An adage today is that it is not about knowledge, it is about finding and filtering knowledge.
One of the ways to find and filter knowledge is to have someone authoritative do that and presents the result to you in a digestabe quanta of knowledge.
Knol, Squidoo and Wikipedia represent three such approach to presenting knowledge that you can turn to. Each with their interesting ideas and twists to it.
While surfing this afternoon, I first learned about Knol which reminds me of my post about Squidoo before. So I went on to explore closer to see how these user-generated-content sites differ.
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Time flies, already 2 weeks of 2007 came and went. Is 59Ideas dead?
Not at all! I’m tempted to blame the recent Taiwan earthquake that caused connection outside of Asia (and China in particular) to slow to a crawl for the laziness to post.
As the first post of 2007, it is a must to reflect on what I had done last year and plan for this year.
Last Year
Last year started with high excitment as I set a target to achieve $1000 of revenue purely from online activities. This was how 59Ideas and many of my sites came about. The journey was traced in Seeking Revenue. Things started fine but as half year went by, the target still look elusive.
Again, I’m tempted to use the excuse that I was also running my business offline. But the what did me in was an underestimation of the time commitment and over-stretched myself. In the end, I burned out before the end of the year and things grinded to a halt.
This Year
All was not lost though. Last year’s exercise gave me plenty of insight into how to create revenue online and where the time and effort went.
Right now, my monthly income average $200-300.
My plan this year is to reduce time spent online maintaining all my sites but yet increase revenue 100%.
I have an old Fujitsu LifeBook P2120 which I used now as a DVD player by connecting the S-video out to my TV. While was using it to play CSI today, I noticed the Transmeta Crusoe chip decal. I almost forgotten all about that.
Remember the secretive launch of Transmeta, much like the stealth Web 2.0 startups these day? Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, was on board.
Linus eventually left in 2003 and in 2005 announced they are getting out of chip business.
Is Transmeta out? Not quite. They were working on a secret project again, this time for Microsoft. The idea behind the project itself is very interesting.
7 years.
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This must be the talk of the town. 1.65 billion in stock. Google purchase of YouTube is heating up the internet once again.
I watch YouTube because somehow Google Videos is not available in China. Would the acquisation cut off YouTube from China? I hope not.
Speculation, theory, analysis and naysayer abound.
The biggest take away for me is why buy YouTube when Google has its own video site? It is not the first time Google does this. I recall MeasureMap and Urchin (now Google Analytics). In the standard business textbook there are a few reasons for that:
- Take out your strongest competitor
- Create an even bigger market
- Synergy, better leverage of resources
Whatever the case, I’m just an observer, sometime wondering how all these money game is being played out.
Very soon I might become the next Getting Things Done (GTD) convert.
I ran into so many positive comments about how using GTD has changed their life and I decided to give it a try.
I just installed GTD Gmail plugin for FireFox and am looking up information all around.
Sounds like fun. Let see if I get things done.
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