SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 2, 2007
I had already written about OpenSocial ( OpenSocial and Facebook as Platforms) and frankly I was hoping for a lot more in the announcements and APIs. I only have a cursory understanding of OpenSocial from reading various posts and from crawling through the API definitions, but it appears that OpenSocial has a long way to go before it's going to be useful for several of the applications we are working on.
Genuine VC
NOVEMBER 27, 2007
Venture investors often find comfort when a team of entrepreneurs beginning a startup have previously worked together. If the prior endeavor was a wild success, then the prevailing thinking is that it makes sense to back a team who should know the playbook for victory. But even when the last go-round was a mild success or even a tremendous failure, there is signal value in the fact that these individuals deliberately choose to work together another time.
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BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 13, 2007
We have had quite a resurgence in the web market during the last few years. A number of great companies have come out of nowhere to become household names, and it seems that everyday we are inundated with news on another slew of new web startups going after the consumer. And yes, looking for the next YouTube or Facebook or Myspace is exciting. Depsite all of that, the one area is that is not discussed much is the boring infrastructure market where companies sell the picks and shovels to allow th
Jason Ball
NOVEMBER 25, 2007
I posted this shuffle tip ages ago: This one is straight from Apple’s eNews March 10, 2005 newsletter : If you’re after the highest quality tunes and regularly import songs at bit rates higher than 128 Kbps, iTunes offers you the best of both worlds, letting you keep your high-quality songs in iTunes while exporting leaner versions of the songs, sized just right for iPod shuffle.
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
aweissman.com
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Nov 28, 2007. betaworks. Peter wrote about betaworks today. Tags: betaworks. at 10:05 PM. 0 comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow and Share. Tweet. Real Names Be Proof: twitter music usv words e: andy at aweissman dot com or andy at usv dot com "Great meals fade in reflection; everything else gains.".
Occam's Razor
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
Someone highly salaried : "You know what our problem is? We have too many damn tools!" Me : "Oh, hm…" Someone highly salaried : "Thanks for agreeing with me, now please help us fix it!" Me : "No I meant, oh hmmmmmmm. " Someone highly salaried : "What do you mean? You are not going to solve my problem of getting a single source of truth for all my web data?
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BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 6, 2007
There is a ton of hype on the wireless front especially with the announcement of Android, the Google operating system for mobile phones. I too am quite excited about the prospects of having applications that are written once on the Google OS that can be ported to any other phone on any other network that also supports the Google OS. If any of you have developed apps in the wireless world, that is not exactly how it works as even apps built on the Java Micro Edition Platform need to be tweaked fo
Jason Ball
NOVEMBER 25, 2007
If you’ve been missing system files (e.g. plist files) in your Spotlight results or Finder searches, you need to follow this tip over at TidBits : When you choose Other, you get a dialog listing all the kinds of metadata the Spotlight index knows about. You can just pick one to use it; you can also select a checkbox to specify that that option should appear in the menu from now on, so you don’t have to pass through the Other dialog to access it.
Jason Ball
NOVEMBER 8, 2007
Email looks like it might be enjoying the end of its reign as the de facto killer app. The post and graph below from Hitwise really brings home where the web is going. For the first time last month, UK Internet visits to social networks (blue line) overtook visits to web-based email services (orange line). As the chart below illustrates, Hitwise’s category of the top 25 social networks, which includes Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, accounted for 5.17% of all UK Internet visits, compared to 4.
Jason Ball
NOVEMBER 21, 2007
This cartoon from the Gaping Void pretty much sums up the evolution of my blog as well (minus the art, poetry and architecture):
aweissman.com
NOVEMBER 20, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Nov 20, 2007. Music is like the online ad business 10 years ago. Ive written about my love affair with Amie St., so its obvious that I am intrigued by different ways to deliver audio content. My friend David, who has been at the epicenter of the online ad business for the past 10 years, and I were talking last night while checking out Songkick.
aweissman.com
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Nov 5, 2007. The most interesting online ad news of the year. could be the new My Space targeted ad platform reported on by CNET and Tech Crunch. Looks like this is the fruit of the earlier Fox Interactive Media acquisition of Strategic Data Corp. earlier this year.
aweissman.com
NOVEMBER 1, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Nov 1, 2007. Fichey - better presentation layer? Design and presentation matter. Billy Chasen is a friend and a highly creative developer weve ( betaworks ) been working with the past few months. Billys created a number of great apps, and perhaps Im biased but I find myself using each of them heavily.
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