Dave Stone

aka. builtbydave

Bonfire: Starting a Bonfire 

bonfireim:

We had a feeling we were building something people wanted, but last week this really became apparent.

We announced with Techcrunch and GigaOm that we’re bringing chat and presence to Twitter, and we immediately opened up signups for a brief period. Straightaway we realised that very…

iconoclastical:

I won’t ever change their minds. So I give up.

Instead, I shall just annoy them.

From now on, I won’t say ‘Jesus’, I shall say ‘the theory of Jesus’.

You're not in the 'web industry' 

Like paper, a technology from circa 105 AD. You use it within your business. You wouldn’t say you’re in the paper industry.

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TEDxBrighton, Jan 21st 2011 

Twitterati: if you went to TEDxBrighton @msg me & I’ll add you to my TEDxBrighton list.

In reverse order:

#TEDxBrighton “no hope on the boat; hope isn’t an action plan”—

iconoclastical:

Philanthropic millionaires seem ignorant of the fact that their extreme wealth is a bigger problem than the ones they are trying to solve.

Or: the need for microfunding & entrepreneurship to be taken seriously.

Spam, Ham & Bacon 

Google release Priority Inbox, awesome—well not quite…

Anti spam: you have your inbox. In that lands spam & ham. Spam is removed & you’re left with ham.

Priority Inbox: you have your…

Growth v0.3 

Skip to the spreadsheet

Following up from my post Quant Based Marketing for Startup v0.2 I decided to take things somewhat further & have added:

  • post-campaign metrics
  • basic finances

Nexus One to iPhone 4, what I miss 

Since Froyo I decided to trial my Nexus One again. I moved back to iPhone a couple of days ago. I miss:

  • Facebook & Twitter integration to Contacts
  • Google Streetview with compass
  • Google’s…

Quant Based Marketing for Startup v0.2 

@noahkagan, blogged Quant Based Marketing for Startup recently (the spreadsheet). I like things like that :-)

It didn’t have a few things I wanted—and given I needed to throw something…

Question #48: Luck 

Do you generate more luck when wearing your lucky jacket? (or, blanket, rabbit’s foot, gem, etc). Is wearing the jacket what creates the luck? It’s a placebo, no?

b) If you know it’s a placebo…

Email information overload strategy 

After posting my Social Media email filter I thought I’d post something a little more holistic about how I manage the information overload of email. It’s simple:

Email hits inbox

If I were…

Using Google Nexus One on O2 (iPhone package) UK 

Wasn’t immediately obvious searching in via Google…

If you’re in the UK & have an iPhone with O2 you’ll need these settings in your Nexus One to get data & mms working. Go to: Settings →…

Email filter; social media 

I’m pretty adamant about being efficient with my time, and in-turn a few have been bored to death about my email process.

Most however have been gobsmacked by how many filters I use! I’m…

Question #47: Big brother G 

When Google moves into a country and deploys it’s local services, what effect does that have on the country from a x perspective, when x is:

  • Deviance (crime)
  • Religion
  • … other cultural…

Question #46: Growing a rainforest 

Humans growing rainforests on our planet is one thing… what does it mean for growing rainforests in other biospheres? Be that something like Biosphere 2 or another planet?

p.s. I watched Jane…

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