Sat.Jun 14, 2008 - Fri.Jun 20, 2008

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up.

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75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are serious and import bookmarks

Hacking Startups

Facebook users fall into two categories: giggly and serious. Facebook user experience could be better if Facebook took this dichotomy into account. Ignoring the difference pushes apps to be giggly and serious users to be unhappy. Giggly 75% like pokes, quizzes, pic forwarding, fun games, selling friends, glitter on profiles. They express themselves through style and interact with friends using the mouse.

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Google Browser Sync will be no more

Eric Friedman

The Google Browser Sync project will soon be discontinued. This is sad news because many folks love this service and have been blogging about browser sync shutting down in the past few days. I am in this small group of people who love the product, especially when switching to a new computer, but I suppose that just isn’t enough. In a Google world where there are more projects than they can dedicated engineers to I suppose they have to shut down some.

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Back to Blogging (maybe)…

abovethecrowd.com

I haven’t written a public post in over two years, and many people ask me when I might write again. The bottom line is I have been really busy. Busy with our investments here at Benchmark, and busy with three growing kids at home. But in the end, I am quite fond of writing, and [.].

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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You might like… Recommendation Engines

Jason Ball

If you're reading this blog, then you might like recommendation engines. I've been continuously impressed by Amazon's recommendation engine. As I've expanded what I buy through Amazon (heart rate watches, cooking utilities, computer peripherals, etc.), Amazon has done a very good job of processing those likes -across categories- and making very intelligent suggestions that have resulted in purchases.

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Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and all your work thrown away?

Hacking Startups

If you think the coming nuclear winter will make job market tough for employees, you need to hear about the job offer my daughter got recently. The job has: $0 salary and no equity (you’re supposed to be compensated in experience). no benefits other than vacation and sick time: no insurance, for example. no possibility of promotion or raise, ever. no job description: just do what you’re told. micromanaging boss asks about project status every hour. strict hours, starting at 8:30AM sharp. if you’

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Placetweeting

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 17, 2008. Placetweeting. Screw all manner of betaworks objectivity, this is pretty cool - John Geraci : Don’t have time to start a placeblog ? Neither do I. But now, thanks to outside.in Radar , Twitter and Summize , we can placetweet. Placetweeting ? I’ ve got time for that.

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Would you work with micromanaging boss, no salary, and all your work thrown away?

Hacking Startups

'If you think the coming nuclear winter will make job market tough for employees, you need to hear about the job offer my daughter got recently. The job has: $0 salary and no equity (you’re supposed to be compensated in experience). no benefits other than vacation and sick time: no insurance, for example. no possibility of promotion or raise, ever. no job description: just do what you’re told. micromanaging boss asks about project status every hour. strict hours, starting at 8:30AM s

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75% of Facebook users are giggly and poke; 25% are serious and import bookmarks

Hacking Startups

'Facebook users fall into two categories: giggly and serious. Facebook user experience could be better if Facebook took this dichotomy into account. Ignoring the difference pushes apps to be giggly and serious users to be unhappy. Giggly 75% like pokes, quizzes, pic forwarding, fun games, selling friends, glitter on profiles. They express themselves through style and interact with friends using the mouse.

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Don't be afraid of maps

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After the no

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After the no | Seth Levine

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My new Netflix Roku rocks | Seth Levine

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Me on w3w3 | Seth Levine

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