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Bailout pork

It seems to me that not much has changed between the version of the bailout bill that got rejected in the house and the one that got passed in the senate except for the addition of some pork.
How about some real oversight?
How about some help for the people in the troubled mortgages that are causing [...]


Creating a Value Proposition

Yesterday I went to another in a series of Product Management related breakfast discussions, the last one was on The Philosophy of Product, this one was about creating a value proposition. Once again Ellen Grace was an excellent host and facilitator of a great conversation.

Here are some of the key take-aways I had from this discussion:

A value proposition is a multi-layered and multi-faceted thing. Depending on what level you are at and what view you take the answer to “what is the value proposition?” may be very different.


Distributed Open Social Networking

Here’s my idea for the day, “Distributed Open Social Networking” free for anyone to take and implement.
Take wordpress or similar self publishing platform and add a few features to it to make it into a distributed social networking platform.

Make it easy to “add Bill as friend” from the DOSN enabled homepage so that when someone’s [...]


Piracy: Stealing or Sharing?

In my last post I made a key assumption, that piracy is stealing.  Recently I was in a conversation where someone challenged that assumption and made me think.
Laws around the world are, by and large, representations or codifications of our collective sense of right and wrong, our morals in other words.  In my previous article [...]


The Internet, the Law and the Future of BitTorrent

The Internet is not above or beyond the reach of the law.  Already we have laws in place around the world that address various aspects of the Internet and the impacts the Internet is having on existing laws.
In pretty much every country in the world stealing is against the law and people seem to understand [...]


My iPhone Review

I’m writing my iPhone review fromy iPhone appropriately enough using the wordpress app. Overall I have to say that apple has knocked it out of the park with their combination of form factor, user interface and application framework. My iPhone has really become more of an Internet connected device, allowing me to do [...]


Adobe Gets It

I just watched a short presentation at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit from Mark Randall of Adobe Systems Dynamic Media Devision.  He articulated clearly something I have been thinking about for a while which is the technology and business process that need to come to being in order for content owners and aggregators to monetize their [...]


Notes from the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit

After seeing someone on video us the words”game changing” and ” massive growth” I made a promise to myself to not use those phrases.
Interesting mention by Tony of the importance of the enterprise space going forward.
The fact that twitter won the global 250 award was surprising to me, I have started to count it out.
Big [...]


The Philosophy of Product

I went to a breakfast discussion on the Philosophy of Product this morning.  It was a small event at Il Fornaio in San Jose hosted by my friend Ellen Grace Henson of Marketing Mechanics fame.
Here’s a snip from the breakfast description and invite:
Merriam-Webster’s definition of “Philosophy” includes a: a theory underlying or regarding a sphere [...]


My RSS Feeds

I read a lot of RSS feeds, 197 at last count, mostly for work, some for other interests.  It’s really the only way I can find the time to keep up on things.  With google reader I can organize and categorize feeds, share them and even search within them.  So in case you’re wondering what [...]


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