Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2007
I was catching up on my RSS feeds this morning when I saw a post from Seth Godin entitled “People don’t truly care about privacy.” It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.
In the past, when I’ve explained what we are doing at matchmine, I’ve really pushed the privacy/anonymity angle. To me, portable personalization doesn’t have […]
Posted in Business Strategy on Dec 12th, 2007
Cool! Nice articulation of our core point of difference here:
The system’s main benefit is that it works across a number of sites, as opposed to the recommendation systems on Amazon and other retail sites that only track your preferences there. And unlike those systems, this one gives you precise control over which sites can […]
Posted in Content Discovery on Dec 12th, 2007
Nick Douglas wrote an interesting post over at Valleywag about the most watched internet video of all time – Star Wars Kid – and why there will never be another video that takes off like this awkward teenager’s attempt to act like a Jedi. Apparently, the video has been viewed an estimated 900 million […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Uncategorized on Dec 11th, 2007
Recently, a couple of my co-workers have become obsessed with the video game Rock Band. After getting the gist of Rock Band’s premise, I began to think about why I might find it frustrating. It sounds essentially like an exercise in sight reading, that is, the ability to read notes (or in this case colors) […]
Posted in Business Strategy on Dec 6th, 2007
To be honest, I never imagined I’d be so excited for us to appear in somebody’s blog. If you’re going to be in one, though, this is the one.
My favorite bit:
What I like about matchmine is that it lines up my multidimensional taste profile (my MatchKey) with the multidimensional profile of a piece of content. […]
Posted in Social Networking, Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2007
By now, you’re probably sick of hearing about the Facebook Beacon debacle. Over the past few weeks since its controversial launch, we’ve heard the outcry and backlash from privacy gurus, social media moguls and the industry at large. Much of the uproar has circled around behavioral targeting and how it bleeds over into the world […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2007
The 2007 Crunchies is the first annual competition and awards ceremony to recognize promising startups, internet, and tech innovations of the year. The competition is a group project of GigaOM, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch.
The best part: you- the people of the internet- get to decide who wins.
In a startling act of shameless self-promotion, I’d like […]
Posted in Social Networking on Dec 4th, 2007
Note: As the official blog post pest here at matchmine, I sent out an all-internal email yesterday trying to generate new post ideas. An employee sent me the following post and asked to remain nameless (and since we’re all about anonymity here at matchmine, I couldn’t really argue with that). I absolutely loved the post, […]
