In 2000, Sergey Brin was on the TV game show, "To Tell The Truth".
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
TEDTalk: Geoffrey West on The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations
Back home after a week of travel! Anyway, here's a good TEDTalk to check out:
"Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations."
"Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations."
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Slave Leia PSA from Break Media
"Kaley Cuoco addresses an important issue affecting cosplay girls across the globe: Slave Leia fatigue. With so many choices available to women who cosplay, there's no reason everyone needs to be Slave Leia. By acting now, we can save Slave Leia for when we really need her."
TEDTalks: Matt Cutts "Try Something New for 30 Days
"Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals."
Friday, July 15, 2011
Another Chinese Power: Rare Earth Metals
A relatively unknown stranglehold that China has on the world is that they produce 95%+ of most of the rare metals used in electronics. They have huge trade and political leverage against most nations including the U.S.
"Japan discovers 'rare earth' minerals used for iPads" Guardian
"Japan discovers 'rare earth' minerals used for iPads" Guardian
Abandon Earth—Or Face Extinction by Stephen Hawking
"Stephen Hawking says all we have to do is survive another two hundred years and the human race will be saved, because by that point human settlements in space will already be well-established."
Determinism's solution... leave the earth. My old thoughts on Hawking and determinism, "Is Man Determined or Free?... Thoughts From "The Matrix: Reloaded"
Determinism's solution... leave the earth. My old thoughts on Hawking and determinism, "Is Man Determined or Free?... Thoughts From "The Matrix: Reloaded"
Starting Your Startup by Joe Stump
Great presentation by Joe Stump, Co-founder & CTO of SimpleGeo.
"Choosing your technology stack is one of many decisions you’ll have to make when creating a company from scratch. Along with this, you’ll need to figure out who you should found a company with, who you should take money from, what the company culture should be, management processes, and who to hire when. Joe will be covering basic technology stack choices (cloud v. hosted, frameworks, etc.) as well as other critical decisions one faces when starting a startup."
"Choosing your technology stack is one of many decisions you’ll have to make when creating a company from scratch. Along with this, you’ll need to figure out who you should found a company with, who you should take money from, what the company culture should be, management processes, and who to hire when. Joe will be covering basic technology stack choices (cloud v. hosted, frameworks, etc.) as well as other critical decisions one faces when starting a startup."
Starting your Startup
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Visual.ly Graphic Profile of Me: Twitter Data-Generated Infographic
The embed code was too big for my blog, so I'm just posting a direct link until this is fix.
Update: Just inserting the graphic here...
Update: Just inserting the graphic here...
Nexon is the Arvydas Sabonis of the "Tech IPO Draft"
Last month I wrote a light piece over at Technorati listing my top picks in a mock "Tech IPO Draft". Here's the combined version of those two articles, which lists these companies:
1. Facebook
2. Groupon
3. Trulia
4. Legalzoom
5. Zynga
6. Gilt Groupe
What I wanted to include on this list but didn't get a chance to was Nexon, Korea's leading online gaming company. I would have compared Nexon to Arvydas Sabonis. Not so much that Sabonis was a fading talent when he entered the NBA, but because he played many of his prime years overseas in Russia. A better sports analogy would have been Ichiro Suzuki since he went "public" in Japan, came to Major League Baseball, and still kicked ass for years. But I have to stick with the basketball theme here.
Most likely, Nexon will go IPO in Japan next year and I heard from investment banking contacts that they are looking at a US$10 billion IPO. I know industry people question why Nexon is going public in Japan since it's not an ideal public market and they would have gotten far better multiples in the U.S. They will hit over $1 billion in revenues this year and their margins are far better than it's U.S. counterpart, Zynga. They still have many years ahead to prove that they are global player and not just dominant in Asia, so many a better comparison for Nexon is Dirk Nowitzki.
1. Facebook
2. Groupon
3. Trulia
4. Legalzoom
5. Zynga
6. Gilt Groupe
What I wanted to include on this list but didn't get a chance to was Nexon, Korea's leading online gaming company. I would have compared Nexon to Arvydas Sabonis. Not so much that Sabonis was a fading talent when he entered the NBA, but because he played many of his prime years overseas in Russia. A better sports analogy would have been Ichiro Suzuki since he went "public" in Japan, came to Major League Baseball, and still kicked ass for years. But I have to stick with the basketball theme here.
Most likely, Nexon will go IPO in Japan next year and I heard from investment banking contacts that they are looking at a US$10 billion IPO. I know industry people question why Nexon is going public in Japan since it's not an ideal public market and they would have gotten far better multiples in the U.S. They will hit over $1 billion in revenues this year and their margins are far better than it's U.S. counterpart, Zynga. They still have many years ahead to prove that they are global player and not just dominant in Asia, so many a better comparison for Nexon is Dirk Nowitzki.
