Monthly Archives: August 2009

Walled Garden Social Networks

So some people out there think that totally open social networks are absolute brilliant and wonderful.  I’m inclined to agree with them that they are brilliant and wonderful for certain purposes. Walled Gardens are equally useful for the right people at the right time.  Certain parts of life have not are are always going to [...]
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From Vladimir’s Blog

Image by ulterior epicure via Flickr So this was a comment I posted on Vladimir’s, a very nice Young Man’s blog, about the fragmentation of the food industry. I was thinking about it recently anyway because right before my younger and only Brother had gone to college*, my only living grandparent had taken us out [...]
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Techstars Boulder 2009 Roundup: Next Big Sound, Take Comics pt1, Everlater, and Losing Facebook Connect Virginity

Image via CrunchBase So as usual, we’re overdue for a roundup.  Earlier, we heard about TechStars 2009.  There are already summaries of the products available, mainly at Techcrunch, and few at Fred Wilson‘s.  But we like doing reviews here.  So we are.
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It appears that Business Schools need a Liberal Arts Curriculum

Image via Wikipedia So this week Fred Wilson‘s a post went up about which books entrepreneurs should read.  The comments are now being turned into a wiki. The original post was in response the following question “What should a budding Entrepreneur Read?” by a regular reader, which inspired the writing of post.  A well thought [...]
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McKinsey, you are not in Vogue on the Internet

Image via Wikipedia I had orignially written something way too snarky.  I realized I am far too classy for that level of snark. I had gotten my lucious copy of the September issue of Vogue, hereafter known as the Bible.  My copies of W have been missing over the summer.  I’ve given up the women [...]
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Choices

So, good news for me! I am about halfway to three quarters way done with my very first piece of code (which is not long, say toy sized), which also happens to be my very fist I guess, “2d”, piece for my ba, considering I sort of switched thesis topics.  The major hurdles are capished.  [...]
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Google Lost Its Soul Today

View Larger Map In Tech Time, 2007 was ages ago.  A lifetime ago even. In that Time, Google has changed quite a bit.  So has the neighborhood that I grew up in.
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The last post is being managed, it will be ok by the end of the day

I’m having image issues.  Right now the standby is plugins plus Flickr, but I am not totally happy with this solution.  I have enough server space that I would like to handle it there.  WordPress however is sucky. That and my flare plugin is also sucky.  This might be due to the fact that I [...]
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Product Failure, the Position You Never Want to Be in

So in an effort to understand as much as I can about the InterWebs, I am trying to look at as many products as I can.  While I can’t say I am some mysterious genius of words like “Drupal” or “Ruby on Rails” or “BigTables,”  I can say I have a good gut knowledge of [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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