Interesting People
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 the [...]
I’ll keep this short or I’ll get all sappy. I love hanging out with this group and pushing our bodies and suffering together. It’s the best thing I could possibly do with my time. Thanks guys (and girls).
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 [...]
Thanks to Ean and Sibylle for throwing a great Club Fat Ass party - the Capilano Canyon Night Run. About 40 30 of us gathered at the William Griffin Rec Center tonight to do the run.
Sibylle threw me out of the short distance group, so Blue and I joined the tail end of the [...]
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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 [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco:
[My notes and analysis in this square brackets.]
The Alumni Report - Web 2.0 Launches Revisited:
Michael Tanne / Wink: he gave a very long demo
Veoh Networks: YouTube except for high-resolution long videos. We have figured out how to store them in a distributed [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA:
[my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]“What GoDaddy Knows” by Bob Parson, CEO of Godaddy
You need to be careful about who to listen to - like analysts who don’t understand basic business.
www.bobparsons.com - he talked about why they filed for and then withdrew [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA:
[my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]The Global Plant Floor, by Don Tapscott, author of the new book Wikinomics
Just now publishing “wikinomics” - a new book about how mass collaboration changes everything
Available for pre-order now:
First chapter is available here
Carlotta Perez, historian, talks about [...]
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 removed server hosting, [...]
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.
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