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Tour of New Indianapolis International Airport

After nearly thirty years of planning, Indianapolis is getting an entirely new airport terminal this fall to replace the aging and rather oddly placed existing facility. Opening November 12, the new facility will feature more gates, better security, faster checkpoints, a significantly larger baggage claim zone and many other amenities of modern-day airport facilities.

FDIC shuts down Washington Mutual Inc.

Thursday, September 26 marked the largest U.S. bank failure in history. Washington Mutual Inc. was closed by the government with all assets being sold to JP Morgan Chase for $1.9 billion.  For more information on the closure, check out this article from The NY Times.
The severity of the bad mortgage debt situation is becoming incredibly [...]

The future of Seesmic and N95 client released

Last night, as promised, Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur shared his proposed business plan for Seesmic moving forward. Topics ranged from monetization techniques to mobile application support.
See below for some of the key points from the conversation.  This is not the full conversation as lots of information was exchanged between Loic and the community [...]

Q&A session with Loic Le Meur tonight on Seesmic

UPDATE - I have lots of very good information to add to this blog tomorrow regarding the conversation that took place tonight.  Be sure to check back before noon Eastern Time.
It would appear all the talk and speculation brought on by the recent layoffs at Seesmic may see some clarification. This evening, Seesmic founder [...]

ASPCA Donation Drive

After all the controversy and negativity swirling around yesterday’s blog topic, I decided to take things in a more positive direction this evening.  Being the owner of a cat, Willie, I make a regular practice of supporting local shelters as well as the The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
My birthday [...]

Seesmic Layoffs

UPDATE - Please read this post if you are reading this one.  It has some important follow-up information.
Yesterday, the social media website designed around video conversations made the decision to layoff three of its employees.  The news came hard to many of the site’s regular users as many of us had established strong relationships (both [...]