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 is not [...]
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 case, [...]
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 happening [...]
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 and [...]
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 to [...]
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 about deepening [...]
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 [...]
There is an article in the NY Times a few weeks ago called “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” and i think it’s one of the best pieces i’ve read in a long time at explaining why Facebook Status, News Feed, Twitter and other new digital platforms are useful and popular.
The online area that the [...]
A few weeks ago Google release a product called Chrome which is their own web browser. Only it is really so much more. At first it doesn’t look like much – and it isn’t, just yet. However it’s the direction Chrome is going and the intent behind the release that matters. [...]
Not in terms of functionality or ease of use but check this out:
Yahoo dominates e-mail with 88.4 million users in the United States in August, according to comScore. That is far more than Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail at 45.2 million and AOL at 44.8 million, not to mention Gmail at 26.0 million.
When you look at [...]
