- GigaOM Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos – GigaOM
Om asks Bezos about why their going in the cloud computing direction, how that fits into a book retailing business, and gets some really interesting answers.
- I’ll Never Get on a Plane Again – How to Change the World
This is ridiculous – check out the video. Telepresence holographics (yeah – no kidding).
- Google Android – First LIVE images and videos
Nice demos of Android. Wait for it or pull the trigger on iPhone 2.0?
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Archive for May, 2008
items for 05.31.2008
May 31, 2008Last Day
May 30, 2008Today’s my last day here at eNeighborhoods. An interesting thing happened today that I think sums up the whole five years here pretty well.
In January of 2003, I arrived on the fourth floor of the building – where we had about one third of the floor rented – went into our little conference room, and had my first meeting here. We had one product at the time – the eNeighborhoods desktop product – which made it easy to create neighborhood reports and maps from a CD installed Windows app. The goal of the meeting was to figure out what functionality we could add to the product to increase sales and usage, and we pretty much decided that day that we would add MLS connectivity, CMA, and Buyer Tour.
Today, I went into our beautiful executive conference room, one of the three conference rooms we have here, where we now occupy the entire fifth floor. I sat with half a dozen people from a great team with tons of industry experience. We now have over a dozen products, and the topic of today’s meeting was the release date for the Realogy project, wherein we are providing IDX listing search and lead capture for all of their brands. This is similar to the RE/Max project, wherein we host remax.com and provide IDX, lead capture, lead management, and broker web sites for the second most trafficked real estate site on the net.
From the one product with a couple of features to many products, including enterprise level web sites, in five years. It went so fast…
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Update: Greg created a killer video documenting the five year climb. Love it!!!
Twitter business model discussion
May 26, 2008An interesting post last night by Om Malik regarding possible business models for Twitter has sparked a lot of discussion. Here’s my two cents, and Om’s response. Join in – either here or over there.
items for 05.24.2008
May 23, 2008- Great quote for the industry… – Welcome to Vendor Alley
Chandler Barton (president and CEO of CB when purchased by HFS) once said, “People have this business backwards. You need to cut expenses when the market is good because don’t need to spend the money, and you grow market share when the market is bad. So when the cycle turns, which it inevitably will, you’ve got a larger share”.Agreed.
- How “Why Startups Fail” Fails – Signal vs. Noise
David Feinleib at Mohr Davidow Ventures pens a piece called, “Why Startups Fail.” Here are his four reasons with my thoughts below.Agreed.
- DimP – A Direct Manipulation Video Player – TechCrunch
DimP, a direct manipulation video player, lets users drag items on the video screen to move forward and back instead of just via a scroll bar on the bottom of the video.Holy smokes people are smart. This is sooooooooo cool – how the heck did they figure that out.
items for 05.20.2008
May 18, 2008- Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange
Drop.io enables you to create simple private exchange points called “drops.” The service has no email signup and no “accounts.” Each drop is private, and only as accessible as you choose to deliberately make it.
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Leaving eNeighborhoods
May 13, 2008The news is out – Greg and I are leaving eNeighborhoods at the end of May. Stu and Dave left at the end of last week. There’s a great group of people here who I will definitely miss working with. My team of 55 employees on the technical side of the building has never been stronger – that makes it hard to leave because things are going so well, but it also makes it easier knowing that things are in good hands and those good people now have an opportunity to step up a level.
My desire is to create and innovate, and it’s tough to do that in a big company with so many huge projects going on. I like to say that my skill is to build products, teams, and equity. I like building Inc. 500 companies – Iris was #192 in 2000 and eNeighborhoods was #84 in 2005 – but I lose my desire once it grows too large. Now that eNeighborhoods is a mature company with enterprise level clients, it’s time to pass it off to operational managers who can nurture it to it’s next level. Big companies are like playing baseball – lot’s of statistics and standing around waiting. I want to play hockey – to hit, score, hustle back on D, forecheck in the corners, and sweat a lot.
All day today, people in the industry have reached out with calls and e-mails. Your support and kind words are very appreciated. I look forward to keeping in touch with all of you, and even working together again in the future. I have a lot of anxiety about the near future, but with your support and the support of my family, I’m looking forward to creating and innovating again with Greg. It’s time for me to go build another Inc. 500 company.
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items for 05.11.2008
May 9, 2008- Future of MLS Features 2008 – Matt’s Real Estate Technology Blog
The purpose of this paper is to generate discussion on possible MLS system future features by providing a big picture view of the changing relationship of real estate professionals with each other and with consumers, the changing relationship of local and regional MLSs with each other, and to illustrate, at least at a high level, how these changes may be either enabled or reflected technically in the MLS system of the future.My thinking lately is matching several of Matt’s ideas.
- Mosso Launches CloudFS Storage Service – GigaOM
Mosso, an on demand hosting start-up is embracing Cloud Computing with open arms, and today launched the beta of CloudFS, a new web-based storage offering that will compete with Amazon’s S3. Mosso plans to charge $0.15 per gigabyte, and will remain in beta till end of third quarter.Competition is good for Amazon and it’s S3 customers.
Genius
May 6, 2008I wish I could build software as great as Radiohead makes music. Only thing I’ve ever made as beautiful is my two daughters. It’s a high bar, but it’s great inspiration. Radiohead kicked off their US tour last night at Cruzan Amphitheatre and I was lucky to see it. Here’s some photos from Flickr.
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Decent video here.
Update: Set list is published here.
