I am attending the Clinton Foundation Strategy Briefing to trustees. I have been a trustee of the Clinton Foundation since its inception and I made a committment to donate $1 million to the foundation over 10 years.

Since 2001 I have been to quite a few of these meetings and they have been getting better and better. I am very impressed at the quality of the team that President Clinton (in America Presidents are called Presidents even when out of office) has put together.
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Most people pimp their cars to be seen. Jack Hidary pimps his car, to see, to be connected, to be in touch. I have been in a lot of cars in my life and I had never seen a car like this. Jack Hidary´s car has EVERY piece of electronics you can imagine in a car and more. He describes it all in this video.

(which unfortunately was shot at night!)

So now Xing is another one of my web 2.0 investments that you can see scrolling down my blog on the right. In the meantime, I thought that Lars Hinrichs, Daniela and the Xing crew would appreciate this picture.

We recently circumcized our son Leo. In the process there´s always the doubt as to whether, in so doing, one is simply continuing with a barbaric tradition or if it actually makes sense in this day and age to circumcize a child. Well, I feel better after reading this article on the subject in the NYTimes. It seems that circumcision actually halves H.I.V. risk.

Here´s a Wikipedia definition of Holocaust deniers and here´s a Wikipedia definition of Creationism. What do these two have in common? That they are both movements of people who try to fight facts with ideology.
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This blog entry is in Spanish, but if you love the Nintendo DS…. you will get the idea.

In 2006 over 200 million WiFi gadgets were sold around the world!

In this video David Bitton comments on Wengo´s new developments, something akin to an EBay of personal services that are rendered over Wengo tools such as free video/voice/chat. His collection of services is impressive. Famous bloggers, for example, could have a video button in their blog that people use to talk to them either free or paying like a 900 number. Another service relates to tutoring, on line tutors are given tools to teach on line and get paid on line.

Ready to teach your cooking skills? Join Wengo.

Pinochet finally died. In this video Niklas talks about transparency on the internet and that internet is making it harder to be a dictator. Now this is my free association. I grew up suffering the dictatorship of Videla in Argentina in the 70s a contemporary of Pinochet. I think that new style dictators, like Hugo Chavez ,have a much harder time than Videla or Pinochet, who finally died at the age of 91 (how can dictators live so long??).
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