I was fortunate this week to attend the World Innovation Forum in New York City. What an amazing experience. The speakers were great and the people I met were all so inspiring. Over the next few days I will share a few of my take-aways. Here is an outline fo the three days. I have [...]
During my workout today, I listened to a recent DFJ Entrepreneurial Though Leaders Seminar. This is a podcast that is co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Standford Technology Ventures Program, and The Department of Management Science and Engineering (Standford University). The speaker for this session was John Seely Brown. John has a technical background, [...]
I have been reading “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” by Seth Godin. This is an outstanding book. Today I came across the following comment. I apologize that I do not have a page reference, I am reading it on my Kindle. Wikipedia and the shared knowledge of the Internet make domain knowledge on its own worth [...]
I spoke to a group on Wednesday evening on the subject of ‘Time Management’. I used Keynote on my Mac (I love Keynote). Just before the presentation was set to begin, I broke one of my personal rules and decided to check out (‘experiment’) with an iPhone app. What does that have to do with [...]
Have you ever thought about how much data is generated for consumption on the internet? To be honest, I have a hard time comprehending these numbers: Try 988 billion Gigabytes of digital information, all created by the end of 2010. This includes user-generated content by some “1.6 billion internet users.” (See “How much data do [...]
I can’t believe I am blogging about this on the day after the iPad officially hit the street. I received an email the following email from Amazon yesterday: As a Kindle subscriber to New York Times, you might like to know that effective April 2, 2010, the New York Times has raised its price to [...]
Between travel, family activities, and a couple of bad days with the flu, I have not been able to post for a few days. I have been able to read and spend some time thinking about education. I will share that in a separate entry. While researching the topic, I came across this great video [...]
Check out this Web Browser market share data: From April 2009 until the end of February 2010, Internet Explorer lost 6 points. Market share for other Browsers was flat, with modest gains in a few cases. The biggest winner: Google Chrome which appears to have take share almost exclusively from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Browser Market [...]
Yesterday I attended the Crystal Classic Show Choir contest in Fairfield, Ohio. (I had a great time, but that is another post). It was a 90 minute drive each way which allowed me time to listen to a few presentations from TED. One that hit the mark for me was a recent presentation by James [...]
Wow, what a story. I first heard about this on “Today In Social Media“, hosted by Clayton Morris. Picture this as part of your business model: Charge businesses to remove negative word of mouth from your high traffic web site. According to allegations, this actually happened! Let me back up and fill in the [...]