So I was listening to Buzz Out Loud and heard that a new top-level domain was available – .la (dot LA). It is the Official top level domain of Los Angeles. So a company has the rights to it now and is selling .la domains at $50/year.

In other news, I work for a company that sells pre-built web sites to real estate agents. Well, working for a company that is real estate centric and being surrounded by people who are of the same mind-set means that we have a lot of ideas about how to make the market better. For example, I have a lot of ideas for brokers, Chris has a lot of ideas for rentals. Together, we will take over the world.

I work with a lot of people who have great ideas. Is this common? I have worked at other places where people clock-in and do what they are told. Not so much here. We do clock-in, but we think a lot. Always trying to make things better. This is ironic because there are so many walls up that don’t allow us to produce these ideas. Make sense. We have half of the Google Labs model. Unfortunately its the thinking half, not the building half.

And that brings me to my other friend, who recently quit his gig because he had the ideas, and built them, but they were never released to market. Why would a company do this. Why limit the build and if you allow the build, why never release? At least he has the balls (and the means) to leave and make life on his own terms. I do not have the means, but I would love to move along.