News & Links List
"How Google+ Will Balkanize Your Social Life" Technology Review
"4 Reasons Skype Should Fear Google+ Hangouts" Business Insider
"Google+ Could Revolutionize Customer Service" CNET
"How To Move Your Facebook Photos To Picasa (Soon, Google Photos) In A Flash" TechCrunch
"Is Google’s Hangouts Its Killer App?" NYTimes
"Nokia’s $200m secret shows the rot goes way, way back" GigaOm
"Groupon's Boston Problem: Copycats" WSJ
"RIP LulzSec. Now what?" CNET
"Chrome breaks 20 percent global browser market share" GigaOm
"Mark Suster: Understanding the Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries" peHUB
"Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion" 37 Signals
"Former YouSendIt CEO pleads guilty to Web attack on his old company" LATimes
"How the growth of emerging markets will strain global finance" McKinsey Quarterly
"The Rise of the Impact Economy" Aspen Institute
"The Hangover Part 2 Hangover: "No Prejudice, No Lens" by Teddy Zee
"Calling all 'A-level' Korean women: Stop apologizing for being successful" CNNGo.com
"4 Reasons Skype Should Fear Google+ Hangouts" Business Insider
"Google+ Could Revolutionize Customer Service" CNET
"How To Move Your Facebook Photos To Picasa (Soon, Google Photos) In A Flash" TechCrunch
"Is Google’s Hangouts Its Killer App?" NYTimes
"Nokia’s $200m secret shows the rot goes way, way back" GigaOm
"Groupon's Boston Problem: Copycats" WSJ
"RIP LulzSec. Now what?" CNET
"Chrome breaks 20 percent global browser market share" GigaOm
"Mark Suster: Understanding the Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries" peHUB
"Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion" 37 Signals
"Former YouSendIt CEO pleads guilty to Web attack on his old company" LATimes
"How the growth of emerging markets will strain global finance" McKinsey Quarterly
"The Rise of the Impact Economy" Aspen Institute
"The Hangover Part 2 Hangover: "No Prejudice, No Lens" by Teddy Zee
"Calling all 'A-level' Korean women: Stop apologizing for being successful" CNNGo.com
Monday, July 11, 2011
Google+ is the Twofer of the Social Web
There's been so much buzz and analysis of Google+ it's been amazing (including my own:). What's also been interesting is the early movement of some tech celebrities, such as Kevin Rose, to replace some of their current online nesting grounds with Google+. For Rose, it was his blog. For others, it was or will be their Twitter or Facebook accounts. As Google+ builds its user base and features, it can replace one or more of a person's social media habits, so I'm calling Google+ the "Twofer of the Social Web".
It's a twofer for various reasons. Google+ has created a two-prong attack on Facebook and Twitter. It allows for people to replace at least two of their social media hubs with one site saving time and energy. For me, I don't think I'll replace my blog with it, but if a significant number of my Facebook friends transfer over I will move my personal social network to Google+. My Twitter account is another possibility. My Linkedin network and utility? Maybe.
What about you? What do the early adopters of Google+ see this as a replacement for?
It's a twofer for various reasons. Google+ has created a two-prong attack on Facebook and Twitter. It allows for people to replace at least two of their social media hubs with one site saving time and energy. For me, I don't think I'll replace my blog with it, but if a significant number of my Facebook friends transfer over I will move my personal social network to Google+. My Twitter account is another possibility. My Linkedin network and utility? Maybe.
What about you? What do the early adopters of Google+ see this as a replacement for?
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by Ross Mayfield
Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by @ross
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
New Web Conferencing Platform! Vidquik Alpha Launches!
My recent side project, Vidquik, is in alpha. So we need to work out the kinks and polish it up before our wider beta launch. We're going to launch an easy-to-use WebEx / GoToMeeting (no download, no registration necessarily) next month, but for now it's just the video chat. Would appreciate everyone's help in testing it out, reporting bugs and telling us what sucks about it. Thanks! More from my blog post over at Vidquik:
Our alpha went live today! For those of you that might not know what an “alpha” is, it’s the stage of software development when live testing begins. It’s typically before a product’s full features are complete. After alpha is the beta stage, where a product’s primary features are completed and ready to be tested by a greater audience than in the alpha stage.
For Vidquik’s alpha, we are only providing our video conferencing (not a full web conferencing platform) to the public and we appreciate any help that we can get in terms of your feedback, insights, complaints, or bug reports. Just a few minutes after our alpha was released we received several notices that our email confirmation link was broken. FAIL. Of course the matter was quickly resolved. We appreciate all of your notifications, comments and suggestions, so please keep them coming!
About a month from today, our beta launch will present Vidquik’s full platform, which is a video and presentation sharing platform. Think WebEx or Citrix (GoToMeeting), but stripped down to their core essentials. AND we made it extremely easy to use. There are no downloads involved, no registration is required, and no login is ever necessary. A simple to use GoToMeeting with zero hassles. Best of all, for one-to-one meetings we will provide it for free. If you use WebEx or GoToMeeting, you’re paying $49 per month. With Vidquik, it will be zero.
Our alpha went live today! For those of you that might not know what an “alpha” is, it’s the stage of software development when live testing begins. It’s typically before a product’s full features are complete. After alpha is the beta stage, where a product’s primary features are completed and ready to be tested by a greater audience than in the alpha stage.
For Vidquik’s alpha, we are only providing our video conferencing (not a full web conferencing platform) to the public and we appreciate any help that we can get in terms of your feedback, insights, complaints, or bug reports. Just a few minutes after our alpha was released we received several notices that our email confirmation link was broken. FAIL. Of course the matter was quickly resolved. We appreciate all of your notifications, comments and suggestions, so please keep them coming!
About a month from today, our beta launch will present Vidquik’s full platform, which is a video and presentation sharing platform. Think WebEx or Citrix (GoToMeeting), but stripped down to their core essentials. AND we made it extremely easy to use. There are no downloads involved, no registration is required, and no login is ever necessary. A simple to use GoToMeeting with zero hassles. Best of all, for one-to-one meetings we will provide it for free. If you use WebEx or GoToMeeting, you’re paying $49 per month. With Vidquik, it will be zero.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Don't Be Rich, Live Rich - One Year on the Road - The Good and the Bad
"We travelled for one year, taking our work along. This presentation is about our experience, with the good and the bad, and some tips & tricks when you want to copy this lifestyle."
by www.nomadz.nu (This presentation was presented on Barcamp Ghent 4 - 2011)
by www.nomadz.nu (This presentation was presented on Barcamp Ghent 4 - 2011)
Don't be rich, Live rich - One year on the road - The good and the bad
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