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	Free Me From My Killer Ideas All my life I have been cursed with the passion and determination to turn every crazy idea I come up with into a thriving business. While most people may consider this a gift, they have never run 6,245 businesses simultaneously with $0 and 1 employee (me) while going to school full time. As my college journey comes to an end, I find myself with a KILLER idea and finally in a position to pursue my dream of starting a "true" business. In order to commit to my new business 110% I need let go of a few fun ideas I have been tinkering with over the years. I also need an outlet for giving away any new ideas before I accidentally start executing on them. I'm going to start posting my crazy business ideas here on my blog in hopes that someone, somewhere will take the idea and run with it. For the record, I got this idea from GaryVee when he gave away his ideafor a web based live streaming QVC network. This video also spawned one of Gary's all time greatest quotes "When you make a billi, make sure you throw me a couple hundred milli". Sounds like a fair deal =) 05 Apr 2009 Disqus Comments »

	Replicating The Google Maps iPhone App I know its ambitious task to take this on as my first Google Maps API Project, but what the hell. If you can help me get this working, you can use it for yourself. Hows that for incentive? =) 19 Jan 2009 Disqus Comments »

	iPhone Safari Dev Stuff So I have been doing a lot of web dev, particularly for an iPhone project I am working on and wanted to share some of the things I stumbled upon. I usually don't write posts like this, but since The Googster made some of this info overly complicated to find I thought: Why Not? Some of this stuff might make you say "Duh!" while others might make you say "Ahh. Interesting...". So anyway here we go... 18 Jan 2009 Disqus Comments »

	How I Almo$t Tricked Google Into Making Me Millions Ever wonder how Mozilla stays in business? First, Mozilla makes Google the default search engine on FireFox (I'm sure some mula comes from that alone). Second, every time you use that search box and proceed to click an Adsense ad, Google shares the revenue with Mozilla. You can even watch them track it. Go to Google.com and search from the web page, the search url looks like this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Greg+Gerber&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= If you use the search-box built into FireFox the resulting url looks like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=Greg+Gerber&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a See the difference? In 2006, that relationship earned Mozilla $57 million, or 85% of the company’s total revenue. That's right... $57,000,000 dollarsss worth of clicks in one year! When I found that out, I wanted in. Who wouldn't right? Read The Full Article & Leave A Comment... 23 Dec 2008 Disqus Comments »

	Twitter Turned My Blog Into A Ghost Town As you may (or may not) have noticed I havn't been posting much at brainbackup.net lately. But don't mistake my lack of posts for having little to talk about or laziness. No I blame it all on twitter. Every big thought and small action I have taken over the last few months has poured out of me in the form of mini sub 140 character posts on twitter. And my blog isn't the only tech that misses me... I am sending less email, using less instant messaging, making less phone calls and sending almost zero text messages. How has this tiny service that hardly anyone knows about replacing almost all of my other forms of communication? Writing a blog post or email is time consuming. Sure I love to back up my thoughts in their full entirety on the blog, but is it really necessary? Lately I find myself condensing thoughts, projects and ideas I have been working on for days, weeks or even months into short 140 character twits. I could go on all day about the various reasons you should be using twitter but I will just leave it at this: Twitter makes sharing and communicating dead simple. (and thats only 52 characters) Convincing people that twitter is actually useful and makes life easier is a hard sell. To most, it seems like another time consuming activity to throw into the mix. Try explaining it like this: Imagine meeting a ton of new people and never sending a text message, updating your facebook status or emailing someone a link ever again. That usually does the trick. They will figure out the million other uses for twitter on their own once they give it a shot So if you want to know what I have been up to for the last few months just hop over to my twitter profile. I am going to try posting more detailed thoughts, projects and ideas on the blog again, but no guarantees. Either way you can follow both by just following me on twitter. Dont even bother commenting on this article. Just reply to the twit of this article that was automatically posted to twitter via twitterfeed. 22 Oct 2008 Disqus Comments »

	Apple's Amazing Marketing Skillz Of course we all know that Apple has mad marketing skills. But this one blew it out of the water. I took a screen capture of the nytimes.com site because im not sure how long this campaign will be on the homepage. Sorry about the quality, but now we can watch it will last forever. Click here to watch the ad. 18 Sep 2008 Disqus Comments »

	Money As Debt Video Series Trying to explain the current problems facing the financial system is very complicated. If you know someone who is trying to figure it out, send them these videos. This is the only way I have ever been able to understand it. Click HERE to watch the videos. 18 Sep 2008 Disqus Comments »

	Oh Nokia! I consider myself pretty knowledgeable when it comes to emerging trends in tech. One of my favorite stories right now revolves around the smartphone market and the battle for mobile operating system dominance. The companies in this space are extremely experienced and know how to capitalize on an amazing opportunity when it presents itself. Within the last few years we have seen new companies entering the mobile space. Apple(AAPL), Google(GOOG), RIM(RIMM) and Microsoft(MSFT) are all looking to bite a chunk out of the new exploding mobile market. Even Garmin(GRMN) wants in with it’s new nuvifone. While these giant companies have already pushed out once dominant Palm(PALM) and Motorola(MOT) one company still dominates the mobile world, Nokia. I recently dug through AdMob’s smartphone statistics for August and was amazed to see the dominant position Nokia has in the global smartphone market. It is obvious that instead of trying to compete for US customers like it’s competition, Nokia has had a much more global focus and captured an unbelievable amount of market share. AdMob’s statistics relate to internet traffic, but provide an amazing insight into the smartphone market. You can download the entire report here, but below are some of the mind-blowing statistics I discovered: - Nokia had 62.4% share of worldwide smartphone traffic in August 08 and the next closest is RIM with 10.8%. - Nokia manufactures 13 of the top 20 smartphones worldwide. - Nokia has 33.7% market share in total phones including regular, and smartphones. The next closest is Motorola with 13.7% - Nokia dominates in small emerging markets like the Philippines (86%) and South Africa (87%). While spending this week at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, there was one quote that stood out from the rest. Navin Chadda from the Mayfield Fund said, "We like to invest in companies that have an unfair advantage in customer acquisition". While he was referring to investing in private startups, I feel like the same holds true with public companies. Nokia has been busy snatching up global market share while RIM, Palm, Microsoft and Apple have been fighting for the US’s attention. Nokia’s commanding lead in global market share puts them in the unfair advantage Navin Chadda was referring too. While it still dominates, NOK has recently hit a near two year low. The problem is that companies like Apple and RIM are selling their phones at break-even prices for the shear purpose of snatching market share from Nokia, who announced that they would not snoop to their level. The markets do not take this increased competition lightly, but this also presents an amazing opportunity to invest. This aggressive approach from its competitors cannot last long and is purely a marketing scheme that will end. Reports from Gartner Inc. saying that the slowing economy is effecting smartphone sales and downgrades from clueless investment banks have beaten Nokia’s stock price down to a two year low on the eve of a global smartphone growth explosion. Smartphones present opportunities for multiple business opportunities including GPS, music and mobile applications. Nokia’s new Symbian operating system is on par with the iPhone and Android, and will be able to compete with the best of them. Nokia’s current stock price looks extremely undervalued at these levels. Compared to it’s new competition, I might even consider it a steal. Picking up some shares of NOK under $24 might be one the best opportunities available in the tech market today. Disclosure: I definitely own some NOK 11 Sep 2008 Disqus Comments »

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