Kevin Ohashi - Entrepreneur I Love Learning New Things.

Welcome to @WhoisBot homepage.

What is @WhoisBot?
Simply, it's a whois service for twitter.

How do I use @WhoisBot?
To use @WhoisBot you need to be a follower (and it needs to follow you back... it will do this automatically every so often -- trying to get twitter to automatically do this). Then you simply direct message whois bot a domain name:
dm whoisbot domainname.com
whoisbot will respond in a couple minutes (also working on increasing quota of queries to make this faster) with the availability of the domain you sent.

Just wanted to share my weekend project(s) with you guys that Twitter.

@WhoisBot - direct message a domain, its direct messages availability (under testing)
@StupidBot - trivia bot, DM answers to trivia questions, scoreboard @ http://www.ohashimedia.com/stupidbot/scoreboard.php

Business:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-03/mf_netbooks?current...
How netbook revolutionized computing... trickle up effect

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/why-the-iphone.html
Why Japanese Hate The iPhone (guess that explains my hatred....)

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb37/cjerv/bailoutmascot.jpg
New bailout mascot

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutu...
It's all greek to me... or is it? map of what cultures use to express not understanding

So I spent my friday night programming a twitter bot (yea yea... im a geek). This has been my first real project that I have done all the coding on in a while and it felt good to get back into it. After playing around a lot I really saw the potential for the API and creating bots for twitter and have had a few other ideas (hopefully the next one will be released shortly!).

Anyways, if you like trivia questions, feel free to check it out: http://twitter.com/StupidBot

Business:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/29/irs-high-income-personal-finance-taxes_...
Richest 400 pay lower tax rate than those earning 150k

http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/014/014-buying-whos-buying-...
where the money is spent

http://www.newgeography.com/content/00621-case-shiller-housing-price-ind...
Housing bubble (case schiller housing index graph)

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090224/tc_pcworld/domainnameswedont...
Japan: the land beyond domain names

Business:
http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
13 sentences for startups. GREAT READ. Guy is part of Y Combinator

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineer...
Honda's profits, YES PROFITS, down 90%. THEY WERE PROFITABLE. Engineers running the company.

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123396545910358867.html?mod=djemWR&p...
The D-process

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/02/09/the-mark-cuban-stimulus-plan-open-sou...
MARK CUBAN SOLUTION: open source funding. Pitch to him DIRECT

I sat down with Ragnar Saevarsson, managing director at Red Apple Apartments, to discuss how he has built and continues to build a business and how he has used the internet to make it successful.

Kevin: Could you tell me a bit about you and your wife who started Red Apple Apartments, and about the project itself?

Business:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/news/international/japan_gdp/index.htm?p...
Japan's GDP falling at 12.6% per year

https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/caryle-group-financial-crisis-2008.pdf
Interesting PDF from Carlyle group, focused on MENA region but addresses causes of crisis and its effects on private equity

http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-...
Facebook owns you, forever.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/184437
break em up, break em up, break em up.

Business:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba857be6-f88f-11dd-aae8-000077b07658.html?ncli...
China Sticking with US Bonds. Only Option, Hate Us But Nothing Else is Safe.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/greenspan-says-he-was-mysti...
Greenspan: not my fault, blame congress, ratings agencies

http://www.slate.com/id/1912/
Krugman: Gold Standard: should we go back?

http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas/
Elements of Sustainable Companies, Business Plan Tips

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2802e3a8-f77c-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html?ncli...