Spam, Damn Spam

It appears that tonight I will be breaking through a dubious milestone: 200,000 spam comments caught by Akismet. On average I log about 1,300 spam comments a day, which is almost 1 per minute, but what is strange is that there will be random days where practically no spam is logged. Check the widget at [...]

Plane to Nowhere

AN INDIAN entrepreneur has given a new twist to the concept of low-cost airlines. The passengers boarding his Airbus 300 in Delhi do not expect to go anywhere because it never takes off. All they want is the chance to know what it is like to sit on a plane, listen to announcements and be [...]

Facebook Apps vs. Widgets

The GSP conference yesterday (I’m back here today, but only for the afternoon) brought to light the amount of confusion that exists about this entire generation of technology and services.

Facebook is first and foremost a social network, on top of which they have exposed a set of developer functions that enable applications to be developed [...]

Sometimes I Feel Like a Foreigner Here

I really loved this quote, it epitomizes the absurdity that SF often falls victim to:

“People have realized they can hate George Bush but still not want people crapping in their doorway.”

This was in response to a survey that revealed that affirmed once again that people really do find the behaviors of aggressive homeless people objectionable. [...]

Monday Night Book Giveaway

I received this book recently from a PR person on behalf of the author. It’s a quick read, nothing revealing or surprising in the contents but a good collection of entrepreneur and VC anecdotes. Quite honestly I did find myself disagreeing with the author on several points but considering that Sean Wise is based in [...]

Facebook Marketing - Charlene Li

"Facebook requires communicating, not advertising."

We can argue about the fact that communicating and advertising are kind of the same thing, but Charlene’s point is still valid. Advertisers have to move away from a broadcast mentality to an interactive model in order to be successful with Facebook.

Charlene provided some great demographics. There [...]

Graphing Social Patterns - Reid Hoffman Keynote

I am at the Graphing Social Patterns conference today, which promises to be one of the most interesting events I have been to in recent memory given the topic and the diversity of the audience.

Reid Hoffman is doing the keynote address, which is interesting on it’s face because it begs the question why Reid [...]

SAP to Acquire Business Objects

SAP is acquiring Business Objects in a $6.8 billion deal. Interesting points to note:

1) BOBJ will operate as a separate entity within SAP. Smart, but I wonder how the sales relationship will evolve.

2) Doug Merritt (When Shai left his responsibilities were divided up largely between Doug and Jim Snabe) will join BOBJ and report to [...]

Quote of the Week

"You can never predict what might be useful you just have to try and accept failure as not only a possibility but a useful outcome."- Dan McWeeney in a comment on a post about his TechEd demo

Kim Jong Il Goes Geek

Who knew:

“North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an “Internet porn expert””.

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