At PointAbout, we're in the midst of working the details out on the best way to price our about-to-be-released web service, AppMakr.com [http://www.appmakr.com/]. Should we price it as a SAAS (Software As A Service) with recurring charges? Should we price it as a one-time

The University of Virginia took a big step this week towards being as entrepreneur-friendly as other top institutions like Stanford and MIT are by sponsoring the U.Va. Cup competition [http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=10405], with $35,000 in prize money up for grabs. The winners

I've noticed something that's occupied my thoughts for the better part of the last year:  Many of us live in a communications lie. I watch it happen all around me.  People think they're communicating with each other, when in fact, they're not.

The Potomac Tech Wire continues its panel series at the Ritz Carlton hotel in McLean with its "Interactive Advertising and Marketing Outlook" panel. Speakers were: * Anne Hunter, VP, Advertising Effectiveness Products, comScore * Ernie Mosteller, VP, Creative Director/Emerging Media for Brunner Digital * Rochelle Sanchirico, Senior Director of Acquisition

I just spent 3 days as a juror - one day for the jury selection process, and two days as a juror on a criminal case - a "possession with intent to distribute" drug trial. Now that the case is over, and I can talk about it, I

I am half Costa Rican, and go back at least once a year to visit family and various parts of the country.  On this trip, my fiancee Sue and I went with a group of friends to Quepos, Costa Rica, which is home to Manuel Antonio Park.  I'll

Here's a great video that my brother Sam sent me of Tina Seelig, on an entrepreneurship class she taught, in which she challenged her students to make as much money as they could with $5 in seed funding in just two hours.  How much could you make?

I was a panelist at the Digital Hollywood Fall 2009 [http://www.digitalhollywood.com/] event, held at the Loews Hotel in sunny Santa Monica, CA (that's a picture I took on my iPhone of the happy hour event above). You can find the PointAbout page describing the event

I previously wrote an in-depth blog on my social media hardware bag [https://drodio.com/social-media-hardware/], and the Kodak zi6 [https://drodio.com/make-your-kodak-zi6-or-zi8-or-any-flip-camera-into-a-wide-angle/] flip-style camera in particular. I've since upgraded to the new Kodak zi8 camera (available from Amazon.com [https://www.amazon.com/Kodak-Zi8-Pocket-Camera-Raspberry/dp/B002HOQ08S/

PointAbout [http://www.pointabout.com/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2009-10-14-at-12.56.25-PM-1.png] sponsored the Social Media Outlook event held today at the Ritz Carlton in McLean, VA.  The event was created by the Potomac Tech Wire [http://www.potomactechwire.com/], a great email-based newsletter & business intelligence service in the DC/

Tony Hsieh - CEO of Zappos at INC 500 Conference Note: Video may take 30 seconds to start playing. Today I had the pleasure of watching Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com [http://zappos.com/], speak at the INC 500|5000 conference.  Above is a video and below is

Today I had the pleasure of watching Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com, speak at the INC 500|5000 conference [http://www.danielodio.com/2009/09/24/tony-hsieh-ceo-of-zappos-at-inc-500-conf/] . Following him was Randall Grahm, the founder of Bonny Doon vinyard.  Randall had a very sincere message of trying to downsize

Here's another excellent Deloitte TVC "Legends" session, put together by Ellen Mundell, with Doug Humphrey, the founder of Digex, Cidera and Colocation.  Doug tells it like it is, with a refreshing perspective on his experiences taking Digex public in the late 90's. Here is

I'm often asked what it's like to be an entrepreneur, and how to get started. Although this entire blog is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, this post is where i'll send people who ask for a starting point. So, budding entrepreneurs, here's what

Many of you may know that I'm the founder of a real estate company, DROdio Real Estate, Inc.. As our traffic has gone from less than 10 visits per day in '06 to 6,500 visits per day today, we've gotten serious about A/B

Augmented Reality is coming, and in a big way.  Above is a video sent to me by a buddy in Japan using a technology called "on the fly".  There is also some great augmented reality work being done on the iPhone - PointAbout profiles some of it here.

I spoke on the American Marketing Association's Social Media panel on July 15th.  The video is above.  Below is the original marketing information for the panel: Innovation & Technology , How it affects the Marketing Mix [http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=220350518&sid=6904975&m=

Using the iPhone's Podcast app, I'm able to listen to thousands of podcasts in the car.  It's priceless (and free), and a way to soak up knowledge I otherwise wouldn't have time for. Some of my favorite podcasts are (links open iTunes)

I was recently on a social media panel for the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS, on behalf of DROdio Real Estate [http://www.drodio.com/].  The panelists were: 1. 1Daniel R. Odio 2. 2Danilo Bogdanovic 3. 3Heather Elias 4. 4Frank LLosa A video of the event is above. Transcription of

I often carry around this bag from Shaun Jackson Designs that contains everything I need on a daily basis, including everything I need for my social media content capturing.  Check the video out! Listen to Jim Hopkinson, WIRED's marketing guy, and his interview about my social media hardware

I attended, and captured the content of, a Deloitte panel featuring: 1. Scott Frederick of Valhalla Partners 2. Steve Frederick of Grotech Ventures 3. John Backus of New Atlantic Ventures 4. Sever Totia of the Edison Venture Fund It was a very candid discussion of the state of the VC

I was recently a panelist at the Digital Media Wire's Digital Media Conference East at the Ritz Carlton in McLean, VA. Mobile Track: 4:15pm - What's Next in Social Media? This panel of leading experts discuss the latest developments in social media and give their

As I've mentioned in a previous post [http://www.danielodio.com/drodio/index/Entries/2009/6/14_Massive_Twitter_Secret__Get_2000+_Followers_2.html] , the Kodak Zi6 is a great camera with which to capture content.  But like many of its siblings (the Flip cameras, for example)

I've had several people ask me what hardware I use to capture content.  First, here are a few examples of the content I've captured: 1. Pew Research's "9 Tribes of the Internet" presentation [http://www.pointabout.com/home/index.php/1545/segmenting-users-pew-researchs-9-tribes-of-the-internet/