Cohenville

Whether you need a virtual assistant to help manage your schedule or a programmer to create a web site, there are a number of outsourcing opportunities. I’ve used odesk.com, with limited success…although most was due to lack of preperation and clearly defined requirements.  Here are some others:

• http://www.getfriday.com/
• http://www.kayasystems.com/
• http://www.bpovia.com/
• http://www.b2kcorp.com/

The Four Hour Work Week has a lot of good ideas, but interesting to me is the information on oversees travel for mini-retirements.  Here are some good links that can help with moving this idea along:

• http://www.airbnb.com/- bed and breakfasts or rooms to rent everywhere
• http://www.virtualtourist.com – great source for user generated content on travel
• http://www.tripadvisor.com – great source for user generated content on travel
• http://www.escapeartist.com – a much more interesting take on travel
• http://www. gridskipper.com – urban travel guide
• http://outside.away.com – lots of articles about places to go and things to do
• http://www.perpetualtravel.com/rtw/ – great FAQ and round the world travel guide
• http://www.rentvillas.com/ – the name says it all
• http://www.transitionsabroad.com/ – work, study, travel and live
• http://www.workingoverseas.com/ – again, the name says it all
• http://www. vrbo.com – vacation rentals by owner

Another good site with information (with overlap from the above list) is at the Department of State – http://www.state.gov/m/fsi/tc/79765.htm

Of course there are all of the normal sites that have great poker information, like two plus two and cardplayer, but more recently I have found a few sites that are useful for different reasons:

• Good, real-time coverage of tournaments - http://www.pocketfiveslive.com/
• Great information on rakeback - http://www.raketherake.com/
• Coaching and lessons - http://www.cardrunners.com/ and http://www.leggopoker.com/ and http://www.stoxpoker.com/ and http://www.pokervt.com/
• Share your hands and get good analysis of play - http://weaktight.com/
• Full Tilt Poker’s preferred rake back site - http://www.rakebackpros.com/
• Information on high stakes online games - http://www.highstakesdb.com/