Miami Herald Article mentioning my website, MyDivorceLawyer.com

Posted by Gabriel on Feb 15th, 2010 | no comments

Miami Herald photo with Gabriel Bodner, Dr. Michael Epstein and Dr. Jerome Poliacoff

I am very excited that the Miami Herald mentioned my website in an article about business collaboration. It is a pleasure working with Dr. Jerome Poliacoff and Dr. Michael Epstein. I consider Dr. Poliacoff and Dr. Epstein to be leading psychologists in Miami on very difficult family issues. It is an honor to work with them on this project and to be associated with their technological vision as mentioned in this article.

If you want to read the article check it out at my website http://www.mydivorcelawyer.com/resources/news.html.

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Accidental Billionaires | The Facebook Story

Posted by Gabriel on Dec 17th, 2009 | no comments

Just finished reading the Accidental Billionaires book and I have to say that it is an excellent read, but it is also a great story of the importance of having legal protections in place when forming a partnership.  I can tell you from my own personal experience that partnerships can be extremely rewarding and other times can destroy the closest of relationships.  Sometimes, simply going through the exercise of drafting a contract about how your duties and profits will be split can reveal everyone’s intentions.

As for the book, I highly recommend it.  Ben Mezrich has written another fun and exciting biography about rare genius that inspires people to want to go out and invent something special.

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Outsource to India (not a chance)

Posted by Gabriel on Dec 7th, 2009 | no comments

I was working on a tech solution that I had hoped to outsource. So I called a tech company in India that had a long list of Fortune 1000 clients. I also called a company based out of Chicago.

If you know me, you know that I am very open minded about outsourcing. I want my tech work done right but at a fair cost. Tech is global so the workforce is global and I don’t have a politically protectionist bone in my body. That being said, my experience with India is getting worst by the day. The tech support call centers are bad and the IT solutions are subpar.

The Chicago company I called had a human with a real phone (not voip) who understood what I wanted to accomplish and did a proof of concept for free over a web meeting. The Indian company pushed for a sale over the phone, when I demanded a proof of concept they insisted on being paid.  Their product proved inferior and they wanted to be paid more for it then the company based out of Chicago.

Don’t get me wrong, I dealt with a call center in the Philippines that was great a few weeks ago, but for intelligent technology solutions you still find affordable and capable people in the US as compared to abroad. You may be able to hire someone in India or elsewhere for half the price of the US but sometimes you end up getting a non-working product that gets thrown away.

I can now laugh (knowing that it’s true from my own experience) about a friend who was building a classified website with a company from India. He had been working for a week describing what he wanted when finally the voice on the other end of a voip phone asked “What exactly is a classified?”. My friend told me that he almost pulled his hair out. If there was a question about what a classified ad was then why didn’t someone ask about it the first day.

Outsourcing is great, but just make sure you look at all the options and request a proof of concept before buying in.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06

Posted by Gabriel on Dec 6th, 2009 | no comments

• Just went to the Atlanta aquarium. Very nice exhibits and lots of fun. #

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Do your Legal Research on Google Scholar

Posted by Gabriel on Nov 30th, 2009 | no comments

Google has released a new site where you can do legal research.  I still prefer Precydent.com as a free solution over Google but I am sure that Google will continue to improve its search functions over time.  Check out Google’s legal research site at scholar.google.com.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

Posted by Gabriel on Nov 29th, 2009 | no comments

• About to see Precious. I can't say enough about how great it is to be disconnected from the office. It's nice not being chained to a desk. #

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Why Fastcase may win over Lexis and Westlaw

Posted by Gabriel on Nov 28th, 2009 | no comments

Fastcase is the opensource solution for finding case law online.  It is cheaper and easier to navigate then Westlaw and Lexis.  It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that Westlaw and Lexis have, but for lawyers looking who are tech savvy and need research done without billing their clients an arm and a leg for it Fastcase is a great solution.  Another newcomer to online legal research is Precydent.com.  For the non-lawyer looking for case law, I would try this out first and then go to Fastcase for a free trial.  The law should be open to everyone.  The public should not have to go down to the law library just to look up some cases and statutes that may affect their lives.  I believe that services like Precydent and Fastcase are finally opening up the law to everyone.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22

Posted by Gabriel on Nov 22nd, 2009 | no comments

• Just spent the weekend in St Thomas & St Croix. The best kept secret of the carribean has to be St Croix's Carambola Resort, It is amazing. #
• @SinTeeUh luckily I have managed. in reply to SinTeeUh #
• Wow, that's rough. I'm laughing just picturing it. @ConradSaam Just sucked a yogurt covered raisin out of my son's nose. in reply to ConradSaam #
• I'm glad the president has more important things to do then tweet Leave Twitter to the rest of us who have days to kill http://bit.ly/1P7LLS #
• MLSID:M1173752, 7910 Harbor Island Dr North Bay Village,FL,33141, Beds:2, Baths:2, Price:$468,000, BEAUTIFUL 2/2 GREAT LOCATION. INVESTM… #
• Ignore my last post as I was testing an MLS feature #
• Is anyone playing foursquare? I just read about it and think it sounds interesting. #

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Google’s Chrome OS Demo

Posted by Gabriel on Nov 19th, 2009 | no comments

I saw this video for Google’s Chrome OS and thought I would share.  I can’t wait to see a competitor to both Windows and Linux.

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How many people will actually use Amazon links

Posted by Gabriel on Nov 9th, 2009 | no comments

Being a tech geek, I have 24 domains currently that receive approximately 10,000 pageviews per month.  Today I decided to put an Amazon link on my sites to see if people actually go through the link to purchase anything.  I suspect that only my friends and family will ever use it, but you never know who may jump from my pages to Amazon, so here it is.

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