Shanghai starts promoting Precast Concrete in Construction

Nearly every building, landscape and piece of construction in China uses insitu concrete (on-site poured) concrete. There are many issues with on-site concrete include

Pollution: On site pollution, waste, noise, trucks, on-site mixers, soil compaction, water pollution

Inefficient Usage: Concrete goes off (bad) quickly if not used within 20-30 minutes, transport needs to be fast (causing issues ……

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How much capital do you need for a startup?

Jason Calacanis has the answer in his recent post “How Much Money Should a Startup Have in the Bank?” at launch.is. Apparently, you need 18 months of operating capital or ‘runway’. 18 months may seem a long time for a startup company but if you working day and night to get your company and project ……

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Having problems with Wordpress 3.2.1? Remember to upgrade your plugins.

Recently, I upgraded WordPress on this blog and my other websites to WordPress 3.2.1 and then start having issues and problems with linking and posting. Essentially, if I linked it would just refresh and the post would be blank. So, I had a think about it and then released – I haven’t upgraded the plugins. ……

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Six Link Sunday #4 | China, Crowdsourcing, Startups, Social Media, Retailers, Small Agencies

Six links from the week of reading and tweeting

China’s Businesses Boom, But Its Brands Don’t | NPR http://n.pr/ktaReu
Chinese companies booming at home and selling abroad through distributors but can’t seem to make a name for themselves.

Crowdsourcing: Tapping a world of ideas | Scoop NZ http://bit.ly/lro5UA
Excerpt: “Crowdsourcing is a call to the masses ……

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Six Link Sunday #3 | Social Media Ethics, Search Trends to predict economy, Alipay, Money tightens, China

Another six links of the week for your Sunday reading pleasure.

Ethical social media dilemmas: What would you do? – Communication Conversations by Arik Hanson “….ethical situations come up and impact our working lives virtually every week. I wanted to highlight a few that I’ve bumped into lately below–and the way in which I’ve ……

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Starups: a new trend or signs of a bubble

Starups, a new term that is being used to described the new phenomena of celebrities getting involved in startup tech businesses. Gary Vaynerchuk recently spoke about the new trend as #starups and is predicting that it will be common place that celebrities will take percentage interest in a new startup in return for endorsement or ……

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Six Link Sunday #2: Funding, Starwood CEO, GaryVee, #Hastags, Two Boys

My best six links of the week for your Sunday reading pleasure and to catch up on the some of the weeks. Its always hard to come up with only six links as there is tons of great stuff on the web best ideas and sometimes a funny item to round out your weekend. Remember ……

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Apple + Data Providers will be the winners from iCloud and Cloud Computing

With the announcement of Apple’s iCloud service (I was close on everything but TimeCapsule) that will change the way we use data including our photos, music, documents, gaming, etc. Cloud computing is about to come mainstream with the number of iPhones and iPods that are being used daily. The winners from this are Apple and ……

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Six Link Sunday: My Links for the Week

Starting a six link sunday is similar to Mitch Joel’s and others weekly links. I thought it would be good to share some of the good stuff I read this week. It will be a mixed-bag of subjects and ideas. It will be hard to keep it to six.

Rules Of Engagement, From The NBA Social ……

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Apple's about to change the way you work and live

Apple’s announcement of iCloud along with OS changes to Mac OS, iOS and new Time Capsule on Monday seems as through its about to make another paradigm shift in the way we live and work. This is Apple’s next move to change an industry but this time it will be multiple industries at once – ……

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