Posted in Random Thoughts on Mar 29th, 2007
Yesterday’s post talked about the role of truth in an entrepreneurial context. Today I’d like to share a few thoughts on the importance of getting to the truth in a more mature business.
As Dick Costolo wrote in his excellent blog:
Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that’s a safe assumption on top of which […]
Posted in Semantic Web, Social Networking on Mar 29th, 2007
Danny Ayers posted a recent note about “Using those profiles“, indicating his interest in combining his profiles with various applications so they could collectively provide more actionable data points.
This data is already being created and published, it just needs integrating and usefully exposed for browsing/search/navigation. Aggregation of feeds is straightforward, but in general lacks the […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Mar 28th, 2007
In the long run, most pain in life is caused by distance from the truth.
Think about it. We get hurt, we suffer, we get over it. Over time, the things that cause the biggest problems in our lives most often derive from our inability to see the whole truth - about ourselves, another person, or […]
Posted in Semantic Web, Social Networking on Mar 28th, 2007
In my tour of the blogosphere this morning I followed a trail from Jason Kolb to Rich Skrenta to Fred Wilson ending with Clay Shirky…. I’d call it a successful mental jog.
The first stop was Kolb’s “The Google Killer” post where he tosses out his opinion how Google might be supplanted on top of the […]
Posted in Human Factors, Random Thoughts on Mar 27th, 2007
I just saw the full presentation Jeff Han gave at TED 2007 on the Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical display surface. Since it was already on my mind, I could see how something like this mashes up nicely with the BumpTop developed by Anand Agarawala and Ravin Balakrishnan.
Most folks, as David […]
Posted in Media Delivery on Mar 27th, 2007
In the late 90’s, an explosion of new print, cable and online media channels created a relative scarcity of quality content to fill those channels. Pundits coined the term “Content is King,” which has since become conventional wisdom.
The rise of consumer generated media didn’t seem to change much, in large part because Star Wars […]
Posted in Human Factors, Random Thoughts on Mar 26th, 2007
I’ve been reading up on memory lately and found an interesting effect that might speak (in a totally non-scientific way) to something that seems to be part of our collective culture. I was listening to research CDs by Diana Deusch (see an earlier post for more background) and a pitch memory experiment caught my […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Mar 25th, 2007
I’ve been asked by both marketing and the recruiters to start a blog. I’ve been told it’s important, that it’s come to be expected of CEO’s in forward thinking companies, that it will give insiders a closer connection to me, and outsiders a better understanding of who we are and what we’re about. These are […]
Posted in Semantic Web, Social Networking on Mar 20th, 2007
I realize I’m showing up (fashionably) late to the semantic web party, but the timing seems to feel ripe. As I mentioned in an earlier post about what I call a “Semantic Servant“, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to (easily) cross-connect online systems. Despite the zealot debates between the Web 2.0 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2007
After working on medical devices for two and a half years, I decided it was time to do something fun. So I started looking for extraordinary startups.
I turned down SUN and decided to work for Matchmine last February. Like Mike says, life is a series of decisions. I have made the right decision.
