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The Ongoing Data Revolution

Apr 1, 2010
in Web/Tech

In early 2006, I wrote a post titled "The next generation web, scaling and data mining will matter."  In it, I highlighted some thoughts on the future:I truly believe the next battleground will be based on scaling the back end and more importantly mining all of that clickstream data to offer a better service to [...]

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Going old school – how to reach people effectively

Jan 22, 2009
in Web/Tech

I had lunch with a friend last week when we were talking about the days years and years ago where it was cool to have an email address on your business card.  In fact, I remember picking attorneys to work on our venture deals in the mid-90s not only based on cost and experience but [...]

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The next generation web – scaling and data mining matters (continued)

May 21, 2008
in Web/Tech

I had some interesting meetings yesterday and as I reflected on them this morning, one common theme emerged which is that the next generation of the web will be built on data mining and extracting intelligence from the reams of data web services collect on a daily basis.  This reminds me of a post I [...]

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The "free" business model

Feb 25, 2008
in Entrepreneurship, Web/Tech

Chris Anderson does a nice job of summarizing the rise of the "free" business model starting with the Razor/razor blade to the world of the web where he argues that all services eventually get priced at their marginal cost. And as Chris rightly describes, that price is quickly going to zero in a world of [...]

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What a Microsoft Yahoo deal would mean for startups (continued)

Feb 1, 2008
in Entrepreneurship, Web/Tech

What a great move by Microsoft! This has been floating around for awhile and the last time I wrote about it was in May of 2007. Anyway, I thought I bought at the bottom for Yahoo months ago in which case it fell another 25% from there. When I saw the news this morning I [...]

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Freelance web designer needed!

Jan 16, 2008
in Web/Tech

I am helping a friend who has the most popular books on baby naming bring it all online. Our development on the backend is close to complete, and we are looking for a great web designer who can create a few templates and themes for us. This is a database driven site and the homepage [...]

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Openness and social networking

Jan 9, 2008
in Web/Tech

As you know, I am a huge believer in open standards and that open standards (over time) will usually prevail over proprietary, closed networks.  And my one wish from a social networking perspective was to really be able to manage all of my relationships from various networks and my interests from one meta-application.  In June [...]

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Picks and shovels for the web

Nov 13, 2007
in Infrastructure, Web/Tech

We have had quite a resurgence in the web market during the last few years.  A number of great companies have come out of nowhere to become household names, and it seems that everyday we are inundated with news on another slew of new web startups going after the consumer.  And yes, looking for the [...]

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Thoughts on OpenSocial

Nov 8, 2007
in Web/Tech

Tim O’Reilly has a great post on Google’s OpenSocial.  At the end of the day, I couldn’t agree more with Tim’s thoughts that OpenSocial is great for developers but a who cares for users.  If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a [...]

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The constant battle between revenue and usability

Sep 12, 2007
in Web/Tech

I am definitely the first one to understand that there is no free lunch on the web.  At the end of the day, someone has to pay for all of the great services and content out there.  To boot, I am a big believer in the ad-driven model of content.  To this point, there is [...]

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