Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Social production take a step forward next week at TED

    TED is a great conference for new and emerging technologies, so this week and next are sure to be full of interesting announcements.  A pre-announcement that caught my eye today got a nice write-up on TechCrunh: First Look: Kluster’s Market Approach to Crowdsourcing. At first glance (would love to get an invite to the beta,…

  • Paul Buchheit on why great teams with great products can sometime fail

    (Sorry if this is a duplicate post…was sure I wrote something on this and hit publish, but can’t find it anywhere in my DB..weird). So, just as a simple proof that there is business value in me following my twitter stream throughout the work day (not that anyone has asked…yet), I bring you this tweet…

  • The new sign is up

    The new sign is up Originally uploaded by aakelley Warbirds psp witchcraft 13 blood of the chosen free download Made of Honor rip

  • Man on my roof

    download love guru the dvdrip Man on my roof Originally uploaded by aakelley Yep…no work in the office today

  • The crane has arrived

    The crane has arrived Originally uploaded by aakelley Guess I won’t be in my office today

  • What’s not mentioned is as interesting as what is

    Good post on the opportunity to deliver design applications via the net over on the COFES blogs: COFES Blogs – Is SaaS the Killer App for the CAD Industry? The important thing about this post is what it neglects to mention as an obstacle: bandwidth.  As recently as 12 months ago no discussion about delivering…

  • My feeble attempt to map out my social media footprint…

    …has clearly been outclassed. I need to go back to the drawing board and take a look at this and try again: The Mindjet Blog » Visualizing Social Media Networks in MindManager The Bounty download One other thought: is there was ever a diagram that showed the power of RSS and the need for OpenID,…

  • Ready to throw in the towl on democracy?

    Nick seems to be in his recent post on some of the issues that Ebay is facing (and that other ‘social production’ sites have faced before – citing digg anf a few others): Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Crowd control at eBay While the changes at ebay seem like a “death of self-rule on the…

  • Cha-cha-cha-changes

    This is supposed to be the last day the old UGS sign is hanging on the office outside my window. Any minute now I am supposed to be kicked out of my office so they can install a shiny new Siemens sign. Ah, to think how many signs have hung off this building…SDRC, EDS, UGS…