This past weekend i watched this video from Fred Wilson about what are the 10 Golden Principles of a Web application. Fred has been an investor for over 20 years and is on the board of some of this decade’s premier companies such as Twitter, FourSquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Delicous, and more. The 10 Golden Principles [...]
iLIke was purchased by MySpace this week for $20 million. Hearing this annoucement, i couldn’t help think that something was off. Something just doesn’t make sense. Some facts: iLike has 50 million registered users. That’s a huge number. They are definitely one of the most popular applications on Facebook and one of the best applications [...]
Fred Wilson had a post this weekend about MyWare and his love of it. I couldn’t agree more as i’m a huge proponent of tracking my own activity. For instance, Here’s a page with all the music i’m listening to Here’s a page with all the websites i find that i like Here’s a page [...]
There’s a good video by Fred Wilson about Twitter and what he, as an investor in it, thinks about it. What he boils it down to is three points: “the single most important is that twitter from day 1 is a platform that others can build upon” “it is very one-dimensional…it doesn’t do anything that [...]
I heard a great podcast yesterday on NPR about the iconic Obama poster (seen above). The poster is done by a fascinating artist named Shepherd Fairey. It’s a little known fact that Fairey is also responsible for the Andre The Giant “OBEY” sketches that i remember from the 90′s. He really gets around. In this [...]
I got quite inspired when reading this post by John Borthwick. First of all, the YouTube data really surprised me in that YouTube is now the 2nd largest search site online, bigger than Yahoo! at over 3 billion searches a month. Second and more importantly, i started thinking about real-time search. Finding out what is [...]
A new feature was released today from Google called Google Latitude. It’s allows you to post your location onto Google Maps and to see your friends’ locations. It’s done using GPS and other technologies (Gears, etc.) and works really well. Here are some thoughts i have on it First, I like the way it looks [...]
Why aren’t you better? I’ve been a big flickr fan for years. I take a lot of photos and that’s always been my favorite spot to put them. Flickr‘s been great at pioneering the 2.0 photo experience. They were the first to have a photostream view – not just albums. And they were the first [...]
I read this article by Tim O’Reilly called “Why I Love Twitter” and it has some good points. Specifically: “Following” instead of “Friending” – in my opinion, only true/proper social networks that are primarily about social interactions (like Facebook or MySpace) should use 2-way friending. The rest should allow for 1-way following. “Ambient intimacy” is [...]
The company Netflix has a very sophisticated and accurate recommendation system. They also have $1 million prize for anyone who can make it better. One interesting thing is that apparently the movie Napoleon Dynamite is screwing up the Netflix’s rating system. There’s a good article in The NY Times called “If You Liked This, You’re [...]
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