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@TED2010 This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:23:00 +0000

In Long Beach for TED2010 this week, so I'm pretty excited. Very thankful to Christine for letting me go since the twins are getting to be a handful. I'll be there for two-thirds of the conference and coming back early on Friday.

Some good coverage of this year's TED before the conference starts...

"TED's Influence and Digital Reach Keep Expanding
While many conferences strive to cover niches, Chris Anderson's long-running think fest known as TED thrives on willful eclecticism" BusinessWeek

"TED 2010 Conference Makes for Strange Bedfellows" WIRED

If anyone from TED's staff is reading, I've been trying to change my profile photo for over a year now. The photo upload doesn't work nor changing the primary photo. Help!

FRED: Tonight at TCHO in SF!

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:17:00 +0000

Our friend Deborah is co-hosting FRED in San Francisco tonight! More from their site:

You’ve heard of TED. Meet his brother, FRED (Frivolity Revelry Eating Drinking). He’s slightly less ambitious but always the life of the party.

We’d all love to be TED. We like giving back. We often ponder ways to fix the world. We’d certainly attend TED2010 if it was a little more accessible.

FRED’s got you covered. Join a group of festive folks with great intentions at FRED’s inaugural event: “The Power of Chocolate to Change the Future,” brought to you by PR & Company and Tajima Creative.

Conveniently hosted at the home of SF superstar chocolate maker, TCHO, and just in time for Valentine’s Day, FRED will feature a 17-minute FRED Talk, plus tours of TCHO’s factory and plenty of frivolity, revelry, eating (chocolate sampling) and drinking (chocolate-friendly red wine).

You can also pick up a sweet Valentine’s Day gift – the chocolate Martha Stewart Living called “the hands-down star in our blind taste test” – at a special FRED discount, courtesy of TCHO.

EVENT DETAILS
Tuesday, February 9th
6pm to 8pm (program starts at 7)
TCHO (Pier 17, SF)
Directions (plenty of street parking and lots nearby)

Tickets: $9.99 PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Party proceeds will benefit three Haiti relief efforts: Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, and Mercy & Sharing.

Special thanks to our FREDastic supporters:

Michael James Wines
Outta My Kitchen Catering
Studio of Good Living Catering
Robert Strong, The Comedy Magician
TCHO (Watch TCHO on KQED)
Thomas Fogarty Winery
Trinchero Family Estates

(I can't attend since I'm leaving for TED soon)

News & Links List

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:55:00 +0000

"First month Nexus One sales slow, says analytics group" Total Telecom
Interesting number here is that Motorola's Droid sold 525,000 units during its first month versus Apple's iPhone first month of 600,000 units.

"Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC's have a Gender Problem" TechCrunch

"Cisco's Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch" Fast Company
Wrote about Songdo before here.

"Obama: 'She insisted she's going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt'" Washington Examiner

"Gerard Alexander: Why are liberals so condescending?" The Washington Post

"Down With the People: Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis." Slate, Jacob Weisberg

"TEDx Talk: Peter Eigen on How to expose the corrupt"

"Higher Calling" ESPN's Outside the Lines on Tony Dungy

"On Human Exceptionalism" by Wesley J. Smith
Excerpted from his "A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement"

"Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa"

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:07:00 +0000

Not the most positive piece by the NYTimes, but pretty cool since it covered my wife's lead on this contest "to encourage students in Tanzania and Kenya to create articles for the Swahili version of Wikipedia."

I remember Christine brainstorming about this idea, so it was great to see it come to fruition.

"Hungry for New Content, Google Tries to Grow Its Own in Africa" NYTimes, Noam Cohen

New Google Ad with Tiger Woods

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:34:00 +0000

HatTip to Dave L. Very funny...

Help LiNK Win $250K from Pepsi!

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:44:00 +0000

Vote for Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) in the Pepsi Refresh Project, so they can win $250K that will help them:

* Provide job training, and career counseling for refugees.
* Provide medical and psychological services for North Korean refugees.
* Provide food for North Korean refugees once resettled in the U.S.
* Facilitate language acquisition and cultural orientation for refugees.
* Provide housing for North Korean refugees once resettled in the U.S.

"Kanye throws fit after being seated in business class"

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:24:00 +0000

Ah, Kanye, you're embarrassing our hometown of Chicago...

