Quora’s like Yahoo! Answers, only it’s not. It’s the next big thing. It’s addictive.
Daxko was a partner at the CalSAE conference in Monterey, California. Nick (Daxko Connect’s product expert) and I spent Saturday morning driving around Silicon Valley on the hunt for some of our favorite dot-coms, Facebook and Google being the main interest.
Sweet Moses, it was perfect.
I’ve driven through Mountain View, Cupertino, Palo Alto, before, but that was long before the web fully took shape.
First, much looks just like any other town you’ve visited. Strip malls and office parks, all of which are unassuming until you see ‘Loopt’ or ‘LinkedIn’ on the side of the building.
Second, you drive past Facebook and never know you passed anything special. We did. Twice.
Third, you cannot drive past Google without knowing you passed anything special. There are signs of the Googleplex long before you reach the main building. ‘Google St’ for example is a not so subtle sign.
I love Beta invites for new services.
Call it a craving to learn the “next”.
Call it a craving to be the first.
Call it an undying love of technology.
Call it anything, but don’t call me a laggard.
After scoring a Beta invite for about.me, my wife launched her page a few days later. I had time to prep, test, prepare my page to spew nothing but pure awesome. Now, Chelsea’s page has not only racked up thousands of hits, it’s on the “Spotlight” section.
My page is the Friendster to her Facebook.
I’m ticked. Jealous, and ticked.
It’s simple, interesting, relevant, and developed by a teenager who is smarter at 17 than any of us could ever hope to be.
Wish you had your own hub for all-things-you but can’t or don’t wish to start your own website? Sign up for About.me. It’s still in ‘invitation only’ mode at the moment, but if you ask nice via Twitter, you’ll receive an early invite.
I completed my page last week. It’s easy, insanely simple and plain, which will keep this from being some sort of mini MySpace.
The title implies I’m making fun of my hometown website – and i kinda am – though I’m actually quite impressed. The site is more well organized than it’s former, bland counterparts [1998, 2000) though I wouldn’t go so far as to call the appearance “clean” like the NYTimes.
The ability to ‘thumbs up’ articles is nice… but for some authors (I’m talking about you, Ben Hamilton) a ‘thumbs down’ could come in quite useful. Comments under the articles? Yes, please. You’re begging for post-game online commentary battles between rival schools.
The kicker: social network-integrated. Yes, you can create your own DME profile. I did.
Nice to see more of you have joined. Yes, I’m on it. Yes, it’s still a little odd to me, but so was Twitter and now I’m addicted to Twitter.
Join. Link it to your Twitter. Be careful that you don’t over share… it’s annoying, I’ve done it, accidentally won a badge for it.
The ad in the upper right hand corner has been freaking me out for a while. I a back-n-forth email session with some friends yesterday, someone else voiced their concern as well.
Her eye makeup is way too dark, and her hair way too light.
The weird thing: it doesn’t link to anything.
Thanks to all who participated in Tuesday’s Twitter extravaganza involving the hash tag: #jasperrumors (Jasper Rumors).
To follow past and future discussions – or to participate – simply search #jasperrumors on Twitter.
Received my advance copy of Delivering Happiness. The book is authored by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, one of the most successful dot-coms of the last decade.
The book is set for release on June 7. I’ll be peeling through it over the next few days. Hope to have a review up in the next couple of weeks.
It has been a while since I’ve linked to my favorite things from one of my favorite sites.
I love blogs. Good blogs. When I find good blogs, I love to learn from them and share them.
FlyThroughOurWindow.com is a website run by a Southern mother who seems to spend her days making pastries with her three unbelievably adorable children.
Just an FYI, Yahoo Sports Fourth Place Medal is a fantastic blog to follow throughout the Vancouver Olympics.
Mentioned this before, but important things need reminding. After my computer was stolen a couple of years ago, I began saving my files with Carbonite.
Carbonite automatically updates your computer files, no matter how you’ve changed them since your last automatic backup. If your computer hard drive ever fries, is lost, or is stolen, all your files are saved at Carbonite. Click one button and it puts everything back in place as if nothing ever happened.
[NOTE: Carbonite didn't pay me to pimp their product. I just love it that much.]
Lord knows I love attention. So needless to say I freaked out when I saw that Robby Followell updated his website and we had 2 photos (one of us, one of our rings) from our wedding, I was happy.
Robby’s photos in general have made such a splash around the interwebs that some friends of ours in Seattle are talking to him about their wedding in Spring 2011.
If you have Netflix, Food Inc is now available on Instant Queue. You won’t be disappointed.
