Archive for March, 2009

Perhaps you were not aware – innovation is easy. Or at least, so Tom Peters says: You know, he might actually be right. I love the part about “saviors-in-waiting:” Disgruntled customers Off-the-scope competitors Rogue employees Fringe suppliers Those are not the usual suspects when a company starts wondering who will lead them into the...
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My good friend Rastin Mehr and several colleagues are soon to launch the Anahita Social Engine … an open-source framework for building social networks and applications. Here’s their latest overview presentation: Anahita Social Engine
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I’ve had this web page open in a browser for the past day and a half – the Dead Simple Guide to Beating Procrastination. Unfortunately, it didn’t offer an option to clone yourself instantly and do double work … so while I wanted to post on it, I may have procrastinated a little. The...
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My wife just sent me this: There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. If you...
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I worked with Thomas Clifford (AKA Director Tom) recently on a corporate film that I was executive producing. He was absolutely amazing. And he’s done hundreds of films over a 25-year career. And he’s one of the most connected social media individuals you will ever find. But 3 days ago he just got laid...
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I hate gossip rags at the checkout counter, and my opinion is no different when the medium is a blog. But I love this post on 8 things bloggers can learn from Perez Hilton by Marko Saric. The fact is, Perez Hilton is a fantastic success story. According to Saric, here’s how he got...
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If this looks odd online, that’s because it is: The Vancouver Sun is using the tree version photo (in which interior pages are printed in black and white) to populate the e-version online (which, of course, ought to be in full glorious color. This is not the way to be moving boldly forward into...
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Maine is planning to expand its seven year old 1:1 computing initiative to 100,000 students. Currently, the state provides 37,000 Apple MacBooks for students in grades 7 through 12, plus 10,000 teachers and administrators. Now they’re looking to expand to serve an additional 53,000 high school students. This is one of the largest 1:1...
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A presentation from the Canadian government Industrial Research Assistance Program’s Rizwan Kheraj: This was featured on the Vancouver Entrepreneurship Forum’s website.
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Facebook continues to grow at a torrid rate. Reunion.com is growing almost as fast. Ning, Tagged, and Multiply are also all growing at over 100% annually. However, Twitter is the runaway winner in unbelievable growth rates. While it’s growing from a smaller base, and therefore it’s easier to get a higher multiple, a growth...
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Interesting, however, that the agent on the case has a Yahoo! email address … in China.
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Yesterday I was courted by a member of the cult of done. I’m still deciding whether or not to join. I hear it’s a good community but the health bennies suck. Here’s their manifesto. If it looks a little incomplete, that’s because they only spent 20 minutes on it: There are three states of...
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As I first saw on Twitter, the WWW is 20 years old today. It’s hard to believe that something so ubiquitous and useful and … essential is only 20 years old. I mean, I wouldn’t have a job if it weren’t for the web, and that’s probably true of millions of people today. Around...
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Yesterday I had a meeting in Victoria, BC. Here are a few photos I took on the trip:
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Wow. This is great – you can’t invent stuff this good. Sony has had a digital reader product for some time now: Reader Digital Book. Lately Amazon refreshed its Kindle, and is of course getting much more virtual ink. So here’s a small piece of Sony’s marketing campaign that I stumbled across during a...
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