"Kanye throws fit after being seated in business class"

"Hitler responds to the iPad"

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:22:00 +0000

News & Links List

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:35:00 +0000

"Sun’s Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation" NYTimes

"Cuban: Print Must Vanquish Digital 'Vampires'
He particularly called out Google as a Web giant that reaps rewards from the labors of others" AdWeek

"Why Have So Many Internet People Lost Touch With Reality?" Mark Cuban

"The young prefer Facebook to blogging, Twitter" USAToday

"US venture capitalists investing globally" BusinessWeek

"Arrests in Korea May Cast Cloud Over Hynix Stake Sale" WSJ

"Nine Easily Avoidable Selling Mistakes" BNET

"Countdown begins for end of Keith Olbermann's 'Countdown'?" LA Times

"Jon Stewart Tells Bill O'Reilly: You're The 'Voice Of Sanity' At Fox News (VIDEO)" The Huffington Post

"On Human Exceptionalism" by Wesley J. Smith, J.D.
Excerpted from his A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement (Encounter, 2010)

"Changing the Rules: The Middle Class at Risk" InsideWork

Runaway Toyotas: Massive recall, Suspended Sales

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:59:00 +0000

Pretty cool. My cousin, Joey, was the producer that first identified the huge problem in Toyota's accelerators across the country back in November 2009. Now there is a massive recall:

"Recall Shakes Toyota Owners Confidence" Fox News

And U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood didn't help and only added confusion, "LaHood’s ‘On the Fly’ Toyota Statements Accelerate Confusion" BusinessWeek

ABC News has special "Runaway Toyotas" section on their website which you should check out here. Anyway, Joey has been a senior producer for investigative news shows at Dateline and now ABC News, which includes 20/20. He's been nominated for a few Emmys, but maybe he can win with this one :)

"Are Toyota's Accelerators Out of Control?" (video)

News & Links List

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:09:00 +0000

"5 Social Capitalists Who Will Change the World in 2010" Fast Company

"Tebow's Super Bowl ad isn't intolerant; its critics are" The Washington Post, Sally Jenkins

"Technology's Language Barrier
It's unacceptable and costly for Asia's vast population to get lost in translation." Forbes

"What’s Your CQ (and Why Should You Care)?: Cultural Intelligence in Global Commerce" InsideWork

"Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch (updated with video!)" Engadget

"European startups scramble to emulate the Groupon explosion" TechCrunch Europe

"Introducing the B-List: The 77 stupidest managerial moves and worst business blunders of 2009." BNET

"Robocalypse Alert: Defense Contract Awarded to Scary BigDog" Fast Company

"California Flailin'
America's largest state is broken and looking for fixes in the wrong places." Forbes

"Parody Of Leadership
Obama's alarmingly inept high-level political appointees." Forbes

"Can Bashing the Banks Help Obama?" TIME

"Former Scientology Marketing Staffer Speaks Out After Leaving 'Cult'" BNET

"UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim" TIMES Online

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Special Comment - Keith Olbermann's Name-Calling

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Health Care Crisis

News & Links List

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:38:00 +0000

"Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs" WIRED

"The Apple iPad: starting at $499" Engadget

"iPad v. A Rock" TechCrunch

"Why App Stores Are Not the Business Model for the 21st Century" Fast Company

"Google Chrome steals usage share from IE/Firefox, Win 7 breaks 10%" ZDNet

"Elevation invests in Yelp, up to $100 million" CNET

"High Tech Should Follow Google ... Right out of China" BNET

"Modern Media Succeeds, and Fails, on the Newspaper Model" BNET

"Tech changes and the entrepreneur: How to keep up" VentureBeat

"Three Myths About Starting Your Own Business" Forbes

"How 17 Stars Got Their Big Breaks" Forbes

"Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive" WIRED

"UFC champ Brock Lesnar slams Canadian health care but ready to fight this summer" The Canadian Press

"Cindy McCain comes out -- against Prop. 8" San Francisco Chronicle

"Pushing a Dangerous Anti-Human Exceptionalism, Undignified Bioethics" Center for Bioethics & Culture

"Change We Can Believe In
It's time for the president to stop legislating and start leading." Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria

Apple iPad Mania

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:37:00 +0000

Ah, the reviews are in...

"The Apple iPad: starting at $499" Engadget

"Apple unveils the iPad – at last – and it’s $499" CrunchGear

"Apple Launches iPad
Magical & Revolutionary Device at an Unbelievable Price" Apple: Official Site

"No Flash on Apple’s iPad" VentureBeat

And from MADTV a few years ago...

Visiting Seoul, Korea

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:28:00 +0000

I'm in Seoul this week for a short trip, so not much blogging since I'm running around with a packed schedule.

Definitely missed good Korean food since the Bay Area is mediocre for Korean cuisine. I hope I don't gain too much weight while I'm here :)

John Park Makes the First Cut in American Idol 9

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:50:00 +0000

HatTip to Dave Y. John Park from my hometown of Northbrook, IL and also my high school, Glenbrook North, was selected as one of the 13 out of 12,000 to make it past the 4 judges in Chicago. We'll see if he gets on American Idol 9. Go John! Go GBN!

"Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat"

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:57:00 +0000

News & Links List

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:21:00 +0000

"Malcolm Gladwell Must Be Stopped" peHUB

"Darpa: U.S. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk" WIRED

"Clinton plans to stump for global Net freedom" CNET

"Why Yahoo Is on a Dealmaking Binge" BusinessWeek

"China's Migration To E-Commerce
Sales in the world's biggest online community are expected to double again this year." Forbes

"Mobile Shopping Takes Hold Worldwide
Gen Y and shoppers in Asia-Pacific are in the lead" eMarketer

"Google China insiders may have helped with attack" CNET

"China's Silicon Ceiling
The Beijing/Google skirmish is a reminder that free markets require free minds." Slate

"What Enfatico's Boone Brings to His New Job at Google" BNET

"Lockheed Martin introduces 'PC on a stick' flash drive -- yes, Lockheed Martin" Engadget

"Brown: Mass. victory sends 'very powerful message'" AP

"GOP Victory Upends Senate" WSJ

"Boston Globe calls election for Martha Coakley?" Boston Phoenix

"CBC 2009 Winners and Losers" Center for Bioethics & Culture

My Slideshare Stats for 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:45:00 +0000

Interesting that Slideshare sent my stats from 2009. I love stats :) I'm not an active Slideshare user, so the number aren't dramatic. My 9 presentations that I uploaded received:

# 12864 views
# 1286 average views per presentation
# 48 favorites

| Get your Presentation Pack

News & Links List

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:40:00 +0000

"Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over" ReadWriteWeb

"Fourth-gen iPhone available this April?" CNET

"A new approach to China" Official Google Blog

"Google Gets On the Right Side of History
No more censored searches to please the Chinese government." WSJ, Rebecca Mackinnon

"Did Google Just Worsen China's Human Rights Situation?" Fast Company

"Baidu Hijacked By Cyber Army" Forbes

"Surprise Rumor: iPhone Version 4 in April With OLED, Video-Calling" Fast Company

"Top 10 Steps to Make Your Blog or Book Go Viral" Seedlings in Stone

"China Accused Of Stealing Code, Again
A small California software maker seeks $2.2 billion in damages." Forbes

"Five trends that will shape business technology in 2009
The year 2009 will be challenging for CIOs. Here’s how to play your hand." McKinsey Quarterly

"Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers
Google’s chief economist says executives in wired organizations need a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation." McKinsey Quarterly

"Died in Haiti, a Woman Who Saved Millions of Lives" InsideWork

"The Hidden Benefits of Exercise
Even Moderate Physical Activity Can Boost the Immune System and Protect Against Chronic Diseases" WSJ

"Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival" The Boston Globe

Chase Community Giving, Vote For the Center for The Pacific Asian Family!

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:27:00 +0000

HatTip to Teddy Zee. Helping out our friend, Teddy Zee, with his cause! Vote for the Center for The Pacific Asian Family to help them win the $1 million dollars prize of the Chase Community Giving contest. Go to www.voteCPAF.org

"Unite Against the Violence" video was created with the support of various Asian American actors and artists to support the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF) in the fight against domestic violence and sexual assault.

Music by Sam Geunjin Kang.

Join the fight with CPAF as we try to end the silence on violence!

"Jon Stewart Got Owned by John Yoo"

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:24:00 +0000

From The Atlantic Wire...

"Left Admits: Jon Stewart Got Owned by John Yoo"

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Daily Show: Exclusive - John Yoo Extended Interview Pt. 1

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Health Care Crisis

Mark McGuire, Just Stop Talking Please

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:05:00 +0000

Did it for health reasons and not to hit home runes? Please. And steroids didn't help him? Please, Mark. Just stop.

2010 Video Influencers by TrendsSpotting

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:58:00 +0000

2010 Video Influencers: Trend Predictions in 140 characters, by TrendsSpotting

View more documents from Taly Weiss.

Back From The Sick Cribs

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:55:00 +0000

It's been several months since I missed more than two days of blogging. Now it's been 4 working days and almost a week, but I'm back. Hectic week of work, side ventures, our twins being sick, and our life in Silicon Valley :)

News & Links List

noreply@blogger.com (Bernard Moon) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:50:00 +0000

"Nexus One review" Engadget

"The Google Phone" A VC

"Google Nexus One: The TechCrunch Review" TechCrunch

"Google's Biggest Phone Move: Disrupting Carriers By Selling Direct To You" Silicon Alley Insider

"Google Might Not Want To Sell Nexus One" BNET

"Metrics Update: Android" The Life and Times of Admob

"Startup therapy: Six questions to ask yourself regularly" VentureBeat

"Five New Year's resolutions for Google" CNET's Relevant Results

"Apple's Download Numbers Seem Phony" BNET

"Byron Wien's Top 10 Predictions for 2010" Seeking Alpha

"Top Ten Business Ideas for 2010" Springwise

"Ex-spy chief says Iran government about to collapse" Bangkok Post

"Campaign In Poetry, Govern In Prose" Sramana Mitra

"Tiger in the Rough" Vanity Fair

"The Lights in the Tunnel" Brad Feld

"Harvard's Hoops Star Is Asian. Why's That a Problem?" TIME
Also interesting that this is the first article I've seen where there were more Facebook shares than Tweets. I assume it says something about the readers of TIME.

"Five Questions to Ask About the Year Ahead" InsideWork, Bradley J. Moore