new post?

Gil at the Mobile Spoon asked me to expose my profile on blogger.

Personally – I don’t like blogger. I think that their platform is not friendly, so I chose wordpress. But I send Gil a bunch of links related to mobile and he keeps on insisting to use them on his site and to link back to me, so I decided to endulge him and expose my profile.

But now to expose my profile I noticed that I haven’t written anything on my blog for a long while. So the thing is that I have moved from work in the enterprise software market to the internet market and more so into the eCommerce market and things were really busy.

I will try to write again soon.

Windows live

I just saw this on mobilespoon – new windows live. I really liked the connection to gas prices. This area of maps, traffic, gas and more is progressing nicely. It’s no longer just about movies and restaurants.

introduction to start-up financing

I just saw this great post on start up financing: http://www.instigatorblog.com/an-introductory-guide-to-startup-funding/2007/10/17/

it’s not me, it’s facebook

I sent Scoble a friend invitation on facebook and he ignored me. I really want to see how he’s using facebook. After a day I started following his twitter and 2 minutes later he started following mine (which is very lame). I thought I am not cool enough – after all he has over 4000 friends, so why not me?

I now realized that it really wasn’t me, it was the 5000 friends limit in facebook. So I am still cool

facebook applications

I am playing with facebook applications for some time now, but still don’t quite get it. I did find a couple of nice ones that use the social network abilities, but most are just stupid games. But now I know that I am not alone. Robert Scoble, who’s a huge facebook fan just said the same thing. So now the only point is – go create next gen facebook app.

facebook vs. linkedin

I just witnessed what the difference between LinkedIn and Facebook is all about. I searched for Guy Kawasaki in both networks. In LinkedIn he has 225 contacts and I am 3 hops from him. On facebook he has 2774 friends and I am 6 hops from him. I guess that’s it’s not only the number of connections that you have, but rather type of people that you have as contacts.

Would be interesting to see how LinkedIn would work as a platform that would allow developing applications

ha?

I don’t get it

And here’s another

Following my last post - here is another site that is aimed at aggregating shared items from friends – friendfeed.
The problem with it (other than the fact it will also not create the standard) is that it requires you to provide your password to every site. Do they really expect people to do that? There is no way that I am going to provide my password to them (or facebook, plaxo, …).
Seems like many sites are asking for it recently. Since they all ask for it, it may mean that people are actually doing it.

too many seperate applications

Social Networks, email, IM, voice, unified communications, SMS, VOIP and more.

Each one is made up of two many systems that are doing the same thing – each trying to dominate the market. There has to be something that would connect all of them together and will create the standard. Once they can all talk to each other then market domination will no longer be important. There are quite a few start-ups that aim to do that today – xobni, orgoo and more. Is any one of them doing a good enough job to unify everything? I don’t think so. There is a great potential to democratize the web on this

officially web 2.0

I am on facebook – and checks it out 10 times a day.

I am on Twitter – but only updated it twice. I guess I need more frineds on Twitter to start following in order to really enjoy it. Maybe I would follow Scoble, he seems to enjoy people following him. He will follow me if I follow him…
I have a blog. It is still pretty lame, but it’s a start.
I have an idea for a facebook application – connect twitter to facebook. There are some apps that do that, but none is too good. I guess I need to learn php. Well, that’s going to be fun