Attention venture capitalists that have some extra money to throw around, or motivated and interested entrepreneurs:
You should invest in creating a good auction site. Wha-What’s that you say, eBay already exists and has monopolized the online auction market?
Have you ever tried to USE eBay recently? as a buyer OR a seller? [...]
Archive for the 'Random' Category
rejoice!
12Jun08Daily Show and Colbert on Hulu. My decision to renounce TV years ago vindicated once more.
Ok, explain to me… why WOULDN’T it have a cut and paste functionality, remind me again? I mean… c’mon! If you’re going to make it a fully featured mobile device, you better have the basic functions that I’d use between Safari and mail, like copy and paste.
…and THAT’s why I’m not going to [...]
This… is….Spartaaaaaaaaaaaa!
06Jun08When I was wee little lad, I loved this book so much. It’s a book in the time machine series (of which I’ve read quite a bit), it’s from the makers of choose your own adventure. Back before the interactive days of the internet, Choose Your Own Adventure books were the best way [...]
links for 2008-05-30
30May08
Harpers Ferry Center: NPS Maps
(tags: map symbols illustrator)
Blog-lite Summer
16May08Hi everyone…. This summer is going to be blog-lite, okay? I am taking too many classes for my own good as well as working on two pretty interesting projects that could turn into a venture soon; there’s probably little chance that I will get out of this summer unscathed from the wrath of [...]
I feel like you’re going to see a lot more personal tracking applications in the near future– Imagine GTD on steroids, where you’ll know everything you spend time on.
When there’s stuff like MeeTimer and Microsoft Research doing some serious inquiry into personal time tracking, you have to wonder where this is all going to end [...]
At design school, I get surveys all the time. I do some of them. Actually, I do a fair number of them if they are for a class or to help the school improve in some way. Surveys are a easy way to get quick quantitative information from a large sample size [...]
Holy cow Blogman (聖牛,博客?)
28Apr08For a country with a political climate like China, this is stunning:
Top markets for blogging –
China 70% of internet users write a blog, Philippines 66% and Mexico 60%
blogs, socialmedia, emergingmarkets
Before there were social networks like the Facebook or CafeMom, people used real social networks to tell other people what products they liked to use.
American Express just launched a social network (or maybe foisted is a better term) that is for all card members that subscribe to the American Express credit card. (I’m sure [...]
I thought I’d share the slides from the blogging/wiki lecturette that I gave at ID with Vince LaConte.
Here are a few takeaways:
If you want to blog, it’s relatively easy and safe to get started immediately using ID’s multi user wordpress server.
Get used to using RSS to read news/commentary and del.icio.us to find and classify information [...]
An update on things.
08Apr08Sorry Ya’ll. I’ve been watching my repeat customers on my blog go down over the past few weeks as my posts have been less frequent. No excuse, I know, but I have been super busy with work (I’m taking 5 ID classes, including 3 workshops, and one B-school class, international business)
I thought I’d [...]
Micromanaging yourself
28Mar08Lately, in the vein of a project I’m working on with Sri, I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics as it relates to personal growth and development.
Enterprises have used dashboards because, as the cliche goes, knowledge and information is power. And the credibility and confidence to make the right decisions. (ignore the fact [...]
Competition in schools
01Mar08At the risk of sounding socialist and anti-free market, I find this ad somewhat unsettling. I saw it on the subway on my way home last night and snapped this quick blurry picture.
Why does school always have to be about competition? Does the message suggest that competition is implied in our current market [...]
