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Ruminations re: Relationships

NEWS By CHRISSAAD14 YEARS AGO

My last post was about personal behavior. This one is about personal and business relationships. —- There’s no such thing as normal. We all have our biases and neurosis. We obsess over ceremony, process, dogma and fear. Did he do the right …

Compelling Behavior

NEWS By CHRISSAAD14 YEARS AGO

I’ve been thinking a lot about what compels people to behave a certain way. In business. In personal relationships. In life. I’m certain there are countless books espousing countless metaphors for thinking about the issue. For me it comes down to some …

Real Names Getting Real Attention

NEWS By CHRISSAAD15 YEARS AGO

There’s a lot of fury on the web right now about ‘Real Names’. FB is trying to use it as a unique feature of their comments system claiming it reduces trolling and low value comments. Of course that isn’t really true. For one, …

What is ‘Real-time as a Service’?

NEWS By CHRISSAAD15 YEARS AGO

Real-time is no CDN or Cache latency. When there is new data in the database, it’s available to the end-user. Real-time is not needing to hit the refresh button to see new information. It’s when information folds into the page while you’re …

Initial Quick Thoughts on Google+

NEWS By CHRISSAAD15 YEARS AGO

It’s certainly very slick, but it’s a few years behind Facebook. I mean that not just in timing and network effects, but in the much more strategic sense of platform ambition. Facebook.com was the strategy 4 years ago. Facebook is now going …

NYT Paywall, Huffpo Lawsuit – Symptoms of the Same Misconception

NEWS By CHRISSAAD15 YEARS AGO

Over the last few days I have been debating the NYT pay wall on a private email thread of friends. I didn’t feel the need to post it on my blog because I thought that pay walls were so obviously a losing …

Thoughts on Tron: We’re living in a recycled generation

NEWS By CHRISSAAD16 YEARS AGO

We’re living in a recycled generation. Think about it. Much of what we do in the 21st century is recycling what has gone before. Sure there are the obvious examples – positive examples – such as recycling paper and plastic. But I …

Diaspora is not the Answer to the Open Web, but that’s OK

NEWS By CHRISSAAD16 YEARS AGO

For whatever reason, a new project called Diaspora is getting a lot of attention at the moment. They are four young guys who have managed to crowd source $100k+ to build an open, privacy respecting, peer-to-peer social network. A number of people …

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