Posted in Books, Technology, Web 2.0 on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A couple of months back, Fast Company did a feature article on Ning, Marc Andreessen (co-author of Mosaic and founder of Netscape) and Gina Bianchini's new venture that revolves around social networks.
At the time when I read that article, all of the talk of "viral expansion loops" and "double viral loops" made me roll my [...]
Posted in Books, Human Resources, Organizations on November 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(Thanks to ianmichaelthomas' photostream)
I'm having a wonderful time listening to an audiobook of Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Similar to his Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan is fascinating exposition on human nature and logic, and the ways in which we trick ourselves into taking our knowledge too seriously. [...]
Posted in Books, Innovation, Technology on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Amazon.com announced the release of their e-book reader, Kindle, today.
There’s been quite a bit of hullabaloo surrounding the device since Amazon started putting out vibes over a year ago. Sony has seen limited success with its Reader and ebooks have always been a bit controversial.
The last bastion of analog (as Jeff Bezo’s puts [...]
Posted in Books, Organizations, Technology on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This last week I finished Henry Chesbrough’s Open Business Models.
The book is a sequel to his better-known work Open Innovation and based upon the same idea that "not all of the smart people work for you" – so it’s time to open up your business to outside technologies and intellectual property.
What a classic example of [...]
Posted in Books on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Since I’m generally terrible at providing consistent content on my blog, I have decided to create a “series” based on something that I actually do VERY regularly – read!
I am a non-fiction junkie that goes through probably 3 books a month, and my specific reading interests seem to change with the lunar cycle.
I’ve decided to [...]
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