Archive for the ‘Reads & Feeds’ Category

I remember when McNealy used to wax on about metal wrapped software. Looks like Sun is about to take it one step further by putting the data center in a shipping container.

Q  U  O  T  E D

“Things go wrong. There is lots of uncertainty, and there are times when you’re unsure of yourself. I’ve found that the less people know, the more sure they are. It’s this sort of schizophrenic divide between worrying that you’re going out of business and dreaming big that’s needed. Sophisticated entrepreneurs know this. Less sophisticated entrepreneurs don’t even know whom to ask for advice. They’ll ask a marketing and a technology question to the same person. Ask different questions of different people, both those who have been successful and those who haven’t. You learn a lot when you fail. It’s a seemingly small nuance, but they can make a huge difference in a company’s trajectory.

— Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla offers some free advice to budding businessfolk

Link to MercuryNews.com | 10/15/2006 | Venture capitalist a techie at heart

Great article on applying Kaizen to your life.

A Japanese management strategy called Kaizen roughly translates to “continuous slow improvement.” In the corporate world, it’s an efficiency and defect-proofing system often used on factory floors. But Kaizen emphasizes the well-being of the employee, working smarter, not harder and developing best practices so that workers don’t have to think. As such, Kaizen is an ideal approach to improve one’s personal workflow.

• Stanford University is launching a wiki that allows students to share campus information and and much more. Editable only by students but open to all.
• PodZinger to Offer Targeted Video Ads: “Audio and video search engine PodZinger is launching a new advertising platform that targets video ads based on search queries and the content being viewed.”
• del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Network: del.icio.us will essentially turn into a social network, with more focus on people instead of data. Please don’t change too much – I love what you do. Josh says:

“One of the amazing things about our users is how smart and far-reaching their interests are. While delicious previously has been very much about just the data, in the future I hope to allow our users themselves to come forward within the system. Additionally, I want to help people connect with others within the system, either to people they already know or discovering new people and communities based on interest.”

• WriteToMyBlog web-based post editor – Lifehacker: “New web app WriteToMyBlog is an advanced, rich web-based blog post editor.”
• Advertising Age – John Battelle Leads Bloggers Into Land of Ad Respect: Profile of John Battelle
• Neil Patel gives a series of great tips on how to land your blog post on the digg home page. If you care more about architecting traffic than authenticity…
• Verizon has a policy blog.
• The blueorganizer. Very cool