Bubbles - Refreshing the Web and Powering the Webtop

Bubbles help keep “favorite websites a click away” via the system tray. It is a client install that allows users to easily access websites and web apps outside the browser - and more specifically through “bubbles”.
Currently, Bubbles supports several different Bubble modules including ones for Google Calendar, Gmail, and Flickr. But as I will soon […]

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Attention VCs - Please Read Before Funding Another Social Network

Here’s a bit of free (yet unsolicited) advice for VCs. And I’m not trying to be too presumptuous, pessimistic, or mean but if you are trying to fund a new social network - whether niche based or otherwise - I’d seriously reconsider.
As part of that target market and a web strategy consultant, I have the […]

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Friday Fun - 8/18/06

A parody of this song - and for all of you stuck in cubicles.

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Blog Realignment Complete

Depending on the mileage of a car, it might need a realignment. Well, my blog has been getting a lot more mileage to it lately and it was time for its realignment. It’s humming once again.
Brady and Brody Vercher - the dynamic duo team soon to officially launch their new effort Blazer Six - refreshed the site building off the work […]

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Notes on Social Shopping

I just finished a brief interview about e-commerce, Web 2.0, and social shopping. It’s for a private trends report, so you likely won’t see it on the street. Here is a subset of the notes I had from my preparation:
The Internet first changed the game with commerce because:
1) It made information easily accessible to the consumer (think […]

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Best Web 2.0 Definition Yet

It’s tough to argue with this one ;-)
Wear it with pride or if you are really geeky, throw it on your car.

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Webtop - The Future of Computing

A number of people have thrown around the word “webtop” - but in doing so, I think they miss what the future of the web might have in store for us. Web 2.0 purists believe a Web 2.0 world where all functionality, all true computing occurs within the browser or some form of it. But […]

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