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 [...]
I’m an iPhone users and i love it. It has transformed my mobile phone usage and dare i say, my life. With the internet at my fingertips, i no longer go more than 10 seconds without knowing the answer to a question. I have come to realize that the world of computers and the internet [...]
There’s a growing trend in the media to attack facebook. It started when their redesign got pretty bad reviews, continued when their CFO left, and now is gaining steam as mainstream outlets are questioning it’s core business proposition. There are three different things here and the media is pointing to them as an indication of [...]
Image via CrunchBase I did an interview last night for USC business school where i was asked a lot of questions about Qloud and its beginnings. Questions like “What advice would you give to aspiring entrepreneurs? What have you learned?” Well here goes… i often hear people talk about “doing something big.” While I admire [...]
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 [...]
Cover via Amazon There’s a new book by Seth Godin called “Tribes” which talks about the startup culture and out-of-the-box thinkers. Two interesting parts of the book are the parts about followers and the parts about Leaders. A good question exists talking about the difference between employees and followers. Employees show up each day and [...]
I just read a great article by Clive Thompson called “Head for Detail” about Gordon Bell‘s latest experieement. Please just read the first 2 paragraphs. It’s about Gordon and how he is recording everything he’s doing (video, audio, emails, web, everything). He’s been doing it for the past 14 years and is able to bring [...]
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 [...]
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