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Dog Patch Labs March Meetup

22. March 2010

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My friend Jon Steinberg brought together a great group of people and had companies to present last week about technology, design, and user experience at the Dog Patch Labs NY location. There were some great presentations from the following 6 companies; Carbonmade, Secondmarket, Hard Candy Shell, Foursquare (mobile development), Stickybits, and Randomdorm (Goodcrush) Luckily Pete [...]

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Thoughts on Google Play

10. March 2010

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Google rolled out a completely new way to consume what is happening on the web, whether it be videos, pictures, text, basically anything all driven but a very new interface. If you have seen the redesign of thesixtyone.com you may see some similarities – at least I did from first usage. You can [...]

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Behavior Generated Content

9. March 2010

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Behavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is [...]

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Game Dynamics +10

1. March 2010

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Over the weekend I watched a great 30 minute presentation about past, present, and future game dynamics and points systems the exist (and will exist) within our world. I took away a few key points from the video and wanted to share them here. The first point is about the digital convergence (or lack thereof). The [...]

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Mark Cuban on being ready…

25. February 2010

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Originally from Blogmaverick Now you wait for times of uncertainty and change in your business. The time will come. It may come quickly, it may take years and years. But it will come. The nature of our country’s business infrastructure is that it is destined to be boom and bust. Booms are when [...]

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Writing for humans and robots

24. February 2010

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Image via Wikipedia One of the fundamental bits of SEO advice I give most people when talking to them is explaining the difference between the two audiences you are writing for; humans and robots (computers). When you write some content on the web it should be safe to assume that a human will be on the other [...]

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Google Gig is a Big Deal

17. February 2010

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Image via Wikipedia Last week Google announced an initiative to basically light up a bunch of dark fiber to make what I am calling the Google Internet, or GoogleNet. This is a big deal. For starters, this type of carrier agnostic bandwidth means that they are free of regulation that may occur in the future regarding net neutrality [...]

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2010: Year of the Launch

16. February 2010

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Image by Perfecto Insecto via Flickr It is now cheaper than ever before to build and launch a web application. If you are not savvy enough to build something yourself you can turn a spec project into a reality with a number of outsourced development providers such as rentacoder, guru, getafreelancer, and many more. If you do take [...]

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Thoughts on Google Buzz

11. February 2010

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Google buzz seems to have the mindshare of the tech community today and for good reason – it is a hard to ignore new addition to many peoples Gmail accounts and causing new conversations and interactions right within a space where many people spend a lot of time – their inbox. Google has made a very [...]

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Google Social Search and your neighborhood connections

4. February 2010

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Google introduced the idea of Social Search back in October 2009, but I just recently started seeing instances of it in the wild.  I think this is a social version of backrub and only the beginning. The way it is shown is at the bottom of search results: Results from people in your social circle for google [...]

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