I’m talking too much.
For the rest of today (Friday), you can get free access to webcast I did yesterday for What Would Google Do? Warning: 90 min.
Here’s video of a talk I did not Beta, likely to be my next book.
Here’s a panel I moderated on teaching entrepreneurial journalism.
Here’s the latest Guardian Media Talk USA, with Natalie del Conte and Fred Graver.
And here’s the latest This Week in Google with a good discussion of Buzz with Leo Laporte, Kevin Marks, and Jyri Engström.
And, yes, even I am tired of the sound of my own voice.
I’m just finishing “What Would Google Do.” Great book. Great work. Great ideas.
One of the things that it made me think about was the FLDS, of the ‘Great Eldorado Roundup’ infamy. Here is an extremely secretive sect that went from totally quiet to a cover story in National Geographic in ~2 years, building an online community both for and against in the process. Additionally, they have been doing “Google insurance” for ~150 years, and are now running online businesses. It is very interesting to think of ladies in pioneer dresses as being ahead of googlification. Really interesting case study, and extremely pertinent to your book.
Here is a copy of their web page, that went up shortly after the raid.
http://www.truthwillprevail.org/
OK, forgive me for the snark. But WWWGD? Were Sergey and Larry out at conferences when they were building Google into what it was today? I don’t think so.
My advice to VCs is don’t invest in any company where the main people spend all their time at conferences. They should be working on their actual products — the ones that consumers are actually going to use as opposed to just discuss.
PS How about a recent comments widget or an RSS feed for comments. You used to have the latter and it was great.