Sunday, January 31, 2010

Caring For Your Elderly Parents



Caring For Your Elderly Parents
Hosted by: Rebecca Brayton
There’s no way to deny it: our parents are getting older. While we may want to ignore this fact as long as possible, it’s best to plan ahead. One day, we might need to help them more with tasks such as shopping or cleaning, or we may need to take care of them completely. So it’s best to discuss with your parents early, to ensure you have a plan for their different life stages. In this video, WatchMojo.com speaks with the two authors, Barbara Dunn and Linda Scott, of Our Turn to Parent about their personal experiences with elderly parents, as well as advice they have for caregivers.

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Custom LowRider Bikes



Custom LowRider Bikes
Hosted by: Veronica Delfino
Lowriders have been around for years but they are becoming more and more popular today.Many people who ride custom lowrider bikes find that it becomes a lifestyle for them. For more info www.v-low.com

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Tea Tasting With A Pro



Tea Tasting With A Pro
Hosted by: Rebecca Brayton
Tea tasting will help determine the quality of your tea. Much like with wine, different growing conditions of the tea plant – otherwise known as Camellia Sinensis – result in a variety of flavors and even a different appearance of the tea. Kevin Gascoyne is a trained tea taster and black tea specialist. Each year, he travels to countries such as India and Sri Lanka to discover the best teas of the season. In this video, WatchMojo.com speaks with Gascoyne, and learns how a tea tasting is carried out.

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Recipes For Healthy Breakfast Smoothies



Recipes For Healthy Breakfast Smoothies
Hosted by: Rebecca Brayton
First thing in the morning, when you’re rushing to get out the door on time, breakfast can easily become your last priority. However there are delicious and simple options you can make fast and take on the go. Fresh or frozen fruit combines with juice or milk to create an easy, healthy and, most importantly, fast morning beverage. In this video, WatchMojo.com shows you four smoothie recipes: One combines the flavors of blueberry and orange, one will give you a punch of protein and the taste of banana/peanut butter, one is perfect for coffee lovers and the last brings together tofu and strawberries.

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Top Picks in Adidas Shoes




Top Picks in Adidas Shoes
Hosted by: Veronica Delfino
Adidas can serve up retro styles and still manage to stay on the cutting edge of what's hot. In this video find out about the new line of shoes from Adidas that are often inspired by classic Adidas shoe designs.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Making of The Anti Resume Revolution



Don't miss this creative behind the scenes video on how she wrote her book, and how you can write one too.

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Creating Design Elements: Ink Spreads and Drops

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Steve Wozniak Talks iPad (Video)



Steve Wozniak Talks iPad (Video)

by Robin Wauters on January 28, 2010

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak paid a visit to California State University of Chico yesterday after the official unveiling of the iPad, and while there he was asked by the audience how he sees the device affecting the entertainment industry.

Videomaker caught his response on video, posted it to YouTube and voilà, one of the first official opinion of the Woz finds it way to us and more broadly, the Internet.

Wozniak foresees – but admits that it’s just a ‘total’ guess at this point – that in the future you’ll be able to subscribe to magazines and newspapers on the iPad via iTunes. In his view, such an endeavor would leverage the iPad to become much more than a hardware play.

In addition, he says he doesn’t see the iPad as fit for movie editing or music production or anything like that.

Nothing earth shattering, but always nice to get übergeek Wozniak’s opinion on Apple stuff.

if you happened to be there, we’d love to know what else was asked (and what Wozniak responded, evidently).

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The iPad Video Demo



This eight minute video should answer any remaining questions you have about the iPad. Watch it in high-res at Apple.

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Are You Wearing Dirty Perfume?




Urine and antifreeze have been found in some counterfeit fragrances.

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Protect Your Skin From Winter's...





Dermatologist Doris Day on how to escape dry skin and chapped lips this winter.

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Cyberbullying Blamed for Teen's...



Did Facebook harassment cause a 15-year-old to take her life?

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Google Trike Taking Street View Off-Road.



No, That’s Not The Ice Cream Man. It’s The Google Trike Taking Street View Off-Road.
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Google has been making Maps and Earth a bit more social these days, letting users create 3D buildings and using crowdsourcing to help update changes in terrain and on roads. Now Google Street View is hoping to engage users by letting them suggest spots where the “Trike” should venture.

