Archive for November, 2006
What is it with humans and their pets?
Three completely unrelated news stories of late all connected in the neurons of my brain and I have to ask: what low-level function in the human brain is responsible for this intense desire for humans to have pets? Maybe the nurturing gene(s)?
Dogster got some funding back in September [...]
CNN has a great article on how companies like Amex, GE, and Whirlpool asked 3,000 MBA students to help them with some of their critical and strategic issues around innovation. Worth a read.
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 [...]
I like this cartoon from the prolific and funny Hugh Macleod:
I would correct it though to:
“If two smart, savvy people can’t have an interesting conversation about your product, you haven’t designed your product well enough yet, nor have you marketed it well.”
But his is shorter. And fits on a business card.
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This posting has links to all of the Web 2.0 Summit 2006 blog posts that I wrote:
Day 1
Enterprise 2.0
SMB Session
Launch Pad
Keynote with Eric Schmidt
Joi Ito on Worlds of Warcraft
Ben Trott of Six Apart, talking about Vox
Discussion with Arthur [...]
Until now, the mobile phone networks have been walled gardens with pay-per-use data plans and in order to build a telephone application, you had to customize it for every phone and every model and every carrier. It has been frankly a nightmare and has even prompted Michael Arrington to comment at The New New Internet [...]
Here are my summary thoughts on the 3 day Web 2.0 Summit 2006 in SF, CA
There were some overall themes that seemed to prevail in the sessions I attended and I’m going to try to capture them here in no particular sequence. It’s one thing to have sat in all the sessions or to review [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco:
[My notes are in this square brackets.]
Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist), Owen Van Natta (Facebook), Toni Schneider (Automattic), and Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media)
On the panel:
Jim Buckmaster / CEO, Craigslist
Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook
Toni Schneider, CEO of Automatic
Richard Rosenblatt, cofounder, [...]
