I’m sorry it’s been a while. Not sure you missed me like I missed you, but being ill, travelling loads and doing my first speaking engagement in years (at Ecole Hotelier Lausanne, which went really well), not to mention continuing to try and be a better dad and husband have meant that you’ve had [...]
Posts under ‘facebook’
Musical chairs in technology
People move. People leave companies. It happens. New CEOs, directors, leaders, like to bring in their own people, it happens. Here’s the thing, in technology people don’t make markets.
Seeing myspace bring in former facebook staff do I think it’s going to help myspace take over facebook? No. Seeing AOL [...]
Innovation and execution
Innovate and execution
I was listening to Sheryl Sandberg’s talk at the Entrepreneur’s corner at Stanford. She’s super smart and it’s a good talk. With a background in international aid and development in the Clinton White house, Sales and Ops at Google and now COO of Facebook – nuff said. Go listen to [...]
Internet speed
1 year ago, twitter had few users.
5 years ago, barely anyone was on facebook.
10 years ago, if someone told you they didn’t have an email address, you probably didn’t give it a second thought
10 years ago, AOL, Alta Vista and Yahoo! were the internet.
I used to be thankful that I was born in this age, [...]
Application effects
Over the last couple of years I’ve come across a lot of services that had network externalities tied to it. SMS messaging, it’s no fun if there’s no one to text back. Facebook, what’s the point unless you’re seeing pictures and getting updates from people you care about? And most recently twitter. [...]
Introduce subscription at the beginning or not at all
I like using Flickr. Infact, I liked using it so much I ponied up 20 USD for a pro account and have topped it up. I also enjoy Facebook, but would I pay 20 USD a year for Facebook now, probably not.
Now if facebook had begun by only introduced a limited function for [...]
The first web powered US election
Like most of the rest of the world, I’ve been really interested in the US election this year. It’s been the most anticipated and tightly fought battles in my lifetime and I think it’s very cool to be an adult with so many American friends and family living in America at this time.
But the [...]
If it ain’t broke…
I received a notice some time ago to try the new Facebook. I tried it for a day, didn’t like it and kept on using the old version. I spoke to some other friends and no one is really digging the new design. Are you using it?
Seeing the notice “the new Facebook, [...]
Comments and conversations
I blog on my own site and – with Facebook’s notes import feature – my notes get reprinted on Facebook. This works well in some ways as (assumption) most of the people who read me on Facebook don’t use RSS so when they login to Facebook they see that I’ve written a new note. [...]
What’s your web footprint
I found it really interesting to see that Union Square Ventures was recruiting their new analyst through their blog. Fred and his crew really get it. I really like the evaluation methodology – candidates were asked to send a link showing their web profile.
Personally, I think the best way to tell if someone [...]