Google Street View’s Trike is what Google uses when it can’t drive a car through the area its visually mapping. Some Google employee actually rides this contraption to make sure Street View has visuals on hard-to-reach spots around the world. At Google’s Trike homepage, you can suggest spots where the Trike should go within six categories: parks and trails, university campuses, pedestrian malls (e.g., outdoor shopping areas, boardwalks), theme parks and zoos, and landmarks and sports venues.

Google is letting users submit their votes over the next few weeks, and will choose a winner for each category for the Street View trike to visit. It’s certainly an interesting way to engage users with Street View, considering how popular the car sightings are. When Google opened up nominations in the U.K., Street View received more than 10,000 suggestions.

Personally, I think this is representative of Google wanting to have the best mapping data available, whether it be on Maps, Earth or Street View, and is now engaging U.S. users to help them get this. Google knows the power of crowdsourcing and using its loyal user base to help them improve and iterate their products.

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4 Troops Sings 'For freedom

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Dr. Richard Besser offers tips on how to keep your home free of head lice.




Dr. Richard Besser offers tips on how to keep your home free of head lice.

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World Economic Forum

Each year the World Economic Forum at Davos holds number of technology focused sessions. Last year I moderated a high profile discussion about the next digital experience. This year, Loic Le Meur is hosting a discussion on the growth of social networks.

Participants include Reid Hoffman(LinkedIn, Greylock), Owen Van Natta(MySpace), Gina Bianchini (Ning), Evan Williams (Twitter) and George Colony(Forrester Research) and Don Tapscott (nGenera). Randi Zuckerberg, Jeff Jarvis, Russian super-investor Yuri Milner and others also dropped by to participate.

The room is packed, standing room only, and bursting at the seams. These guys are popular in Silicon Valley. Bring them to Davos, Switzerland and everyone wants to hear what they have to say.

Each panelist is giving a short 3-4 minute talk on how they frame the interesting issues around social networking (Hoffman says, for example, that privacy is only an issue for old people, young people don’t care.). We have videos of most of these comments and will embed them below as we process them..

Seven of the 15 most traffic sites in the world are social sites, Colony says in his intro. Only 17% of online users will visit a social site each day, though, including mobile usage. This varies widely by age – 27% of those 25 and under will visit a social site each day.

Below are clips from Hoffman, Van Natta, Bianchini, Williams and Zuckerberg:








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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Micachu and the Shapes



Following British musician Micachu through the aisles of a hardware store and along the streets of NYC, our video on the 23-year-old documents how she builds her experimental instruments. We also learn how her classical training compares to songwriting and get an impromptu performance with a member of her band the Shapes.

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Promisses

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From the Horse's Mouth Interview Series, vol 1.

From The Horse's Mouth, vol 1: The Linchpin Session from Goose Educational Media inc. on Vimeo.




From the Horse's Mouth Interview Series, vol 1.

The Best Selling author of 12 books and the most read business blog in the world, Seth Godin is a champion of respect and loyalty based marketing. On January 19th, 2010 we were fortunate enough to have an opportunity to sit down with Seth and discuss his new book, Linchpin. It was a treat for us, and we hope you enjoy it.

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iPHONING MY WAY TO RETIREMENT $.70 AT A TIME by Eugene Lin, Ep 44

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Google users in Hong Kong hold a banner saying, "Say no to internet censorship: Google, well done!"

Google users in Hong Kong hold a banner saying, "Say no to internet censorship: Google, well done!"
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Google says hackers from China got into its Gmail system
Bruce Schneier says hackers exploited feature put into system at behest of U.S. government
When governments get access to private communications, they invite abuse, he says
Government surveillance and control of Internet is flourishing, he says
Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World." Read more of his writing at www.schneier.com.
(CNN) -- Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn't that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated -- we knew that already -- it's that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers.
In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access.
Google's system isn't unique. Democratic governments around the world -- in Sweden, Canada and the UK, for example -- are rushing to pass laws giving their police new powers of Internet surveillance, in many cases requiring communications system providers to redesign products and services they sell.
Many are also passing data retention laws, forcing companies to retain information on their customers. In the U.S., the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act required phone companies to facilitate FBI eavesdropping, and since 2001, the National Security Agency has built substantial eavesdropping systems with the help of those phone companies.
Systems like these invite misuse: criminal appropriation, government abuse and stretching by everyone possible to apply to situations that are applicable only by the most tortuous logic. The FBI illegally wiretapped the phones of Americans, often falsely invoking terrorism emergencies, 3,500 times between 2002 and 2006 without a warrant. Internet surveillance and control will be no different.


