http://www.quotablephrase.com Thoughts on Entrepreneurship & Technology Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:08:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fbf1251f21bad9925b3d9d73b8b15145?s=48&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536 http://www.quotablephrase.com There has been a whole flurry of conversation around Google App Inventor this morning. App Inventor is Google's new tool that allows anyone to create apps for the Android platform without any prior programming knowledge. For many this brings back... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/technology/is-google-app-inventor-good-for-android I've been working my way through Tony Hsieh's "Delivering Happiness" and happened upon an awesome analogy that I really like. He talks about learning to play poker and how as you learn you can't help but see parallels between poker and being an... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/business/changing-tables Bought my iPad more or less on a whim and, I must say, its been quite enjoyable. Its really made me rethink my anti-Apple fan boyness. Here are a few of my initial thoughts: Anyone who tells you its a replacement for the Kindle probably hasn't... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/technology/first-thoughts-on-the-ipad One of the more ridiculous things I saw last week was the iPad, sporting iBooks, mimicking as closely as possible the process of reading a real book. Why is this ridiculous? Because it's not a book, it's a touchscreen electronic device. It may be... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/business/print-the-ipad-and-the-future-of-content Just finished Gary Vee's book. For those of you who don't know, Gary is famous for starting Wine Library TV and bringing excitement, enthusiasm, and borderline insanity to the world of wine. He has an inspiring success story, he loves "hustle"... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/books/beat-the-books-crush-it-by-gary-vaynerchuk I'll pretty freely admit that I have a book addiction. I'd like to say I purchase a book, read it, then purchase another one, but that's just not the case. What usually happens is I get interested in something, go to Amazon, and buy the top two or... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/business/beating-the-books My blog's namesake isn't a clever play on viral marketing, or really anything Internet related. Instead it's from this awesome / depressing emo song by Bright Eyes called Landlocked... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/irrelevant/namesake Whether you're a social media expert, or you just happen to pick up a business section every now and then, you're probably well aware that social networking sites can't seem to make any money. Facebook can't do anything right, twitter hasn't even... Read more

]]> http://www.quotablephrase.com/business/start-with-a-revenue-model WordPress is a great piece of software for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which is that it makes hacking together different types of sites very easy. Not only are there a whole host of solid, free themes, but the amount of plug-ins and widgets... Read more

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