Those who know me know one of the guiding prinicples in my business and product thinking is that automation is king. I believe that smart automation will always beat out manual processes when automation can be applies. The thesis has certainly lead to my involement in a series of startups ...
Announced earlier today - eBay bought Stumbleupon. I ran across Stumbleupon back in 2004 and ran the toolbar for awhile but ultimately dumped it. Never got into the user generated recommendations thing myself. That being said, I will say Stumbleupon has been this blog's biggest driver of new users so ...
Don Dodget does a great analysis this morning on what 1% of the search market is worth. Putting my Spock hat on (disclosure - I did some work for them last winter), you can see why the market is excited about people search. Assuming that people search in its broadest ...
I have one invite left for folks looking to get into the private beta for Spock - the search engine for people. Post a comment if you're interested and I'lll forward you the invite.
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Valleywag has an essay today pitching hard for a future of micropayments. Would the madness stop. As many, many, many folks have discussed many, many, many times micropayments are doomed to failure. Having a lot of experience in consumer marketing online, I can confirm the theory that the biggest drop in sales is when ...
Discussed widely online (such as at read/write web), Technorati recently upgraded/re-launched their site to expand their search focus beyond just blog posts. That might be all fine and good, except Technorati isn't that good at search. Like all good bloggers, I do the ego-check at Technorati to check on how many ...
Henry Blodgett (yes that Henry Blodgett) posted a good critique of the google investment in sergei brin's wife biotech startup. And to his point - what in heaven's name is google thinking? What a total PR blunder. No matter how google's kingpins try to justify this investment, the public will ...
Found a great blog - trust but verify - that is doing liveblogging from the landis hearing. I have no idea whether or not landis doped in france, but reading the today's and yesterday's testimony sure makes the french lab accusing him of doping look like a bunch of keystone cops. ...
A quick followup to my post on the MSFT-AQNT deal announced last week. There has been a lot of consternation in the commentary about the deal price across the internet perhaps highlighted by this post over at GigaOm. First I want to clarify my earlier post - I wasn't saying ...
Jason Calacanis (someone who i met often back in my silicon alley days even if he wouldn't be able to remember me from a hole in the ground) posts about his desire for a twitter pro account. Since the rise of twitter I've been researching a number of startup ideas ...
