The Art of Building a Successful Social Site

An insightful and impressive information on the ingredients necessary for the making of a successful venture in the social media space. It is regarding Stack Overflow, a free question and answer site built by developers for developers that has fostered a strong and committed online community in under one year. It was founded by Joel [...]

On Being Relentlessly Resourceful

Paul Graph has an instructive essay about what it takes to be a good startup founder. He is advice is “Be Relentlessly Resourceful.”
Be relentlessly resourceful.
That sounds right, but is it simply a description of how to be successful in general? I don’t think so. This isn’t the recipe for success in writing or [...]

EurekaAlert!

In the age where Null Information is expanding and growing at a rate faster than our ability to make sense and use of it all, there are some precious tools that make it easy for one to stay on top of major developments in human endeavors. In the area of science and technology, one such [...]

Staying Informed

Here is a wonderful piece of information about staying informed by Jenna Wortham of NY Times. Not including the traditional news sources, the article discusses about news aggregators such as Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Delicious, NewzNozzl, Mixx, Newsvin, Addictomatic, Yahoo Buzz , BuzzTracker, BuzzFeed, Google Reader, FeedDemon, Bloglines, ReadBurner, RSSMeme, LinkRiver, Tabbloid, Feedbooks, … It is incredible to me [...]

Passive/Active Consumption of Information

Why blog at all? That is a fair question to ask. A detailed discussion on the social implications and the meaning of blogging is not the intention of this post. It is rather a reflection on the consequence of active blogging in the patterns of information consumption. In a previous post, I have discussed the concept of Null [...]

Null Information

Information is power and currency. Unlocking this power is the key to a competitive advantage as those with access to and knowledge of it are empowered with the insight that others do not have. As such, more informed decisions can be made or risks taken, which in turn could translate into the creation of value. In [...]