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Entries for October, 2008

Business Models that Work: Netflix and TiVo

Netflix and TiVo are two companies that are constantly evolving their business models in an effort to not have their markets leave them behind. Let’s take a look at each. Netflix, when it began, specialized in the DVD-by-mail business. This was a great model at the time (and was supported by a great website), but [...]

Beating Poverty (via Your Library)

Today is the 2008 Blog Action Day, where bloggers get together to help do anything to beat poverty. Poverty is a truly sad thing because, in most part it’s a very solveable problem. Destitute poverty is a global issue that is actually unraveling and being solved day by day. That’s not to say, though, that [...]

jQuery and Visual Studio

Did you get the chance to read that Visual Studio will be shipping with jQuery support included in the future? This news just made my day, more or less. If you aren’t in the know, jQuery is a really well developed JavaScript framework library. It includes support for things like making AJAX requests, easy DOM [...]

Interesting Theories from Ron Paul

If you don’t know much about him, Ron Paul is this interesting, kooky Republican House member from Texas. I strongly disagree with many of his positions, but I really respect him for his economic views. Here he is talking about how he believes that America is bankrupt and must deal with the consequences of that. [...]