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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-12

October 12th, 2008 § Comments Off on Twitter Updates for 2008-10-12 § permalink

cleaning up the inbox I ignored for a day – 90 to go… #
-60 #
-30 #

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-10

October 10th, 2008 § Comments Off on Twitter Updates for 2008-10-10 § permalink

retweeting @azeem : Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic… http://tinyurl.com/3erkjz #
@moleitau did you mean dorkbot? #

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-08

October 8th, 2008 § Comments Off on Twitter Updates for 2008-10-08 § permalink

madness! 😀 #
@kumpri who was it for? 😉 #
@samastur welcome home… #
@azeem i’d go for berlin. i will go for berlin 🙂 #

Uber address book, still unsolved

October 8th, 2008 § 2 comments § permalink

Image via WikipediaThere is a segment of users, that has to daily deal with incredible amounts of contact information. The problems are numerous, from having to manually type-in infos from cards, to contacts changing their detail regularly, and the best tools avaliable still have not changed much since we started abusing spreadsheets for this task.

There are insane amounts of startups trying to tackle this, but so far the improvements were minor. From automatic scanners of cards with proprietary database of my contacts, ZyB that plugs into my phone, Highrise that can even auto clasify my emails, but makes me update contact data as it changes, to dynamic linkedin without address book functionality.

It’s hard to explain all the caveats of these services, but anyone with this problem knows what I have in mind. What we really need is having these different services communicate with each other.Â I want Highrise connected seamlessly with my LinkedIn for instance, and I don’t want to type-in details that will surely change eventually. Everyone should maintain their public info in their accountsand we should all just pull from them. Also, I need this to function asadresbook in the end, not just sitting one one part of the net, separated from my email client. It’s great to be able to tag contacts in Higrise, but no nice way to send newsletter to all my VC friends.

After two decades, many other fields got consolidated, but in the social space, it seems that everyone is concerned only with playing games and annoy me with virality, rather that producing a useful tool. Argh.

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-07

October 7th, 2008 § Comments Off on Twitter Updates for 2008-10-07 § permalink

This will be a great day! Lots of stuff to do in the office and a nice evening after that. #
@zornada tnx, they made me do it 😉 #
@masaarko don’t delete things! ever, you don’t have to… #

NaÄrti in Izmote

October 7th, 2008 § Comments Off on NaÄrti in Izmote § permalink

ObÄasno smo vsi sooÄeni s kako nemogoÄo zahtevo. Zahtevo nekoga, ki ima nad nami avtoriteto, ki jo Å¾elimo spoÅ¡tovat, Äeprav se z njegovo zahtevo nikakor ne moremo strinjat. Takrat se mu lahko uklonimo, umaknemo, ali pa z nekaj premisleka vsilimo svoje.

V politiÄni teoriji je takÅ¡no dejanje ‘subverzija’. Subverzivni so bili komunisti, subverzivni so bili pankerji, subverzivna je bila Slovenija ob osamosvajanju. Danes je subverzivno dejanje tudi takÅ¡no, ki spodkopava kakrÅ¡nokoli drugo avtoriteto – medijsko vladavino, oblast multinacionalk, ekonomijo prostega trga.

Nobena sprememba se nikoli ne zgodi brez subverzije. Subverzija sistema – sprememba od znotraj – je pogon revolucij.

V sodobni ekonomiji so temu konceptu nadeli ime ‘disruption’ – ‘disrupcija’, ali lahko bi rekli: ‘izmota’ – naÄrtno zmotiti sistem in ga vreÄi iz njegovih leÅ¾ajev.

Zadnjih 20 let Å¾ivimo v poplavi izmotnih odritij, tehnologij in izdelkov, ki so povzroÄili radikalne spremembe v naÄinih Å¾ivljena in bankrotirali cele industrijske panoge. Mobilna telefonija je bila izmota za telefonske govorilnice, digitalna fotografija za klasiÄno,…

Ideje, ki se dokaÅ¾ejo kot izmotne omogoÄijo njihovim odkriteljem daleÄ najveÄje ekonomske uspehe na globalni ravni. Lahko so pa izmotne tudi na ravni bolj lokalne ekonomije. Itivi je recimo primer storitve, ki bo obÄutno zmotila aktivnosti videotek Sloveniji, Äe ne bodo celo ponudniki videa na zahtevo Å¡e moÄnejÅ¡i udarec.

Lahko gremo celo tako daleÄ, da reÄemo, da je vsako uspeÅ¡no podjetje odÅ¾rlo trg nekomu drugemu – vsako svojo potrebo ljudje Å¾e nekako zadovoljujejo. Kdor naÄrtuje prihodnost svojega podjetja, bi moral precej razmiÅ¡ljati, katerim obstojeÄim igralcem bo njegov vstop najbolj kriÅ¾al obstojeÄe raÄune – oni bodo ali njegovi najpomembnejÅ¡i partnerji ali pa najhujÅ¡i sovraÅ¾niki.

Subverzija v politiki in izmota (disrupcija) v ekonomiji sta isti pojav – obstojeÄo razporeditev sil preÄno presekamo z radikalno novo idejo in zahtevamo prilagoditev vseh okrog sebe. ÄŒe bomo v zahtevi uspeÅ¡ni je pa odvisno zgolj od energije, ki jo potem vloÅ¾imo v prepriÄevanje. To je pa Å¾e naslednje poglavje poslovnega naÄrta.