April 2008
8 posts
Online Sabbatical
I’ve decided to take a week off of my online media consumption. I have found recently I “j-walk” through too much time in google reader, reply to too many facebook messages and notifications, spend too much effort just keeping up with the flow of twitter. I need some solid productive time on the computer because the rest of my life has gotten so thoroughly scheduled that its...
Apr 25th
“To reach the normal users, we must provide them value: some functionality, ease,...”
– Brad Fitz, Some thoughts on the Social Graph
Apr 21st
WatchWatch
Chris Messina gives a great overview of what the DiSo project is, and more importantly aims to be. I’m working on my term project for my Online Social Networks class which is to implement a very basic distributed social network and I’m finding more and more that there is a lot of ambiguity in what someone means when they toss around the term ‘distributed social network’....
Apr 14th
Best Facebook App Ever →
Apr 9th
How Google killed the Signup Form
Google’s Bold Play One of the most overlooked things that Google’s App Engine brings to the table is the ability to tap into the massive user base of Google Apps, in a very similiar way to facebook’s developer platform. While Google lacks the social network facebook provides (at least in the US), it provides a large captive audience to any new service who previously would have...
Apr 8th
New shirt for startupwear: "Fund Me!"
We’ve all been there: You have the next best thing all planned out, your contextual ad fueled social mashup running on all propriety technology someone is going to be dying to buy out. All you need is a a couple million in vc funding and you’ll be cruising on in your jet in no time. Next time you’re trying to explain your paradigm shifting social mashup to one of those dull...
Apr 7th
Technorati Profile
Technorati Profile
Apr 2nd
Introducing StartupWear
It’s official, we’ve launched StartupWear.com: The poor man’s VC Wear. The business plan is pretty simple, while VC Wear targets the upper echelon of investors with their $100 witty t-shirts. StartupWear.com targets the layman entrepreneur probably funding their startup with a credit-card and strong financial projections. We think $20 for a witty t-shirt covering device is the...
Apr 1st