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Robert
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14 years ago @ Redeye VC - Some more thoughts on ... · 0 replies · +2 points
I think the next wave of commerce will be implicit shopping. A store that shows me only products that have been recommended by friends. Maybe those products were purchased at Amazon. Maybe they were purchased at Newegg. It doesn't matter - this 'personal store' contains everything I need to make a very quick and informed decision.
Facebook Beacon was a start, but knowing what someone purchased is useless to me. I'm more interested in whether they'd recommend it. I have some ideas in this space, but I'm not sure how I should execute them yet.
14 years ago @ Redeye VC - Some more thoughts on ... · 0 replies · +2 points
15 years ago @ Foundry Group - Pogoplug: Make your ha... · 0 replies · 0 points
I envision (or at least want to see) a future where everyone's data is connected to the internet. There's a lot of content people want to share, but have to go through the trouble of uploading it to another server.
Imagine if you could perform a search across files that people specified as public on their computer... Or a search across family members (shared) photos.
16 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Post Acquisition Integ... · 0 replies · +1 points
16 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - The Email APIs Are Com... · 0 replies · +1 points
http://www.radicati.com/brochure.asp?id=477
Howard Lindzon had some input on Fred's blog. I tend to agree with his assessment that it's the leverage of the social graph that is most important here. No matter what your application is (i.e. e-mail relevancy), you need to leverage the social graph.
I'm mostly interested in the application of this concept in the enterprise sector (no news there). With spending in the "enterprise social software" sector expected to reach $3.3B by 2011, at least according to Radicati, there appears to be a real need to leverage the social graph.
Also, I agree with the "messaging not e-mail" statement. While e-mail is the current standard in the enterprise, there's no reason to believe instant messaging, blogs, and intra-service communication won't see just as much (or more) adoption.
16 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - More on Email Before A... · 0 replies · +1 points
Radicati Research shows over 200 e-mail messages "sent or received" per corporate user per day [courtesy of Om Malik's Business 2.0 article].
An unofficial poll on the online version of the article (+7,000 people) shows that 87% of people have little to no trouble managing e-mail. Only 11% are "snowed under", and just 2% reported that they don't use e-mail at all.
What's interesting is that 2% number... To me, that means e-mail isn't going anywhere soon... and most people are in fact happy with e-mail. I suspect the 11% that are having trouble are individuals who are heavy networkers with a thick Rolodex.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business...
17 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - Thinking About Email · 0 replies · +1 points
17 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - The End Software Paten... · 0 replies · +1 points
Take the Blackberry case as an example. Blackberry might have infringed on a patent, but as far as I'm concerned the original patent holder should have taken their ass to market sooner. Instead, they sat on it and waited for someone else to do the leg work before crying about it... or at least that was my take on it.
17 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - I Have Some Intense Ne... · 0 replies · +4 points
17 years ago @ Feld Thoughts - I Have Some Intense Ne... · 0 replies · +2 points
Why didn't you just delete the comment?
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