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Names Matter: Exposure Alerting vs. Digital Contact Tracing

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I think we would have saved a lot of time and energy if we had come up with the right name from the beginning. The post Names Matter: Exposure Alerting vs. Digital Contact Tracing appeared first on Feld Thoughts. So, from here on out, I think we should call this activity Exposure Alerting.

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I’m Sorry – I Don’t Remember Your Name

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A few years ago, I realized that I had run out of namespace in my brain and the only way I could learn a new name was to forget one that I already knew. I’ve always been bad at names + faces, but I have a savant like ability to remember stuff that I’ve read, especially numbers. This used to not matter much.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”).

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Why I Don’t Call People Out By Name

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.” In my comment thread, and in Joanne’s, a number of folks asked us to call out the various players (especially the investors and the company) by name. Same response – I’m not interested in calling people out by name. As a result, there are many cases like this where there is no value in naming names.

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Gist Acquires Startup Weekend Project Learn that Name

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Gist just announced that they have acquired Learn that Name and incorporated it in the Gist iPhone app. Learn that Name was a Startup Weekend Seattle project from a few months ago. The idea for Learn that Name came from Eric Koester, a lawyer in Cooley’s Seattle office. There are a lot of fun connections here for me.

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Apple Platform Layer Bugs

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I went into Photos to add a name to a Person that I noticed in my Person view and the pretty Apple rainbow spun for about 30 seconds after I hit the first name of the person’s name.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”).