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1 year ago

in Video Blog 0001: Baltimore National Aquarium on ScottStead.com
I agree! My favorite part was the turtle. Great soundtrack pick, too!

1 year ago

in Amazon rolls out Flexible Payment Service on Scobleizer
I wonder to what extent FPS developers will have access to Amazon's data aggregation and auto-recommendation technology. Will Amazon tell me what other content/products/services my customers might like? After all, they know what these people have searched for/viewed/purchases in the past...

Was interested to see Freshbooks listed as one of the first FPS users. One of Freshbooks' claim to fame is their use of aggregated data to help customers benchmark their financial performance.

2 years ago

in 2007/03/22/twitter-woot/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
How long before a major brand moves in? Soon. Thanks to a suggestion from Amazon's Jeff Barr, which someone might already be working on.

http://www.jeff-barr.com/?p=954

2 years ago

in Lucasfilm’s datacenter rocks on Bladewatch
Check out this InfoWorld article - http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/12/79191.... They've been testing virtualized storage with NetApp's Data Ontap GX, and it sounds like they're migrating their whole storage infrastructure to that soon. Also, was looking through Lucasfilm's website and their building is LEED certified. No blade servers though. And no mention of server virtualization.

2 years ago

in Risk Pooling for Entrepreneurs, Part II on punctuative! by Matt Winn
Hi Matt,

I'm not 100% sure I agree with Rob. Microchunking didn't work in his case, but crowds don't *always* produce mediocre work. For instance, most of the drawings on http://www.thesheepmarket.com/ are really awful, but the project as a whole is way cool. As Jeff Howe writes in his Wired article (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds...), crowdsourcing requires different skills compared with traditional management. The crowdsourcer will only be able to create value if he's successful in setting up filters for sifting through contributions from the masses.

But back to Swaptree (which has been in private beta for ages!) and the entrepreneur exchange, When you join Swaptree, it asks you to submit two lists: books/CDs/games that you own and want to give up, and items you're willing to accept in exchange. The system scans all users' haves and wants and is able to offer multi-lateral trades. For instance

A sends item to B
B sends item to C
C sends item to A

As I'm typing, though, I'm realizing that this concept might not work for startups. Swaptree assumes that all used CDs have equal value, but the same can't be said of Web 2.0 companies. I doubt any group of participants will be able to agree on giving their shares 100% equal valuation.

-Isabel
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