What’s Wrong With Email?
Twitter, Facebook, wikis, blogs, and a smattering of other web 2.0 companies are being used for business. Yammer, specifically, caught my eye recently. It’s described as Twitter for business. But why? What gap is it filling? For me, the question is, what’s wrong with email?
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Smarter Recommendations: Mood and Context»
This post on TechCrunch, Clerk Dogs Takes a Curated Approach To Movie Recommendations, got me thinking about recommendation engines again. Namely, the Netflix contest to optimize its algorithm. The problem I’ve had with the Netflix approach is that it assumes it’s just a matter of being smarter at using inputs to predict outputs. But what [...]
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The Next Step in Fantasy Football?»
NFL’s Game Rewind could allow for a differentiated Fantasy Football platform. Imagine a window for each of your fantasy starters. Whenever they are in the red zone, or a “scoring” event happens (could be human tagged and then time delayed a few seconds), imagine an alert and a focus around that window. Lot’s of potential [...]
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I’m Still Doing the Rain Dance»
Cloud computing isn’t going to dominate the tech landscape, but will raise a ruckus for software vendors. Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. And there’s a race to deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers.
Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture | Between [...]