Posted in Business Strategy, Content Discovery, Random Thoughts, Social Networking, data portability on Aug 21st, 2008
This is just a quick, off the top of my head post about the similarities and differences I see between the terms “specifications” and “standards” and our approach to supporting them. It’s by no means an exhaustive treatise on the subject, but just common sense thoughts on a working framework about their usage.
When talking […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Random Thoughts on Jun 13th, 2008
The brilliant pun above (with credit to Mr. Lennon) is only one of the worthwhile things to be gleaned from this great post on the selfish reasons serial entrepreneurs need to be decent people.
Highlight:
Successful serial entrepreneurs know that each relationship they develop is a potential goldmine. As noted in Your Personal Pitch, in order to […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Random Thoughts on May 30th, 2008
Great article in the New York Times about how the nature of leadership may be evolving. Leaders themselves are stuggling to integrate their professional and personal lives, just as people within companies are more hungry for authenticity and a personal relationship with those they choose to follow.
This ties very tightly to the twitter / blogging […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking, Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
Last week, I attended the Boston Social Media Breakfast with a bunch of really smart marketing, PR and technology folks. The topic was around how hiring in the 2.0 world has changed the game for job-seekers and job-fillers. There were pretty much three common themes across the speakers:
1 - You are your brand
2 - You […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Random Thoughts on Apr 9th, 2008
In the beginning, starting a business feels like pushing a rock uphill.
The first few months is all about infecting individual people with your vision, and each time you have to start from zero. Nobody knows who you are or what you do, and all you have to get them on board are the track record […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking on Mar 25th, 2008
It was good to read the press release that Yahoo joined OpenSocial, and that along with Google and MySpace they’ve formed the OpenSocial Foundation. This move should greatly decrease the back-chatter between potentially competing social networking interfaces.
While it’s still a nascent set of standards, OpenSocial has the promise of being a solid foundation upon […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Random Thoughts on Feb 22nd, 2008
I was on a panel at the Cornell Entrepreneur Network event yesterday, asked to speak on the marketing potential of social media to a (smart) group of “Web 2.0″ neophytes. The assignment led to some reflection on my part, and the following (hopefully) insights:
People under 30 - the typical target for marketers interested in social […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Random Thoughts on Jan 10th, 2008
I was at the gym the other night and not surprisingly, like clockwork every January, the place was packed with new members making good on their New Year’s resolutions. When a treadmill finally opened up, it happened to be in the front corner, in spot where exactly only one of the nine TV’s is visible […]
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 Random Thoughts on Nov 26th, 2007
Every so often a bunch of stuff converges and feels like divine inspiration. Over the last week, three different events have come together synergistically for me. Divine? Maybe not. But inspiration – definitely!
The first was seeing the movie Gone Baby Gone. It was filmed in my old neighborhood. Dorchester, pronounced Dahchestah if you live there. […]