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Official misuses are bad enough, but it's the unofficial uses that worry me more. Any surveillance and control system must itself be secured. An infrastructure conducive to surveillance and control invites surveillance and control, both by the people you expect and by the people you don't.
China's hackers subverted the access system Google put in place to comply with U.S. intercept orders. Why does anyone think criminals won't be able to use the same system to steal bank account and credit card information, use it to launch other attacks or turn it into a massive spam-sending network? Why does anyone think that only authorized law enforcement can mine collected Internet data or eavesdrop on phone and IM conversations?
These risks are not merely theoretical. After September 11, the NSA built a surveillance infrastructure to eavesdrop on telephone calls and e-mails within the U.S. Although procedural rules stated that only non-Americans and international phone calls were to be listened to, actual practice didn't match those rules. NSA analysts collected more data than they were authorized to and used the system to spy on wives, girlfriends and notables such as President Clinton.
But that's not the most serious misuse of a telecommunications surveillance infrastructure. In Greece, between June 2004 and March 2005, someone wiretapped more than 100 cell phones belonging to members of the Greek government: the prime minister and the ministers of defense, foreign affairs and justice.
Ericsson built this wiretapping capability into Vodafone's products and enabled it only for governments that requested it. Greece wasn't one of those governments, but someone still unknown -- A rival political party? Organized crime? Foreign intelligence? -- figured out how to surreptitiously turn the feature on.
And surveillance infrastructure can be exported, which also aids totalitarianism around the world. Western companies like Siemens and Nokia built Iran's surveillance. U.S. companies helped build China's electronic police state. Just last year, Twitter's anonymity saved the lives of Iranian dissidents, anonymity that many governments want to eliminate.
In the aftermath of Google's announcement, some members of Congress are reviving a bill banning U.S. tech companies from working with governments that digitally spy on their citizens. Presumably, those legislators don't understand that their own government is on the list.
This problem isn't going away. Every year brings more Internet censorship and control, not just in countries like China and Iran but in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and other free countries, egged on by both law enforcement trying to catch terrorists, child pornographers and other criminals and by media companies trying to stop file sharers.
The problem is that such control makes us all less safe. Whether the eavesdroppers are the good guys or the bad guys, these systems put us all at greater risk. Communications systems that have no inherent eavesdropping capabilities are more secure than systems with those capabilities built in. And it's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bruce Schneier.

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公視晚間新聞(知名英文老師 彭蒙惠來台60載)

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Monday, January 25, 2010

French Given English Olympic Cash



Council bosses in northern France secure their latest Olympic contract by claiming to be part of southern England.

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Classical Violinist Is Global Star

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Magnesium? Don’t ya just love those science and car crash movies they showed in school back in the 50’s and 60’s?




Don’t ya just love those science and car crash movies they showed in school back in the 50’s and 60’s?

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DJ Earworm does it again with United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop), a mashup of this year’s top 25 Billb




Another year, another year-end mashup, once again consisting of the top 25 most popular hit songs of 2009, according to Billboard Magazine.
This is a follow-up to last year’s
United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop)
and the original United State of Pop from 2007.
This year in the charts, so many of the pop songs this year seem to tell the same story: Yeah, we’ve been through a lot, but right now we’re gonna celebrate with music and dance, and it’s gonna be ok. With that spirit in mind, I invite you to…BLAME IT ON THE POP
The Black Eyed Peas - BOOM BOOM POW
Lady Gaga - POKER FACE
Lady Gaga Featuring Colby O’Donis - JUST DANCE
The Black Eyed Peas - I GOTTA FEELING
Taylor Swift - LOVE STORY
Flo Rida - RIGHT ROUND
Jason Mraz - I’M YOURS
Beyonce - SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT)
Kanye West - HEARTLESS
The All-American Rejects - GIVES YOU HELL
Taylor Swift - YOU BELONG WITH ME
T.I. Featuring Justin Timberlake - DEAD AND GONE
The Fray - YOU FOUND ME
Kings Of Leon - USE SOMEBODY
Keri Hilson Featuring Kanye West & Ne-Yo - KNOCK YOU DOWN
Jamie Foxx Featuring T-Pain - BLAME IT
Pitbull - I KNOW YOU WANT ME (CALLE OCHO)
T.I. Featuring Rihanna - LIVE YOUR LIFE
Soulja Boy Tell ‘em Featuring Sammie - KISS ME THRU THE PHONE
Jay Sean Featuring Lil Wayne - DOWN
Miley Cyrus - THE CLIMB
Drake - BEST I EVER HAD
Kelly Clarkson - MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU
Beyonce - HALO
Katy Perry - HOT N COLD

