TweetMy latest guest post on TechCrunch, “What Startup To Build?”, can be read here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/25/what-startup-to-build/ Past TechCrunch guests posts: “Will It End Very Badly?” Probably Not. The New Early-Adopter Addiction: Turntable Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer Some other favorite posts off my own blog: 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas The little startup that couldn’t (a post-mortem [...]
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“And It Will End Very Badly”
TweetYesterday I wrote a guest post on TechCrunch that can be read here.
Eye-Fi (camera memory card) Is A Disappointment
TweetIt turns out not to be as awesome as I had hoped. I had really hoped I’d never have to plug my camera in again — or slide the memory card out, and put it back into my computer. But after some miserable failings, that’s not apparently going to happen. In addition, Eye-Fi wrecked a [...]
Imagine how many people can’t type fast. Now imagine Siri on a desktop Mac. #gamechanger
TweetMG (@parislemon) has a good write-up on TechCrunch about why Siri is a big deal. Apple is shying away from marketing the hell out of this feature because it’s in “beta” — aka, it’s not fully ready. It’ll be fully ready in a year or whatever, likely once the software learns so many words from [...]
The little startup that couldn’t (a postmortem of MyFavorites)
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TweetI’m officially putting MyFavorites behind me. The problem I was trying to solve, isn’t one of those problems you think you have… and I think those types of solutions/startups are a bit tougher. I already outlined my own problems with running a startup in a prior post about MyFavorites (“Repeat after me, I will not [...]
The Usage Psychology of Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook
TweetI don’t know much about psychology, but below I have brainstormed my own quick thoughts on aspects of why users are using these various services. These services allow you to broadcast what you are doing. This is a follow-up to my post about the metrics of ‘me, me, me!’ on these services. Twitter easy to [...]
Disappointed by #TCDisrupt Startups — this is disruption?
TweetI’m unimpressed so far at this year’s startups launching at TechCrunch Disrupt. It’s not just this year though, it’s been all years. It’s not TechCrunch’s fault, it’s mine. I know why I’m unimpressed — I’m sitting here watching the launch announcements and waiting to see the next Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, etc. But that’s not going to [...]
Advertising for Real-Time Search (aka Twitter)
TweetReal-time search is going to change things up on the web. To me, real-time search is essentially “conversational search” — what are people talking about right now? What events, what trips they are planning at this moment, what answers they are trying to find to looming questions, etc. Twitter is all about conversation and what [...]
Web 2.0 Innovation enters Deadpool
TweetThis was a post I started writing April 25 of this year, I never finished it, but thought I’d post it now. Alternative title to this post: Web 2.0 Dust Settles. Enterprises wondering how do we now use this stuff in our businesses? This year’s Web 2.0 Expo (in SF) had a completely different vibe [...]
Lessons on Search and the Simplicity of Google
TweetThese are just some scattered thoughts I have on Search. These numbers are based off a large general base of searches from a project I’ve been working on… The number of user’s queries that actually result in a match is ~70%. Which means on average, each user does ~1.4 searches to narrow down to ultimately [...]