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Yahoo, Dead Man Walking
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on May 05, 2008
I had a meeting at Yahoo on Friday afternoon. It was like the other 1,835 meetings I’ve had there over the years, it also won’t produce anything meaningful.What struck me about the meeting was how little energy there is on that campus, it’s a dreadful place to be, even if just briefly. The other folks in the meeting just went through the motions. I saw the look in their eyes and knew what...
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The Future of RSS
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on May 04, 2008
May 1st was RSS Awareness Day and while I have a seriously vested interest in this topic, I chose not to observe it. Why? In short, I was busy on other business but also I’ve had this subject gnawing at me and it just took a few days to compose my thoughts.Let’s take a look at the main areas that RSS companies, like NewsGator, focus on and score the success:Blog syndication: This is game...
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Help with Gmail
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on January 16, 2008
Anyone know someone at Google that can escalate my gmail ‘is undergoing maintenance’ problem? I’ve been without it for over a day and that’s a real problem considering I use gmail interchangeably with my business email.
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Fixed Gmail
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on January 17, 2008
On my own… no thanks to Google. I was unable to get to the gmail login screen even after blowing out the cache, deleting the cookie, doing a dance and sacrificing a baby goat. The gmail community forum was useless and absent of any apparent contact mechanism I put out a call for help here and on Twitter.Thanks to
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Wal-Mart Gets Tough On RFID
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on January 20, 2008
This piece in InformationWeek makes it sound like Wal-Mart sprung this on their suppliers. This technology initiative has been underway for several years past the pilot phase and every WM supplier knew this was coming. The thing that is surprising, if anything at all, is that WM kept cutting the suppliers a break with regard to the date, and even with that concession the top suppliers (if memor
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Social Networking Ads Suck
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on January 31, 2008
Ads work on Google because people are looking for information. They do a search, and if the advertisement shows information that helps with the query, that makes everyone happy. However, when it comes to a social network, usage is quite different. People aren’t looking for information about products — they’re looking to communicate with friends. In that environment, ads are seen as an...
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Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on February 07, 2008
Mike offers a pretty good analysis of the current choice that Yahoo is facing. One thing that really represents the strategic blunder on the part of Yahoo’s Board is that they allowed a full week to pass without substantive comment or marketplace movement and that only reinforced the point that nobody outside of Microsoft wants this company. It is sad to say this, but that doesn’t make it any...
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RSS in Plain English
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on February 12, 2008
This video is awesome… we’ve all seen the “whiteboard genre” before but this one is particularly effective in my opinion, an observation borne out of many attempts to explain RSS to my mom.
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FriendFeed Accelerates?
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on February 25, 2008
I’ve been getting a lot of FriendFeed notifications about new people subscribing to my feed. Based on anecdotal comments from people I have talked with, it appears I am not alone and that makes me wonder what is happening that is suddenly causing a bump in activity. Could it be Facebook’s own efforts to do something similar raising awareness?FriendFeed is like Facebook’s news feed. But...
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Right and Wrong Way to Pitch Me
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on February 26, 2008
Two emails from PR people this morning, interesting contrast.The wrong way is to address it as “Dear Venture Chronicles”. I guarantee I will not pay any attention to your email.A much better way is to express some degree of personalization, such as “Hi Jeff. Even though you’re in sunny Florida at We Media, I wanted to make you aware of this company’s launch…”Even though I don’t...
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