Troy Angrignon

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 [http://www.jeffjonas.typepad.com/], chief scientist of the IBM Entity Analytic Solutions group[http://www.jeffjonas.typepad.com/] * has

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 [http://www.salesforce.com], speaking on Enterprise 2.0 mashups. * “Bezos’ presentation summed up one aspect of our business. You have to move from being

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

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,

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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzsXqawswPc]. The video shows the

(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/Web20].) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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:

Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] Net Neutrality debate: Vinton Cerf [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinton_Cerf], father of the internet vs. Robert Pepper [http://www.web2con.com/cs/web2006/view/e_spkr/2996]

Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.] A Conversation with Bruce Chizen, Adobe [http://www.adobe.com]: * he talked a lot about Adobe. blah blah blah. Mostly pitching. * There seemed to be a lot of “We

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 [http://www.adobe.com] * S3 [http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261] and EC2 [http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_

(For earlier parts of the saga, see here [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/7/2090189.html], here [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2006/8/26/2266778.html] and here [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2006/9/29/2373884.html]) While travelling last week, the MacBook

I was at Web 2.0 Summit [http://www.web2con.com] last week in SF, and was wandering around downtown trying to meet my friends for dinner. I had my Blackberry with Google maps on it so I could see where the restaurant was, but what I really wanted was

Day 1 Notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA * Session 1: Enterprise 2.0 * Mayfield had talked about SLATES [http://dor.hbs.edu/fit/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=res&facEmId=amcafee&loc=extn] – (search, linking, authoring, tagging, extensions, and signals) finally being possible on Socialtext’

If IScrybe [http://www.iscrybe.com] and Salesforce [http://www.salesforce.com] and Zimbra [http://www.zimbra.com] can do it, surely Google [http://www.google.com] can build Gmail [http://www.gmail.com] so that you can just work offline on the laptop when you’re away and then

Okay, who can get me a beta account for iScrybe [http://www.iscrybe.com]? This looks AWESOME!

Yikes. I knew it was bad. But 91% [http://www.mobiusvc.com/pages.php?pn=overview&sub=inthenews&id=2694]?????

(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/Web20].) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The following is the full-text hyperlinked version of the “Manifesto” that was first released at ChangeThis.com as a PDF [http://www.changethis.com/

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

Ben Franklin said it best: “Those who would trade liberty for a bit of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” This is appalling. I urge everybody to watch this:

Why do spammers insist on plugging every bloody orifice???? I am getting 40-50 gambling/porn/sex trackback spam in my Blogware account EVERY SINGLE DAY. That is with “delete trackback if detected as spam and moderate the rest” turned on. In other words, on its most aggressive setting, I’m

Beware the SMC update for your MacBook 13. Mine now shuts itself off whenever it wants and the fan runs a lot more often. Note to self: Remember that last note to self about not buying 1.0 hardware? You should have listened to that. (sigh)

Every time I blog something, I have to decide which tool to use: If I’m going to use bullet-points, then I can’t use the Blogware web interface because it doesn’t have bullets. If I try to use Performancing, it won’t talk to Blogware properly and fails

I was sent a link today for a Forrester webinar that has as its technical requirements: Windows Media Player 6, Real Player 5, and IE 5 or Netscape 6. It doesn’t play on my brand new MacBook with OS X 10.4 and Firefox. And Firefox can’t find

We have had some more great comments from people about Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business [http://www.changethis.com/pdf/25.05.Web2.0.pdf] but oddly no flames or outright disagreement. Here are some links and comments from around the Web: I had the pleasure of

This morning, I deleted the 3600 spam that were sitting in my Gmail Spam folder. Lo and behold, 2h15 2h22m later I have 15 16 new ones promising to sell me cheap electronics, software, pharmaceuticals, watches, orgasms, and debt forgiveness. More and more, I am agreeing with people like Fred

This is without a doubt the best business movie of the year for its content. And it is probably one of my favourite movies of the year for its film quality as well.  This movie is BRILLIANT. It is the true story of a men’s brogue shoe factory in