I'm Published! Well...sorta :)

As posted on my Valien.net blog I had my 1st 'professional' blog post go live last week with FGP. Check it out! :)

http://fgp.com/blog/?p=82#more-82 - I talk about some trends in IT Hiring here in the Upstate of South Carolina and what technologies are needed.

Google Notebook and Snow.

So what do those two have in common? Nothing much, except that as I write this post it's snowing outside (yay!) and I'm learning the ropes on Google Notebook. A while back I exported all my bookmarks into Google Bookmarks and have been very happy with the results. So today I decided to try out Google Notebook and I'm impressed.

I'm doing some research on the video game industry in South Carolina (if you have any news, links, etc. send them my way please!) and instead of writing a document in Google Docs I decided to post the links and information into a Notebook. It's very easy to use and will help out my research immensley. Once again, Google has created a product that helps me out yet costs me nothing.

Just wish I was an early Google investor. :D

Springwise ~ Cool Trends and Ideas.

I've been a Springwise newsletter subscriber for a few years now. It's one of few emails that I look forward to every week. The ideas that are in them are most excellent. This weeks letter details some top 10's from 2007 and dives right into what's hot for 2008.

Springwise newsletter | 10 January 2008

For any aspiring entrepreneur or someone just wanting to get ideas on business I highly recommend you subscribe to the newsletters. And they're free to boot!

They also have a sister site called Trendwatching.com where they follow different trends on the market and that newsletter is also free to subscribe too.