Best iPhone apps to read and listen to books (comics too!)

July 18, 2009

Best iPhone ebook reader
Stanza is hands down the best ebook reader for the iPhone. The company that makes Stanza, Lexcyle was recently acquired by Amazon, so let’s hope they don’t mess it up.
With Stanza you can literally read ANY book. There are thousands of books in the public domain that can be downloaded directly from [...]

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Ed Dale in San Francisco

January 30, 2009

Ed Dale, of 30 Day Challenge fame, was in town a few weeks back for MacWorld. He gave a great talk during an Internet marketing meetup at my office. Checkout my awesome name tag!

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Pareto Principle – Kenneth Yu Discusses Customer Delight

January 30, 2009

I’m back! Almost a year off from blogging.
Here’s a gem from the video vault. Kenneth Yu discusses his “Pareto Filter” principle. The idea is to “delight” your customers into buying more. Nothing particularly earth shattering about that, but I like the way Kenneth says it!

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Internet Business Portfolio – How to Build One – A Rough Blueprint

April 17, 2008

After spending over a month in Kuala Lumpur, I feel I’ve distilled down some of the key ingredients needed to build a portfolio of profitable Internet businesses. This is essentially a blueprint of how to create a mini business incubator.

Here’s the recipe:
1) a few really smart people (including at least one excellent programmer)
2) develop simple [...]

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Singapore Doesn’t Sleep – 24 Hour Gaming

April 1, 2008

I spent this past weekend in Singapore. It was awesome! Many people seem to think the place is boring, but I disagree. Saturday was full of adventures. By early Sunday morning I was finally losing steam.
It must have been around 4:30am when I found a 24 hour PC gaming center. I tried some games, but [...]

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First Vid in a Series from Kenneth Yu

March 24, 2008

Kenneth Yu is a master copy writer. He knows a ton about the various information products offered by the Internet marketing gurus and does a great job of distilling down their pearls for the rest of us.

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Malaysia Loves Formula One

March 23, 2008

There’s nothing like a Sunday with Formula One and some Durian ice cream

We travelled 1 1/2 hours outside of Kuala Lumpur for the 2008 F1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix. My Polish friends were very pleased with Robert Kubica’s 2nd place finish.

See a quick video of the race!

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Guru Who? – An Abridged Reading List

March 21, 2008

So you want to understand a bit about the Internet marketing gurus? Here are a few things I recommend you read.
The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript
This is a $97 ebook from Mike Filsaime. Is it worth it? I think so. Filsaime provides some really effective techniques to monetize your website visitors. I’ve never seen better explanations of [...]

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Get a Technology Divorce – Technology Should Not Be Your Bottleneck

March 20, 2008

Brilliant programmers are working 24/7 on the planet. If you have a real business you can pay a pittance to get yourself out of almost any technology backlog, jam-up, or snafu, without your existing tech team in the office. Of course this doesn’t work in all cases, but increasingly it’s becoming true for most programming [...]

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