Archive for August, 2007
Facebook’s “friends.getLists” and “friends.getListsMembers” - Finally
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Finally, it seems Facebook will solve the missing piece of Facebook. Though details are not public yet, Facebook has added two new api calls — “friends.getLists” and “friends.getListsMembers”. I think it means Facebook will be adding a way for me to group my friends — hopefully, a “newsfeed” for each group is part of this […]
Lunar Eclipse in Seattle
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007In case anyone missed it like I did, there was a lunar eclipse on Monday night. Here’s a picture from the Seattle Times.
More photos on Flickr.
The Internet is NOT Dead and Boring
Sunday, August 26th, 2007I’m with Fred on this issue - the Internet is NOT Dead and Boring, which means I disagree with Mark Cuban’s post. I, for one, love all the innovation happening.
If you want to read more, head on over to Techmeme — articles seem to be popping up by the minute.
Surrounding Yourself With Passionate People and Being Inspired
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Surrounding yourself with passionate people is important — both in life and in business.
Though I do firmly believe in the vision of Zillow, I wouldn’t be at Zillow if it weren’t for all the fantastic colleagues I get to work with — it was the team that attracted me. I’ve heard both Rich and Lloyd […]
World Changing - A Fantastic Resource
Monday, August 20th, 2007I just found a fantastic website, WorldChanging, via White African’s “Blog Envy” post. And I definitely couldn’t just read one article — I just read “Understanding Blogs” and “Sustainability and Empathy” and “Building Community through Lunch”
Here’s the mission:
worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it’s […]
Can YouTube Improve Politics?
Sunday, August 19th, 2007I think so. Politics needs more transparency — PERIOD.
And I think Youtube can help politicians interact more directly with the public. Enter CitizenTube, Youtube’s Political vLog.
Here’s an interesting video addressing the question that is worth watching.
Brad Fitzpatrick’s Thoughts on the Social Graph
Saturday, August 18th, 2007If you’re interested in web 2.0, social networking, online community building, or anything related — you definitely have to check out Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph. The social graph is global mapping of everybody and how they’re related. The social graph infrastructure Brad is proposing is not aiming to replace facebook, myspace, or bebo, […]
What if Everyone Cared…
Thursday, August 16th, 2007I wrote about CNN’s “What if Everyone Cared?” campaign several weeks ago and just noticed I’ve been getting some traffic from CNN’s search module — which led me to this music video by Nickelback that I thought I’d share.
You can also check out Nickelback’s web site if you’d like.
Are you Insane?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007via StumbleUpon
Windows Live Hotmail?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007So, I was just going to login to my msn account via www.hotmail.com and was surprised to see this screen (click for bigger view) –
I think attempting to change the “Hotmail” brand name to Windows Live Hotmail is a terrible, terrible strategic move on the part of Microsoft. I mean, seriously, there aren’t many people […]
Classmates.com IPO for $125 Million?
Monday, August 13th, 2007Apparently it’s true according to ZDNet and Mashable. Are you kidding me? It’s shocking Classmates.com is going for an IPO — I haven’t heard their name mentioned in the press in ages (maybe even a couple years), while both Facebook and Myspace are referenced almost daily. I certainly don’t know anyone that would buy stock […]
For Those of You Publishing Partial Feeds…
Monday, August 13th, 2007You should go read this article on TechDirt, which says that publishing FULL feeds will actually INCREASE page views.
Personally, I find partial feeds annoying as hell.
Gnomedex Thoughts 2 - Evangelism
Friday, August 10th, 2007Guy Kawasaki was the 3rd speaker leading up to lunch and talked about evangelism. Every entrepreneur is probably thinking about how to get the word out on the cheap w/out advertising. Here’s Guy’s 10 tips to effective product evangelism (he actually gave 11, but I seemed to have missed one) –
Make Meaning
Make Mantra
Roll the DICEE
Deep
Intelligent
Complete
Elegant
Emotive
Niche […]
Gnomedex Thoughts
Friday, August 10th, 2007Robert Steele was the KeyTone speaker and had a very thought provoking presentation. Definitely thinking outside the box — his main point was “Open everything”; government, bandwidth, education, etc. I’ll come back to his presentation later because there is no way I can quickly put all my thoughts together on all the topics he touched […]
Using Blogs to Make Money Via E-Commerce
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I was just reading through some of my feeds and found a dandy — a seemingly fantastic post at TypepadHack.org called “Blogs as Stores: A Comprehensive Overview of Ecommerce Solutions for Bloggers” (via Seth Godin). Give it a thorough read if you’re interested in monetizing your blog in a more effective way than generating advertising […]
Web 3.0 - From Google’s Perspective
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007I found an interesting video of Google CEO Eric Schmidt giving his thoughts on “web 3.0″ on Read/Write (via techmeme).
The Missing Piece of Facebook
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Don’t get me wrong, I love facebook just as much as everyone else my age. However, the system does have a large problem that is a result of designing this platform for Generation Y.
Facebook doesn’t do well to different types of contacts. College kids (who were who the site was built for initally) don’t have […]
It’s Been a Busy Week
Friday, August 3rd, 2007I’ve been busy in San Francisco at Real Estate Connect since Tuesday morning, so I haven’t quite kept up on my e-mail, blog reading, and blog writing - my apologies.
The weirdest thing is I haven’t logged into Facebook since Tuesday. That may not be weird for some of you, but those of you in Generation […]