As I sat at my desk this morning watching the Space Shuttle Atlantis lift off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral this morning, I was both thrilled and saddened. Thrilled because I was witnessing a monumental scientific undertaking being executed almost flawlessly and saddened because this was the last of the Space Shuttle missions. I watched the launch live on …
Word of the Week – Tweetup
A tweetup is a gathering of twitter users usually for social purposes – or as Urban Dictionary defines it, ‘A gathering of nerds attempting social contact, likely for the first time. Usually disintegrates into everyone running to the nearest computer to type to one another’ …hum, why does that sound so familiar?
2010’s Internet numbers
Back in the old days of advertising we used to look at media reach – how many subscribers a newspaper had, how many viewers watched a tv show, how many ears tuned into a radio broadcast. Then we would apply what now seems like caveman-like formulas to calculate what kind of return on investment an advertising campaign might deliver. Even …
This week online
It was announced on Wednesday that Twitter raised $200 million in a new round of funding from venture firm Kleiner Perkins raising its valuation to $3.7 billion. “Sources said the San Francisco microblogging service is also adding two new board members: Flipboard’s Mike McCue and David Rosenblatt, whoran DoubleClick until a bit after it sold to Google” writes Kara Swisher …
Time management with the Pomodoro Technique
I was reading about the Pomodoro Technique this morning. It sent chills down my spine. For those unfamiliar with the PT it is a time management system. You can download a PDF of the book for free. It is supposed to take the stress out of the process of getting things done and evidently the system works extremely well. The …
Is Twitter worth the time?
On June 22nd Amazon acquired online shoe/clothing merchant Zappos.com with a stock deal valued somewhere between $850 – $920 million. I’m sure there a more reasons for this acquisition than meets the eye but the most stated reason is Zappos’ CEO’s philosophy of “karmic capitalism”. What goes around comes around couldn’t be truer in this case. Tony Hsieh is Zappos’ …
A man before his time
I don’t know why I was thinking about the election process but… Back in 2006 a good friend of mine had the brilliant idea of setting up a website where regular citizens could ask local political candidates questions and those politicians, in turn, could respond. The idea was brilliant. No more canned questions with canned answers – rather a clear, …
And the Webby winners were brief…
This post is taken straight from the Associated Press: Webby winners take awards with 5-word speeches NEW YORK (AP) — Who needs Twitter’s 140 characters? Five words were enough for the winners at the 13th annual Webby Awards ceremony, where Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, took the prize for breakout of the year. Sticking to the Webbys’ tradition of acceptance …
Thoughts on the Iran
We are all fascinated, some more, some less, with the drama of human injustice. This has certainly has been the case with the recent Iranian election and its ramifications. So much so that CNN is providing complete coverage both on the website and on the air. They are also doing something they didn’t do during the election and the resulting …