WIFLblog

January 17, 2004

Feedster is keeping a separate list of "top 100 feeds." Weird, I'm #4 on that one too. I'm very honored that so many people subscribe to me.

[The Scobleizer -- Geek Aggregator]
4:06:26 PM

Radio UserLand optimization.

Radio UserLand users: Matt Mower has written a little utility that can optimize Radio's upstreaming feature. I'm gonna try it out and see if I notice a difference here.

[The Scobleizer -- Geek Aggregator]
4:06:06 PM

Social Entrepreneurship.

I've always had a hard time describing what I do. Recently, depending on the context, I've started calling myself a social entrepreneur. I first heard it in the context of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.

Here is a Stanford Business School definition of Social Entrepreneurship.

via CommonMe

By Joichi Ito joi_nospam_@nospam_ito.com. [Joi Ito's Web]
4:03:44 PM

a scientific approach to ebusiness. ebusiness models seem to be matured enough to get some serious scientific coverage. I discovered a great resource recently. Tobias Kollmann, one of the founders of Autoscout24.de the car exchange that has recently been acquired as a part of a group deal by T- Online is also professor in Kiel. The departement is focused on ebusiness and eventures. He takes his research serious and has published a row of good articles and books. He especialy covers funding, research, marketing for different business models such as mobile commerce applications, marketplaces and digital content models. His papers are pretty interesting (unfortunately in German only):

This paper has some great info how to select and refine the business model for your start-up.
Another one shows some interesting case studies for venture backed start-ups.
This one is a great starter's guide to a venture transaction.
And this one has a nice classification of start-ups, helping to determine which one might thrive or not.

[TJ's Weblog "Technology, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship"]
9:47:02 AM

Moving pictures.

I wanted to demonstrate the SpamBayes plug-in for the school, and I realized I ought to try the screen-capture feature of the free Windows Media Encoder 9. The results were stunning. I set up a new session, pointed it at Outlook's main window, and began encoding. Then I talked through a demonstration of SpamBayes' configuration manager, its Delete and Recover toolbar buttons, and my techniques for integrating SpamBayes with Outlook's filtering and foldering. Along the way I pointed with the cursor to items of interest, opened and closed dialog boxes, and drove the Outlook interface as I normally do.

The resulting six-minute video had the same format as my Outlook window, which happened to be about 750-by-620. The file came in at just under 3MB. I FTP'd it to my Website and, because I'd chosen the progressive-download option, playback was immediate. It was also perfectly readable and audible. Elapsed time from the moment I thought of trying this to the end of playback: about 25 minutes. Next time it'll take 10. Why don't more people do this? Because it wasn't this easy before. Now, it is. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

I wanted to post that video here, but I'm afraid I can't because it reveals too much of the contents of my inbox. However, I'll definitely be using this technique in the future. One killer application, if you sit in on a lot of WebEx demos as I do, is the ability to record them, play them back, and publish excerpts from them. ... [Jon's Radio]
9:22:13 AM

Dynamic categories. A while back I stopped assigning the items I post here to categories. It wasn't because I couldn't be bothered to do the categorization. Quite the contrary, I'm really interested in achieving that result, and more than willing to put some effort into it. But, although I'm generally a huge proponent of the publishing technique I call static serving of dynamically-generated pages, it increasingly seemed like the wrong way to deal with categories. ... [Jon's Radio]
9:19:54 AM