Archive for November 21st, 2006
I first heard of Pickspal from Andrew McAfee in August 2006. Then from Michael Arrington. Venture Beat’s Matt Marshall has written a good summary of their venture. In short, Pickspal lets people bet on sports - nothing new there. But they they figure out which of their many thousands of customers are able to pick [...]
This Wired article is hilarious. It further proves my “Theory of Constraint” (constraints increase creativity and clarity of any project.)
Wired asked dozens of writers to put their words to paper and to author a six word story.
The challenge was predicated on the fact that according to the article:
” Hemingway once wrote a story in just [...]
IBM rocks. They keep doing cool things. They’re spending a ton of money on wikis and light-weight scripting languages. And they asked 100,000 of their customers, partners, and employees to develop an innovation pipeline. Now they are spending a reported $100M (according to BusinessWeek) in an effort to capitalize on Second Life and other immersive [...]