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• 02.20.08
  The Political Metaphor That Is Enterprise Software
  Workstreamr

  I have been following the progress of FASTforward 2008 with great interest. Our new project - Workstreamr - is to be a new entrant in what most now refer to as the ‘Enterprise 2.0’ space. Very talented folks such as Andrew McAfee of Harvard University have spent vast amounts of time researching, debating and ultimately defining this industry. Now I must humbly disagree with their vernacular. For many younger people (and I assume older ones too!) enterprise software is a big ugly word. For myself and my fellow millenials, enterprise software provokes nightmares of installation CDs, dedicated servers, bloated Microsoft ...
  
  
• 12.23.07
  That frigtard thinks Windows is a superior operating system to Mac OS X
  Pop Culture

  The Urban Dictionary is a great site: See here ‘Frigtard’ is a great new word:  Frig (derivative of fuck) + tard (retard) = frigtard (fucking retard) Urban Dictionary's example of frigtard used in a sentence is priceless: “That frigtard thinks Windows is a superior operating system to Mac OS X”
  
  
• 10.24.07
  Your Facebook Profile is Worth $306.12
  Social Networking

    I don’t have much to say on Facebook/Microsoft deal, expect to say, “wow, that’s a lot of money.” Nevertheless, I wanted to provide some vaguely helpful insight, so I started digging into a few numbers. My first thought was: I wonder what an individual profile is valued at under this deal? Also, how does that figure compare to Myspace two years ago? Furthermore, what’s the implication for the social networking marketplace? Web 2.0 valuations are of interest to me because no one has come up with a method for valuing the hundreds (maybe thousands) of social networks and other platforms that exist. ...
  
  
• 10.02.07
  The Steve Ballmer Ballad
  Social Networking

  From the comments of a great blog (see my analysis below): Ravi on October 2nd, 2007: It is funny when bloggers make this type of simplistic arguments that Ballmer doesn't get it, but Scoble does. Do you think Ballmer is not smart enough to understand that it is the 40 million users Facebook signed up that is more important and not the technology? He is running a company that is worth 200 billion+, give folks like Ballmer some credit before making this kind of analysis. It could be that he is downplaying FB to reduce the 10 billion$ valuation hype that seems to ...
  
  
• 09.25.07
  Valuations and Either Or Statements: MySpace vs. Facebook
  Social Networking

  There has been a ton of buzz the last two days over Microsoft's rumored $500M investment in Facebook (according to the Wall Street Journal). This investment would suggest Facebook’s valuation is now $10 Billion, a number Peter Thiel suggested earlier, but now may think is too low. The media has also been suggesting that logically MySpace, with momentarily more users than Facebook, must then be worth more than $10 Billion. This logic is flawed because from a valuation perspective (discounting forward looking future earnings) these platforms are mutually exclusive plays. The issue as I see it is that with social ...
  
  
• 03.27.07
  Debatable Humor
  Pop Culture

  I rarely write about images, but when I came across this today I had to post it. Here are my questions: Do you find this image funny? Is this image racist? Would this image be less racist and/or more humerous if a white person such as Eminem or Vanilla Ice was clearly pictured? Comments encouraged’
  
  

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