SoCal CTO

JUNE 10, 2008

It's funny how things intersect in life. I just ran into Chris Gammil's post New Era of Social Innovation where he describes it as: The model takes the best of the OPEN model and pushes right out into the open, further distributing idea sourcing, team forming, development, commercialization and economic distribution. What are some of the drivers? The social web is making it easier find people with similar passions for creation/innovation The social web is making it easier to find people with com

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 13, 2008

Google targets AdSense revenue sharing so that publisher gets a bit more than the next best option, which is usually Yahoo. Yahoo running Google ads puts Google even closer to monopoly in contextual ads, reducing the revenues of all AdSense publishers. Consumer startups struggling for a better model often rely on AdSense for revenue. The alternative to the Google deal for Yahoo was, of course, accepting the Microsoft offer.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 10, 2008

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aweissman.com

JUNE 11, 2008

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jun 11, 2008. The Velocity of Data. While eating Chicken Adobo at Cendrillion every other day for the past 6 months, we talk constantly about the value of data - how can an application or a technology create value to an existing or new group of users through the creative aggregation, manipulation or structuring of data.

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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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SoCal CTO

JUNE 10, 2008

A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post. Since I posted on this and since I've been using this approach for quite a while, it has become pretty obvious that part of the reason that old school organizations / event producers are not getting the value of providin

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 13, 2008

'Google targets AdSense revenue sharing so that publisher gets a bit more than the next best option, which is usually Yahoo. Yahoo running Google ads puts Google even closer to monopoly in contextual ads, reducing the revenues of all AdSense publishers. Consumer startups struggling for a better model often rely on AdSense for revenue. The alternative to the Google deal for Yahoo was, of course, accepting the Microsoft offer.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 8, 2008

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Mar 14, 2007. Open Data 2007. The Open Data 2007 session yesterday at Reuters, organized in part by Seth Goldstein , was interesting, as others have reported. And while much of the debate centered around what exactly were the implications of open data in the web world, I was surprised that there was indeed alot of surprise about the extent to which our behaviors and actions are being tracked and the data theref

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

'Garry Kasparov Griefed by Flying Penis : In Soviet Russia, Second Life plays the world chess champion. RC helicopter with a giant penis attached buzzed around Kasparov’s opposition assembly, in real life.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

'Redesign A First Step In Bringing Order To The MySpace Chaos : MySpace is redesigning. 25% of all Americans visit MySpace monthly, making it largest site in the U.S. Disturbingly, 12% of all online minutes are spent on MySpace.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 13, 2008

'NVCA Model Venture Capital Financing Documents : When a larger than usual set of lawyers develops universal VC funding documents, they end up with documents that appear to satisfy no-one. This is too bad, because the idea of standard financing documents is great. I wonder if you could make each document fit on one page.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

Garry Kasparov Griefed by Flying Penis : In Soviet Russia, Second Life plays the world chess champion. RC helicopter with a giant penis attached buzzed around Kasparov’s opposition assembly, in real life.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

Redesign A First Step In Bringing Order To The MySpace Chaos : MySpace is redesigning. 25% of all Americans visit MySpace monthly, making it largest site in the U.S. Disturbingly, 12% of all online minutes are spent on MySpace.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 13, 2008

NVCA Model Venture Capital Financing Documents : When a larger than usual set of lawyers develops universal VC funding documents, they end up with documents that appear to satisfy no-one. This is too bad, because the idea of standard financing documents is great. I wonder if you could make each document fit on one page.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

'Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores : Police in New London, CT, deny job interviews to people with IQ scores too high. Unfortunately, the article does not specify the threshold.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

'Vobile, video fingerprinting tech (VideoDNA) : Doesn’t modify the video. I infer from marketing materials the fingerprint is roughly 1% in size of the original. Doesn’t mention computational costs.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores : Police in New London, CT, deny job interviews to people with IQ scores too high. Unfortunately, the article does not specify the threshold.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

Vobile, video fingerprinting tech (VideoDNA) : Doesn’t modify the video. I infer from marketing materials the fingerprint is roughly 1% in size of the original. Doesn’t mention computational costs.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

'Yahoo Announces Non-Exclusive Search Agreement With Google : Startups are supposed to have better revenue models than AdSense. Yet Yahoo is doing just that.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

Yahoo Announces Non-Exclusive Search Agreement With Google : Startups are supposed to have better revenue models than AdSense. Yet Yahoo is doing just that.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 11, 2008

'TinEye : “Give [TinEye] an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.”.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 11, 2008

TinEye : “Give [TinEye] an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.”.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 12, 2008

'The less people know about climate science, the more they worry about global warming.

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JUNE 12, 2008

The less people know about climate science, the more they worry about global warming.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 11, 2008

'What Makes Married Men Want to Have Affairs? -- New York Magazine.

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JUNE 11, 2008

What Makes Married Men Want to Have Affairs? -- New York Magazine.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 13, 2008

'Who Should I Follow? Twitter Friend Recommendations.

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JUNE 13, 2008

Who Should I Follow? Twitter Friend Recommendations.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 11, 2008

Glassdoor.com - Salaries.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 11, 2008

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 11, 2008

'Glassdoor.com - Salaries.

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aweissman.com

JUNE 8, 2008

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jul 24, 2007. Web Site Measurement. Page views? Visits per week? Time spent per visit? Whats the answer? Social Degree posits another approach: A user is much more valuable to a community, to the publisher, and to the advertiser if they are interacting and contributing. 1,000 highly engaged page views is far more valuable than 10,000 non engaged page views to all the stakeholders involved.

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