How to lead your life ....by Andy Pausch

You have to be patient with this one... its a very long video but its very well worth it. Don't skip, just take the time and take a look at it and absorb. You will feel enriched. It is a dead men comedy show, but if he has the strength to entertain you while he is dying then we have absolutely no excuse to be lame, arrogant or lazy with our lives.
I urge you to take a look at this video. I insist. Its totally eye opening for a lot of things. Not just why its worth living, worth dreaming or focus on technology to help you with that. Not just about how could such a person be leaving the world so young...

One day I really want to be able to take a look at my life back and be able to laugh like that and look at my life and my death and smile and talk about it like that.
Its probably the only instance so far that I have been touched by something so human and so down to earth.
Look at this guy , listen to him , get inspired, believe in your dreams and chaise them without any regret.

"...If you lead your life the right way the dreams will come to you"

http://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/pausch.wmv

Naked Conversations or how a book about blogging was written using a blog

This is probably one of the most interesting stories I have heard about how technology can be used to create something of real value and just one more proof how it changes our lives inadvetantly. Its the story about how Robert Scoble and Shel Israel wrote a book called "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers". Scoble's blog was started in 2000 and now has more than 3.5 million readers every year. He has earned acclaim in Fortune magazine, Fast Company, and The Economist. Shel Israel played a key strategic role in introducing some of technology’s most successful products, including PowerPoint, FileMaker, and Sun Microsystems workstations.
The basic of the story is that Scoble proposed to Shell to write the book by bloging about it, not by sitting around and chatting and when the book was ready they were to publish it on e-bay for the publishers to bid for it to be published. Did it work ?
Yes and it is being sold even now. I will not take the time to take the juice out of the story you can look at it here just rewind to the 20th minute. Not that the 20 minutes before that are not interesting but they cover another topic :)

Mind Mapping Software online finally

For all of you who now what a great Mind Mapping Software can do there is a now or at least looks like a full featured version of one called Mindomo. Go ahead and check it out. I have been speculating for a long time in my head that it definitely needs to be such a piece of software and it needs to be written in Flex off course and there you go things are happening faster then a blink of the eye.

Social Networking Market and when did we miss that happend....?

Have you been in a situation where you are driving in the fast lane and you see some one blinking with his lights in your mirror. You move out and some passes you by like you are standing still. This is how I felt today after 7 years working for the Internet as a medium and having a business that is focused on delivering RIA's.
What did we miss while making applications that "work" and spend hundreds of hours improving your work flow or how stable and scalable your code is and how fantastic features you can create for your client....
Have you heard of RockYou. I haven't ...until today
But they are making 150 000 000( the number is correct 150 mil) page views a day with their social networking apps!
I came to think that we really missed something. We obviously do not understand the way people interact with the Internet ....We might as well want to rethink the way we percieve the Internet. Here is a little quiz for all you Bulgarian Web Companies.
Would you do a Facebook app?
Why not, because its stupid and because its easy or because you have to come up with something that is at least used in the NASA Space Program.
Maybe we need a second look at what people are actually doing in places like Facebook, MySpace Hi5 ...and actually think deep yet again....I mean at least for those of us that think they know a lot about the Internet and the way people are using it now a days.