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Blog posts and ramblings to chronicle my adventures in life. This may contain technology, family, business or products that I enjoy.
About
Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.
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Feel free to reach out to me with questions, contact, business ideas, projects or just a random Hello. Located in the Mitten state.
Recent Posts
I commute to work frequently on my Raleigh i8. A while back someone asked me what kind of lock do I use. I did not have a response, I had not been using one. Last year when I started commuting I would ride to offsite meetings and other events and… I was reading an article on gigaom regarding how bandwidth is getting cheaper. http://gigaom.com/2012/08/02/guess-what-bandwidth-is-getting-cheaper/ The article was not about our home or business bandwidth but rather IP transit costs. The cost to move data from one location to another (overseas). The reference the value from a business perspective, if that… I got this post in an email from a co-worker. I thought the insight into Yahoo was interesting. Some of the comments were great and really hit home. http://sriramk.com/unsolicitedyahoo.html Every company has issues, and some of these are pretty fun to read about. I recently went to a new ice cream shop in our town. Having 4 kids often requires you to visit fun places like this. It also calls for a fairly expensive ice cream visit. The new place was great, the owner was nice and even gave us some free samples. … This is a great article on what works when developing a mobile app. The team from Pocket Lists http://www.1312.ru/Pocket-Lists-sales-13500-in-first-3-months/ This is a great story of how to make money on an app. (see this clip of the article) Category: Productivity (to-do & checklist app) Price: initially priced at $4.99, then… I’ve been using Read It Later for a while. It is / was a great tool to save articles found on twitter / flipboard / web.. and Read them later. Prior to using that tool I would just email myself the article if I found something interesting or wanted to… A Mashable article states a list of social savvy cities. They list many large cities. grand Rapids is not one of them. However, they do mention that Grand Rapids has a high percentage of small businesses with face book pages (29%) Read the article here – http://mashable.com/2012/05/17/social-savvy-cities/ Dell has just launched a developer focused laptop. The cool thing about this version is that it runs Ubuntu (linux) and is on a 13 inch laptop. (check out the hardware here) The article that I found regarding this was focused on the Sputnik project. I think this is a…How to crack a combination bike lock
Cheaper bandwidth–(not the last mile)
Yahoo CEO suggestions unsolicited
iPad and Square as a POS (cash register) replacement
iPhone App Development Story
Pocket (read it later)–re-brand
Grand Rapids–Facebook city
Developer Laptop
