Why Large Corporations Fail

Quick introductory disclosure: I hold no feelings against the corporations I am going to mention in this blog post. My feelings are based on the number of employees, size of company, and other things that don’t directly influence how the companies are run.

First of all, I personally love working in start-ups. The atmosphere in the start-up environment is fun, exciting, and you work closely with a great group of individuals. For example, Qik (the company I work for - see my Colophon for the full disclosure) is a start-up that streams live video from the latest mobile phones (Nokia S60 series, Windows Mobile, and iPhone OS X) to the internet with almost no delay. (Although I am an employee of Qik , Inc., I was a user before I was hired, and my views have never changed since I became an employee.) Continue reading…

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Interview on ActionsTalk

A fellow video-blogger and friend of mine, Ryan Graves, recently interviewed me for his show called Actions Talk. You can find the interview bellow:


ActionsTalk #6 - Teens in Tech from ActionsTalk on Vimeo

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12,000 Twitter Updates

Today at around 3:40 PM, I posted my 12,000th update on Twitter. I started Twittering in March of 2007, and I have come along way. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has followed and supported me throughout my journey in the Twitterverse. If you don’t follow me already, I suggest you do. A special thanks to Adam Jackson from DailyTechTalk and Macworld Bound for taking a screen shot of my Twitter count:

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Office 2.0 Conference

From September 3-5, I will be speaking at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, at the St. Regis Hotel. My session is from 2:15 PM to 3:00 PM and its called “Entering & Leaving the Workforce.” I am speaking on a panel with John P. Vasellina (Genentech), and Dorianne Cotter-Lockard (ex-CIO), and the panel is moderated by Nick Vitalari (nGenera).

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Macworld 2009 Registration Starts Soon!

After reading Adam Jackson’s post on Macworld Bound about Macworld 2009 registration is opening soon, I had to blog this. According to the Macworld Conference and Expo Ning Group, Tara Wislocki from IDG posted a reply on a thread about How Do I get into Macworld.

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Daily Blog Challenge

A good friend of mine, Adam Jackson from DailyTechTalk, has been blogging almost daily for months now. Adam has “inspired” me to try a week long daily blog challenge. What this means is, for one week straight (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), I will blog something. Lets see how this goes!

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School Starting

Summer is coming to an end, and on Monday, August 18, school gets back in session for me, and many other students across the world. In my case, this means I can’t work for Qik as much as I am working now. This also means I can’t work as much on my new venture, Teens in Tech.

I am entering my Junior year in school, arguably the most important school year before college. Because it will be my most important, I will be focusing more on my studies, then on work/hobbies.

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ScooterQuest 2008

A very good friend of mine, Sean Blake, is going on a 2 (two) week journey across the east coast. The journey this year is known as Scooter Quest ‘08 and will start August 29th, 2008 from Minneapolis, MN ending in New York, NY.

This years route starts in St. Paul, Minnesota and ends in New York, New York with checkpoints in Chicago, IL, Indianapolis, IN and Pittsburgh, PA. What is really cool about this is that it will be live streamed via Ustream.TV the whole journey. You can tune into the live chat-room/stream over at ScooterQuest! Bellow is a promo for ScooterQuest ‘08:

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