Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Meaning and Mantra
Reading Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start has been one of the finest, most enjoyable, and productive uses of my time. I would recommend it as the Bible for anyone venturing into creating an organization. The unusual directness, the clarity & simplicity of advice, and the witty illustrations makes the book hard to put down […]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Intention, Attention…. and EMOTION
When Search Advertising became a big business, there was talk about how the Search Engines were monetizing User Intention. Then Social Networks became hot, and there is lot of head-scratching on how to monetize User Attention. These articles on Intention Economy and Attention Economy [1] [2] make good reads.
There is scarcely any talk about products […]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
AHA! Moment
We, at SmartCrowds, started out with the Theme of Facilitating & Harnessing Human Expression. This was sort of the “River” we wanted to journey on. We pitched the concept to many smart people (friends, well-wishers, ex-coworkers, founders, VCs, etc), and discussed some of the “tributaries” we could start out with (and eventually join the main river). It […]