Exponential Times

January 26, 2009

Awesome video well worth watching —For other posts dealing with information overload, attention and crowdsourcing please check out, Why I Can’t Read Novels Anymore, Should I Become a Sharing Snob? and Hack: Outsource Your Business Intelligence to Delicious

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Are FriendFeed and Tumblr Competitors?

January 22, 2009

My personal observations of Tumblr use among my network have led me to the conclusion that FreindFeed and Tumblr are becoming rivals. As I have explained in previous posts, despite my love for its UI and functionality, Tumblr fails as a distribution platform relative to other blogging notables like WordPress. The main challenge that Tumblr [...]

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Top 10 Blog Posts Discussing Facebook

January 22, 2009

Below are the 10 most trafficked blog posts from this blog dealing with Facebook: Burger King Reveals Facebook’s Valuation, or ‘Facebook’s Valuation in Whoppers’ (2009) Why Accept a Friend Request? (2009) 10 Pros and Cons for Facebook Being the Next Google (2008) How Much is a Facebook Profile Worth (2007) How Facebook is Like a [...]

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Where Does Wall Street Go From Here?

January 20, 2009

I recently got to speak with Rob Passarella who was working on the postponed 2009 Money:Tech Conference. Rob has some big ideas that I will be sharing over two posts. We both agreed that this year more than any in recent memory is truly the time for the financial and technology communities to come together [...]

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Startup Mind: Finding the 2%

January 19, 2009

A while back a friend in San Francisco drew me the diagram pictured above. We were talking about some of the projects and people I was involved with and he put this up on a whiteboard to explain who entreprenerus should surround themselves with to maximize chances for success. The outermost ring represents 90% of [...]

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Why Accept a Friend Request?

January 12, 2009

While reading Peter Kim’s post “Reputation Matters“ in my head I began listing reasons why someone would accept a social networking friend request (e.g. a request on Facebook, Linkedin, etc). Initially I thought the list would be long. Surprisingly I quickly ran out of additional reasons as there seem to only be a core set [...]

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Startup Mind: Avoiding Fear-Based Decisions

January 11, 2009

One of the most difficult things for startups is keeping an objective and rational viewpoint during the decision making process. Due to the very nature of the startup environment there is a tendency to view most decisions as a zero-sum game: “if we make the right decision we’ll be fine, but if we make the [...]

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Burger King Reveals Facebook Valuation

January 10, 2009

I loved this outside-the-box thinking by Jason Kottke on Facebook’s Valuation so I’m reblogging: Burger King recently introduced a Facebook app called Whopper Sacrifice that allows users to delete ten of their friends in exchange for a Whopper sandwich. Watch the app in action. What BK has unwittingly done here is provide a way to [...]

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Use Delicious Social Bookmarking for Competitive Advantage

January 8, 2009

When used properly Delicious is the #1 way I have found to quickly capture key information for future reference and effectively disseminate non-critical information among teams. After reading this post you will understand the following: 1) Why social bookmarking matters more than ever 2) Why EVERY business should be using Delicious 3) How to actually [...]

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The Psychology of Buying and Selling on Craigslist

January 6, 2009

Craigslist is a fascinating place to buy and sell – especially in a buyers market (like we have now) with lots of people looking to sell unused or unwanted stuff for extra cash. Although location makes a huge difference in terms of quantity and selection, I have found that a quick browse of Craigslist can [...]

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