Sunday, July 01, 2012

Search --> Social --> Mobile --> Big Data

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Google won search. Facebook won social. Android is going to win mobile. Who will win Big Data? Is Big Data the next big thing on par with search, social and mobile? I take it for granted it is. In fact, I take that already to be the industry wisdom.

Fred Wilson: Mobile Is Where The Growth Is: In technology the more things change, the more they stay the same. You cannot ever rest. Because the big change that is going to upset your nice apple cart is right around the corner. Today that is mobile. Tomorrow, who knows? I am trying like hell to figure out what that will be and jump on it. Because that's how you play this game.

Considering Google+ has tremendous momentum. And Google is already hard at work on Big Data, Google as a company ends up looking really, really good.

I have long been a Google fanboy, like people are Apple fanboys.

Netizen Has Arrived: A Link From AVC
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Fully Filling Out My LinkedIn Profile

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I signed up for LinkedIn not long after it was launched because I read about it in the news. But I have never been much of a user. Two days back I decided to add many more details. For the first time I might have a full profile. Although it has technically been full the entire time.

Chris Dixon once said people thought he had a "strange" resume. I might have one of those. Omitting details makes it stranger. So I decided to add details going back as far as I could.

My LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn has been defying gravity as a post IPO company. Good old fashioned revenue helps. Their revenues have doubled every quarter since they went IPO. And that is why they still have an outlandish P/E ratio. At LinkedIn corporate salespeople are considered as important as engineers. Most of their money comes from charging big money to recruiters. LinkedIn is recruiting on steroids.

While you are at it, go read this article.
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