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Heard this song at Express the other day and used Shazam to figure out what it was. Good stuff.
The VC business is not about grabbing the largest slice of the pie. It is about getting involved with very big pies. If you let your need for the biggest piece keep you out of the pie eating contest, you will lose eventually.
This is also why you should blog. Gets you business.
- J
---------------The three current big megatrends in the web/tech sector are mobile, social, and real-time.
This quote is from Fred Wilson's blog - he's quoting someone (he doesn't remember who).
It made me think about how empty the "new in the web" space seems right now. The past few years have seen this mad dash of new and amazing services, from YouTube to MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to...
a really big period of time where nothing new is smashing through the gate.
That's an interesting feeling for someone like me, who can usually see what all the early adopters are talking about. But right now, all the early adopters are talking about *finding* another new thing.
Hipsters boast of how disgusting and unsafe their Mission living situations are, as if choosing to live amongst squalor when you have the means not to do so makes you a better person. The wealthy seclude themselves in the Marina, Russian Hill, and Pacific Heights, and lobby against public transportation that would bring undesirables to their pristine neighborhoods.
I can see some Seattle parallels in here.
Google Wave adds many of these unproductive problems and then lays another few unproductive things on top.
Scoble dumps on Google Wave for being more of a distraction than a tool to assist collaborative work.
I have to say at my company, we haven't found an effective tool for collaborative work on spreadsheets or documents. Google Docs is underpowered and SLOW, and nothing else seems to come close.
I think there's huge potential for whatever business figures out how to get several people on separate machines working productively on a common set of files. HUGE.
Collection of sweet mac setups, and because I like peering at other people's desktops, iphone home screens, and other crap like that, this is a really cool collection of posts.
