http://disqus.com/people/gfcampbell/enMon, 08 Jun 2009 13:02:45 -0000http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/06/you-wont-see-the-palm-pre-on-me.html#comment-10618491right. Snap it on the bottom. Or, better yet, isn't that what Bluetooth is about? Try hooking your bluetooth apple kbd up to your iPhone... no dice.gfcampbellMon, 08 Jun 2009 13:02:45 -0000http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/06/you-wont-see-the-palm-pre-on-me.html#comment-10610168Back to hoping for an iphone mini keyboard for me. Will somebody make one please? Like the old thumb board for the palm 5 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-Thumboard-Keyboard-Palm-m500/dp/B00005O0LE" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-Thumboard-Keyboard-...</a>gfcampbellMon, 08 Jun 2009 07:43:45 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2009/02/25/the-rise-of-sensor-media/#comment-6672549Good point. Worth understanding... there are expressions of status, the wish to be associated with the source...gfcampbellThu, 26 Feb 2009 18:48:03 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2009/02/25/the-rise-of-sensor-media/#comment-6630902aha. it isn't perfectly clear. <br><br>The first is expression of thought or emotion - more personal communication. e.g. "want to go get coffee @bob?" or "@bob, I love radiohead's first release"<br><br>The second is the expression of information - or news. "The coffee shop at x and y streets is on fire. @bob and I going somewhere else" or "I just ate a burger from burgerworld and got food poisoning"<br><br>The best way I know to determine how definite the line is between the two types is to study query logs and resulting clicks. Not readily available data. That's why I am left in the world of hypothesis for the moment.<br><br>I have posited that the 2 other types of possible messages are transactional and of entertainment value. Looking to validate...gfcampbellWed, 25 Feb 2009 22:22:01 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/?p=184#comment-6230026Hank - would be happy to talk. I am crushed over the next week, but ping me on Twitter and we can set up a chance to talk.gfcampbellThu, 12 Feb 2009 21:25:45 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/?p=184#comment-6229997Kimbal - thanks for the comment. I have had a look... interesting approach. Sort of reminds me of what Seth Goldstein was doing with AttentionTrust before it evolved into SocialMedia. Sort of... but his was about profiles/privacy and I see you're building an index.<br> <br>BTW, I feel like we should meet - I heard a lot about you from Jay, Abdur and Greg over the summer... <br><br>I will ping you some time soon to talk.gfcampbellThu, 12 Feb 2009 21:24:11 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/?p=184#comment-6111074David - I think you missed the point that the online social graph is a critical ingredient... the physical world is only an illustration...<br><br>And getting the signal to noise relationship solved is the crux of the issue. In the simple query-response world we would simply call it "relevance" or "precision at X."gfcampbellMon, 09 Feb 2009 05:23:25 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/?p=184#comment-6111072Nice post. Good clear thinking...<br><br>A couple of quick responses:<br>- Agreed: Twitter is by no means the only source of realtime-ness. No way. <br>- Can Google (or Yahoo, or...)build a product that addresses this? Yes. No doubt. <br>- Should we sit and wait until they do? Nope.<br>- Don't miss my point that expressed information, vs published, benefits from a social graph for prioritization/interpretationgfcampbellMon, 09 Feb 2009 05:22:36 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/?p=184#comment-6104681Interesting point, but experience tells me otherwise.<br><br>Trees don't grow to the sky. Revenue generation/growth is an endless cycle of innovation, discontinuity and cannibalism. <br><br>It's the single-variable management mindset (e.g. revenue-only) that leads to strategically soulless companies - those are the companies that lose touch with their customers and open the door wide for the competition.gfcampbellSun, 08 Feb 2009 21:02:21 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/?p=184#comment-6103630Trevor - thanks for the comment... ping me on twitter and we can talk directly. Would love to have a conversation about your thoughts/experience...<br><br>GgfcampbellSun, 08 Feb 2009 19:47:08 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/11/19/case-study-costtodrivecom-small-and-clean/#comment-6103193site nav problem on my part. sorry. the best way to get there today is to click to previous posts and scroll through backward that way. Thanks for the comment.gfcampbellSun, 08 Feb 2009 19:43:50 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/12/16/darwin-davinci-and-accelerated-change/#comment-4468446Craig, the point was not left out accidentally. It was intentionally and respectfully left for interpretation by the reader.