raif’s random rants…

thanks to seth godin, who brought this site to our attention last week. it’s been my new 2nd favorite time killer after the lost season 5 dvd set i got for xmas.
it’s called the vintage ad browser (www.vintageadbrowser.com) and it does what it says. you can search for and browse through over 100,000 vintage ads. [...]

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sometimes starting a company is like playing house… especially when you’re setting up your office.
both my co-founder tyler and i have always felt strongly that the environment we set up now will play a significant role in shaping the culture and the values of the company we’re building at carsala. we are also both pretty [...]

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A few weeks ago, I attended the UC Berkeley Energy Symposium.
It was a very thought provoking and educational day. I have below my detailed notes from the sessions I attended. But before moving on to those I’d like to synthesize some of my key takeaways:

There is no silver bullet to the climate change/energy crisis problem. [...]

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as you may have already seen it, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail, recently wrote an article titled “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” . it’s an interesting read… it’s in support of his new book coming out in 2009, titled “FREE” … for those who [...]

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i hate to say i said so, but just last week i claimed in a post that the iphone would not kill the blackberry.
this week rim announced that they’ve had an unexpected surge in subscriber growth for blackberry devices (WSJ article), in the meantime apple has significantly cut down its orders for the flash memory [...]

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i am a pretty avid facebook user… and not necessarily because i think they are better than any other social network. it just happened that almost everybody i know found themselves there, and with friends and family across three continents, four timezones and about a dozen cities, facebook’s a great way to keep in touch…
lately [...]

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