My Secret $1Million Idea

I don’t remember where I first heard the quote, but it’s one of my favorites:

Don’t worry about keeping your great idea a secret, if it’s good enough you will have to beat people over the head with it.

B2B Social Analytics

Working at Cisco is a new experience for me, as far as the size of the company. Prior to Cisco the largest company I worked for was around 5000 people. Lately I have been thinking of the advantages of being a big, well-known company, and how those advantages can be leveraged in new ways. I…

What can the Semantic Web do for me?

One of the questions I’m being asked somewhat frequently these days, probably because I write about it a lot, is “what can the Semantic Web do for this product/idea/whatever?”

The question the Semantic Web crowd must learn how to answer…

…is “How can this technology make me money?”

Notice that I say this is the question they must learn to answer, not what I personally am asking. That’s because there is no answer that will work for…

Why would you host ANYTHING yourself?

One of the sites I use, which shall remain nameless, is down today. I know for a fact that the person who runs it hosts it himself.

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One thing that I simply cannot wrap my brain around is why in the world anyone, in this day and…

Joe Cocker at Woodstock

Joe Cocker closed captioned for those of us who can’t understand what the hell he’s saying. Hilarious, I was almost crying by the end.

I need to remember to show this to my Aunt Karen, she’s a big fan :)

Parts Boneyard

I was looking for a CAT5 cable today and I had to scavenge the Parts Boneyard. It was spread across several boxes which had turned into several solid balls of cable. So I decided to dump everything on the floor and start working the knots apart. Now I have this massive pile of parts — cables of all…

One nice thing about Twitter

Is that it’s finally thrusting XMPP into the spotlight. I always knew it was only a matter of time, I can’t see a scenario in which XMPP doesn’t become the realtime data transfer standard. I for one, can’t wait.