Erich Stauffer

  • Plug-In Solar Panels

    No electrician necessary. While white roof paint is a great way to save energy, sometimes you want to make more energy too. This UL-listed 120-Volt AC solar kit is truly “plug & play”. The 240-Watt “DeckPower120” is designed for ease of use and allows you to simply mount to a deck or outside post with…

  • Arnold Neumaier, The Next von Neumann

    Von Neumann helped develop quantum mechanics theories, economic and game theory, nuclear technology, and computer science – so one should take notice when someone is quoted as being “The Next von Neumann” Arnold Neumaier, who some call, “The Next von Neumann”, is an avid Christian and physicist interested in the global Optimization (integrating convexity, optimization,…

  • Virtual Assistants

    When you’re a new or growing business, when you’re ready to add employees, it may be better to hire temporary employees or what are called “virtual assistants”. Virtual assistants are workers who work by the hour on things you would have had to do yourself. Depending on the firm, virtual assistants can help you with…

  • Seesmic VS Path

    A friend of mine recently started testing two social media tools, Seesmic and Path. Here is what he discovered: I would recommend Seesmic. It currently is free only because it is in beta. It will be a pay service when it comes out of beta. Pros: -Can post to multiple social media outlets at once…

  • Nowadays

    Zac Parsons, a friend of mine who writes about the arts, culture, and sports, recently asked me what Watershawl was up to nowadays. Here is my reply: With due diligence and a lack of self sabotage things will continue to get better. They are good right now, but there’s room for improvement. I’m expanding my…

  • Customer Development

    In April of 2009, Steve Blank and Eric Ries gave a presentation on Customer Development at a Startup2Startup Conference in Palo Alto, California. They called it The Customer Development Model, which stated that, “More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development”. But it’s not just startups, more companies fail…

  • WordPress eCommerce Plugin: Error Detected, Your shopping cart is empty

    If you’re using WP e-Commerce to turn your WordPress website into an online shopping cart, you may have ran into a Paypal error that says, “Error Detected, Your shopping cart is empty.” This can happen when you’re trying to pass a required field like “Name” over to Paypal, but it’s blank. Why would it be blank? Because…

  • As the iDisk Dust Settles

    According to Computer World, iCloud is Apple’s replacement for MobileMe, but what is/was MobileMe? According to Wikipedia, “MobileMe is a subscription-based collection of online services and software offered by Apple Inc. Originally launched on January 5, 2000, as iTools, a free collection of Internet-based services for users of Mac OS 9, Apple relaunched it as…

  • What is Cloud Computing?

    Is Google Docs Cloud Computing? Google Docs is a free (with paid service options): Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs is Google’s “software as a service” office suite. Documents, spreadsheets,…