Do yourself a favor and grab your mobile and add 1(800) GOOG-411 to your phonebook.
If giving you the number and connecting isn’t enough, they now offer the ability to have a link to map sent directly to your phone via SMS. All you have to do is tell the system to “Map it!”
Awesome!
Today I became convinced that RSS is one of the greatest technologies that may never be.
For someone who might not be familiar with the concept of RSS feeds, they basically break down like this. Think of a single page on the internet as being nothing more than: a name (title), location (url), and content.
So, when sites constantly generate new pages, such as:
you may want to stay up to date on that info. That is to say, you want to know the new page name, location and content.
Lansun + Scott was a fictitious company name that I came up with for a business case competition in college. We were a team of 4 that had to come up with a unique, low-cost solution for a fledging IT company that had been issued a death sentence by its crippling network infrastructure.
In our presentation and analysis, we must have done something right because we took second place in the competition, resulting in an “A” in our class as well as a job offer from TXU! It was pretty cool!
That was seven years ago. But the thought of making Lansun + Scott a reality had always been with me. It was during a conversation, over a few beers with Alex, that I realized I needed to at least try and give the whole entrepreneurial thing a real shot or I should just go ahead and stop renewing the domain every year.
I decided to give it a go.
