life | Kris Smith has read these articles about "life" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "life" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpVideo: Thoughts On Twitter (vs. Facebook)- March 30, 2008 The adoption of Twitter, which I covered previously a number of times, appears to be acceleratingly since March 6th as I have seen my followers double in that three week period. My friend Gary Vaynerchuk recently started to do a daily "thoughts on life" video podcast and gave his thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook...kinda. So in response to his video I wanted to make a quick SOMEWHAT FRANK TV episode 18 with my thoughts on Twitter (mainly) as well as a few comments about Facebook. I use them both.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SomewhatFrank/~3/260395886/video-thoughts.html Why Should You Try Twitter The Value, As I See It- March 28, 2008 I just wrote what became a rather long and detailed email in response to a friend and coworker's question why should I care about Twitter Even though it's by no means exhaustive (I could come up with a lot more reasons!), this is what I shared off the top of my head, and it needs to be blogged. Remember, this is aimed at someone who I assume has no knowledge of what Twitter is or does. The value of Twitter, to me, comes as a tool to communicate with my chosen network of people. You only ever...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tinyscreenfuls/~3/259232940/ Judge OKs Settlement Over Second Life Sex Toys- March 27, 2008 A dispute over sales of virtual sex toys has resulted in a real-life slap on the wrist for a Texas teenager. Eros LLC, a Tampa Bay-area company that creates virtual sex scripts in the online world Second Life, sued Robert Leatherwood, 19, last year claiming he copied, displayed or distributed Eros products without permission.Read the article: USA TodayTags: life sex eros virtual toyshttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/03/judge-oks-settlement-over-second-life.html Is Enterprise Search an Application or a Feature from PeopleOverProcess.com- March 24, 2008 After speaking with Brainware this morning, I've been left with the question is enterprise search an application in itself, or just middleware (or a feature) for other applications Remember Enterprise Search About a year ago, every major software company (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, etc., not to mention all the medium and small ISVs) came out with an enterprise search product. Essentially, the product replicated Google behind the firewall, giving you a search box that allowed users to search.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/257140958/ Open Source Growing at an Exponential Rate- March 22, 2008 Although many of those of us in the open source community believe that open source is growing rapidly, a new study validates these conclusions: the study released March 14 by SAP Research concludes that open source software is growing at an exponential rate in "additions to open source projects, the total project size (measured in source lines of code), the number of new open source projects, and the total number of open source projects". They also noted that the total amount of source code and.http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2008/03/open-source-growing-at-exponential-rat... Analyst Relations Using Twitter from PeopleOverProcess.com- March 20, 2008 Carter Lusher, who's turned into quite the AR 2.0 sort, sent out an email asking what us Twittering analysts would want to see from analyst relations folks in Twitter, following up on a recent post. Here's what I wrote back (with some slight tweaks): Another Way to be Friendly I'd expect individual to sign up and just be normal with Twitter. Usually, I'd actually just like to get to know someone personally through things like Twitter in the same way I get to them over drinks, food, chatting, or.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/254706539/ Advice for Startups: Working with Large Corporations as Partners and Investors- March 20, 2008 I recently participated in a webinar with Bob Ackerman of Allegis Capital, Mark Klopp of BellMason Group (formerly head of Eastman Chemical's venture capital program) and Claudia Fan Munce of IBM (Managing Director of their venture program). I was included because of my experience in working with startups as well as corporate investors (I run DLA Piper's Corporate Venture practice). The webinar addressed the issues of dealing with corporations as partners and as investors.Large corporations are.http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2008/03/advice-for-startups-working-with-large... First day in the new Intel JF1 Offices- March 18, 2008 Today is my team's first day in our new offices in Intel's newly-remodeled Jones Farm 1 (JF1) offices (see this post for some background and pictures from the open house a couple of weeks ago). I was out of town last week at SXSW (and got sick while I was there, which is why I dropped off the face of the earth for a few days - more about that in another post). I have lots to say about the rest of SXSW, but first I've been at my new desk for a few hours, long enough to get settled in, get things.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tinyscreenfuls/~3/253228716/ Videos: Merlin Presenting & Interviewing (and Pitching)- March 17, 2008 Folks who are kind enough to ask me to speak at their company or event often enjoy showing their colleagues videos of my stuff to prep them for the visit. To make this a bit easier as well as to introduce you to my speaking work, if we've never met I've put together a few of my favorite videos of stuff I've been involved with. This includes my two most popular talks (Inbox Zero and my Time & Attention talk) as well as interviews from The Merlin Show, plus a recent, more light-hearted...http://www.merlinmann.com/2008/03/16/merlin-video/ Photos from Intel's new JF1 offices- March 3, 2008 Last year, Conan O'Brian visited Intel's offices in Santa Clara, California. He was, uh, not impressed by the endless maze of gray fabric cubicles, accented by gray walls and gray carpet. You can watch his bit on YouTube here (apparently NBC made YouTube pull the clip, so here it is from Clipstr). It's pretty funny, and yes, it is an accurate depiction of life at Intel. Apparently, that started some wheels turning. I'm sure there were a lot of other factors, but soon afterwards, there was an...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tinyscreenfuls/~3/244683249/ |