Archive for January, 2008
Decoding My DNA Soon, $820 Raised So Far (Update: $1000 raised!)
Most of you are well aware by now that I will be using 23andMe's Personal Genome Service in the very near future.
All I need to do is raise a total of $1000 and I'm going to send for 23andMe's saliva collection kit. You can see my first post explaining why I want to do this [...]
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I have plenty of great things I'm going to be tracking and blogging about in 2008. See my New Year's post for the gritty details.
I don't want you to miss any riveting posts, so get a BUZZYEAH email subscription right now. It's better for you than eating vegetables and will make you [...]
Tata Nano: $2500 Car For Developing Countries
I usually don't post this frequently but I can't help myself since so many new products are popping up in the news aimed at the lower brackets of the socio-economic spectrum.
This is definitely a space that I'm interested in and as you can see in the left sidebar BUZZYEAH has a whole Socio-Economic category devoted [...]
Low-Cost Laptop Space Gets More Competition, Mobiles Will Prevail
Now I usually don't blog about whatever is hot over on Techmeme. But, today I'm making an exception since a few of the conversations are right up my alley.
Specifically all the various OLPC Techmeme threads.
I posted earlier today that I think that the "developing nation" market will for the most part skip laptops and go [...]
Developing Nations Will Skip Laptop Drama and Jump Straight To Mobile
I have been following One Laptop for awhile here at BUZZYEAH.
I've followed their drama with Intel, their reconciliation with Intel and their most current break-up with Intel (good break-up coverage on BBC and Techmeme).
One Laptop and Intel are both doing really cool things in the affordable computer space. Too bad their endeavors reek of high [...]
Health 2.0, Plus An Update on Dr. Jay Parkinson’s New Job
Before I get to Dr. Jay Parkinson's new job at Myca, I have to say that the healthcare industry has intrigued me ever since I was turned off by its current state while doing a summer internship at Adventist Health my sophomore year in college.
I experienced plenty of aspects of the healthcare industry while doing [...]
BUZZYEAH Has a Facebook App Thanks To BlogFuse
Let's make one thing very clear: I have absolutely no coding skills whatsoever.
But, thanks to BlogFuse I was able to create a pretty clean Facebook app for BUZZYEAH.
Check it out:
BlogFuse is a really cool new startup. They allow bloggers to publish their blog posts on Facebook with their brand new product called Facebook App Creator [...]
What To Look Forward To From BUZZYEAH In 2008
2007 was a good year:
I graduated from college.
I interned for TechCrunch and helped launch CrunchBase.
I decided to do my own thing and build affordable housing in Sonoma County (I will provide more info on this in future posts).
BUZZYEAH grew a small audience and should continue to grow as I blog about stuff that interests me. [...]
I pretend to have a real job [read: started my own company]. 
