As per the request of Rana Basheer, the creator of GuruLib , by way of commenting on my article, I'm doing a followup post on Cataloging your media .
I never made it to GuruLib the first time around, and I'll have to admit up front it was the user [...]
Archive for October, 2006
As the web2.0 frenzy gets even more worked up, the next big piece of hype is becoming Facebook. I’ve had a lot of thoughts about these guys, and I figured this was the time to put it out there.
Trust
The Facebook network was built with trust. This trust was mostly fostered by the fact [...]
Here is a great post over at OnStartups about leaving your startup company. What’s interesting isn’t the approach to seperating from your dear startup company (i’m greatly enjoying mine!), but its his description of the ups and downs of MANY startups. If you’ve worked for any startups (or mostly startups, as in my [...]
I am quite frustrated with the state of palm syncing on Mac OSX. See my post here about the well timed collapse of my syncing setup. I currently use my treo to access my PIM information more than my laptop (which is partly due to not having a good way to sync) [...]
CRM systems have been a big part of my job at both my current employer as well as with my previous employer. In the business development field, I keep coming back to the need for a good , simple, reliable CRM on which to base the rest of the IT infrastructure that we [...]
Diggo Social bookmarking for VC Referral Relationship Management
Published October 16th, 2006 in CRM, VC and social bookmarking. A couple months ago I wrote about using Diggo to track and share information about real estate postings, and I also followed up that post here with a post about how a full web application/portal could be built to incorporate these features.
Rob over at Ventureblogalist continues to turn out high quality posts [...]
I found this quote on slide 31 of 35 in Paul Kedrosky’s ppt presentation given at the Ottawa Venture & Technology Summit.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
- Louis Brandeis
This seems like very good advice for anyone starting any project be it a start-up company, [...]
A Bad 24 hours in NYC
Umbrella got stollen at a fashion show
Had to run 10 blocks in the rain, and ruined coat
Couldn’t find a cab
Got yelled at by cabbie when I crossed the street and got a cab going the opposite way
Realized I lost my [...]
Forcing change on the real estate industry
Published October 8th, 2006 in apartment, new york city, real estate and web application.Though I've left behind any professional full-time interests in the Real Estate industry, the space continues to capture my interest I learned a great deal about commercial real estate business working for a web based mapping company targeting various aspects of the business, and I gained a lot of respect for the [...]
More on Managing personal information
Published October 8th, 2006 in GTD, Software, notes and personal productivity.In a previous post I wrote about a blog post claiming to find the ultimate solution to syncing your personal data. Now I want to follow up on it, because their solution only addressed a small amount of what can be considered type of personal data. The system only touched on e-mail, contacts, [...]
