Quick recap of this mornings breakfast:
Bruce Fryer mention a couple neat facts about How to bootstrap a startup,
Aplus.net hosting, 10 bucks a month Linux web hosting.
WebCollab
Wordpress Blog
SugarCRM
Phil Windley taked about Product research and finding customers.
There are companies that do lead generation, and they charge you for meetings.
$500 to $1000 per meeting.
For 10k you can get 12 or 13 meetings.
Usually used for sales but also a cheap way to do product research and validate ideas.
Slingbox – broadcast movies to you phone
Richard Miller told me about activeCollab.com which is a GPL knock-off of 37 signals Basecamp.
Download it and host it yourself.
John Taber asked about open source content
YouTube.com – OpenSource Video Content
www.RocketBoom.com – a daily online news cast.
Use astricks to broadcast audio content to individuals in a meeting.
Bruce Fryer mentioned new phones that switch from cell phones towers to VOIP when you arrive home.
Joe Martel asked about automated tagging of digital media content.
- Google allows jumping to bookmarked video clips using a offset parameter in the url.
- Riya does auto tagging of photographs using facial recognition.
MP3s need chapters indicators so that bookmark clips can work even when changing ads and promos appear at the front of a mp3.
AAC files have chapters. This week in iTunes show this capability when it changes the displayed meta data throughout the playback of the file.
It seems that Amazons Mechanical Turk gets mentioned and discussed every month.
Although hearing about it over and over gets old, it really is one of the cooler less known things amazon has done. Mechanical Turk
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Jeff Fisburn mentioned Pod-an-Go
Podcast Advertising via Podcast Stations: Podango.com
Richard Miller mentioned
A combination of adwords and mechanical turk.
Mycroft – Technology Needs People – Home
Tyler Whitaker and Jeff Fishburn talked about Mesh networks and fiber to the home.
MeshNetworking – good for access, not for infrastructure.
100 dollar laptop looses it’s crank Big discussion of EC2, Amazon’s on demand grid computing like service.
EC2 was released by Amazon. You pay by the drink.
Amazon and American Express are doing micro-payments with S3.
A guy from software for starving students mentione the following tools.
Fast way to do Windows updates
Windows Unattended Install
High Compression 7Zip
Someone talked about JumpTV JumpTV Foreign TV StreamPhil Windley said that the physical nature of goods is what allows custom offices to help companies segregate markets and maximize profits. Think DVD Region encoding.
Yepic.com Is the long tail of the consulting market.
Mochila was also mentioned by Richard Miller
Doc Searls says “Make money because of blogging instead of making money from blogging.”
John Taber also mentioned that Tom Peters makes all his presentations available for free online and makes his money actually giving them. This reaffirms the idea of don’t sell you content, sell you skills and services.
