Who would have thought that our small project would be all that interesting?!

Rackspace Alum Targets Social Networking

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Houstonist Tech Buzz – 090207

It appears we’ve made the the local paper today…

Entrepreneur passes over Austin and picks Bayou City as he continues to develop ideas such as Natuba.com

Calling Houston home

And its on the front page of the biz-section:

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All tho’ this article makes a distinction between single digit millionaires and other wealthy people… This is pretty much the lesson that is taught in the book The Millionaire Next Door…

If the 1980s created yuppies (young urban professionals) and the 1990s brought us bobos (bourgeois bohemians), the 2000s may be giving rise to a new kind of elite: yawns.

Yawns are “young and wealthy but normal.” They are men and women in their 30s and 40s who have become multimillionaires and billionaires during the wealth boom of the past decade. Yet rather than spending their money on yachts, boats and jets, yawns live modestly and spend most of their money on philanthropy.

The Rich Are Duller

Maybe these people should move to Texas.

Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The $1.3 million house he and his wife own on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean is paid off. The couple’s net worth of roughly $3.5 million places them in the top 2 percent of families in the United States.

Yet each day Mr. Steger continues to toil in what a colleague calls “the Silicon Valley salt mines,” working as a marketing executive for a technology start-up company, still striving for his big strike. Most mornings, he can be found at his desk by 7. He typically works 12 hours a day and logs an extra 10 hours over the weekend.

In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich

Frustrated iPod owners are angry, their music taken from them by thieves Dateline caught on hidden camera.

On Dateline Wednesday, Dateline investigates if it’s possible, using some of the same high-tech capabilities that make the iPod the phenomenon it is, to track down people who take iPods that don’t belong to them.

Hot iPods: Is there a way to stop thieves cold? A Dateline hidden camera investigation.

One of our projects made the Houston Chronicle Blog… cool!

The last thing the online world needs is yet another social network service, but they keep right on coming. If you’ve got outposts for your life on a variety of sites, and you have friends and associates who want to see what’s up with you, then you’re sending those friends hither and yon.

A place for your stuff

Wow, I didn’t know that Mr. Ron Popeil’s products weren’t selling all that well anymore… last I heard he was worth $250million…

“… despite the loans and successor management’s continued efforts, Ronco’s revenue base had dropped too far to recover and Ronco filed for Chapter 11 in June.”

Sanders Morris Harris writes off Ronco loan

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In ur cafez hav’n ur dinnerz

Jim Cramer goes nuts on the air… woah.

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Awesome! Google Maps added Street views of Houston!

From TechCrunch:

Google continues to add cities to its Street View maps product that launched earlier this year. You can now view and stroll through high quality photos of most of the downtown areas of San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Nine cities are now covered – click on the camera icons to dive into the city and see it.

Google Street View Adds Four Cities

From Houston Biz Journal:

Google Inc. has turned on the cameras in Houston.

Google puts Houston on camera

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A pretty cool life-hack…

“Wired News has a great story today about “Mileage Runners” who tweak the airline reservation system to plot insane (and insanely cheap), multi-hop air trips that accumulate bazillions of air miles. A hacker friend of mine recently came out to me as a mileage runner, and described a system he’d worked out for gaming the reservations computers to get $400, round the world business-class fares.”

Mileage Runners hack air travel for maximum miles

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More on the Rent Vs Buy Debate….

Renting vs. Buying: The Realities of Home-Ownership

I’m going, are you?