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Re: Wellsphere Launches Wellness 2.0

Heri — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:27:50 -0000

i think wellsphere is a great idea, but with poor execution. unless they do an overhaul for beta and live phase

Re: Davos07: Newspapers’ global cooling

Heri — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:39:05 -0000

Old media is loosing revenues and audience, but they are and will be the main content providers. videos on youtube come from old media, news from google come from good ol' media.

Re: Hillary’s question

Heri — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:42:16 -0000

this is a very good move but the "dialogue" is still one-way and i have yet to see the answers from hillary

Re: YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors

Heri — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:48:55 -0000

i agree with chris dodge. but i remembered that google is building data centers around the country so bandwidth cost is solved. i dont see youtube generating money within a few years though.

Re: Desktop+Widgets%26nbsp%3B101

Heri — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:04:21 -0000

i dont understand why nobody talked about the upcoming apollo platform from adobe. it is cross-platform, handles flash (video, audio), is more powerful than widgets.

Re: Technorati's Mysterious Disappearing WTF Product

Heri — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:44:20 -0000

calm down people, i am sure it s a pr thing, there is no way the final product would be called WTF

Re: ConvinceMe: Three Ways to Argue Online

Heri — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:54:01 -0000

they didnt 'convince me'

this service just add noise to the internet

should have been more focused.

Re: Digg Removes List of Top Users

Heri — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:14:02 -0000

kevin is definetely sending mixed signals. when you have a system that works like digg, of course there will be people wanting to organize and promote stories that they like. you cant expect people to vote as an individual, they have friends, they have jobs, they are involved in communities. they should have focused into the tech news at first and stay there. now digg is becoming mainstream with inaccurate, sensantionalist, boring news.

Re: Sneak Peek: Video Remixing with Cuts

Heri — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:25:34 -0000

OMG they stole my idea! these people are going to be immensely rich!!!

mmm i need to replicate myself so that i can develop and implement my plans faster

Re: SuperBowl+Ads+%28Not+Really%29+From%26nbsp%3BStartups

Heri — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:49:17 -0000

the rock you ad made me laugh so hard. i hope it was a joke

the only one that stands out for me is plaxo's ad.

Re: Google PowerPoint Clone Coming

Heri — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:19:41 -0000

powerpoint with an internet interface. mmm. completely useless in the real world.

Re: Next Generation Entrepreneurs Compete At Google HQ

Heri — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:20:02 -0000

this would have been a wonderful article on the local newspaper. I dont see the connection with techcrunch?

Re: Walmart Officially Enters Movie Download War

Heri — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:38:23 -0000

Given WalMart's policy, I guess they got the deals by giving back all the money except a very low margin, which Apple doesn't do.

I am spectikal to wether WalMart will be able to pull this off. We would need to see if they have implemented some sort of DRM and also What is the resolution for the downloaded movies?

Re: My 7 Year-Old Son’s Life List

Heri — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:32:55 -0000

What a sweet and serious little kid!

Re: The need for a measurement summit

Heri — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:46:16 -0000

i think what we need actually is a buzz tracker, or a tool which can track audience for a niche site, where they are coming from, what users are asking for, measuring their potential interest etc. I agree that panels and old metrics don't work any more.

Re: Nice One, Walmart

Heri — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:50:24 -0000

obviously, firefox users are not part of their audience

Re: Cond%C3%A9+Nast+Launches%26nbsp%3BFlip

Heri — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:57:12 -0000

the problem is that you cant verify identities with the internet. this is really weird.

either way, i dont see the market with teen girls. where are the revenues coming from?

Re: Google Embarrassed in Australia

Heri — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:59:05 -0000

i am sure mapData is blaming another subcontractor who is blaming a temp.

Re: Yahoo%21+Launches%26nbsp%3BPipes

Heri — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:32:53 -0000

great marketing tool from Yahoo! also lots of services and informational websites now made possible - and for free.

Re: Announcing The First Technology Entrepreneurs Montreal Breakfast Meetup

Heri — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:41:57 -0000

Hi Ben
i just stumbled upon your blog. you should have a look at meetup.com, there is a Montreal Entrepreneur Group and a Montreal E-Business Group. there are monthly meetups so you guys might want to join in - or the other way around....

anyway, i will come, it is a great initiative

Re: Powerset Hype To Boiling Point

Heri — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:48:20 -0000

natural language would indeed be a breakthrough but this raises a question about data mining and scalability. it would work if, for example, every web developer uses microformats, but we all know the web is not semantic.

and i have to say it is hard to believe that there is an algorithm that would automatically sort things out.

Re: Photobucket+To+Show+Off+Latest+Flash%26nbsp%3BTools

Heri — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:55:28 -0000

i just thought that there arent any need anymore for desktop applications, for the consumer apps at least. nowdays, you can have your own office online, your video editor and player online, your phone, your photo editing software

Re: Zune Phone (nearly) Confirmed

Heri — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:25:28 -0000

MICROSOFT DOES INDEED HAVE A PHOTOCOPIER

Re: The Second Life Census

Heri — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:27:29 -0000

what i dont understand is why second life has more press than world of warcraft. there are more social happenning in wow, more commercial opportunities, etc.

Re: Digg Rock Stars

Heri — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:37:17 -0000

top diggers are the ones that have too much time on their hands.

@paul
the digg system averages stories and add noise. In a democratic system, people do not see which candidate got the most votes, people dont get dugg down because they expressed their opinions. You see both side effects in Digg, and as a result, sensationalistic and inaccurate stories shine on digg