Oct 31
BettrAt is a wonderful place to be a dreamLast week, Chris Dixon posted this comment from Caterina Fake (of Flickr fame) that really got me thinking: “Flickr is a wonderful place to be a photograph“. Makes a lot of sense. If you were a photograph, where else would you want to be? On Flickr, lots of people would look at you, you’d be [...]
Oct 22
Interesting… How would someone do a streamrank?From TechCrunch yesterday: Get Ready For The Firehose. Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast Oh great. Here we go. My post yesterday about realtime couldn’t have been more timely. Now that Google and Bing are getting the firehose, it could have a big impact on search results. For the search engines, the firehose [...]
Oct 21
Chill out realtime fanboys and fangirlsClive Thompson wrote this piece on “How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind“. There’s a post in Business Insider and from MSNBC with a special guest experience by Steve Berlin Johnson, called “Twitter And The Real-Time Web Are Ambushing Google”. I’m going to take a stand and call utter BS on the article and [...]
Oct 20
Consumers don’t just want more, but BetterGreat TED talk by John Gerzema. I won’t make another comment about skating to where the puck is headed, but you get the point. “Did you know that 68% of Americans now carry a library card: The highest percentage ever in our nation’s history. What you see in this consumer trend is also the accumulation [...]
Oct 18
Yelp and star ratingsA few weeks ago I wrote about rating systems for product reviews from an article I read in ACM. Then I saw this article in VentureBeat about what Yelp is doing. The author mentions: “when you’re looking for a fast solution on where to eat, a list full of four-star restaurants makes for an overwhelming [...]
