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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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).
No, That’s Not The Ice Cream Man. It’s The Google Trike Taking Street View Off-Road. 44 Comments 282retweetTOP100 Share 48 by Leena Rao on October 16, 2009
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
RELATED TOPICS Google Inc. China Internet 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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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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.
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.
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.