Mash up of 2009's top 25 tracks
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Alexa Top 500 Global Sites List
Top Sites
The top 500 sites on the web.
- Google
Enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.
- Facebook
A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
- YouTube
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!
- lililili
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Lucky Penny
Three minutes ago a girl carrying her shopping bags dropped a shiny penny on floor in the Coply Mall in Boston. In about 2 minutes (120 seconds) 60 people walked by. No one picked up the penny. Does the penny really have that little value to people? I picked it up after the 60th person walked by. It was heads up. Now it is my lucky penny.
Michael Salafia
Northeastern University
School of Technological Entrepreneurship
Email: mike.salafia@gmail.com
Mobile: 401.218.8292
Website: http://michaelsalafia.info
Follow: @michaelsalafia
Connect: linkedin.com/in/michaelsalafia
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Connect start-up with angel investors
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/
Michael Salafia
Northeastern University
School of Technological Entrepreneurship
Email: mike.salafia@gmail.com
Mobile: 401.218.8292
Website: http://michaelsalafia.info
Follow: @michaelsalafia
Connect: linkedin.com/in/michaelsalafia
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Lifestyle Innovation Technology, LLC
Lifestyle Innovation Technology, LLC
Lifestyle Innovation Technology, LLC was officailly founded Thursday December 10, 2009.
Cheers!
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Michael Salafia
Presidennt
lifestyleinnovationtechnology.com
Friday, December 11, 2009
Hugo Boss Create Contest
2010 marks the 15th anniversary of the HUGO Man Fragrance. Over the years, the HUGO Man Bottle has achieved iconic status since its creation in 1995.
To commemorate this important milestone, HUGO Fragrances is inviting designers, illustrators and photographers to participate in a special edition of the HUGO Create contest. The entries should reflect your impressions and the emotional connections that you have with the HUGO Man bottle. Participants should also incorporate "15" somewhere, but are free to express the number in any way or form they want.
The top 15 submissions will win 500$ cash and the visual of the round winner will be featured in i-D Magazine.
Deadline for this round is January 4, 2010 and winners will be announced on February 1, 2010
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Loopt Plug in Melrose Place
Loopt iPhone app just did a great product placement plug Melrose Place. Great target marketing.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009
GM is selling stake to China
China takes another victory over US business today as GM agreed to sell it's stake in it's India operations and a small stake in it's China operations to it's Chinese venture partner Shanghai Automotive.
...and the US is another step closer to communism...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Obama Deploys More Troops to Afghanistan
30,000 more US troops will be deployed to Afghanistan. This will cost $30 billion. That is $1 million per person...
Give me the $30 billion I will resolve conflict peacefully, with out the loss of more US lives.
Who ever Obama... I guess you fell for it.
Over the past 8 years $165 billion has been spent on this war... over 800 US lives have been lost.
The mission has not yet been accomplished.
The United States has demonstrated ineffective leadership, and is disgracing all of its proud tax paying citizens.
AOL Meeting Market Needs as On-Demand Content Producers
I think this is a great move for AOL. There is definetly an unmet market need for good content producers/providers. The general public is board, they need something new. Although you may think of AOL as an ISP, they have been in the premiem content business for a long time, so I think that this is a great expansion of one of their core competencies.
Here is the article from Wired.com:
AOL Becoming Automated, On-Demand Content Factory
By Ryan Singel 
Tim Armstrong, a former Google ad executive, wants AOL to create automated content for the people. The idea is to mine search data and traffic patterns to find the latest hot searches and then automatically commission matching stories from a bevy of freelancers at Seed.com, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The point is to drive inefficiency and editorial costs out of creating news and entertainment, while simultaneously drawing in viewers and thus advertisers. AOL, which has been consistently losing users and revenue, is being spun off from Time Warner back into a standalone company in December. Earlier this month it announced it would lay off about 2,500 employees.
But that leaves AOL with a thriving business of online, niche media sites, including PoliticsDaily, Love.com and popular blogs like Engadget and Joystiq. AOL is trying to become an online content empire, with many sites being standalone brands that readers don’t associate at all with AOL.
With this new system, Armstrong is betting that the future of media, and thus AOL, involves turning editorial functions over to algorithms and writing assignments to freelancers willing to work for pennies a word, according to WSJ.
AOL says its new system determined that the most popular topic on the Web last Tuesday was “crib recalls,” following news of a massive recall by Stork Craft Manufacturing of Canada. AOL had only one story on its sites on the recall. But, if the new system had been live, editors would have geared up to supply stories on the subject from a number of angles, the company says….
AOL says it will pay freelancers based on how much its technology predicts marketers will pay to advertise next to their articles or videos. It says that will range from nothing up front, with a promise to share ad revenues the article generates, to more than $100 per item.
But the company will keep lots of high-profile professional journalists, including writers who made their names at newspapers like the New York Times and magazines such as Portfolio.
Additionally, AOL is planning to let advertisers commission stories for its ads to run around. For instance, a videogame store could ask AOL to write a story about how online games make users more social.
AOL isn’t the first to attempt the mass production of content, based on algorithms. Demand Media (profiled in Wired magazine) largely pioneered the idea of pumping out cheap, niche content of marginal quality based on calculations of how many people would search to find a video on how to make say, kobocha french fries. Armstrong is a large investor in the company.
AOL’s test is whether its algorithm, not editor-driven, system can create high-enough-quality content to please brand-name advertisers, who still pay a premium to have their ads paired with professional and respected online content. The internet is already filled with unresearched and uninformative ‘articles’ intended to draw readers through online searches, but the payoff in that game is thin for everyone except Google.
Correction: This story initially reported that Armstrong was an investor in Demand Media, but Demand says this is not the case.
Spotted: New iPhone Prototype // Rumors: Better Maps
According to Wired.com, there is evidence to support that Apple has began field testing prototypes of the next generation iPhone. 
Apple is looking for software engineers to take their built in maps app to the "next level".... Does that mean it will finally when I need it to? ...Stay tuned.
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