Los Angeles Volunteering Opportunity – Thanksgiving Day
Nov 25, 2009
Been looking for a while for a good way to spend time on Thanksgiving day – just found one that I am going to try out – Gobble Give
See you there tomorrow!
Los Angeles Volunteer Opportunity
Jul 21, 2009
I have been helping out with Let’s Read LA for the two years- it is a great program where you work with under privileged Elementary school children to help them with basic reading skills. It meets on Saturday mornings from 10:00am to 12:00pm. They are in the process of putting up a page here (Los Angeles Volunteering Opportunities) where you can learn more information if you are interested.
Additional volunteering opportunities in LA through LA Works can be found here.
Free wifi code for AirTran & Delta
Jul 14, 2009
GoGoInFlight.com has coupons for FREE Wifi (normally costs $12.95) on Air Tran & Delta Flights.
1. Select ‘gogoinflight’ network and open a web browser
2. Sign in or click ‘buy’ to create a new account with gogoinflight.com
3. On ‘payment info’ page, enter this promo code: 159flt3161
UPDATE – Check out a new site (http://www.airplanewificodes.co) dedicated to finding you Airplane Wifi Discount Codes and Free Wifi Codes / Coupons
Coldplay Fans – Free Download
May 19, 2009
Coldplay is offering its fans a free live concert that you can download here. I have no insight as to when this link will stop working.
New Yankee Stadium – Cheap Tickets
May 05, 2009
I have been reading about all of the missteps that the Yankees have taken with the new stadium and it just hit home. I was poking around the site and wanted to see if they still had tix available when they played their cross town rivals. If I had an extra $5,300 + shipping it would be great to attend (and that is face value)!
What is a family of four to do, show up to the stadium and buy four tickets for $10,000?
Wifi on Virgin America
Apr 12, 2009
I know that there has been a lot of press about it, but its pretty cool.
- Written from in the air!
Shared characteristics of successful ad supported Internet companies
Mar 21, 2009
Below is a draft of a few characteristics that successful advertising supported Internet Companies embody. This is just a simple table – and a start to taking a birds eye view approach for what makes the great companies tick. Thoughts are welcome.
Advertising Supported Internet Industry Overview
| Purpose | Connecting with Friends | Consuming Content |
|---|---|---|
| Success is Driven By: | - Controlled platforms (you control who you are friends with) | - Current Fads |
| - The size of each users network (the bigger the better - to connect, you must be on the platform) | - Respecting Super-Users | |
| - Users generate their own content (self service platforms) | - Multiple content providers (self service platform) | |
| Sample Companies: | - Facebook / MySpace | - Google / Wikipedia (close to being ad supported)) |
| - AOL IM / Skype | - Pandora / Digg | |
| - YouTube / PhotoBucket / Twitter (email / embed functionality) | - YouTube / PhotoBucket / Twitter (destination site) | |
Thanks to Scott, Adam & Evan for thoughts.
A futuristic look into the newspaper business – From 1981
Jan 31, 2009
AdAge ran an article on the video below which predicts the direction that the newspaper industry will go (circa 1981).
Ad test
Jan 22, 2008
