In the middle of the night I woke up and thought that what I need to do with this blog is to write down some really important things… And the important things for me right now are to do things that are intellectually stimulating and fun. That includes particularly cooking, working on projects for clients [...]
A year and half ago Yahoo bought del.icio.us. Some people have raved about it. Other, like me, thought it useful. This week it got exponetially better. Now, delicious can operate in tandem with Firefox.. Download the plug in and all your browser bookmarks become delicious tags. Now work becomes doublely useful. Stuff once saved is [...]
digg and delicious are big ideas. Conde Nast bought Reddit today. Reddit is similar to digg. A site for voting or ranking media stories. Media today is all about connections, links, networks, what's hot, what not. Slowly,almost imperceptibly, this idea is permeating even the most sedate of publishers such as Conde Nast, Vanity Fair's parent.
Years ago, in the bubble, entrepreneurs would claim that a new business would change the way people lived. Shortly after, they would run out of money, the burn uncontrollable. This northern summer their predictions are coming true. MySpace usage through the roof, YouTube exploding, traditional media embracing digg and delicious style bookmarking and rating; television [...]
I was prompted by Firefox to upgrade my browser this morning, which was fine. Then I discovered that there are a bunch of extensions that you can add to it…. One is called Stumble Upon. It is an engine that enables you to receive site recommendations of web sites based on a kind of delicious [...]
The number of websites and web companies that matter deeply. As the volume of content rises exponentially consumers and users keep looking for fast, key ways of getting to what they want. Hence the rise of Delicious, digg, and others, like tech aggregators, where content is collected sorted sometimes analyzed and rated. Essentially, and collectively, [...]
Yahoo bought del.ic.ious yesterday. Predictable. A VC delight. A pity. Delicious was a tag aggregator. Tags, search and feed are the way the web is starting to organize itself. On the net, it's increasingly hard to find things because there's so much “stuff”. So Google and Yahoo and others are search. There a ton of feeds [...]