Podcamp Boston 3 Wrapup
This weekend our Director of Sales, Ken Gellman and I went to podcamp Boston 3, and it was an amazing event. We were one of the sponsors, and we had a chance talk to a lot of great people about matchmine and what we’re all about. In addition to talking to people at the matchmine table, we had an opportunity to do a presentation. Since many of the presentations and panels were about podcast production and branding, I thought it would be useful to do a tactical presentation. Rather than big picture stuff, I decided to do a presentation on … | Read Full Post »
matchmine at Podcamp Boston
This weekend, we’re going to be at podcamp Boston 3. We’re excited to sponsor such an excellent event, and we’re even more excited to be presenting a panel entitled “Discovery- How people find blogs, podcasts, and video, and what that means to you.” Last year I attended podcamp Boston 2, and was the unlikeliest of attendees. Judging solely by the title of the event, I thought “I have never listened to a single podcast, let alone many podcasts, necessitating an entire camp.” But I decided to go and that was a great decision. Despite the name, podcamp isn’t … | Read Full Post »
Sponsoring Content, Context Not The Same
My monthly column, now up on ADOTAS … Sometimes you experience a new product online, and the penny drops on a whole new understanding of how media is changing. I recently had just such an experience, and you should have it too. The product is called “Feedly,” and it’s available right here for that shiny new Firefox 3 browser you just downloaded. Feedly rather humbly bills itself as an “attempt … to create a more social and magazine-like start page.” It’s a browser plug-in that delivers the Web 2.0 version of what we used to call … | Read Full Post »
Gary Vaynerchuk Brings The Thunder To Boston
Last week I went with the matchmine crew to the Gary Vaynerchuk book signing/live show, and it was incredible. Dmirti Gunn organized a really amazing event, and we had the privilege of sponsoring the wine tasting portion of the evening. Until I heard about the event, I’d never heard about Gary Vaynerchuk, the guy that’s trying to bring wine to the masses. He’s an internet celebrity, an author, a consultant, and a guy that turned a $4 million a year local liquor store into a $60 million a year national wine monster. On top of that, he’s just … | Read Full Post »
Similar Tastes or Similar Recommendations?
I’m a big fan of Netflix. I’ve had an account for a few years now and have caught up on a lot of movies I’ve had on my “to watch” list forever. One thing I really like about Netflix is how they let you see what other people are renting. Call it curiosity or maybe laziness to find stuff on my own, probably a little of both. There’s the “Netflix Top 100” and you can even check out the Top 25 rentals in a whole bunch of genres. Number one in Sci-Fi & Fantasy right now? Transformers of course. What … | Read Full Post »
Spawning a Sixth Sense
Over the weekend I was chatting with some folks totally outside the web tech gravity well. While explaining more about what we do at matchmine, it was interesting to see how they approached the concept of media recommendations. Initially, they didn’t see much differentiation between various techniques, but through some examples started to see some of the nuances. Here are some example recommendation sets that helped get them to mental escape velocity: Set One Set Two Set Three The Ring Suspiria Stir of Echoes Gothika The Grudge The Others Momento Primer … | Read Full Post »
Everything In One Place?
As I’m getting over a mild case of the black plague, I’m in more of a contemplative state of mind. So, with that, I thought I’d go over something that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately: having everything in one place. I will warn you: this is going to be one of those rambling posts that doesn’t end in anything resembling an answer or a conclusion. But you’re used to that. Some people do their banking in a grocery store You can get coffee in a bookstore You can buy Pizza Hut at Target You see where I’m going … | Read Full Post »
The DataPortability In-Motion Podcast
matchmine founder J. Trent Adams is an active member of the DataPortability Work Group, and hosts and produces the DataPortability: In Motion Podcast show along with Steve Greenberg. It is a weekly roundtable discussion about the DataPortability Project in specific, and efforts involved in data portability in general. So far, eleven episodes of the podcast have been released: 3/28/2008: Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software, about his views of data portability and accessibility. Details | Listen | Comment 4/4/2008: Kaliya Hamlin, Data Sharing Summit; Joe Andrieu, VRM Project; Danny Ayers DataPortability song. Details … | Read Full Post »
“Time wounds all heels.”
The brilliant pun above (with credit to Mr. Lennon) is only one of the worthwhile things to be gleaned from this great post on the selfish reasons serial entrepreneurs need to be decent people. Highlight: Successful serial entrepreneurs know that each relationship they develop is a potential goldmine. As noted in Your Personal Pitch, in order to be successful, entrepreneurs must enlist the help of numerous Donors – individuals who are in a position to give their adVenture a helping hand. Most employees, investors, customers and suppliers prefer to work with people and organizations which they trust. … | Read Full Post »
Opening up that ID
The fog is clearing on our support for OpenID as a method for accessing your MatchKey. Like most good development practices these days, that means we’re wading into the waters rather than diving in like a cannon ball. For us, this means we’re working first on supporting the ability to log into the MatchKey.com site directly using OpenID, and will subsequently roll out integration via our partners. Fortunately, more people every day are becoming familiar with the concept of single sign-on (SSO) in general, and OpenID in specific. This is, undoubtedly, in large part due to folks … | Read Full Post »
