Newsgator

I just spent 2 hours with J.B. Holsten and Greg Reinacker, CEO and CTO of Newsgator. As many of you know, I really admire this company and use both their online service and Feeddemon and NetNewsWire respectively on my Windows and Mac machines. I think their strategy of pursuing best-of-breed on the desktop, and mobiles […]

Socialtext updates their UI

One of the complaints that is often heard about Socialtext is that the user interface is not well designed. I’m not going to disagree with this sentiment, in fact I have said as much to Ross, but at the same time I want to recognize that the company has not been sitting idle. Beginning next […]

Restore Hetch Hetchy, one of the nuttier ideas

The Bay Area is fortunate to have some of the finest drinking water in the country, in large part because it comes from the Sierras by way of a water system called Hetch Hetchy, originating at the O’Shaughnessy hydroelectric dam in Yosemite National Park. Occasionally I see cars with “Restore Hetch Hetchy” bumper stickers, which […]

Twttr: One Truly Annoying Idea

Twttr is a service that lets you broadcast SMS messages to all your friends (although I think it’s probably useful for annoying your enemies as well). twttr is a text messaging service based on the idea that everyone and everything has a status. Your status right now is “reading about twttr”. twttr keeps you connected to […]

Putting Capital in Human Capital Management

Fellow SAP’er blogger Thomas Otter posts a guest post over at The Human Capitalist on the need for integration of finance and HR disciplines.

The Human Capitalist: Guest Post: Thomas Otter - Putting Capital in Human Capital Management:

I’d like to see the HR people and the Accounting people sit down together and see what they can […]

The Phone Companies Still Don’t Get It

Telcos not “getting it”. Shocking, I know. This BW piece is actually really good on a couple of points. First and foremost, it’s been my observation in anything related to the technology industry that large companies who empower marketing organizations with the responsibility for new product and technology conception do a disservice to the entire […]

Zooomr and the Case of the Missing Photos

I have been uploading photos to Zooomr for about a month and have generally liked it even though the features were pretty sparse. Then they decided to upgrade to version 2.0. I don’t think the upgrade went exactly as planned considering the service was offline for days with only a “countdown” page stuck on 1 […]

New VC blogger - Tom Cole

Tom Cole from Trinity Ventures is a newly minted blogger, and I expect great things from him. Aside from the fact that he is a friend and I think very highly of him, he gets social media and web 2.0; he’s behind a couple of really interesting startups, including Wetpaint. Now for the interesting part, […]

Brand Platform or just platform reality

In response to my post last week about the emergence of the brand platform, Jeff Weinberger argues that I have the right analysis but the wrong conclusion. Okay, I subscribe to Bob Sutton’s “strong opinions, weakly held” (via Ross) so I’m not above asking myself whether or not I should reconsider, however, in reading Jeff’s […]

Four Big Ideas About Open Source

The point about asymmetric competition is enormous, but Tim’s other comments about SaaS and Web 2.0 leave me a little confused. I’m quite sure there is overlap between these memes, but I’m also quite sure that there is no dependency.

O’Reilly Radar > Four Big Ideas About Open Source:

Asymmetric Competition. One of the most […]

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