In all the hype over Google’s online office suite and forthcoming erosion of Microsoft market share, I’ve seen no mention of Google’s most recent Redmond inspiration: the ill-fated Microsoft BOB.  For the past week I’ve had Google’s new “theme” customization running on my personalized Google homepage and it’s 1995 all over [...]

 Texas Flag on Fire Truck Grill, originally uploaded by jehinote
I’ll be trekking to Austin next Friday for my first SXSW conference.  Do let me know if you’re attending and interested in meeting up. 
I’ve been glancing through the agenda and caught the following: “Don’t need no VC when you’ve got a [...]

Goldilocks and the 3 Pups, originally uploaded by *Tiny Dancer*
I heard a clever dictum from an entrepreneur this past week.  He said, ”I like to call it the Goldilocks experience - not too hard, not too easy.”  Got me thinking about what should be a “Goldilocks experience.”  After all, in the media business it [...]

I once fancied a career in advertising as a terrific outlet for my creative juices and balanced left/right brain work.  But I never would have made it in the industry.  Perhaps a couple months - just long enough for me to be put to work on an account for a company in which [...]

My Dream Job Came True., originally uploaded by roidrage
Any career consultant worth his salt will tell one to dress for the job one wants, not the one one has. It’s a superficial measure, but plays wonderfully into our natural inclination to (a) pattern recognize (”she looks like she belongs in [...]

YOUR NAME HERE … ?, originally uploaded by tejana
At DrJays, I used to champion the merits of personalization.  Whatever we could do to dynamically adjust a page to fit a visitor’s stated, or probablistic, preferences, I’d recommend we pursue.  Why show winter coats to a visitor whose IP address placed her in [...]

Google just introduced a new feature to their personalized homepage that enables a snapshot view of feed articles.  One of my qualms with the all-inclusive homepages (e.g. netvives, pageflakes, goowy, etc.) has been the inability to get more than an article headline at a glance.  In coaxing a colleague off My [...]

As a former resident of NYC, where I enjoyed craigslist’s enormous popularity and usefulness in all things housing/roommate/classifieds related, it was with a chuckle and a sigh that I read about new service craigsnumber in this morning’s FierceVOIP.  Taking a page out of craiglist’s automated anonymous email system (amongst others that offer similar services including [...]

aWhiteSandsFilmFestposter, originally uploaded by ellis_neal
Paul Kedrosky has been touting 2007 as what I’ll call the “year of now”:
As I have written here (too) many times, the theme for 2007 remains realtime. Trust me on that one.

If Blockbuster’s recent market gains are any indicator, we’re seeing the early waves hit shore.  On [...]

Takkle is a Brooklyn, NY-based social networking site for high school athletes that has attracted venture financing from Greycroft and received news coverage this week for a strategic partnership with Sports Illustrated - a big step forward for what looked like a flat startup in August.  In short, SI is partnering with Takkle as a lead [...]