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update: here are some japan pix from my trip.
(definitely check out Harajuku & Roppongi Hills sets)
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- Google Open Social vs. Facebook Platform (aka: Open Standards are for Losers... er, Underdogs)
- Facebook Big Pimpin': Using Social Networks & Platforms to Drive Distribution
- Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! (Startonomics SF 2008)
- Startup Metrics: Sample User Conversion Dashboard
- Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels
- Startup Metrics: The 1-Page Business Model
- Successful Developer Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money.
- Memo to GOOG/YHOO/MSFT/AOL: How to Turn 500M email logins into Facebook Platform & Crapload of Revenue
- Resumes are for Sh*t. The 4 Things You Really Need.
- Fear is the Mind Killer of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
- Web 3.0 = Hailstorm 2.0 & How MSFT-YHOO could beat GOOG
- Business Models for Social Networks
- Facebook's #1 Problem
- Publishing 2.0, Part II!
- Publishing 2.0 -- it's not what you think.
- Middle America vs Silicon Valley, OpenID, & Single Sign-on
- Top 5 reasons PR doesn't work (for Geeks)
- VCs & Tech Lawyers: INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SIMPLIFY.
- 1000 Startup Flowers in Continuous Bloom = Destruction of VC
- The Zen of Poke: A Facebook Story
- Creating Engaging & Viral Facebook Apps (Stanford / BayCHI video, 12/07)
- 7 Steps to Your Facebook Strategy (TechCrunch)
- The Other World-Dominating Platform: Google Analytics
- User Engagement: Depth, not a Breadth, metric
- Facebook isn't AOL; it's Visual Basic.
- Facebook Ads Suck? Nope, CPM Sucks.
- Designing for the "3rd & 4th browsers" (Search & Social Media)
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- Startups to Customers: "I Wanna FIGHT Your Father." (Father = Incumbent Solution)
- Global IP Address Growth by Country
- This ain't Technology... it's MAGIC. (Word Lens by QuestVisual)
- Hey, You... *Watch* This Shit. NOW.
- How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network)
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September 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
famous for six minutes
ready? go.
wtf look #2
um, i think this picture says it all.... this was just our technical rehearsal at DEMO on monday.
hopefully the furrowed brow look will not be around for our live DEMO on wed afternoon.
wish us luck :)
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Don't Be Gevil
c'mon eric... that's ballmer's game, not yours. settle down.
The Lesser of Two 'Don't Be Evils'
We're all created equal, but it appears that some of us are still a little equal-er than others.
Mashing The Web (The Economist)
Nice article on mashups, with a small quote by yours truly & simply hired.
(apologies if that link goes to a paid access article... that's how they play ball :)
Friday, September 16, 2005
The Search... Is Over (the party anyway)
John & Michelle celebrate 'The Search', his new book about how Google & Search took over the valley... and the world.
The book launch party may be over, but the search revolution is just beginning!
(thanks for the party john)
Thursday, September 15, 2005
PodTech Pod-CAT
Looks like John just ate a mouse :)
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- 500 Hats: Securitizing Happiness (slides)
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- 500 Hats: MicroEquity = Micro Venture Capital?
- 500 Hats: Securitization Examples for Social Entrepreneurship
- Securitizing Happiness: Making Trillion-Dollar Markets for Individuals, Small Business, & Natural Resources
- NextBillion.Net
- Microfinance - The MIX Market
- Unitus. Innovative Financial Solutions to Global Poverty
- The Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN.net)
- Kiva.org - Loans that change lives
