Computing & IT
Hey all,
I’m at Startonomics today, put on by Dealmaker Media. I’ll be posting updates to this over the course of the day.
Live stream is here:
My notes and editorial comments are in [square brackets.]
These are DRAFT NOTES. Better versions coming after the conference, complete with images.
MORNING SESSION:
Dave McClure, 500 hats
Metrics
ultimately, lead through to sale [...]
I work on the computer a lot. Probably far too much. One of the things I have been noticing is that because I spend so much time on the computer my back gets very tense from typing too much. So I’ve decided to go back and try out some dictation software again. It seems like [...]
Thanks Susan for your post. It reminds me that I never did post my summary of the Enterprise 2.0 conference this spring in Boston.
You say that you are frustrated that there is a slow pace of adoption. I saw the same thing but rather than being frustrated by it, we used that as a data [...]
Javier, thank you for recognizing businesses like Mr. Gianforte’s that are “return leaders“. It is too easy these days to continue to buy the “traffic first, monetization second” crap that continues to be perpetuated (and which is really only applicable to about 0.0001% of the businesses out there.)
Greg, I’m glad to see that you [...]
I have been working on Apple equipment since the Apple II+. I ran a Mac computer consulting company for ten years. I have seen much of the good and bad that has come from Apple over the years. I think that this Operating system version is the best Apple has ever released.
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I read an awesome book recently that made me rethink many things about location, work, and business. It was Tim Ferriss’ book which I highly recommend.
“ “The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” (Timothy Ferris)
I recently had reason to head to Paris for [...]
Here’s what I (and many thousands of road warriors) want Google.
I want a local cached always up to date copy of my entire Google docs set of files. I want to create a folder on my local drive and it should automagically sync with Google docs without my ever thinking about it [...]
My time at Business Objects has finally come to a close. It was an awesome two years, with a lot of learning. I met a lot of extremely talented people there and through my association with the company. I was feeling the entrepreneurial urge again so i decided to throw myself back out of the [...]
Here are a few interesting notes from the opening sessions:
Jeff Bezos
a better question than “what’s changing in the next five years” is “what is going to be the SAME over the next five or ten years?” because that allows them to build a sturdy business.
he talked about the current services: message queuing, storage, computing and [...]
Many of you know that I was on the selection committee for “Why Office 2.0 Matters” - a one day conference being organized by the Dealmaker Media team in SF. The one day session will look at 32 of the most promising companies emerging in the Office-productivity-on-the-web category.
As part of the run-up to the conference, [...]
