Archive for 2006
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, speaking on Enterprise 2.0 mashups. “Bezos’ presentation summed up one aspect of our business. You have to move from being a killer app to a killer platform. “ We have an elastic database; [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]CyWorld Revealed, Hyun-Oh Yoo, CEO of SK Communications, owners of CyWorld We have 20M subscribers, 40% of the population of Korea (!); 96% of 20-29 year olds (!); 20B monthly page views; [Wow - those numbers [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “It’s all about the infrastructure” by Debra Chrapaty, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Operations The cloud sounds romantic but it’s 1.5 million pounds of batteries, 1 million pounds of steel, 300 miles of cable. [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “Atoms and Bits” with Robert B. Carter, CIO for FedEx Check out the Youtube video Fedex Ant Hill. The video shows the pattern of their traffic flows. I don’t really remember much of what he [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley: The State of the Internet Part 3 Overview of State of the internet can be summarized [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] Net Neutrality debate: Vinton Cerf, father of the internet vs. Robert Pepper, ex-FCC and now Cisco Bob: this is a falsely premised debate setting up tyranny on the one hand (heavy-handed regulation) vs.chaos (no regulation) [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] A Conversation with Bruce Chizen, Adobe: he talked a lot about Adobe. blah blah blah. Mostly pitching. There seemed to be a lot of “We get this. Really we do.” He claimed that Adobe has [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Jeff Bezos, Amazon S3 and EC2 are storage and processing. They should not be very interesting. So why are people so excited? Because the time from concept to delivery has been collapsed. We [...]
(For earlier parts of the saga, see here, here and here) While travelling last week, the MacBook was acting up. It was constantly going to sleep in the middle of work, even with a full battery and while plugged in. Poof. Gone. And like when I first got it, it would take 30 seconds of [...]
I was at Web 2.0 Summit last week in SF, and was wandering around downtown trying to meet my friends for dinner. I had my Blackberry with Google maps on it so I could see where the restaurant was, but what I really wanted was to see where I was, and where they were in [...]
Day 1 Notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA Session 1: Enterprise 2.0 Mayfield had talked about SLATES – (search, linking, authoring, tagging, extensions, and signals) finally being possible on Socialtext’s new platform that they have formed with Six Apart, and a bunch of other companies called the Intel Suite. [I side with [...]
If IScrybe and Salesforce and Zimbra can do it, surely Google can build Gmail so that you can just work offline on the laptop when you’re away and then click either “sync” or “work online” once you’re back on the net. I hope that we can expect to see the same thing with Google Docs [...]
Okay, who can get me a beta account for iScrybe? This looks AWESOME!
Yikes. I knew it was bad. But 91%?????
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) NOTE: The following is the full-text hyperlinked version of the “Manifesto” that was first released at ChangeThis.com as a PDF file in summer 2006. Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business by Troy Angrignon with Nick Kellet, Ean Jackson, [...]
I was referred to this great story by my friend Lorraine today and had to post it immediately: [From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly] I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. [...]
Ben Franklin said it best: “Those who would trade liberty for a bit of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” This is appalling. I urge everybody to watch this:
Why do spammers insist on plugging every bloody orifice???? I am getting 40-50 gambling/porn/sex trackback spam in my Blogware account EVERY SINGLE DAY. That is with “delete trackback if detected as spam and moderate the rest” turned on. In other words, on its most aggressive setting, I’m getting 40-50 per day. I had to delete [...]
Beware the SMC update for your MacBook 13. Mine now shuts itself off whenever it wants and the fan runs a lot more often. Note to self: Remember that last note to self about not buying 1.0 hardware? You should have listened to that. (sigh)
Every time I blog something, I have to decide which tool to use: If I’m going to use bullet-points, then I can’t use the Blogware web interface because it doesn’t have bullets. If I try to use Performancing, it won’t talk to Blogware properly and fails during posting or gives bizarre error messages. If I [...]
I was sent a link today for a Forrester webinar that has as its technical requirements: Windows Media Player 6, Real Player 5, and IE 5 or Netscape 6. It doesn’t play on my brand new MacBook with OS X 10.4 and Firefox. And Firefox can’t find plug-ins to make it work. This is a [...]
We have had some more great comments from people about Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business but oddly no flames or outright disagreement. Here are some links and comments from around the Web: I had the pleasure of meeting Jeremy Geelan, who was chairing The New New Internet conference last week in Virginia and [...]
This morning, I deleted the 3600 spam that were sitting in my Gmail Spam folder. Lo and behold, 2h15 2h22m later I have 15 16 new ones promising to sell me cheap electronics, software, pharmaceuticals, watches, orgasms, and debt forgiveness. More and more, I am agreeing with people like Fred Wilson and his kids who [...]
This is without a doubt the best business movie of the year for its content. And it is probably one of my favourite movies of the year for its film quality as well. This movie is BRILLIANT. It is the true story of a men’s brogue shoe factory in Northamptonshire, England that in order to [...]
Zoli continues his brilliant writing by discussing exploding batteries, penis pumps, and why people should avoid them anyway since Small is the new Big. Hiliarious writing Zoli.
I’ll admit I’m not a big Seth Godin fan. But his brilliant post titled “Thinking about snakes on a plane” had a core message that needs repetition. I am involved with a large company that wants to do cool, new things as well as with young startups that want to change the world. This message [...]
I’m sitting on a plane, after having been put through the standard annoying and oh-yes-I-know-they’re-terribly-necessary routines of the beloved customs and airport authorities that Paul Kedrosky and Fred Wilson love so much, and am trying to get caught up on the remaining 5000 blog posts in my reader. Alas, I can’t read half of them [...]
If you have ever wanted to turn your apartment into a replica of a Starship Voyager spacecraft, there is a fellow in Hinckley, Leicestershire that you might want to call. But call him quickly. He bankrupted himself redesigning his apartment in the hopes that others would see his incredible design skill and hire him. Bizarre [...]
The Register once again does its usual bang-up job of reporting on the humour in technology. I believe it was Bruce Schneier who once said that people always claimed to be concerned about their data privacy…unless you offered them a donut. (I might be attributing that quote incorrectly as I can’t find it anymore.) And [...]
This car rocks. I’m a big fan of this type of vehicle design where the drivetrain, rather than using one engine that transfers power to the four wheels, simply uses one power source at the core that transfers electrical power to an electric motor at EACH wheel. Thanks to Justin Thomas for his nice blog [...]
