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A close friend introduced me to this company and i am in the process of playing around with the technology - if you receive an invite from me - that will explain it.
Great concept, but as is the case with everything, its all in the execution
I live in a neighborhood of boston (02127) that has historically found its notoriety for such happenings as the busing efforts of the 1970’s - school system imposing a form of forced integration, and for crime figures such as whitey bulger - memorialized in the movie the departed. For a complete view of the history and culture of the neighborhood, check this link out
What i cant understand, is why there has not been any kind of renaissance in th culinary offerings in the neighborhood - it is a proverbial eating backwater - anything beyond steak bombs, or boring bar food is not available.
I am also posting this as i am trying out a new technology called Outside.in which is a hyper local 2.0 UGC type offering.
[where: 02127]
UPDATE: outside.in doesn’t work. it was supposed to have caught this blog post and aggregated it within the 02127 area of their site. if you go there now, i live in chicago. Nice.
My new company recently sponsored Barclays at a Childcare charity event held at Arsenals Emirates stadium
A great day had by all. Here is a picture of Jim Grimes (Concave’s CEO) and Simon Walker in Arsenals Dressing room after the match.
We also auctioned off a pair of our new football boots and they fetched $1000!
Many thanks to all at Barclays for kindly hosting us - you can see more of the pics in my flickr badge in the sidebar to the right.
As someone who is part of an organization that is worldwide and who’s executive team is remote (really remote). Outlook is both necessary and impossible. i was recently turned on to a new application that - once installed - resides with the outlook framework and attempts to provide a logical, sensible semantic view of the chaos residing within the application. It acts like a scrobbling (see last.fm) application, monitoring what you are doing (all local) and organizing your actions in a way that provides the user with a much more meaningful lens in to his data.
Rather than list all of the benefits in this post, i urge you to go ahead and install the tool and try it. It is superb.
What i dont understand, and maybe this is indicative of the larger strategic flaws that are washing over redmond (see Vista reviews - appalling piece of software) is wehy MSFT did not come up with this?
What i also dont understand is how xobni intends to generate a business outside of the grasp of said behemoth in redmond.
What better a way than to learn about a new industry than to study a competitor. I do hope that one day we can call them a competitor BTW. Check out this commercial for nike, directed by Guy ritchie.
superb.
So i have been spending the better part of the last 12 months immersed in an unusual project for me. A distinct departure for me professionally, it involves the sport of football - a love of mine, and a disruptive technology that truly has the potential to change the game.
The Company is called Concave, and you can find our web home here the site will be going up shortly, in preparation for our product hitting the shelves in the UK this August.
I have taken on the role of COO - the image below is a pretty cool piece of precision engineering that we will be using in the products construction.
I found this guy recently - if you are a fan of progressive type electronic music, you should check this out - great listening
i am huge fan of Ricky - and he continues to get the biggest stars to make fun of themselves, and for a great cause
Ford motor company claims that any picture of a car you own, well you no longer own.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/1628204&from=rss
the reason i write about this is that it is hauntingly similar to the explosion of another industry i follow closely, and have plans to either invest in or become a part of its transformation - the music industry.
Suing your customers is a death sentence. So what else do you own? i soup up my car and sell it for a profit and you sue me for the proceeds?
