Negril, Jamaica
March 30th, 2009
26-29th March 2009 - good times with @gramblings @jasonreuben @zacharybk. Rawssspecting manners mon :)
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March 30th, 2009
MIX09, Las Vegas, Add-on-Con, Shareaholic, Keynotes
March 24th, 2009
Last week I attended the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas. At the conference, Microsoft announced the release of its next major web browser - Internet Explorer 8. Read all about it here.
I stitched together this short 02:53 video from the main keynote recording. Hope you like it!
Full keynote video can be viewed here.
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Watch: How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air
March 23rd, 2009
(Recorded at TED U 2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 04:04.)
TED LINK: Why you should listen to him >>
Get the slide deck from this talk >>
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Shareaholic Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8
March 19th, 2009
Similar to Shareaholic for Firefox, Shareaholic Accelerator for IE8 enables you to quickly, and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and e-mail services from Internet Explorer 8.
IE8 users, get it now! –
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FlipKey - applying web 2.0 principles to an underserved market
March 13th, 2009
It was great catching up with TJ last night. TJ and I worked closely together on Compete.com from inception to launch. He also taught me a lot when I was at Compete, and I thank him every day for those seemingly small, but significantly valuable life/work lessons that stuck.
TJ is now one of FlipKey’s co-founders. FlipKey was conceived with the basic idea of applying web 2.0 principles to under served markets — in their case vacation rentals.
TripAdvisor invested in FlipKey last year, and it’s great to see how well they’re doing. TripAdvisor now includes FlipKey reviews on its own network of sites, which attract over 30 million visitors a month worldwide.
The big challenge with UGC is reaching critical mass quickly. FlipKey took an alternative approach compared to its parent TripAdvisor. Rather than offering an open review system where consumers were required to find the site and home/accomodation they stayed in to leave a review, FlipKey went directly to the source (the rental management companies) and created a Reputation Manager that invites confirmed past guests via an email to leave a review. This also ensured higher quality of reviews, as the reviewer is guaranteed to have actually stayed at the vacation rental. Smart.
Last night we also brainstormed some _big_ ideas for Shareaholic, which took me right back to when compete.com was hatched — lots more on that soon :)
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