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Real Time Streams becoming more relevant

SWong — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:24:46 +0000

Great article on TechCrunch today about “Jump Into the Stream” and how we are in an interesting shift to real time streamed information. The biggest challenge is to make sense of this deluge of information and to figure out what is meaningful and what is meaningless.

With Google making some rumbling about real time search this is going to get really interesting. Much like SEO is used to drive traffic to web 1.0 websites, social bookmarking and social discovery was used to drive traffic to websites in Web 2.0. Web 3.0 may be where we see another source of traffic generation through different real time feeds and streams. An indication of this is Mark Cuban’s recent blog post about how he is getting more and more traffic from twitter and facebook than Google. In his case it is definitely Streams (Facebook + Twitter) > SEO (Google).

Very intent to see where this leads us.

Malcom Gladwell’s How David Beats Goliath

SWong — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:52:02 +0000

Interesting new article in The New Yorker by Malcom Gladwell (Outliers, The Tipping Point) about How David Beats Goliath. Basically a great article on disruption. The article reminds me of Clayton Christensen’s work on the Innovator’s Dilemma series where upstarts can come into an industry and disrupt well established players. Great stuff for anyone wanting to build a startup.

“…substituting effort for ability turns out to be a winning formula for underdogs in all walks of life…”

Throw out the conventional. If you are building a startup you have to be willing to go above and beyond what is conventional and disrupt your competition.

A great read. Check it out here.

iLike it very much

SWong — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:54:36 +0000

My friends, Ali & Hadi Partovi, has launch a new service in beta called iLike. iLike is a cool new music discovery service that hooks into your playlist on iTunes. Add a bit a social community and shake it up with Web 2.0 goodness and you have iLike.

iLike is a startup everyone should keep an eye on since the brothers Partovi are instrumental in bring to life LinkExhange (one of the first ad networks acquired by Microsoft), TellMe (Voice Recognition), and Microsoft Internet Explorer (Hadi led the way).
Scoble Show on PodTech just released a great interview with Ali giving an interview about iLike. Try it out!