June 2009
21 posts
Is execution more important than vision? →
I’ve heard both sides of this debate. Ideas are cheap; anyone can come up with an idea. Or, labor/execution can be done by anyone. But not everyone can come up with great ideas. It’s interesting that this article thinks “the visionary is usually the one that gets the shaft in Silicon Valley.”
Another quote I want to call out:
Google was one of the last companies in the...
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The Innovation Myth
Plastered across TechCrunch and VentureBeat are tales of stealth startups, entrepreneurs building the next killer social media app, numbers (usually in the millions) touting some company’s userbase, downloads, or the amount of their latest round of funding. It seems that almost everyday, a bunch of startups come out of the woodwork with goals to impress the technorati with the next big...
TomTom, portable GPS car navigation systems -... →
I LOVE this. Be sure to click on the link above for some Homer voice samples.
What caught my eye at the bottom of the page was this:
The Homer Simpson voice was created by Locutio Voice Technologies.
Locutio appears to be a UK-based company that specializes in celebrity voices for GPS systems and other devices. Talk about niche.
To quote TomTom’s president, “With Homer...
Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises... →
This is a nice follow-up to yesterday’s post. Brad (founder of Animoto) is a smart cookie and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. I had the pleasure of working with him while I was at YouTube. He spoke on our Powered By YouTube developer event, was one of our launch case studies for the YouTube API launch, and most recently a Sandbox Exhibitor at this year’s Google I/O. ...
The Mainland
Yesterday Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners paid a visit to Google and spoke to a bunch of us about his experience as a VC and his insight into the Asian markets, particularly China. Most of his talk was focused on China and the growth happening there today. You hear it all the time that all the growth is in China and that it’s critical for businesses to turn their attention there...
The King and the 10,000 Rule
Mike Loukides of O’Reilly Radar wrote an excellent article about innovation and developer mindshare with respect to Sun, Java, Android, and Google. This part of the article stood out in particular: (especially the lines in bold)
Sun has been good at coming up with great ideas, but abandoning them half-finished if the followers didn’t show up. Think about Android again. Back in the...
8 tips to nurture a happier work environment
My eight tips for making work a better and hopefully happier place: 1. Keep your appointments. Meaning, don’t waste people’s time by showing up late to meetings or worse, flaking altogether. What’s even worse than flaking is flaking without nary a heads-up. This isn’t about appearing to be important by having such a busy calendar that you can’t keep meetings;...
Zoom zoom w/ Jetpack →
Jetpack is Mozilla’s latest experiment in browser extensions. It’s still in development mode and has a ways to go before it builds up a robust library of extensions, but I tried it out and installed 3 Jetpacks - the Gmail notifier and Gmail Chat alerts (which seem to use Growl to notify you of a new Gmail message or chat), and a Gmail button that pre-populates a message w/ a link to...
WatchFred Wilson “starred” in this video for Building 43, Robert Scoble’s new venture. Check it out. A lot of what he covers in this video is what he spoke about when I hosted him at Google back in May. (Check out that video and TechCrunch’s coverage here) I said this when I introduced Fred at his talk and I’ll say it again - his is a blog you should be following if you...
The Buzz about Buzzword
Adobe is moving towards paid services with historically-free Acrobat.com. The announcement brought to my attention Adobe’s online document collaboration product, Buzzword. I was curious and decided to try it out. It’s pretty slick, but the UI is not terribly intuitive and it runs much slower than Google Docs - perhaps because it’s built with Flash vs. AJAX. Many of the features...
Welcoming myself to tumblr
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