Every now and then I realize that I had a theme to my weekend reading. This weekend I absorbed three books: Ego Check, Toilets of the World, and The No Assholes Rule. Do you see the theme?
Ego Check – written by CU Professor Mathew Hayward – was pretty good although once again a 225 page book could have been edited down to about 75 pages and gotten the same point across. The anecdotes and stories were mo
Finally. We had an amazingly wonderful normal weekend in Boulder – sunny, 50 degrees, a little snow hanging around, especially in the mountains. Notwithstanding the daylight savings nonsense (which is irrelevant to me since I wake up while it’s still dark outside and I use Vista now), it’s beautiful here once again now that the White Witch of Narnia has apparently been defeated.
Of course, Amy just reminded me that March and
Roger Fillion has a great, detailed article in today’s Rocky Mountain News on Todd Vernon’s experience pitching his company – Lijit – at the recent Venture Capital in the Rocky’s conference. If you missed the conference (or the pitch), here’s Todd’s first slide (that Roger builds his article around.)
I thought Roger did a super job of getting inside Todd’s brain in this article. I also thought that Todd&
Fred Wilson pointed me (us) to a video from his friend John Mahoney (CTO / co-founder of Instant Information – one of Fred’s portfolio companies) titled Practical RSS. It’s an excellent seven minute overview of what RSS means from a user’s perspective. John did an outstanding job both explaining it and creating a high quality video.
This is a rant – feel free to ignore if you don’t care about Microsoft.
What do Vista, CRM, Sharepoint, and Outlook have in common? Yes – Microsoft.
I’m using three of these every day (I dumped CRM.) I’ve been a PC / Windows user forever – always keeping a Mac nearby, but rarely using it (I like to turn it on once a week just to watch it update all it’s software automagically.) I enjoy the Microsoft upgrade cycle (of which we are once again starting a big one with Vista, Office 2007, and all the Server 2007 products that are coming.) I’ve always benefited financially from this (as I’m usually involved in companies that play around the Microsoft ecos
David Cohen has been appropriately nudging me to write my counterpoint to his Big of Bullshit: Widgets post. Lots has been said about widgets over the past six months, including the ultimate counterindicator article The Year of the Widget? from Newsweek (nothing against Newsweek, but whenever something like this shows up it often means we’ve hit the apex of the phenomenon.)
Lest you think Widgets are new, let’s take a short walk back in history. Do you remember Active Desktop? Yup - a nice
One thing I really enjoy is watching speed runs, which are people recording themselves as they finish video games in record time. The best site Ive run across is Speed Demos Archive. You can view their [...]
The first tip is remedial: keep most mailing list emails out of your inbox. I already prune as much of my Gmail [...]
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The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate. -- Declan McCullagh, CNET News.
::jaw on ground:: I really hope Declan is wrong on this report because if he's not, we're in deep shit. Can you even imagine what this would mean for civil liberties and freedom of speech? This data retention idea is on par wit
Interesting snapshot -- see the article for more details. This is probably a leading indicator of what's coming next inside other organization types.
College students now are wired, wireless, Sidekicked, Facebooked, YouTubed and bleeping with instant messages and text messages. But try getting an important announcement out to everyone on campus.
It's the flip side of all the technology: Students are more connected than ever -- but surprisingly tricky for administrators to reach.
Land lines are all but obsolete. Cellphone numbers are slippery. And e-mail gets lost, overlooked, erased or ignored.
Joost coverage in Time
For years, Microsoft and others have tried, and failed, to bring the Net to TV screens with duds like WebTV. But the Venice Project, renamed Joost (as in juiced), is doing the opposite: moving TV to the Internet. And unlike Apple TV, Slingbox and other hardware offerings, Joost requires nothing more than software.
Source: Bringing TV to the Web -- TIME
