May 2009
10 posts
Cloud Computing Panel, June 4th
Next Thursday, June 4th, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion, The State of Startups Using Cloud Computing (please register if you can attend)
The event will be held at the Vilna Shul (in Beacon Hill) from 6:00pm till 8.
If you’re in Boston, interested in cloud computing, doing cloud computing, or eager to learn about it, I invite you to attend! The event is free, there will...
Is The Customer Always Right?
No. (seems pretty obvious)
However, your customer’s behavior (specifically, in aggregate) is infallible.
LOST Recap: Starting Over →
Great analysis LOST’s season 5 finale.
The author provides some great insights, and thematic elements I hadn’t considered.
Well worth the read if you are a LOST fan.
A Perfect Storm
Tonight’s series of events culminated in a “perfect storm”: everything about it went wrong, in just the right way.
My friend Carla and I have been training (somewhat haphazardly) for what will be our first half-marathon. Realizing we are a bit behind schedule for our Memorial Day race, Carla smartly encouraged doing a boundary-pushing run tonight.
She bought new shoes, we made...
“Lamentably, I think this metric [of emphasizing a user’s popularity on a...”
– Zach Klein on Tumblr’s new ‘Tumblarity’ metric.
I completely agree, but only insofar as this is the beginning of what’s to come. As more websites better motivate engagement through game-like mechanics, Zach’s scenario is very likely to play out. However, when most...
