Two weeks into my social networking project
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The first two weeks of a social networking project are critical to make sure you are being found in all the places that you needed to be found. The other interesting part is how quickly spammers and scrapers will seek out your site and start pulling content. With the first [...]
Bootstrapped Company managing rejection
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When you are bootstrapping your company, sometimes you get a lot of rejection from the bank, and for my startup bookstore, rejection from the bank comes two weeks before the consummation of a deal that would throw us into a higher orbit in terms of business. There is much angst on this one, [...]
Rebranding my Startup
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Noticed on the Seattle 2.0 list they have a book store in their startup listing, taking a look through the competitor’s web site, I decided that if I wanted to get on the Seattle 2.0 startup list, then it might be a good idea to refocus what the startup should be about, and [...]
Phase two of the social media plan goes live
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Phase two of my social media plan for the school went live this week; you can find the department web site at http://cs.cityu.edu. This is the next major step on the technology side for building out the social media capability of the program, and much like other colleges, introduces the [...]
Innovation Economics
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One of the new research arms not just in academia, but in business as well is a model that can predict the outcome of innovation, who has it, how do they use it, how can we harness it for personal or corporate advantage/gain. The problem is that innovation economics requires humans, and [...]
Ownership of a social network is not easy
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There are many people out there who are going to tell you that owning and running a social network is easy, the real truth is that not only it is not easy, but it can seriously cut into time to do much of anything else that you might have had planned to [...]
How much does that User Generated Content mean to you
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Louis Gray posted an article looking back at the last three major user lead revolutions when it comes to users balking against what look like seemingly arbitrary changes on the part of a social community. All three, Digg, Facebook and now Twitter center around thee major ideas, functionality, censorship, and privacy. He also [...]
Are we as well off technologically as we think we are in Seattle
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Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington Computer Science department has a lot to say, and most of the time is great to listen to him, or read his pages out on the UofW web site. But when it comes to Seattle, he thinks we still have a long way to go when [...]
Some things I learned from the Seattle 2 0 awards last night
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There are times when you find yourself in a room full of people and have an opportunity to really learn something about yourself and about the people around you. The Seattle 2.0 awards last night was one of those moments when I had an opportunity to learn from a [...]
I think I failed others are telling me not so fast
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Had an interesting conversation with a group of people yesterday, and I think I failed because they were unwilling to commit to a social networking service. While I am not a sales person, I do think that social networking is one way of helping customers and companies connect. Connection, the 1 to 1 [...]
First ever interview with Curious Office
The cool part about what I do and working at CityU of Seattle is that I get to help solve a lot of problems for students, and help get students ready for the work force. Technology changes with breath taking speed at times, which can be problematic with education. Curious office though gave me an [...]
Corporate Social Networking Forum
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I got a note yesterday about a new forum for corporate social networking that is worth checking out, and attending. There are three events this year, one in London, Asia and in the US the 9th and 10th of November in the Santa Clara Convention Center. With all the focus on Corporate [...]
AWS in Education Grants
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One of the things I have been committed to in my Computer Science programming is putting cloud computing into each of the tracks we are teaching at CityU of Seattle. When I heard about the Amazon Web Services in Education grant program, I knew this was something I had to check out.
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Help Spend my Bosses Money
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This is the reason why I work here; this week my boss wants us to help spend his money to give direct grants to needy students so that they can finish their degree. In a world where corporate boards and CEO’s are being tagged for not paying attention to [...]
Wrangling with the H1B Visa Issue
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Nathan over at NPost published a thought provoking article on the H1B visa program and how to fix it (if this is possible). The problem is that the H1B visa program is enormously unpopular right now with people living through the highest unemployment rates since 1982, and companies cutting back on everything that [...]
