Friday, April 16, 2010
4/16: I Found Myself A Party: Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night
I was at David Noel's blog, at this particular blog post actually, following everybody on the list, trying to give myself a relaunch at Tumblr, a platform I use to listen in. And way down is Dennis Crowley's tumblog. Guess what I find on there. Tonight's gonna be a good night.
David Noel: Best Entrepreneurship/VC Tumblr Blogs
Dennis Crowley: Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night
FourSquare Tweet, FourSquare Blog Post
Four squared is 16, get it? Hence April 16. That was a grassroots recognition, not a Team FourSquare recognition. FourSquare just had its RT moment. The RT - retweet - did not come from Team Twitter.
Friday April 16, 10pm -> 2am
The Hotel on Rivington - Penthouse
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Lower East Side, NYC
Managing Al, Brad, Fred: An Opportunity To Jump For
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"I am interested in understanding why you chose the title General Manager. It does not seem that you need one person to manage the small and largely self-motivated team."
Union Square Ventures: We Are Hiring "we have envisioned an Investment Analyst and a General Manager of the Union Square Ventures Network"
Albert Wenger, Brad Burnham (@BradUSV) (Tumblr), Fred Wilson.
Fred Wilson: Talent Overload
Fred Wilson and USV first put out a post weeks back saying Farewell Andrew Parker, or something along those lines. And someone commented, in all earnesty, who died? He did not say who died, he said I came over here huffing and puffing hoping noone had died or anything like that. Oh no, Andrew is thankfully alive and well, Fred had to respond.
And now this even more earnest comment on the management position. These two comments have so far stood out as the hiring process rolls on at USV.
Albert Wenger
Brad Burnham
Fred Wilson
Andrew Parker
Dorsey Stinson
Eric Friedman
USV Investments
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Real Time Is Real Time, Today Or Last Year
Look at this article from Time 1937. The richest man in the world at the time was an Indian. Hello Bill Gates. It was empowering to get to read the article in the raw. I think this is the model I have in mind when it comes to Twitter. What is being said right now in real time is important. But the Twitter archives are also important.
And finally I got it.
I knew Google needed to step in.
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This is not Twitter giving the farm away. This is Twitter bringing in Google to enhance the value of every single tweet. Suddenly every tweet in the Twitter archive has become worth so much more. This is a huge boost to Twitter's monetization efforts. (Twitter Does The Deed: Ads)
Being able to search every tweet ever is great. But there is one missing link: visualization. Tweets are not meant to be read one at a time. And visualization is perhaps the best way to read many tweets at once. Google has work cut out for it in the presentation department. Searching through tweets is not the same as searching through webpages. Tweets are a different animal.
Twitter Visualization: Reading Many Tweets At Once
What I say today about Obama's victory in November 2008 is a different animal from what I said about Obama's victory as it happened. It is still me saying it, but real time is a different dimension.
This ability to dig through the Twitter archives is going to be a great tool for many players to go out there and see what people are saying about them, or how what they have been saying has changed over time.
Right now the archives go back only to February. It has to go all the way back. And Google has not even started work on doing the best possible job on presentation. Don't treat tweets like they are webpages. They are not.
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Why Will Facebook Itself Not Do Facebook Enterprise?
Why will Facebook itself not do Facebook Enterprise? That is a question I have asked a few different times. The Salesforce guy had a guest post in TechCrunch not long back. A friend of mine emailed me that post through Google Reader. (Ignite, Set It On Fire) And I posed him the question on Buzz. Why will Facebook itself not do Facebook Enterprise?
The dichotomy between consumer software and enterprise software is vapid. It is unreal. It is an inconvenience that ought not last too long.
In his post today Fred Wilson is making the point that software should be as easy to use as media. He has not quite spelled it out, but I don't think he is trying to say he is only talking about consumer software. Software should be as easy to use as media also applies to enterprise software.
Salesforce trying to imitate Facebook to offer enterprise software: is that better than Facebook itself offering an enterprise version of itself? I don't think so.
The inbox was not copyrighted by Hotmail. The status update has not been copyrighted by Twitter. Similarly the stream is not Facebook property. Check in is similarly going to be a commodity feature.
Twitter should offer a Twitter Enterprise, and Facebook should work on a Facebook Enterprise. It just makes sense.
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