I think with the economy in the toilet, business owners are eager to expand their online reach, and they’re trying hard to get creative with advertising and promotions. I’ve been getting a lot of questions from colleagues and friends recently about how to best promote their businesses online, and there are a few things I’ve been recommending a lot lately, [...]

Speaking of travel, my stepmom sent me this video of Matt Harding dancing his way around the world and I love it! Now this is a guy who knows how to get around—he’s been to over 80 countries. I remember seeing Matt globetrotting through dozens of countries dancing his goofy dance back in about 2006, but this time, he’s joined [...]

Somewhat surprisingly, my hometown Sacramento was recently included on a new Yahoo! Finance list of ten Best Cities to Live, Work and Play in the U.S. “Our approach this year to picking the ten best cities in which to live and work was simple: Look for places with strong economies and abundant jobs, then demand reasonable living costs and plenty [...]

Steli Efti, a friend of Thrilling Heroics and creative entrepreneur behind Supercool School, is looking for a rockstar coder for a summer internship. Supercool School is a revolutionary concept in education, offering a free online learning marketplace that enables users to teach and study from each other over the web using audio-video chat. Steli and his colleagues are working hard [...]

For any readers in the greater Sacramento area, there is a great business networking opportunity on Tuesday, June 17th at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis: The New California 100. Billed as the Central Valley’s first leadership summit, the event will honor the top 100 companies in Northern California that generate more than $50 billion in revenue and employ more [...]

Sat, Dec 29: After cleaning up the apartment and preparing for our flight to Ibiza all day, we caught up with Meye once more this evening, to give her a piece of climbing equipment that Ryan had left for her as a gift. The four of us wandered a off the beaten path to Granja Dulcinea—one of the two chocolateries [...]

Anyone who was present for Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at this year’s Macworld conference in San Francisco (or anyone who watched online), in which he introduced the iPhone as a groundbreaking new product, knows how captivating a speaker the Apple CEO is. And anyone who saw the long lines in anticipation of the iPhone’s release date knows how effective the [...]

Many believe that in order to conquer global warming, we need to see a full transformation in human living spaces and transportation. Which is a LOT of work! Well, there are a few communities that are working hard to create drastically innovative living centers that change land use and transportation needs for the better. These “eco-cities” are something I’ve been [...]