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First of all I would like to publicly thank Mr. Guy Kawasaki for sending me a free copy of his newest publication, “Reality Check”. I met ‘da man’ back in the late 90′s early 2000′s when I was living in the Bay Area. He was very much involved in the dot com ‘era’ (i use that term very lightly).

Guy Kawasaki is a long-time popular and respected author, blogger, entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

I even remembered when he started his early stage venture capital entity, Garage.com. I am currently plugging alltop.com for him because I believe it has tremendous value. Everything flashy doesn’t guarantee success and all that is with out the bells and whistles more times than not are where the gems of data as well as information are found.

Now, I do not agree with all of Guy’s tenets in terms of entrepreneurialship, Venture Capital funding approaches, business plan development, etc. But so what? I do agree with him on quite a bit and to top it off he has a great sense of humor.

With that said,  find me an individual who believes 100% of what another believes in and I’ll show you an unthinking clone without a spine.

Check out Guy’s video below. Guy, my man …  down with ‘schwag’! I am having flashbacks. Actually I wish I had kept all of my schwag. Schwag = branding and of course that is critical and effective. So oooook, schwag is da bomb!

I have yet to read the book as I am still taking my time reading and laughing through Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness – The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”. Many find the book rather dry and scientifically intellectual. I love it! It keeps me laughing and also causes me to critically think about my own approaches and philosophy in life and in business. I studied multivariate analysis, randomness, and probability and received my B.S. in the same, but it was never as entertaining as this book.

Oh, did I digress? I had a few random thoughts emanating from my gray matter. Sorry about that. Here is the video.

Call me brilliant as I don’t believe in working hard. But if you want to reward me for hard work for my brilliant ideas, and off the chart deliverables, then come on with it, she says! And yes, Guy, I am an unpaid evangelist! You got me there.

God Bless
Faith

The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the owner of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs baseball team struggled to cope with mountains of debt and falling ad revenue.

I was raised in Chicago and I feel as if I am losing some old friends.

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This was posted on Mashable. Many of you will find it of interest.

Wendy Boswell stays on top of Web search and social media trends at About.com. You can catch up with her via Twitter.

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As written on MARKET SHARE,

For the first time since we began tracking, the Firefox browser has exceeded 20% share for a full month. Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly, gives credit to the Mozilla community and shared his thoughts with us on this accomplishment:

“Reaching 20 percent worldwide market share is a significant milestone for Firefox and Mozilla. It’s a huge achievement by the global Mozilla community, one that just a few years ago most would have considered impossible. The open web is more vibrant than ever, and the thousands of Mozilla contributors around the world have played a major role in making it that way.”

Firefox share jumped about eight tenths of a percent in November, which is much higher than average. Why the big jump? In addition to the steady gains Firefox has shown over the years, our analysis shows three other major reasons:

# First, the U.S. election.usage share increased significantly in the days surrounding November 4th (especially in some non-U.S. countries, like Japan), then held roughly steady until:
# Second, the Thanksgiving holiday. Firefox share jumped starting on Wednesday the 26th until the end of the month.
# Third, extra weekend days. The average 30-day month has 8.57 weekend days. November had 10.

All three reasons increase Firefox share since Firefox has a much larger residential share than corporate share (to be detailed in a future analysis). So, all the above factors led to increased residential browsing and a higher Firefox share.

Even considering these factors, Firefox’s share trend is pointing to above 20% share for December and beyond.

See the full article and statistics here.