A few days ago I attended the Lunch 2.0 event hosted at Oodle’s office in San Mateo. It was a departure from other Lunch 2.0 events I’ve attended for two important reasons: First, the food was really good Mediterranean cuisine, and second, there were no name tags.
Without name tags, the possible obvious conversation […]
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Today at the SNAP Summit, Lee Lorenzen said something that was both scary and encouraging, and it summed up the current social network platform craze very well. I can’t quote directly, but the gist of it was this: If this is a new era in what could potentially become a new bubble, we’re […]
Now that we actually have something to show off which demonstrates that we kind of know what we’re doing, Alex and I have decided to get back into the habit of attending meetups.
Meetups are strange beasts. A bunch of people, bound by a broad common interest, lack of other social outlets and/or real industry […]
As a web site based around one feature and one feature only, Digg is not a product. Digg is a feature.The underlying question is, how easy is it to implement this functionality into another web site? And I think, in the case of Digg, the answer is “very easy.” Couple this with their total inability to “cross the chasm,” so to speak, and you have a perfect recipe for a web site that models what could become a very popular feature… in other web sites.
I’ll be blunt: I’m not sure how I got here. Six months ago I was finishing up my film degree at SF State, imagining a future in directing music videos and commercials. Upon finishing school, I breathed a sigh of relief and then realized that I was completely burnt out both creatively […]
So, as of my latest perusal of facebook’s usage statistics (as per Zuckerberg’s f8 speech), the number of daily returning users is “24 million and growing, 24 million and growing…” < If you read that last phrase out loud, it may have sounded like something Zuckerberg said in his f8 speech. Indeed, it may […]
Wednesday’s night event was the SF NewTech Meetup organized by Myles Weissleder. It was a good event with an amazing turnout! (Very likely attributed to Guy Kawasaki’s attendance) Here’s my evaluation:
1) Quality of Presentations: 8.5/10 (Guy Kawaski was half the show. Amazing! Mo Kakwan also had a captivated audience.)
2) Venue: […]
Picture of our facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote Speech at the Facebook F8 Developer Conference was pretty bad, as all of my readers have agreed. He positioned Facebook as a world changing platform for entrepreneurship and developers. He clearly wants to see people build applications off Facebook as if it were an […]
CommunityNext is having another cool conference on Viral Marketing this upcoming weekend! There are still a few spots open for those interested.
There are plenty of awesome speakers from Timothy Ferris to Jonathan Abrams to Justin Kan.
Objectives of Conference
1. Learn concrete skills and frameworks to apply to your viral campaigns…
2. Hear from experts on both […]
As a startup founder, I’ve considered using both Elance and Odesk in my early beginnings. I come from a business and marketing background, so somebody’s got to be the programmer. I didn’t have a co-founder at the time and needed something super cheap, so I saw what Elance and Odesk had to offer.
Before […]
