Behavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is an [...]
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Behavior Generated Content
Posted by Eric Friedman on March 9, 2010
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2010/03/09/behavior-generated-content/
Working in the Cloud
For the past few months I have been looking into how to best migrate off of Microsoft Exchange and onto Google Apps. The first step in that process was to determine the needs of everyone that would be using the new mail system and how they differed from doing things before. The second step was [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on March 3, 2010
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2010/03/03/working-in-the-cloud/
Social Network URLs – the future of advertising?
I have been watching a lot of the Olympics and loving it. One thing I have noticed as I watch in real time is a growing trend of brands using social network URLs instead of their own. Below are examples from Uniball and Toyota. I remember seeing another for an upcoming movie but I forgot [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on February 23, 2010
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2010/02/23/social-network-urls-the-future-of-advertising/
The Business Breakfast
This post is definitely a joke, but it hit such a chord with my friends I thought I would open up the dialogue here – what to eat at the business breakfast?. To be honest, I have never given this much thought. To my surprise a group of friends I was recently with had this [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on December 22, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/12/22/the-business-breakfast/
“Meet Me for Coffee” – Informal Interviews with the Go-Between
This is a guest post from my friend David Schaffer It’s a familiar mantra of job hunters: it’s not what you know, but who you know. So often, searching for a new job involves contacting everyone you know in your field, alerting them to your interest in a new position, and arranging to meet over [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on December 18, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/12/18/%e2%80%9cmeet-me-for-coffee%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-informal-interviews-with-the-go-between/
Steve Blank event in NYC – Entrepreneurs Discussion
Steve Blank spoke to a group of entrepreneurs On November 12th 2009, about the Customer Development Process and running a lean startup. It was a great night with great questions throughout – I hope it do it again the next time Steve is in town. We hope to do something similar to this in the [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on November 23, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/11/23/steve-blank-event-in-nyc-entrepreneurs-discussion/
Google Music
Image via CrunchBase Google announced the ability to search, find, and play music via their search experience tonight. This is a huge business development boon by the companies involved and a major kudos goes to Imeem, MySpacePandora, LaLa, and Rhapsody. This also seems like a big win for the record labels. Below is a video [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on October 28, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/10/28/google-music/
Talk to your customers – and let them talk to each other
Last week my friend Spencer Fry from Carbonmade showed me a cool activity he participates in about once a month. His company sends out a message to its users inviting them into a Drop.io chatroom to discuss Carbonmade which is an online design portfolio company, and talk to the founders. More importantly, users get a [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 24, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/09/24/talk-to-your-customers-and-let-them-talk-to-each-other/
Digital consumption (Sway)
As promised I wanted to review my experience reading Sway via digital device. Along with being a great book, Sway was easy to read via digital screen. I think this experience has influenced me to try to read more without a physical copy of a book – perhaps even with an eReader soon. Not a [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 10, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/09/10/digital-consumption-sway/
Digital Reading
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I am going to take the weekend to read some books in digital formats. Mainly on the iPhone, but I feel like a digital screen is a big change from the printed book. I have never read a book in digital format, although I probably have read parts of [...]
Posted by Eric Friedman on September 4, 2009
http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2009/09/04/digital-reading/
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