Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Those who know me know one of the guiding prinicples in my business and product thinking is that automation is king. I believe that smart automation will always beat out manual processes when automation can be applies. The thesis has certainly lead to my involement in a series of startups ...
Posted in jason calacanis, mahalo, search 2.0, spock | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Announced earlier today - eBay bought Stumbleupon. I ran across Stumbleupon back in 2004 and ran the toolbar for awhile but ultimately dumped it. Never got into the user generated recommendations thing myself. That being said, I will say Stumbleupon has been this blog's biggest driver of new users so ...
Posted in ebay, loomia, stumbleupon | No Comments »
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Don Dodget does a great analysis this morning on what 1% of the search market is worth. Putting my Spock hat on (disclosure - I did some work for them last winter), you can see why the market is excited about people search. Assuming that people search in its broadest ...
Posted in clearstone, don dodge, opus capital, spock | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 25th, 2007
I have one invite left for folks looking to get into the private beta for Spock - the search engine for people. Post a comment if you're interested and I'lll forward you the invite.
Spock Search of the day:
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "spock invitation", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/05/25/spock-invitation/" });
Posted in spock | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Valleywag has an essay today pitching hard for a future of micropayments. Would the madness stop. As many, many, many folks have discussed many, many, many times micropayments are doomed to failure. Having a lot of experience in consumer marketing online, I can confirm the theory that the biggest drop in sales is when ...
Posted in advertising, micropayments, monetization, pricing, web 2.0 | No Comments »
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Discussed widely online (such as at read/write web), Technorati recently upgraded/re-launched their site to expand their search focus beyond just blog posts. That might be all fine and good, except Technorati isn't that good at search. Like all good bloggers, I do the ego-check at Technorati to check on how many ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Henry Blodgett (yes that Henry Blodgett) posted a good critique of the google investment in sergei brin's wife biotech startup. And to his point - what in heaven's name is google thinking? What a total PR blunder. No matter how google's kingpins try to justify this investment, the public will ...
Posted in google, nepotism | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Found a great blog - trust but verify - that is doing liveblogging from the landis hearing. I have no idea whether or not landis doped in france, but reading the today's and yesterday's testimony sure makes the french lab accusing him of doping look like a bunch of keystone cops. ...
Posted in LNDD, USADA, cycling, landis | No Comments »
Monday, May 21st, 2007
A quick followup to my post on the MSFT-AQNT deal announced last week. There has been a lot of consternation in the commentary about the deal price across the internet perhaps highlighted by this post over at GigaOm. First I want to clarify my earlier post - I wasn't saying ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
Jason Calacanis (someone who i met often back in my silicon alley days even if he wouldn't be able to remember me from a hole in the ground) posts about his desire for a twitter pro account. Since the rise of twitter I've been researching a number of startup ideas ...
Posted in jason calacanis, sms, twitter | 2 Comments »
