Interview: Santana Making "Shape Shifter" - Premier Guitar
"For me, repetition is not redundant or boring. Done the right way, it helps create a vortex that helps your feet get off the ground." ~Carlos Santana
Steve Jobs: Walter Isaacson: Books
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
"...the media industry... ...they want us back on the couch, just consuming, not producing or sharing..."
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.
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Video - Delicious Coffee, Made in Honduras
Honduran Coffee Growers Battle for Best of Brew
Honduran coffee farmers used to smuggle their beans across the border to sell in Guatemala -- world famous for its quality coffee. Now their beans are being sold with the "grown in Honduras" label. WSJ's Jean Guererro reports from Ocotepeque.
http://online.wsj.com/video/honduran-coffee-growers-battle-for-best-of-brew/5...
Congrats to Honduran entrepreneurs making it at the Big Apple
DreamIt’s Biggest Pivot: Class.io Mutated Into Pictour Over the Last Four Weeks
Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
Philadelphia-based DreamIt Ventures incubator opened its first New York session in May with 15 companies culled from more than 500 applications, a three percent acceptance rate. Three months later, those companies are taking the stage at the McGraw Hill Conference Center in Midtown. There were a couple pivots in the class, but probably the most extreme came from the five founders who left their families back in Honduras to build a Facebook-integrated classroom management platform for teachers, Class.io.
The site is slick and the idea seemed great. But after two months of DreamIt boot camp, which emphasizes market research, the founders decided there wasn’t enough need for it. So they decided to pivot–or whatever you want to call it–to a completely different industry: travel. Now Pictour, the start-up aims for a better way to document travel. Co-founder Alejandro Corpeño showed the audience at DreamIt’s demo day, which was well attended but had plenty of empty seats–a tour of venture capital firms in New York as an example.
DreamIt founder David Bookspan reminded the audience that many of their successful portfolio companies changed ideas–SeatGeek, arguably the hottest alumnus–started out as a blog before it was a ticket vendor.
Pictour is raising money now, Mr. Corpeño said, as it rounds out a marathon month of coding. ”So, we just have fun working together 20 hours a day,” he said.
A Catch-22 case in countries' economies explained
US Debt Crisis HQ-2012 is NOT ONLY FOR AMERICA
US debt crisis explained in detail in a simple and effective manner, understandable for the common man. The financial system is on the brink of another collapse, it may sink other major economies too along with it. This could result in a situation worse than the Great Depression.
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