Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
You may have seen a few tweets or other buzz about Muxtape. I love this website. The concept and execution is straightforward: upload 12 songs as a personal mixtape and share. That's it. The site received lots of press at launch and had some expected bandwidth problems. Today there are ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 31st, 2008
I manage a team of people scattered all over the world. I have people in Texas, Washington, California, New Hampshire, Mexico and Australia. Including contractors I have 15 people. There are pockets that work on the same applications but for the most part everyone is working on different projects or ...
Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Social Media | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
http://kaylowmedia.com/2008/03/26/who-says-twitter-doent-bring-people-together/
Posted in Other Stuff | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Wow, it took me a long time to get through Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything . It was really just one chapter that slowed me down but that chapter (The New Alexandrians) felt like reading through black tar. I do recommend that you read this book just don't expect ...
Posted in Other Stuff | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
It's 2:30 AM and I'm completely pumped up about the progress I've made on my latest project. I'll provide more information as this comes closer to being a reality. I've been writing use cases, refining my thoughts on the business plan, chatting with a developer I may hire and doing ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Nancy White
Originally uploaded by So Misguided
At work I've been trying to push some tools to share knowledge and build community within our organization and across HP. I'm not alone in this effort as there are others that feel the same way I do. Doing this type of work ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Other Stuff, Social Media | No Comments »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I have heard thousands of arguments supporting a requirement that all kids in the US should be required to learn a foreign language in order to graduate. There are arguments that foreign languages should be taught earlier in the development cycle in elementary school. I don't disagree with either and ...
Posted in Other Stuff | 2 Comments »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I'm running an office March Madness tournament primarily because I like to compete but also because I think its a good way to build up a little team cohesiveness amongst our very distributed organization. This is the second year and I've now made the connection that this is a pretty ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Kevin Merritt over at Blist posted what is to me an inspirational list of differences between a startup and a big company. I work at a big company, one of the biggest in fact. As much as I tell myself I want out I haven't done it yet. In response ...
Posted in Entrepreneurship | No Comments »
Monday, March 17th, 2008
I just added a new polling widget to the site. Go ahead and place your vote.
Posted in politics | No Comments »
