Kishore Balakrishnan’s Blog

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Trigger: The real A-Listers

trigger Social Media - dig a little deeper

it looks like “social media” is not defined yet !

my take “an easy way to know what people want”

very related:

Y Combinator - Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund

Some of the best ideas are outliers everyone ignores because they seem crazy.

Pressflip Is A Belly Flop :

build something unique yourself and then criticize others’

Pecha Kucha

The speaker gets 6 minutes and 40 seconds: no more, no less. You submit exactly 20 slides. Each one is shown for exactly 20 seconds and then flips automatically. At the end, even if you’re almost done and just have one more thing, the mic cuts off and you sit down.

There are others who are dreaming of a FriendFeed type product for the enterprise

Name?

1. colleaguefeed
2. employeefeed
3. workerfeed
4. FirmFeed (Gaby)
5. ?

Features?

1. tags at message level - possibility to change tags after message creation with version management — at comment level would be nice
2. granular privacy control - creating a room for every group of people is too much !
3. ?

Am very lucky to have come across Six Degrees of Joe Tucci (and many inspiring posts by Steve Todd, CLARiiON Founder, EMC employee) via Is FriendFeed a Lotus Eater?. Thanks to both..

Sesame Street Podcast Sigh with Sarah Jessica Parker contains “sighing is when you are a little sad about something”

Practising sighing

how is select * from friendfeed feedback sorted by likes + comments descending? Sean McBride: “Now we’re getting somewhere with smart noise reduction” - I like to call it “smart signal amplification”