“Just Enough” is the new “Big” - but can it work?

They should draw an equation: What level of fame do you need to achieve to keep doing what you want? Because you don’t want any more than that.
if you get too famous, you have people wanting to take a picture of your butt on the beach.
(Tina Fey

These are quotes i read from Grant’s blog [...]

Do you “get” Twitter?

I read a post today by Fred Wilson that his kids finally “got” twitter. He wrote:
We are headed to Honolulu today. I twittered that fact and within minutes Joshua was back to me (via text message) with a recommendation for a ramen place called tenkaippin. I didn’t ask for it, but he offered it [...]

Red Band Trailers are Back!

There are 2 types of trailers: red-band and green-band. The trailer you usually see in front of a movie that reads, “This trailer has been approved for all audiences” has a green background and is a “green-band” trailer. There is another kind, the red-band, that is not approved for all audiences because it [...]

Bebo for $850 million. Now Hi5?

This is an interesting graph which shows Bebo, MySpace, Facebook and Hi5. Clearly one of them is stuggling.

However, what Bebo has that Hi5 does not is a English speaking user base which is able to be monetized. AOL has a slew of Advertising companies that must be just itching to get their [...]

The short head is human, middle fat is social and long tail is algorithmic

This was a quote i found on Chris Anderson’s  - the author of The Long Tail - and it refers to how search will be done in the future.  The short popular stuff will be pre-loaded results by humans, the medium will be populated by friends and the obscure long tail is found by algorithms.  [...]

Animals at a strip club - crazy video

Saw another video that was sent to me via VSL and it is indeed worth a view.  It’s an Orangina commerical which has a bear and deer involved in a seductive dance that spirals into an all out stripper montage with animals throughout the jungle.  I don’t really know what to say

Halo3 has arrived

Can’t wait to get my hands on it.  I just saw this ad (video below) - as if i wasn’t excited enough.  If you haven’t heard about the game yet, there’s a great article about what went into it in Wired.  Article here.

Gorillas and Phil Collins

I love Phil Collins as much as the next guy. Ok, well maybe a little more than the next guy.  Because of this i was happy to see this ad for chocolates with a Phil-loving Gorilla.  Check it out by clicking on the image below:

It’s not all technology - the arts matter too (Dana Gioia)

Below is a great speech by the poet Dana Gioia to the Stanford graduating class of 2007….
Stanford Commencement address by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (June 17, 2007)
Good morning.
It is a [...]

Life’s a Journey

A good video of clay people cruising through their life. I find the video pretty mesmerizing.

The song is also pretty good. It’s called “Eliza’s Aria” by Eliza Kats-Chermin.