I’m Reading…You can’t open a decent newspaper these days without coming across an article warning of impending deflation. (Yes, I know. How many people still open a decent newspaper?) Deflation, the Bizarro twin of inflation, has been a major concern for the United States since the financial crisis unfolded in 2008, and fears of a Japan-style [...]
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Today, at 6pm, I was invited to Pinewood in Los Altos Hills to give the commencement speech at their 8th Grade graduation. I graduated from Pinewood junior high school in 1987, so it was somewhat of an honor for me to be asked to come back 23 years later to speak to the graduating students. [...]
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Today I had the privilege of taking the wraps of a feature enhancement that my team has been working on for the past few weeks: the new version of Tweets. LinkedIn Blog: Find and Follow Your LinkedIn Connections on Twitter You can install Tweets by going to the install page on LinkedIn. There’s no need [...]
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This has been something that I’ve been thinking about heavily for the past few years. There is a trend in Silicon Valley that has been under-appreciated in the press, but nonetheless has rapidly swept through technology companies in the Bay Area. It may not be buzzword-enabled (yet), but it nonetheless may be a truly transformative [...]
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A fun article appeared today on Silicon Alley Insider: Silicon Alley Insider: What’s It Like Working for LinkedIn by Nicholas Carlson It’s a short piece that covers the basics of working for a hyper-growth, late stage web 2.0 startup. The piece begins with the following: During a recent trip out to the Bay Area, we [...]
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Just a quick note to say that the new version of LinkedIn for iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Download LinkedIn for iPhone I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the official LinkedIn blog, so no need to replicate the full walk-through here. In any case, check out this new home screen: [...]
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I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap, but this is my personal blog after all. I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore. On Monday, LinkedIn made faceted search available to all members. This effort brought to fruition efforts that date back to 2007 to completely [...]
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Too much fun. Tonight, we revealed the identity of Fake Leonard Speiser to, well, the real Leonard Speiser. The key to obfuscation was simple: there was no one Fake Leonard Speiser. A group of people who have worked with Leonard before all had access to account. Consider it a form of “Twitter Improv”. Yes, this [...]
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Thought I’d take a break from posting about pretend farming, and add my annual post on my real life farming efforts. Those of you who know me, or who have been reading this blog for a while, know that I love to garden. Despite having a tiny amount of plantable land (I have two 3×3 [...]
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No, that’s not a typo. I have seen the future. And in the future, a burgeoning virtual goods economy that has been building over the past few years will lead to the next great financial bubble and crash. Far-fetched? Read on. In some ways, virtual goods are almost as old as role-playing games. Experience and [...]
Filed under: E-Commerce, Economics, Silicon Valley, Video Games | Tagged: bubbles, virtual goods, world of warcraft, zynga | 6 Comments »
In the spirit of capturing some of the observations that I find myself repeating, I’m adding this one to the mix tonight. Unlike the previous two, this is really a piece of concrete advice for product managers of consumer software or consumer internet products. It’s also a more recent observation that I’ve formulated in the [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Product Management, Silicon Valley | Tagged: product, product roadmaps, product process, feature design, consumer internet, consumer product | 3 Comments »
My last post, and observation of business & government students, was popular enough that I think I’ll share a second one here. This is an observation that I’ve shared with a large number of people in the past seven years, as part of my greater set of take-aways on working in venture capital. I worked [...]
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Just in case you aren’t one of the 225 million Facebook users who received a notification, tonight at 12:01 AM EST (9:01 PM local time), Facebook decided to launch a massive “first-come, first serve” claim on usernames (or handles) on Facebook. You might be wondering why this is big deal, since these have existed on [...]
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That’s right, everyone. A new acronym is born. Get ready for consultants, product managers, marketing executives, and knowledgeable technorati everywhere to be talking about the most important traffic driver since… SEO (Search Engine Optimization). That’s right, 2009 is the year of TEO. Twitter Event Optimization. The logic is simple enough. Twitter is growing by incredible [...]
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If you have not been following the latest Twitter drama, I thought I’d share it briefly here on this blog. Meet Connor Riley. She seems like a nice enough young woman, going to UC Berkeley. Her personal student website is online, including her resume. After all, she is looking for a job. Good news! She [...]
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