<br><br>I don't begin to have the answer as to why the genes formed, why Leonardo DaVinci is stands as a towering intellect over everyone else of the time or why the leaders of today are emerging/will emerge. <br><br>Serendipity, faith, chance or destiny. Everyone can try what fits with their perspective and beliefs. <br><br>In fact, I'm a big proponent of taking the counterperspective just for argument's sake to understand and be sensitive to all sides...gfcampbellWed, 17 Dec 2008 17:38:42 -0000http://www.zemanta.com/blog/zemanta-open-semantic-api-with-commercial-support/#comment-4289135Smart move. <br><br>I have said for some time that tagging of the Web needs to happen at a tool level, allowing app builders and developers to bake the approach into the platform level. <br><br>This move reinforces the migration of semantics from the icing layer (publishing) to the infrastructure of the web.gfcampbellTue, 09 Dec 2008 10:28:38 -0000http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/12/the-invention-o.html#comment-4278017I can't wait to read the book. I have been boring my friends and family about Cholera since I read Ghostmap last summer. <br><br>And I completely agree with your take on the times we're in. There's no doubt in my mind. Many of our institutions and approaches we have relied on for the past who-knows-how-many-years are transforming. The foundations of our economic, political and social world are changing. <br><br>There is a precedent in science, philosophy, etc that new ideas are often thought up at the same moment in different places (that's what the quote is about...). Good time to be in emerging technology and media. Huge positive impact to be made.<br><br>Props to Mark and Steven. Very impressed with what you're doing with outside.in.<br><br>Safe and fun travels to you Fred. <br><br>GerrygfcampbellMon, 08 Dec 2008 19:45:05 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/12/05/semantics-search-and-big-honking-databases/#comment-4252041and can't we use co-occurrence, etc to establish that relatedness...gfcampbellMon, 08 Dec 2008 12:08:55 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/12/05/semantics-search-and-big-honking-databases/#comment-4252024Does the nature of the task (and this discussion) change if we talk about it as codifying *relationships*? That's really where I am going. <br><br>I am not sure it makes any difference at all WHAT the thing is, it's more about the interrelatedness of one word to other words. In that case, the ambiguity is represented in a set of linkages that are more or less exclusive. <br><br>For example - the linkages to gates the thing vs gates the person would be different. Even in the case of that double entendre, the two sets could be statistically separable.gfcampbellMon, 08 Dec 2008 12:07:49 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/12/05/semantics-search-and-big-honking-databases/#comment-4222497I love a vigorous debate, but actually there isn't one here. I pretty much agree with you.<br><br>We choose to state it differently (I think).<br><br>The word "semantics" has been used to cover so many things that it may have lost some precision in its definition. I may be guilty of using a broadened version here.<br><br>I think of it this way: Google solved one of the vexing problems of search: Out of millions of results, which one comes first in the rankings? They created PageRank to approximate what *most humans* would find to be the best result. That was a hard problem and they stepped up to OWN the solution, even creating the "I'm Feeling Lucky" to emphasize that they had a solution to the problem. <br><br>But it's still wrong a portion of the time for a large percentage of users... So they leave the other 999,999,999 results just in case. <br><br>That simple approximation, and the willingness to accept some error while committing to improvement has revolutionized search.<br><br>The exact thing applies to understanding meaning. If we can accept error, and use words like "semantics" or otherwise to describe what we're trying to do, we can make progress.<br><br>If you want to coin a new term for this I'll gladly use it and give you attribution. ;-)<br><br>What we seem to agree on is that there's no room for purity and absolutism here...gfcampbellSat, 06 Dec 2008 08:51:39 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/12/03/twitter-is-a-new-medium/#comment-4205414Giannii, there should be 3 comments on this post... lost somewhere in the ether...<br><br>Thanks,<br>G<br><br>FIXED - Many thanks. Disqus is great.gfcampbellFri, 05 Dec 2008 11:49:56 -0000http://howardlindzon.com/?p=3963#comment-4165832Right on Howard. To a large extent the world economy is suffering the inevitable consequences of indulgent behavior. So be it. Maybe we're all guilty to some degree, maybe not.<br><br>The paradox is that, amidst this global challenge our markets, media and technology are transforming right before our eyes. If we lift up for one second, it's easy to see that we're in a state of what Darwinians would call Punctuated Equilibrium. <br><br>Let's take this opportunity to rebuild new things and chuck the old, broken ones. Corporate overhead, Bloated IT departments, unsustainable lending practices. I could go on for a while. Let's rebuild them all.<br><br>I want to be a part of a stronger country, economy and world after all of this settles out. The only way to get there is to take the pain with an eye on what we need to learn from all of this. <br><br>I'm an angel investor, and I expect to have the cram-down discussions in the future. I've laid-off. shut-down and re-factored before. But that doesn't dampen my optimism right now. Forest vs trees.gfcampbellThu, 04 Dec 2008 10:26:44 -0000http://jayridgeway.com/post/48290942#comment-3985874That looks like the Dharma Project video we see clips of on Lost. Where do the mutated polar bears and rabbits come in? &lt;g&gt;gfcampbellMon, 24 Nov 2008 11:33:18 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/11/21/this-is-the-golden-age-of-internet/#comment-3961955Sounds good to me. Give me a ring by clicking the "call me now" button on the bottom of the left column of this page.<br><br>It will go to voice mail and I will call you back.<br><br>GgfcampbellSat, 22 Nov 2008 19:12:33 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/2008/11/19/case-study-costtodrivecom-small-and-clean/#comment-3941044In all of those words I wrote I didn't put a link in there? Sorry!<br><br>Done.gfcampbellFri, 21 Nov 2008 17:03:08 -0000