September 2008
1 post
August 2008
6 posts
This is why mobile devices will rule the market:
‘…We can make...
– Google CEO Schmidt: ‘We Can Make More Money In Mobile Than We Do On The Desktop’; Android This Year | mocoNews.net (via datainsightsideas)
This simple premise holds the key to Twitter’s success: messages go to a...
– TechCrunch
Over one billion cell phones have been sold worldwide in the last year, but in...
– TechCrunch
July 2008
9 posts
the best company is one in which the employees are so engaged in their work that...
– Don’t ask employees to be passionate about the company! (via danw) (via datainsightsideas)
Ivan and Abby Kirigin founded their startup, Tipjoy, to give consumers of free...
– Tipjoy’s Founders on Passing the Hat - GigaOM
mixin - What's next? →
I want this for meetings.
If it seems like everybody is starting their own virtual world, it is because...
– Virtual Worlds Are So Hot Right Now: $345 Million Invested So Far This Year
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it.
When I...
– TechCrunch
Thinking About Groups →
This is an interesting point, and extends to internal corporate teams/groups as well, where the software is sufficiently deficient. Meeting functions, agendas, minutes, attendees, and ongoing tracking of functions are extremely week, but yet a simple Presdo-type of function could potentially solve that…?
fred-wilson:
An entrepreneur pinged me the other day with an idea that was in the...
This goes to show the role of social media in the corporate workplace, by...
– List of Social Computing Strategists and Community Managers for Enterprise Corporations 2008
June 2008
21 posts
InformationWeek says Cloud Computing is a “megatrend” and I’d totally agree with...
– //steve clayton: geek in disguise : Guide To Cloud Computing
Technology Review: Social Networking Is Not a Business*
Web 2.0—the...
– Technology Review: Social Networking Is Not a Business*
Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital... →
this is great. Friends inspire, push, collaborate, expand. Well said…
datainsightsideas:
Social networks build beneficial technological, creative, and communication skills, the study says, leading the researchers to actually describe social networks with the adjective “educational.” Who…
Why Widgets Is The Wrong Word For What We're Doing →
FW is right - this is really the widgets have evolved into fully functioning nano-apps, with the only dependency being the reliance of a master app. Slave-apps, sub-apps, micro-apps, the term widget generally downplays what they’ve become and where they’re going…
fred-wilson:
I am speaking at WidgetWeb today. They asked me to talk about widgets as startups, but I am not going...
The magic of Twitter, and Ustream, and Qik, and all the social tools just now...
– TechCrunch
Quillpill takes a totally different approach by wanting to know what stories you...
– http://www.quillpill.com
Fantastic - a mobile web war between Safari, Android, Firefox, and IE…
Zoom, Pan, Throw: A Peek At What Firefox Mobile Could Be
How to Unleash Your Creativity: Scientific... →
jakoblodwick:
“When children are very young, they all express creativity, but by the end of the first grade, very few do so. This is because of socialization. They learn in school to stay on task and to stop daydreaming and asking silly questions. As a result, the expression of new ideas is largely shut down. We end up leaving creative expression to the misfits—the people who can’t be socialized.”...
Many new social media companies have shot to tens of millions of users very...
– TechCrunch
Google Site Search is intended for organizations that want to add Google search...
– TechCrunch
My Vision For Social Media →
fred-wilson: ’..There’s no doubt in my mind that you have a vision for what “social media” is and that it’s much grander than anything that’s currently happening. I think to some degree I’m simply not thinking as big as you are and so I don’t really see what you’re envisioning. I’m not suggesting in any way that you’re wrong, only suggesting that I have not had the “a-ha!”...
May 2008
5 posts
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Google Gears as... →
‘…When Google Gears was first announced, it was praised as the final nail in the coffin for desktop applications as it now made it possible to take Web applications offline. However in the past year that Gears has existed, there hasn’t been as much progress or enthusiasm in taking applications offline as was initially thought when Gears was announced. There are various reasons...
Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality -... →
fred-wilson: good post by Alex Iskold on Semantic Search
Instead of releasing entirely new applications on Google Labs, it’s more...
– Gmail Labs? (via sid05) (via jakoblodwick)
Microsoft’s grand plan to eliminate phone numbers... →
This is from one transcript of an early May speech Gates gave in Japan: “Right now the mobile phone, the desktop phone, the e-mail that you have on the PC, or instant messaging, these are all very different things, and the issues about how much of your information or your schedule, your current activity you share with people who communicate with you is not well designed…. By bringing together all...