Zoodak July Tournament Winner with 84%

Zoodak has really been taking off for the past couple of months with very impressive numbers. In the July Tournament, the winner was Charles Massey. Here I interview him. Please forgive me for the technical difficulties! Somewhere in there are lags and my guess is it was in my wonderful AT&T Uverse. For the bandwidth to get in and out, I believe there is some throttling going on, so please stick with me. How appropriate I got the Terms of Service today from AT&T that basically says I’m screwed and can go away if I don’t like it.

To see the video, please go here, as I am having problems with getting it to look right in WP and just decided to stop fighting with it. I hope you enjoy and please go on over to Zoodak.com and check them out. Adrian over at Zoodak is preparing everything for the September Tournament. It’s an addictive chance to have a ton of fun, compete with your friends on a fantasy trading platform and win cash!

Zoodak Innovation Continues – (click on the + to hear the intro.)

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In the continuing innovation saga of Zoodak, I am more and more impressed by this team! I have watched them since their launch back in June of this year and have been closely following their results. But beyond all of that metrics stuff, Zoodak is just plain fun! If you didn’t see my earlier interview with Jinsoo Park, you might go take a look to get some perspective. In a nutshell, any regular guy or gal can trade like a Wall Street Tycoon. They give you a virtual $100,000 to play with, live stock feeds and a chance to win cash prizes! If you have any interest whatsoever in stock trading, who isn’t somehow at least morbidly interested given where the market has been recently. Kind of like all of the rubber necking you see on the freeway when a couple of cars are mangled.

I did pretty well in June, won a little cash and had an addicting bash! July wasn’t so pretty and if this was real money it would have left a mark! You can see below how I did in July and below that how I’m doing so far in the August Tournament. As you can see, in August, I just pulled out of a nose diving tail spin and hope to recover, learn and have more fun. But that’s not the total story. There is constant innovation going on with this team. There is a social aspect to this platform, where I connect up with friends, and compete with them on both trading as well as analysis of how we all think our favorite stocks will perform or how badly we predict they will do. I even tweet my analysis from right inside Zoodak! Also coming this next month is a feature called ZooStreet, more to follow on that innovation! Keep an eye out on this blog and on Zoodak for interviews of some of the July winners.

Russ Daniels on Promoting Innovation — Big Think

Innovation is always, ultimately for some customer.  Whether it’s your 10 year old or that big client, it all comes down to us innovating for someone.  Sometimes it’s innovation for ourselves, but then there you go, you are the customer.

In this short clip from big think,  Russ Daniels, CTO, HP’s Cloud Service Strategy, shares some good points about innovation.  Thinking away from our daily tasks and focusing on improvement for the user.

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Short video clip by David Prager of setup for tonight’s diggnation (Look how big this place is!)

David Prager just put up this short clip to show us the place they are setting up for diggnation tonight. Pretty big place. Will they fill that up?

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Access your home PC’s music library from your iPhone!

Access your home PC’s music library from your iPhone! Revision3 shows you how here! Although I’m not personally an iPhone Fan Boy, I thought this would be a nice share for those of you who are fans. Enjoy

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Fail Like You Mean It – True Innovation from Big Think

Important to any discussion on innovation is failing. Did you ever see those lists of how many times someone important or famous failed? Like everyone who succeeded Lincoln had failures and successes. In the video below from Big Think, Inventor Dean Kamen shares the true path of all projects and discusses how successful creative people fail frequently, rarely work linearly and never give up!

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TAVIS SMILEY with Guest: Biz Stone from PBS

A nice little follow up to my earlier post about the twitter outage. Tavis Smiley interviewing Biz Stone. Interesting comments by Biz Stone. Also take a look here at what Barrett Lyon had to say about all of this originally…

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Also take a look at what Barrett had to say yesterday…

It’s been a fb and twitter kind of day…

Astounding Internet day today! If your day started anything like mine, I’m talking under my breath about AT&T Uverse not loading properly. Facebook is acting strange and then twitter won’t even come up. Of course now we all know about twitter going down, but go to twitter to #whentwitterwasdown and see how many posts that are there and how quickly they are updating. In the time I looked around in it, a couple of minutes, there were an additional 250 and 315 more posts that I had to refresh to see! That rate tells us something about how many people are active on twitter.

Second amazement of the day was the Tech Crunch article by Erick Schonfeld. 340 M global uniques/77 M in US (1/4 of Americans).

Also from Erick’s article –

As much as many would like to dismiss social media, it is striking chords with quite a few of us. What are your thoughts? Leave a comment below…

In The Tube of a Wave Again… Unemployment Then and Again in Silicon Valley

Having become unemployed back during the dotcom bust in 2001 and again now, I wanted to share the chart from the Silicon Alley Insider and this article from Wall Street Journal giving some perspective on what’s going on right now in Silicon Valley. It’s really interesting how some are getting out of tech for other fields, but are we just trading the tube of one degenerating wave for another? I would truly like your perspective in the comments below. Here is the article at WSJ.

JK Wedding Entrance Dance

Innovation and irony come in many forms. This has to be the best wedding entrance ever and it led to getting monitized!

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