SF NewTech Meetup

June 11, 2008

SF NewTech Meetup Originally uploaded by hardaway I was at “Widgets Up the Wazoo” tonight, and if you didn’t think the conversation was decentralizing before, you’d know it was by the end of the evening. Not only were seven companies presenting who allow you to take your content with you all over the web, but […]

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Apple WWDC: Enterprise

June 9, 2008

I’m an adult female sitting in a hotel lobby (I’m not checked into the hotel, but it has comfy chairs and a power outlet nearby) watching and listening to a combination of streams from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Jobs has said this is the most important WWDC in years, and most of my buds […]

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June 7, 2008

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Union Square Park

June 5, 2008

Union Square ParkOriginally uploaded by hardaway Who the heck are all these people who are not at work at 3 PM pm on a Thursday? New York just has so many people rammed into such a small area that all things are crowded all the time. Like last night, when I was driving in from […]

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Artists in the Park

June 5, 2008

Artists in the ParkOriginally uploaded by hardaway I grew up in New York, and left forty years ago. Now I’m back for the first visit in a long time, and although it’s a bit more crowded than it was, it’s very much like I remember it. Of course I’ve been back since, but not as […]

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FFWD Creates Personalized TV Channels

June 3, 2008

Finally saw a company I want to blog about at “Under the Radar” The founder of this one, FFWD,is the former founder of iLike. He says he is now working on a way to revolutionize television. A way to navigate through the video web that’s as simple as channel surfing and as simple as search. […]

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Rest in Peace, Scott Coles

June 3, 2008

My friend Scott Coles apparently committed suicide yesterday, apparently seeing no way out of the disastrous Arizona mortgage market, in which he was the largest private lender. He had purchased the business from his father, and made private loans funded by individual investors. Many of the investors were friends of his, or friends of his […]

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The Importance of User Experience

June 2, 2008

I’m not a fan of Adobe the company, because they charge so much for their desktop software, but now I may be a fan of Adobe the provider of web apps. I checked in this morning on Acrobat.com, Adobe’s new suite of web-based apps, and I must say I was impressed by the user interface […]

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Doc Searls, The Cluetrain Manifesto, and the Call of the Wild Customer

May 29, 2008

Actually, today I am in Silicon Valley. I’m at The Conversation Group’s celebration of the tenth anniversary of “The Cluetrain Manifesto,” and Doc Searls, one of the authors, of the original manifesto is here to lead a conversation on where the manifesto stands now. He’s talking about what happens when buyer reach exceeds seller grasp, […]

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Eating One's Own Dog Food

May 28, 2008

I have just spent the better part of a day shopping, cooking, and entertaining. There are several problems associated with this use of my time. First, today was (and still is) a work day. Second, the guests at my dinner party were three golden retrievers. Ever since my daughter lost her dog prematurely to cancer, […]

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