Blood from stone: Don’t focus on ad revenue from social networking services
Ok, so it’s not a revelation when I say that you don’t need to make money off your core service. Your core service drives the interaction with the c...
Category: Strategy
Loïc muses – Global Or Die: Is There A Future For Local Startups?
Loïc wrote a great article (with video) on global thinking for start-ups, with a ton of great tips (link below). But, I think he’s being a bit narrow-mind...
Biology is messy! Synthetic biology will be synthetically messy, too! (plus BONUS)
I’ve been reading about iGEM and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. It’s a component view of biology – that there are parts in biology...
The different angles of lifestreams – what’s yours?
I was playing with Six Apart’s Action Streams. It allows me to put a lifestream of all _my_ activities across all _my_ social networks into a single strea...
Bacteria still rule: Great Long Now seminar by Craig Venter (and Bonus!)
I finally got to listen to the Long Now seminar by Craig Venter. And, wow, was it great. If you’ve been a regular reader of mine, you know that I think Ve...
Digging up an old article on social networks that turned out to be prophetic (and a bonus!)
I stumbled upon (pushed by alexdc, I think) this old article, by Chris Allen, from early 2005 about the maxing-out of social connections (link below). What stri...
The turkey and the butcher
Just wanted to get this little ditty out: I was listening to a very interesting Long Now seminar by Nassim Taleb, about his insight into randomness, predictabil...
ReadWriteWeb on: 35 Ways to Stream Your Life
Josh Cantone, on Read Write Web has a run-down of a bunch of different ways to lifestream (link below). I don’t know about you, but I think that’s s...
An article that does a quick run down of lifestream aggregators
The list of names of the companies in this TechCrunch article looks like my own watch list. If you are curious why I think 2008 is about lifestreams, then just ...
A semi-FAQ from Socialthing
I’ve been playing with Socialthing for a few weeks (link to blog below). They recently outed themselves at SXSW, and were blessed with a barrage of traffi...