Jason Thibeault's Blog: From My Pen, page 54

Defining What Is “News”

Is “news” a point in time? An event that happened and is reported? Or is news an on-going dialogue about an event and the people/events around it?

This is an important concept as our sense of information moves from static, point-in-time sources like news papers and magazines to 24/7/365 stream of media provided by Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social media sources.

I believe that there are arguments for both cases. In a recent article posted by GigaOm, the crux of the matter is the role o...

Not a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing After All!

I think that Microsoft’s original foray into cloud based services (i.e., Live) led people to believe it was just another strategy to sell more boxed software. After all, a significant portion of their revenue is based on off-the-shelf software like Office and Windows.

But with the announcements of their latest Worldwide Partner Conference, I think they have officially made the commitment that cloud-based services are the future of the software giant:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news......

Startups, Startups Everywhere

It’s always interesting to hear about different startups in different locations and although Chicago might not seem the hotbed of technological creativity, they have a fair number of startups emerging that look promising. The link below lists eight of them as gathered by The New Web:

http://thenextweb.com/us/2011/07/17/e...

The one that most interests me, by the way, is Cloudbot because of its eerie similarities to my last startup, GoWare, that portende...

Facepalm: So You’re Mad About Something You Saw on the Internet…

If that’s the case, you might make use of this helpful, colorful flowchart. Posters are available.

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H. Caldwell Tanner and Rosscott Nover have created So You’re Mad About Something on the Internet…, a comic flowchart about how to deal with Internet arguments. It’s a follow up to their previous comic flowchart “So you found something cool on the Internet…” encouraging attribution of work found online. Posters are available for both charts.

Originally posted 2011-08-03 16:01:36.

Facepalm: So You'...

NatGeo Traveler Photo Contest Entry

Recently placed one of my photos in the National Geographic Traveler annual photo contest:

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/photo-contest/entries/68012/view/

Click on the link above to see and Twitter/FB Like it!

Originally posted 2011-07-12 12:49:16.

Photo: Some Images Go Beyond Just Visual Appreciation

Bored? Got a few minutes and want to do something fun and mindless? Check out NatGeo’s “puzzle-ization” of the latest crop of contest-winning photographs. Even if you don’t really like building the puzzles, just watching these pics get turned into them is pretty cool:

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/photo-contest/entries/puzzle/winners/

Originally posted 2011-08-11 10:40:24.

Photo: Some Images Go Beyond Just Visual Appreciation

All About the Kindle Fire

Originally posted 2011-09-30 08:09:04.

Learning From the Pros

As an entrepreneur, one of the greatest resources we have is other entrepreneurs. I frequently work with young startup executives who need guidance and advice on launching their companies. Although I haven’t had much success, my failures provide an invaluable source of information to other young businesses.

Om Malik, the founder of GigaOm (one of my favorite analyst groups), recently posted an interview he did with Josh Silverman, the ex-CEO of Skype:

Whether you have a current business or are...

If This Doesn’t Put Social Media in Perspective…

Nothing will.

Animal FB pages/profiles that have more followers than many of the leading brands.

/facepalm

http://mashable.com/2011/07/12/animals-social-media/

Originally posted 2011-07-12 15:28:42.

Photo: Caught in the Act

Not what you think but a really surprisingly candid shot:

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/gecko-palm-frond/

Originally posted 2011-07-17 12:30:26.