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Month: November 2006

Internet Identity Workshop 2006

Posted on November 30, 2006October 25, 2021

I and Trent are headed to the Internet Identity Workshop this next week. This is one of those hard to figure out areas that is becoming more and more important. We hope to have some kind of solution in place with Ozmozr within the next year or so. Hopefully, this workshop will help us nail…

Diet

Posted on November 16, 2006November 1, 2021

I haven’t been riding in about a month which really sucks because I am gaining back weight. The trainer is almost setup though – have to make space in the basement – so I hope to be back on the bike soon. In the mean time I have been thinking about diet and about ever…

Do the economics really work out on this?

Posted on November 16, 2006October 25, 2021

We ran some errand yesterday and went by the local Best Buy. I noticed a rather motley looking group hanging around outside and of course we have to ask the guys in the store what the deal is. I forgot the PS3 comes out this weekend. They are all camped out so they can spend…

Web 2.0 Conference After Thoughts

Posted on November 10, 2006November 1, 2021

The conference was a lot of fun and it was interesting to meet people from all over who have a hand in or want to get their hands into the Web 2.0 craze. The speakers were basically an overwhelming mix of CEOs and whos who from every major Internet player. It was exciting to hear…

Yahoo! Technology Preview – Brad Garlinghouse , Ethan Diamond

Posted on November 9, 2006November 1, 2021

250 million people access yahoo mail every day. They are building web 2.0 experiences to Yahoo mail. Features: When email it will show you if the other user is online. If you click that the email window turns into a chat window and let’s you chat with the other person. If the other person goes…

Kevin Rose – Digg

Posted on November 9, 2006November 1, 2021

What we’ve learned. 600k registered people who find stuff and then digg it to the homepage. Rumsfield’s resignation set an all time record for Digg. It took 4 minutes for it to hit the home page. It took 25 minutes to make the Google home page. Showing Digg swarm right now. The Rumsfield bubble grew…

Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital – Roger McNamee , Ram Shriram

Posted on November 9, 2006November 1, 2021

Shriram – Starting an Internet business has never been cheaper. Looks for teams that don’t have business guys early on. The business can develop as time goes on. Why take 5 million when you only need 1 million to start a business. He would rather see a business start lean and work lean with laser…

Alumni from last years Launch Pad

Posted on November 9, 2006November 1, 2021

Zimbra Ajax enabled software. The cool thing about Zimbra is that they have a way to run offline. They are showing an email client right now that let’s you read and send emails while offline. Then when you reconnect they sync with the server. Pretty cool. They white label to hosting providers. They showing a…

Disruption: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence

Posted on November 9, 2006November 1, 2021

Jim Buckmaster (CEO Craigslist) We manage with only 20 peope by relying on our users to manage what goes on on the site. The users keep us out of trouble. The site is the result of millions of user’s suggestions. They use feedback forums where users talk and they watch the conversation. They put up…

Stuff from Microsoft labs

Posted on November 9, 2006November 1, 2021

Here are a couple of interesting things coming out of MS: Photosynthe – pretty cool. Creates a point cloud in 3D of a group of photos. No human intervention required. It looks at your photos and puts them together – in panormas. It figures out details. Lets you zoom in. It is pretty cool. All…

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