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Seven-Year-Old Uses Pedal Power For Haiti



A seven-year-old boy has raised over £30,000 to help survivors of the Haitian earthquake. Charlie Simpson, from Fulham in south-west London, is cycling five miles around his local park to raise funds for Unicef's Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Top Dogs Do Top Tricks

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Video – Let The Chinese Explain To You The Conan/Leno Situation

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Those Clever Dolphins (Porpoises)

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Boxee is the best way to enjoy entertainment from the Internet and computer on your TV.

Boxee Beta from boxee on Vimeo.

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Learn how Box.net makes sharing simple.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

6 Cores of FD Networking: Starting with the Self

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What I’ve learned in 1.5 Years as an Entrepreneur

What I've learned in 1.5 Years as an Entrepreneur from Jun Loayza on Vimeo.



Don’t be the next Google or Yahoo; focus on building a cash-flow company that is self-automated!
I’ll keep you updated on how I do and give you specifics on how I was able to succeed… or fail.

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Apple Universe #155: Speck Products

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Totally Wired Youth Entrepreneurs - Ypulse June 2009 Favorite




About This Video

This video is Public
Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup
Hotel Nikko, San Francisco
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Moderator: Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director--Garage Technology Ventures

Daniel Brusilovsky, CEO--Teens in Tech
Jun Loayza, Founder--Future Delivery
Jessica Mah, Founder--InternshipIN.com
Ashley Qualls, CEO--WhateverLife
Carly Wertheim, Co-President--Teens Turning Green

(video credit: Marie Domingo)

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Monday, January 18, 2010

A discussion about Apple's iPhone

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Robert Downey Jr on David Letterman



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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Zinio app brings magazines to iPhones...and perhaps iSlates?

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Monday, January 04, 2010

Eating Healthy in 2010




Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen share their two-week diet plan.

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Ki’une (below)




Ki’une’s video needs to seen — and listened to — to have its full impact. Recorded over a year of traveling, it also showcases why his dance muse has been successful. That’s some damn fine locking.

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श्रौल्ट्रवेलेर्स३- Mozart






From the mother in the family known as SoulTravelers3 (edited for length):

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Random 4: Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose on Y-Combinator, Language Learning and More

The 4th Random Episode from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.





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August 12th, 2009
Random 4: Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose on Y-Combinator, Language Learning and More 143 Comments

Written by Tim Ferriss Topics: Gadgets, Interviews, Language, Marketing, Random

This pre-China trip includes the below:

- Personal experiences with Y-Combinator, demo days, and pitching new ideas through avenues like YC.

- Five things you can do as a new startup to get your ideas, app, or product in front of influencers.

- Tweaking your website: per-user metrics, cost per acquisition, lifetime value of the customer, etc..

- The iPhone 3GS, talking some about the new updates and then a short comparison with the Palm Pre.

- Learning new languages and reactivating old ones (in this case, Mandarin Chinese).

The above list is taken from Glenn McElhose’s blog, where you can also find links to all of the sites and products mentioned in the show.

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What did I pack and why?

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Going to China, Language Reactivation, and Other Mischief

China Pre-Trip Clip from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.





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December 31st, 2009
Cold Remedy: 18 Real-World Lifestyle Design Case Studies (Now It’s Your Turn) 141 Comments

Written by Tim Ferriss Topics: 4-Hour Case Studies


If not in 2010, then when? (Photo: jphilipson)

The video case studies that I asked for in the last post really caught me unprepared.

I…am…so happy that it’s hard to put it into words.

From Denmark to India, from college students to retirees, from yoga instructors to engineers, the stories poured in. Narrowing them down to finalists, even with several people, was excruciating, but below you will find 15 of our favorites. Many more are worth watching (I watched them all) and can be found here, or by searching “4hww success” on YouTube. There are also 150 comments on the last post full of practical how-to implementations.

The below videos represent a real-life crash course in the many paths and practicalities of lifestyle design. I hope you love watching them as much as I did… Read More

December 22nd, 2009
Cold Remedy: Free Flights Anywhere in the World 159 Comments

Written by Tim Ferriss Topics: 4-Hour Case Studies, The Book - 4HWW, Travel


Where would you go if you had a free ticket anywhere? The island of Bohol in the Philippines? (source: WisDoc)

Not long ago, I received the following comment — edited for length — from Ryan N.:

I hate you Tim. I had a secure future ahead of me, and I left my job, my reasonably well paying professional career all because of your book. Best thing I’ve ever done!!

