Silicon Valley Musings

While some stand in line for their chance to buy an iPhone, others walk up to six miles to make a phone call.

If you are buying an iPhone, may I humbly suggest you review the benefits of funding a Grameen Village Phone as well.
“Access to affordable telecommunications simply does not exist for millions in the […]

This weekend one of the parents standing along the sidelines mentioned it would be great to have club t-shirts for next week’s tournament.
When I got home, I whipped up a logo using Photoshop and uploaded it to Zazzle. I emailed the link to the team roster and order my family some shirts. It took less […]

The weather has been so great the last couple of days I was just about to head down to Yamagami’s Nursery in Cupertino and buy some heirloom tomatoes to plant in the back yard.
But this great Blog, Growing Gourmet Tomatoes in the Bay Area, suggested I resist my urge for now and plant them in […]

Robert asks what is your default browser page.
My default Web page is set to blank.
My portal of choice is still MyYahoo. The problem with this page is that it doesn’t do a good job of letting you know when new features are available on the rest of the Yahoo property. So I occasionally need to […]

We are two thirds of the way through February and we anxiously await another installment of the State of the Blogosphere from Technorati.

Kevin and Michael ask in their recent podcast, What should Apple do with all that crazy iPod money? Here are some of my acquisition suggestions/predictions:
Amazon (Market Cap 15 billion) or Ebay (41 billion): Turn iTunes Store into iEverything Store. Buying Ebay would have the added bonus of being just down the street and would include […]

The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab has created a new site, Captology.tv. Check it out.
Captology.tv is a place for sharing insights, observations, and ideas about persuasive technology through video. Some of our favorite videos are below, but please explore the rest of the site.
Nuggets are a look a tiny piece of persuasive technology, case studies […]

Page Yunus, Brin, and Doerr
Most Silicon Valley technocrats will recognize three of the four people in this picture. They are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, and John Doerr from Kliener Perkins Caufield & Byers.
But you might not recognize the recipient of this years Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus. I had […]

List of some Silicon Valley podcasts:

PodTech
NASA’s Digital Learning Network
Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series
Sun
TalkCrunch

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