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Below is a short video clip of Apple CEO Steve Jobs from 1997, introducing the TBWA/Chiat Day produced "Think Different" campaign with an unattributed quote from poet Jack Kerouac:

“People who think they are crazy enough to change the world, are the ones who actually do.”

Some people believe that Apple needs to get back to these roots by supporting all of the developers who truly are thinking differently but who are having a hell of a time getting their apps approved for seemingly no reason.

This is some very cool news. Cool because my first real web and design job in college was working for one of the investors of CardMunch, Manu Kumar (@manukumar). In 1998 Manu was running a startup in Pittsburgh near the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) campus. It was a startup in every sense of the word from working on a folding table to Manu doing online teaching in order to cover the costs of his business called SneakerLabs, Inc. At that time we were working on a web-based collaboration service called iMeet. When I graduated from CMU in May 1999 I also decided to leave Pittsburgh and SneakerLabs even though Manu had offered me a full-time position. In March 2000 SneakerLabs was acquired by E.piphany and iMeet was spun off into its own company. In August 2002, iMeet, Inc. merged with Netspoke. In hindsight maybe I should have stuck around.

Today, Manu is the founder of K9 Ventures, an "early stage" venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. Yesterday Manu helped launch CardMunch, an iPhone app that lets you take a snapshot of a business card and have it added to your iPhone contacts. The application is $2.99 and comes with 10 credits (it costs one credit per card entered). Beyond that, it costs around 25 cents per card. The interesting thing about CardMunch is that it actually has humans verify every card that's submitted through their system. Each photo that's uploaded is converted by hand via Mechanical Turk, not through optical character recognition (OCR).

It's great to see Manu continue to do great things 12 years later. Working at SneakerLabs on iMeet got me very interested in website design and development and I'm grateful that I had that opportunity such early on. It gave me a lot of confidence later on in life to design and develop my own ideas; Tasty CMS probably wouldn't be here today if I hadn't spent so much time at a startup.

CardMunch also has a free version if you want to check out the service which I would encourage you to do.

Once again here are some Twitter hi-lites from the month of July. If you're not following us on Twitter (@TastyCMS) jump on over and say hi.

SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria on web vs. print. “These things might seem obvious, but they’re not the conversations we’re having.”

Interesting news came out of Google yesterday.

We just completed a substantial 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement that allows us to take responsibility for our footprint and foster true growth in the renewable energy sector. On July 30 we will begin purchasing the clean energy from 114 megawatts of wind generation at the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II facility in Iowa at a predetermined rate for 20 years. Incorporating such a large amount of wind power into our portfolio is tricky, but this power is enough to supply several data centers.

By making such a long term committment Google is "giving the developer of the wind farm financial certainty to build additional clean energy projects."

Image Credit: Reed B Thatcher aka rbthatcher over at Threadless

In an odd twist, Facebook's assets are frozen as it fends off what seems to be a frivolous lawsuit in New York. There, an order for a case filed in Allegany County state court by Paul Ceglia claims that in 2003 he paid Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg $1,000 to build a website "designed to offer the students of Harvard university access to a wesite [sic] similar to a live functioning yearbook with the working title of 'The Face Book.'" For that meager $1,000 investment, Ceglia was to receive a 50% stake in the site. Now he's looking to get 84% ownership of Facebook which many investors believe is worth as much as $15 billion (USD).

Judge Thomas Brown has issued a restraining order preventing Facebook from performing any asset sales. Of course Facebook vehemently opposes any such allegations as they continue to fight this in court. It's important to note that this isn't the first time Zuckerberg has been accused of stealing the idea for Facebook. ConnectU has accused Zuckerberg in the past of stealing the source code which he has built his empire upon. And while this case in New York isn't the first it's completely within reason to believe it won't be the last.