Recently received a ping from a Facebook friend (whom I don't think i have ever met in real life) saying that he too is one of the few that created a mashup site like SocialURL and was very intrigued and asked what i thought about the future of Mashups would be.
Its simple, Mashup sites will all soon disappear. The recent ID wars going on between Google Friend Connect, MyspaceID and Facebook are only the beginning and this will allow all sites to become mashups. Pete Cashmore and I had tea when he was in the states and we discussed how this idea of mashups will soon become integrated with more niche services such as locality based services, etc.
SocialURL will soon be transformed and we will turn this site into a social search portal. This was one original intent of the site and not a dating portal or another social network.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Channel 3 exclusive interview with Rubicon Project
My friend blasted this over to me less than 1 minute ago...I have to give it to them for leverage LA for its ability to put together some very funny and creative content
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Its as "Sleazy" as 1-2-3
A New Way to Be Stalked
We don't want to alarm you or anything. But you might want to watch your back.
Starting today, it just got easier for you to be tailed.
The culprit: 123people.com, an Austrian-based search engine that officially launches in the US this week after months in beta.
Like Google if it focused solely on stalking people, 123 is going to be making it much more convenient for your exes, currents and potentials to find out everything you've ever gone public with. The site is just as simple to use as Google, but all the relevant info is displayed in easier-to-read categories. So, say an old flame types in your name. In seconds, the search engine aggregates everything from email addresses and phone numbers to ancient blog posts, regrettable YouTube videos, profiles from Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster (remember that?) and MySpace. (Might be time to clean house.)
Of course, the upside is, thanks to those enterprising Austrians, it's now easier than ever to reconnect with people you've actually been wanting to hear from—even if you didn't know you had until a flirty email from them popped into your inbox.
Because every once in a while, an old flame just needs a new spark.
123people.com
We don't want to alarm you or anything. But you might want to watch your back.
Starting today, it just got easier for you to be tailed.
The culprit: 123people.com, an Austrian-based search engine that officially launches in the US this week after months in beta.
Like Google if it focused solely on stalking people, 123 is going to be making it much more convenient for your exes, currents and potentials to find out everything you've ever gone public with. The site is just as simple to use as Google, but all the relevant info is displayed in easier-to-read categories. So, say an old flame types in your name. In seconds, the search engine aggregates everything from email addresses and phone numbers to ancient blog posts, regrettable YouTube videos, profiles from Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster (remember that?) and MySpace. (Might be time to clean house.)
Of course, the upside is, thanks to those enterprising Austrians, it's now easier than ever to reconnect with people you've actually been wanting to hear from—even if you didn't know you had until a flirty email from them popped into your inbox.
Because every once in a while, an old flame just needs a new spark.
123people.com
Monday, October 20, 2008
Invest in the 401-Keg plan while economy is down
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you would have received $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
FFWD is the new Pandora of Online Video
FFWD.com just came out of private beta today. A few months ago i attended Under the Radar at the Microsoft campus and saw Patrick Koppula present his online video startup "FFWD.com" and I felt the fire for online video reignited in me. I was truly blown away at how he fully captured the idea i had for MyTV for ManiaTV a year ago.
Patrick and I have never met before that day but i had heard about his prior startup venture iLike.com which he co-founded. I can see how closely the layout looks to what I was working on at ManiaTV early last year! For my friends who are still at ManiaTV will know what i'm talking about:)
Some Positives on FFWD:
1. The User Experience execution is really dead on - lots of white background, short 4 line sign up, pick your interest with thumbnails (limited choices) and bam! start enjoying the pandora of online video!
2. I was able to invite all my 1850 contacts from my Gmail all at once:)
3. Non crowded video search experience, intuitive options to drill down on my interests
Other notes:
1. I can't rewind to prior video that i watched unless i save it
2. I tend to not scroll down to see who else was watching the same channel and wish I could
3. no place to comment or give instant feedback
Patrick and I have never met before that day but i had heard about his prior startup venture iLike.com which he co-founded. I can see how closely the layout looks to what I was working on at ManiaTV early last year! For my friends who are still at ManiaTV will know what i'm talking about:)
Some Positives on FFWD:
1. The User Experience execution is really dead on - lots of white background, short 4 line sign up, pick your interest with thumbnails (limited choices) and bam! start enjoying the pandora of online video!
2. I was able to invite all my 1850 contacts from my Gmail all at once:)
3. Non crowded video search experience, intuitive options to drill down on my interests
Other notes:
1. I can't rewind to prior video that i watched unless i save it
2. I tend to not scroll down to see who else was watching the same channel and wish I could
3. no place to comment or give instant feedback
Friday, July 11, 2008
Blogging badly
Hung out with a professional blogger today and the best advice I've heard regarding blogging is that you need to blog and blog badly for about a year before you get all the bad writing out of your system.
But how do you know when all the bad has gone out from you? He also mentioned about blogging about the simple things like..."That was an awesome $5 dollar footlong today at SubWays" or "We just got this cool white bean bag at the office and made our PR team jealous".
Do people really want to know that i owe a book to the Stanford Library? Or that I ran out of gas while I was only 2 miles from home the other night which made my wife furious and rightly so? Or that I recently cut my own hair with thinning scissors and that my hair looks like crap? Or that I am a horrible non-profit fundraiser for LiveStrong San Jose? Or that I never wanted or intended for SocialURL to be full of half naked people and that I truly wanted to solve the problem of presence on multiple social networks, reputation management and how to systematically spread your social profiles in one place for the best Social Media Optimization results?
By the way i have a new problem that I am solving...how to stop blogging badly:)
But how do you know when all the bad has gone out from you? He also mentioned about blogging about the simple things like..."That was an awesome $5 dollar footlong today at SubWays" or "We just got this cool white bean bag at the office and made our PR team jealous".
Do people really want to know that i owe a book to the Stanford Library? Or that I ran out of gas while I was only 2 miles from home the other night which made my wife furious and rightly so? Or that I recently cut my own hair with thinning scissors and that my hair looks like crap? Or that I am a horrible non-profit fundraiser for LiveStrong San Jose? Or that I never wanted or intended for SocialURL to be full of half naked people and that I truly wanted to solve the problem of presence on multiple social networks, reputation management and how to systematically spread your social profiles in one place for the best Social Media Optimization results?
By the way i have a new problem that I am solving...how to stop blogging badly:)
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
July 13th LiveStrong 5K run
Lost my grandparents to cancer so this run is for those who are still fighting- join me in supporting this run.
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