Current events 2010 | Tech news | Bloomington, IN

For those of you that have been living under a rock for the past 3 months, here is an update of some very important happenings in the tech world. I assume most of these are being tackled more in-depth by Wired, Techcrunch, BoingBoing, or other large online publishing companies, so go check them out for more info. Not in any particular order of importance… just the most fresh first. Apple releases...

iPad : Is it useless or genius? : Tech Bloomington, IN

There’s a lot of buzz going around the internets about the new Apple product, iPad. This tablet computer is suppose to be the next best thing to the iPhone, but is it really? I mean, it is a larger iPhone/iPod touch and it can have 3G wireless connection… so why wouldn’t it be great? There are a few reasons why I don’t think it’s worth the money. I’m going to give...

Around town fun with Foursquare | Bloomington, IN

Remember in elementary school there was a game called ‘foursquare’. The game had four squares and you stood in a square and bounced a ball… I don’t remember the rules all that well, but most people remember some version of the game. Now, there is an app called Foursquare… but has nothing to do with the game in elementary school. Foursquare is a smart phone app. It uses...

Top 5 Books in my Collection | Bloomington, IN

Recently, I’ve been reading a lot because it’s too cold to do anything. That’s kind of my routine every year around winter time. I’ve decided to release my top 5 list of books I love to read and re-read. #1) Outlier : the story of success by Malcom Gladwell This is an excellent book about success and how outliers are made. The outliers are the rich successful people you read...

First #Bloomingtontweetup at Stone Cutters Coffee | Bloomington, IN

It was a great turnout for the Bloomington Tweetup (#Bloomingtontweetup) at Stone Cutters Coffee! For all of you that don’t know what I mean by “tweetup”, it’s a term used to describe a meet-up of your Twitter friends. This give you a chance to put the actual person with the twitter name. It was excellent seeing Adam P. Schweigert (@aschweig), Kevin Makice (@kmakice), Colin...

Twenty-Ten | The year of the Co-op, collectives, and collaborative

Welcome to 2010! Let’s make this the year of Co-op, collectives, and collaborative. Together we can take this year and make a goal to take a good part of the market share from the big corporations by joining together to make better products and give even better services. 5 years ago making any type of co-op, collective or collaborative meant everyone had to be in the same town or even same building;...

High Points in Life.

Things are look up and looking good for life! Creating great connections and making even better friends here in Bloomington, Indianapolis, and Louisville. Nothing beats owning your own company and helping other companies grow with you. Here are some high points of the year: Acquiring a company and then growing to a level of getting calls weekly for work. Growing partnerships to start looking for office...