever accurately present you with what rendering engine you’re dealing with. And when we’re detecting for browsers, most of the time it’s the rendering engine we really care about.

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These days with so many WordPress themes being released, you need something to make your theme stand out from the crowd. One of the ways you can do this is by creating an awesome theme options page. In this post we’ll explore exactly how to do that.

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Xcode template to make native iPhone apps with HTML and javascript

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At first you are like: “Oh noes!!!! another flooded masterpiece” (like Mies’ Farnsworth House)! This house sits on the banks of the river Loddon, near Wargrave in England. According to John Pardey Architects, the concept was based on three elements: living, guest and bedroom spaces, to create “wings” that adopt a pinwheel form, and are raised up on columns to deal with river flooding.

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Just sharing these old business plans from the three startups I co-founded. You can click on the top link to go to the Scribd page for each document and download PDF or MSWord versions too.

GoingOn Networks Business Plan 2006
Business plan from my third startup, GoingOn Networks, which is a social media platform for companies & organizations. BusinessWeek recognized GoingOn Networks in their “Best of the Web: Social Networking Tools” list for 2007.

HeyAnita Korea Business Plan 2000
Business plan from my second startup, HeyAnita Korea, which was a voice portal and technology platform. We secured $14.5 million in venture capital that led this company to profitability.

ViewPlus Business Plan 1999
Business plan from my first startup, ViewPlus, which was a video-on-demand company. ViewPlus was admitted into Garage.com's "Heaven" (investor & entrepreneur matching service during the 90s), where less than 2% of companies were accepted. We raised $600,000 in angel funding and $33 million from institutional investors.

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One of the things that occurs when you are the Lead Pastor of a large church is that you often get credit for things you with which you have very little to do.  People will tell me, “You have amazing programs in Kids City” or “I love what you are doing with students” or “where do you get all those great musicians” or “what you are doing in under-resourced communities is so inspiring”.  I think all those things are true, but I have little to do with why each of those ministries is so terrific.  We have some amazing staff and leaders that make it all happen! 

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There’s a cliche in innovation / entrepreneurship which says, “Scratch your own itch.” That is, solve problems that you know really well. Choose markets you know really well.

But a lot of innovation doesn’t come from the people who know the industry the best. That’s because the closer you are to how something works now, the harder it is to imagine a new and better way of doing things.

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