A vinyl record player made from the corrugated cardboard that packages the record itself. Engineered by GGRP Sound and designed by GREY of Canada. Super cool.
Via: Ads of the World.
Mar
23
2010
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Mar
04
2010
While I was in Hong Kong I couldn’t help but notice the obscene amount of tutor advertising that goes on. The above photo with Patrick Tong is just an example. Hong Kong tutoring is a massive $460 million industry that produces star millionaire tutors. Obviously Hong Kong parents are very grade-oriented and are willing to shell out the cash to push their children’s grade up, and who wouldn’t when job placement and post-secondary school admissions are rigorously filtered by tests like the HKALE.
I couldn’t find any exact figures, but I’ve always heard that the Hong Kong education system is among the most competitive in the world. In the US about 62 to 69 percent of students who graduate high school enroll in college. Can anybody find that figure for Hong Kong?
Update: A few of my friends commented that only somewhere between 25% and 12% of students who graduate high school in Hong Kong enroll in college in Hong Kong. Wow… I guess that might make Hong Kong more of an international city in a odd way. With that competitive environment and low of a percentage, I’d imagine a lot of students leave Hong Kong and end up networking with people outside during their university years.
Feb
23
2010
A few of my brother’s acquain-tances and Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey founded a pretty rad startup called Squareup. Currently in their product/service pilot program, Square up gives away square dongles that work in conjunction with their iPhone and Android apps to people and merchants for free.
It’s similar to Apple’s new in-store POS / Inventory tracking systems developed to work in conjunction with their iPod touches. Except SquareUp is more focused on just the the credit card transaction, while Apple’s system involves a bar-code scanner and inventory tracking, and hasn’t sold their system to other companies as far as I know. I’d imagine SquareUp’s business model involves charging a small fee per transaction. See above video for more details.
Feb
23
2010
My plunge from Saturday. I raised a total of $130. My combined teams raised a total of $2,411
I’m the one with the sunglasses and wig.
Feb
23
2010
The Morning Benders: Excuses (Live). Amazing new single.
Feb
15
2010
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A few friends of mine posted a pretty rad house mixtape called “We Can’t Hear You”. Check out just.one.duran.
Download: We Can’t Hear You!
Feb
14
2010
Donate to my polar plunge!
Next weekend I am taking the polar plunge… twice. The water temperature of lake Monona is hovering right around a comfortable 0.5 degrees Celsius! Please consider donating!
Donate towards my Mu Kappa Tau team.
Donate towards my Delta Tau Delta team.
All the proceeds go towards Special Olympics Wisconsin.
Feb
06
2010
This past summer I worked with Inphinet Interactive Communications, Inc. and helped design the their relaunch of FindAccountingSoftware.com. The goal of the redesign was to improve SEO, web page optimization, and overall traffic. The photo above is a screenshot of the redesign.
The new site went live on New Years Eve 2009. We’ve seen some great stats…
- Organic Google visitors are up from a monthly average of just under 3,000 to now just under 22,000. A 733% increase!
- Our overall monthly traffic has almost doubled at no increase in Adwords expenditures from last year.
- Our total conversions have more than doubled.
Note: I only have Analytics data that dates back to May of last year, so I had to use a few averages to arrive at these rough stats.
It’s been a fairly successful launch. All of these improvements have come at really no change to the company’s core service in matching accounting software vendors and support with customers.
Anyways, if your business needs accounting software, use these guys. I couldn’t imagine trying find the right accounting software among the 2,500+ developers, 6,000+ non-customized programs, and 12,000+ accounting software vendors in the industry. You get streamlined, unbiased software matches since vendors don’t bid on potential clients in the service, they apply for the potential clients/projects. It’s a pretty cool win-win-win (vendors/customers/lead generation service) business model.
Hello, my name is David Budiac. I am a recent BBA graduate from the Wisconsin School of Business with a focus in Entrepreneurship, Management, and Information Systems. I also studied briefly at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. I currently work for Find Accounting Software as a marketing, administrative, and web systems developer. I play in/have played in/record for several local music groups. I enjoy traveling.
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