Tony's Tumblog

Experimental innovators don’t over analyze or put all of their hopes into one big bet - they quickly, creatively, and inexpensively use experiments to learn, gather insights, and identify unique opportunities - they then rapidly iterate, relearn, and refine to achieve success.

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The inaugural speech went by too fast to really appreciate. A growing number of commentators are noting that it needs to be read to be fully appreciated. Here it is as a TextFlow.

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I think there in lies the bigger problem with the widget sector as a whole: no one seems to have come up with a business model that makes sense. The widgets have become too successful, and have created too much inventory that keeps growing but doesn’t perform as well, forcing advertisers to re-adujust their efforts. Yet you have companies like Sprout getting funded, which tells me that there is a mismatch between market reality and VC expectations and lack of understanding of this sector.

The big opportunity is in analytics that lead to a better widget advertising system does a great job of behavioral targeting. The other opportunity is in developing new kind of ad formats that can be scaled.

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Secondbrain - All Your Content

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Google Sites

Google sites looks like a pretty good way to create and share an information space. Or maybe just a family homepage.

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First post

Spending some time exploring information management tools on the web as well as widget enabled apps.

Looking at Second Brain and Tumblr right now.

Just found out, was it always the case?, that delicious does not do search *inside* the pages you tag, only on the tags and comments. Seems like a big gap. 

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