Ian Kallen pointed out that Google’s servers were full early in Q2, I wonder if that is still true?
Speaking of Ian Kallen, you should closely watch and learn from his video.
Month: August 2006
Commercializing Software Ideas via Crowd Wisdom
My friend Peter Harkins has joined this new place called Cambrian House. They are based in Calgary, I’d love to do some marketing for these folks as a trip to Banff or Drumheller would be oh so nice!
“Cambrian House’s mission is to discover and commercialize
software ideas through the wisdom and participation of crowds.
Contributors earn royalties, sharing in the success of the products.”
I could have oh so used this concept for my music business plan from 2003 that went unexecuted! I see great world changing value in the new things that are being created out there that are removing friction from the start up process!
Management Consulting
Fellow Chicago GSB MBA alum Steve Shu recently wrote an interesting post on consulting. If you are seriously considering a career in the space you should become familiar with a book written by Martin Kihn which you can find on Amazon as well.
Entrepreneurs Sharing Ideas = Success
Eariler this week, I posted the 7 Reasons Crazy Egg will be Successful. Leading that list is that Crazy Egg was transparent to the world about it’s plans for the service from day 1.
Ironically a few days later, Hiten Shah of Crazy Egg showed me a new site, buildv1, for connecting entrepreneurs. I looked through all of it’s blog posts and there was this gem from a few months back. (UPDATE – THIS POST HAS BEEN DELETED)
Do you get it yet world? Share your ideas, win. Shield your ideas, lose. Please send this post to someone you know who is hiding great ideas and isn’t trusting and living an empty life of non-execution.
Yahoo! Answers My Purple Cow Question
It’s not a Chicago original, but I thank Yahoo! for researching the history of the purple cow in their lobby as per my request on a recent post.
Thanks Nicki!
I Joined the Internet Explorer IE7 Beta 3 Party
I heard some people say this will change the way we all surf the net. Well after trying it out last night, I like the tabs. What is the best thing about IE7 you ask? The favicon.ico works now in IE!!!
While the tabs make for a more efficient memory footprint, Firefox is still more efficient memory wise.
It has “feed intergration” all I see is that it allows you to view feeds more easily. I don’t see a storage feature that is in my face as has been described. Am I missing something?
AOL Dismisses Three Employees Over Data Leak
The Wall Street Journal and other outlets are reporting that the CTO and two other employees were fired over the recent data incident. If this is an internal control and procedure problem why blame them when the accountibility is ultimately higher than this? This action after a long silence is a cop out and doesn’t address the core issue based on what has been communicated to me. What actions exactly will be taken to prevent a repeat?