I was wondering if you might be able to put up a blog post where people could post their ideas or muses as case studies. I’m sure there are a lot of people like me who would like to share their stories and listen to others living the 4HWW.

Here’s to 2010 being the year everything changes.

Indeed. Here’s to 2010 being the year everything changes.

I decided to take Ryan’s advice. Below is a post of just a few select video case studies. This is also where you can win a round-trip ticket anywhere in the world.

That would be a nice way to start 2010 with a bang, right?… Read More

December 18th, 2009
How I Did It: From $7 an Hour to Coaching Major League Baseball MVPs 115 Comments

Written by Tim Ferriss Topics: 4-Hour Case Studies, The Book - 4HWW


Jaime Cevallos and the MP30 Training Bat (Source: Jaime Cevallos)

“Cevallos told Zobrist [Tampa Bay Rays MVP] he could turn him into a power hitter…The results have been remarkable.”
- ESPN The Magazine

This article will tell the inspiring story of Jaime Cevallos, who went from $7 an hour to coaching MVPs in Major League Baseball, automating his income in the process.

Jaime is now — in many respects — set. But how did he do it?

Some of the questions I asked Jaime include:

1) What is your muse [automated business]?
2) How did you contact the initial MLB players, and what exact wording did you use?
3) What things were much easier than expected, and which things were much harder?
4) To those people who haven’t yet tried to create a muse, what 3-5 pieces of advice would you give them?
5) What mistakes did you make, and what did you learn from them?… Read More

December 8th, 2009
No More Excuses – How to Make an Extra $100,000 in the Next 6 Months 320 Comments

Written by Tim Ferriss Topics: 4-Hour Case Studies, Automation, The Book - 4HWW


The Wilburns have created a multinational from their home.(Photo: Dana Smith)

“So, do you have any ideas?”

“Well, if we’re going to do something, it should be big. It should make people sit up and say OMFG. Make people actually do something,” I responded.

The conversation continued in front of the Thai restaurant, me pacing on my cell phone in San Francisco — foregoing food in excitement — and Tobi in his offices in Ottawa, Canada.

We decided in the subsequent 10 minutes to offer $100,000 cash as a bribe to you all. The overview?

* $100,000 for the grand winner
* $120,000 total in prizes
* 6 months starting January 1 but you can (and should) get started now
* Even if you don’t win the prizes, you should end up with a viable business at the end of 6 months

The details make it even better… Read More

July 12th, 2009
Going to China, Language Reactivation, and Other Mischief 149 Comments

Written by Tim Ferriss Topics: 4-Hour Case Studies, Language, Random, Travel

Greetings from Kunming, China, land of Pu-erh tea! I’ve been offline for a week and feel fantastic.

Kevin Rose, Glenn McElhose, and I are up to no good and having a blast. The above video is the first of several to chronicle our experience exploring the incredible world of tea in China, so be prepared for footage no foreigners have seen before. Not into tea? Don’t worry — it’s an inside look at strangers in a strange land, culture shock included.

This volume covers our trip preparation, Pu-erh tea cakes, and basic Mandarin language reactivation. There is a separate Random episode coming that includes more on language and textbook analysis.

This afternoon, we will head to Beijing for a bit of Bladerunner-style fun and exploration of Olympics-inspired modernization. I haven’t spent real time in the capital since 1996, and I expect the changes will be a shock to the system.

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Tim Ferriss - The 4-Hour Workweek - Sample Clip




Tim Ferriss - The 4-Hour Workweek - Sample Clip

Sample interview clip of Timothy Ferriss discussing The 4-Hour Workweek.

More video and articles: www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog

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Tim Ferriss - 4-Hour Workweek Video Summary + Highlights



This is a professionally-edited summary of the #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, narrated by Tim Ferriss. Sample chapters and more can be found at www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog

This video of approximately 5 minutes is great for those new to the book or those who would like a compressed review of some key concepts.

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“It feels like my brains are being sucked out!” — The Ariel Atom



“It feels like my brains are being sucked out!” — The Ariel Atom

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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Spectacular Show Says G'Day To 2010





More than a million people gathered in Sydney Harbour to see a spectacular New Year fireworks display. Organisers claimed the 12-minute extravaganza involving 4,500kg of fireworks was the most complex ever staged.

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