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This weekend rocked. I was dead last but got personal bests on all my numbers and didn’t blow up (and did finish!) so I was still happy. Next year I’ll be competitive!
Vancouver’s First Cloud Camp is in two more days! What will you do at Cloud Camp? You will learn how to take advantage of cloud computing to do things you could not do before, to save money, to be more flexible and agile. You can get your questions answered about security, privacy, and compliance. You [...]
I was asked recently what I had learned from my informal survey of the local BC cleantech sector. This was my response and I was encouraged to share it more widely. I’d love your own thoughts on the following. Dear (Friend): You asked about my view on the cleantech sector after I took some time [...]
Techvibes and I released “BC’s Cloud Computing Ecosystem – A Comprehensive List” today. Please leave comments, tell me what I missed, make suggestions, debate my definitions of cloud, or whatever else. More than anything, please come and join the conversation. And if you click through the link at the bottom, it will take you from [...]
Jamie Oliver pleads with us to stop killing our kids with crappy food: www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html Blaise Aguera y Arcas will blow your mind with the next generation of augmented reality mapping tools. Makes Google Maps look like crayons and paper. www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html Running more effective board meetings. Not rocket science but good basic article. www.cloudave.com/link/running-more-effective-board-meetings-at-startups It turns [...]
(EDIT: I said Milton Friedman who is of course, no longer with us, may he rest in peace. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.) Thomas L. Friedman wrote an excellent post over here at the NY Times pleading with the climate folks to go on offense with a simple 50 page grade six [...]
Check out the newly launched Climate Action Plan Indicators tool from the City of Berkeley that is based on Vancouver’s own Visible Strategies‘ “See-It” application. It allows all of the stakeholders to have a dashboard that lets them input their goals, and then track their progress towards those goals. Congrats VS team and City of [...]
Here is a photo of the Club Fat Ass “Fat Ass 50 New Years Run” hosted by none other than Ean “Action” Jackson, who not only started this run 17 years ago but also managed to run it as his 100th ultra. And thanks to Sibylle Tinsel-Jackson, the Chief Fat Ass, for all the organizational [...]
I spent much of yesterday mourning, remembering and celebrating the passing of a true renaissance man from our lives back into the Universe. On September 1, 2009, Jeffrey Walker – father, husband, son, musician, artist, creator, company builder, martini-drinker, guitar player, blogger, and all around crazy interesting soul – left us all behind for the [...]
Daya Baran has written two excellent posts over at WebGuild on the people, ideas, and capital that are fleeing Silicon Valley as the geographic center becomes less relevant. He quotes Jim Clark (of SGI, Netscape, and Healthon fame) who exited 10 years ago to Florida. Here are the posts: Part 1 Part 2 I have [...]
I work on a lot of distributed teams and we use or have used almost everything: Webex (solid but expensive), Adobe Connect (erratic but powerful), Gatherpace (ugly but very cross-platform and very inexpensive), Yugma (I like the team and really tried multiple times but it just never worked properly and the installers always drove me [...]
Okay, my Plaxo Pulse “simplify my life” quest spun out of control into exactly what I was hoping to avoid – a full-on examination of my various communication networks and channels. Too late. My question is this. For all of us uber connected networking, writing, blogging, conference-going wonks, is your system as horrendous? What great [...]
I am not normally much of a Seth Godin fan most of the time but I have to say that I really loved the TED talk he gave on tribes. It intuitively makes sense and I think he asked some really great questions and had a fantastic call to action. The key questions were: who [...]
Wow. I went to see MILK tonight at the Castro Theatre on Castro Street in San Francisco tonight. What an incredibly well done and powerful movie. It tells the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the United States. It was incredible to be at ground zero for this story, in [...]
Over the past month and a couple of conversations, I have had the opportunity to speak with Ross Mayfield, CEO for Socialtext. Ross has very rightly pointed out that there have been major changes since July 2006 when the original posting went up and I agreed that since I’m keeping the post up, that I [...]
This is the presentation I did with Ean Jackson to the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) on Web 2.0 for online marketers: (Event site, Powerpoint file)
This is a copy of the presentation that Ean Jackson and I gave at the Fraser Valley Technology Network on May 12, 2006 titled “Web 2.0 – What is it and why should you care?” (FVTN event link, Powerpoint file)
Has anybody experimented with scarcity economies inside their reputation points systems? I wonder…. If you know of one, please let me know.
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(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) 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 [...]
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 [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] From the Labs: eBay Research Labs, Eric Billingsley: we now have 800,000 people making part or all of their living on that marketplace. labs employees are doing a 3 way split: 1/3 [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital: Roger McNamee (private equity) and Ram Shiram (seed investing) Shiram: I DO believe that it’s cheap to start a company; it is hard to find talent though. Content [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] Yahoo! Technology Preview Brad Garlinghouse Web 2.0 is about people and emotions Technical specs have never been less relevant Email was sent in fall 35 years ago [I use a rule of [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Meet Ning: Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen Gina Bianchini: we want to empower people to create their own social networks. the biggest thing is that rather than having your stuff sitting on Flickr branded or Yahoo [...]
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 [...]
(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 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 [...]
In this Yahoo Finance article, IBM talks about its “Innovation Jam”, an attempt to very publicly run an innovation pipeline. This is awesome. I would love to know how they’re facilitating such massive conversation, and what they are using to make sense of it all. And it will be very interesting to find out later [...]
