Louis Gray was kind enough to share what he heard at a MIT/Standford Venture lab panel on lifestreaming. You can find Louis’ full entry here. Here are the parts I found the most interesting… both in terms of FriendFeed’s strategy and the lessons they teach us about creating a startup. Bret’s presentation stated that FriendFeed,… Continue reading Quotes from Bret Taylor – FriendFeed
Category: Innovation
Vision, Innovation and what you think you are doing…
The single biggest barrier to innovation is a lack of imagination. The second biggest barrier is the failure to commit to your imagined future state when everyone else tells you that you’ve got it wrong; that you are not making sense; that investors “won’t get it” or some other variation on the theme. As Seth… Continue reading Vision, Innovation and what you think you are doing…
Want to get more done… JQuery
I use JQuery… it is the JavaScript framework at work at cosinity. I can categorically state that – while not perfect – JQuery lives up to it’s tag line – “write less, do more”. There is a wonderful tutorial over at WebMonkey entitled Get Started with JQuery that can help you get started. What I’m… Continue reading Want to get more done… JQuery
Sometimes technology is useful – Hurricane Tracking
A friend on facebook turned me on to MSNBC’s Hurricane Tracker. I’ve been visiting the National Hurricane Center and various other sites to get a view of what storms were in the Atlantic and where they were projected to go. I can say categorically that the MSNBC site is the most useful. That is due… Continue reading Sometimes technology is useful – Hurricane Tracking
Tech Making Traditional VCs Obsolete
Via Wired. Bob Rice gives us his take on the VC landscape: Well, the classic V.C.’s simply have too much money under management, and too expensive a talent pool, to waste time looking at investing anything less than $10 million in a project. Meantime, no entrepreneur wants to give up equity by taking in more… Continue reading Tech Making Traditional VCs Obsolete
America’s Innovation Deficit
Judy Estrin – former Cisco CTO – has written a book entitled Closing the Innovation Gap. She is Featured today in a article at Wired. America is facing an innovation crisis. To fix it, corporations need to find new ways of funding fundamental research into physics and environmental sciences. There is no question this is… Continue reading America’s Innovation Deficit
ASU CAPSTONE project for cosinity
As you may know (from reading here) I’m involved with ASU Polytechnic’s DEAC industry advisor group. I’m happy to say that cosinity will be sponsoring a Entrepreneurial CAPSTONE project this year with ASU Poly and the Morrison School of Management You can read the cosinity press release here. This will be an excellent opportunity for… Continue reading ASU CAPSTONE project for cosinity
Klausner Continues To Sue Everyone Over Visual Voicemail Patent
From Techdirt today: You may recall stories involving a small patent holding firm called Klausner Technologies, which claims to hold patents on the concept of “visual voicemail.” It seems to have interpreted these patents pretty broadly to the point that it considers anyone who offers any graphical interface to voicemail as infringing. Over the years,… Continue reading Klausner Continues To Sue Everyone Over Visual Voicemail Patent
The Internet Hasn’t Led Us Into a New Dark Age.
This morning I read Francine Hardaway’s Blog post – Is Obama the Open Source Solution? Last night I read this gem from Wired When in doubt, blame the latest technology. Socrates thought the advent of writing would wreak havoc on the powers of the mind. Christian theologians denounced the printing press as the work of… Continue reading The Internet Hasn’t Led Us Into a New Dark Age.
Free World Dialup moving to $30 annual membership
From Jeff Pulver’s blog this morning comes news that FWD (Free World Dialup) is going to begin charging for VoIP Service. FWD has long had a very large user base and significant challenges generating any revenue from that base… they’ve seen Vonage, Broadvoice etc create businesses from the basic idea they’ve been working since 2001.… Continue reading Free World Dialup moving to $30 annual membership