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I have my damnable MacBook 13 back after a logic board swap, but I’m never going back. I have been living with a MacBook Pro 15 for 2 weeks now and it’s the best Mac I have ever used, hands down. The screen is dense (and matte thankfully!), it’s fast, and I’m currently running Firefox, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.] MySQL, Marten Mickos Referred to a book on open source titled Innovation happens elsewhere my data + your data + public data = next generation OLAP We are running trillions of transactions [...]
Why do I love this new Bugatti from Volkswagen? Because it’s so ridiculously implausible. Because it took 100 engineers five years to build. Because it goes faster than F1 racing cars. Because it costs $1.4M (if you can find one). Because it has a W-16 engine that was built by mashing together two Audi V-8s. [...]
I have always admired Nicholas Negroponte, former head of the MIT Media Lab. For many years now, he has been throwing his challenge towards the computer industry – build me a $100 USD laptop that can be hand-powered, so that developing nations can join the information revolution. This year at the Product Design Awards 2006, [...]
Okay, this is one of the coolest inventions I have seen in a while. This tent is designed in such a way that you can pack it up in 15 seconds and you can set it up in 2 seconds! For information on this tent that won the Gold Medal in the Best Product Design [...]
THIS is the reason you don’t allow overly broad stupid legislation like the Patriot Acts I and II and the most recent Military Commission Act to pass. They are always unintended uses that far exceed the original intent of the law. In this case, a couple in their mid-forties were being overtly sexual on a [...]
Mark Morford has just written what can only be described as one of the most incredible customer testimonials I have ever read. Every company on the planet should aspire to create the kind of loyalty and lust and pure unadulterated joy that Apple seems to have successfully created in Mark’s eyes. Another writer recently posted [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]A Conversation with Ray Ozzie: Question: Does Microsoft “get it”? Answer: It’s a big company. Some people really “got it” – they got the shift that this industry is undergoing. Others didn’t get it. So I [...]
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 [...]
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.]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 [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Cops and Robbers Las Vegas Style, with Jeff Jonas, chief scientist of the IBM Entity Analytic Solutions group has some very interesting ideas on “the database of intentions concept” founded SRD in 1983 worked with the [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, speaking on Enterprise 2.0 mashups. “Bezos’ presentation summed up one aspect of our business. You have to move from being a killer app to a killer platform. “ We have an elastic database; [...]
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 [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “It’s all about the infrastructure” by Debra Chrapaty, Corporate Vice President of Windows Live Operations The cloud sounds romantic but it’s 1.5 million pounds of batteries, 1 million pounds of steel, 300 miles of cable. [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] “Atoms and Bits” with Robert B. Carter, CIO for FedEx Check out the Youtube video Fedex Ant Hill. The video shows the pattern of their traffic flows. I don’t really remember much of what he [...]
(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 [...]
