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Facebook Application MarketingJuly 30 2007

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Facebook Developers Garage - LAJuly 30 2007

This weekend I attended the Facebook Developer Garage in Santa Monica. Meagan Marks from the Facebook Platform team spent several hours with the group and made it clear that they are very developer friendly. The next several hours were filled with Barcamp style presentations and ad hoc discussions. By the time the beer and pizza came in the evening the audience was mostly developers coding, sharing information and giving each other feedback on their apps.

The best part was meeting people who have used the past 60 days to develop not one but sometimes several successful applications. And the serious people are making money.

Special thanks to Kareem, Eric and the rest of the organizers. And hat’s off to Meagan from Facebook for sharing her Ninja secrets and being an enthusiastic supporter of the developer community.

Too Much Noise on Facebook?July 28 2007

Awesome timing. I am heading to the Mahalo offices for a facebook event and Jason Calacanis declares facebook bankruptcy last night. But if I was him, I would do the same thing. The guy has got something like 200 pending requests. Unless you have OCD, this is a nightmare.

Calacanis makes some good points but he’s the one that asked for all this attention and I don’ blame Facebook for his problem. He is a pro at working online communication channels to get his message out. I love watching Calacanis in action. Before Mahalo launched, he augmented his blog by building a huge audience on Twitter. So a 150 friend requests on Facebook? Not surprising. I think if you turned off email and application notifications you would be better off.

Now after calling out Calacanis out as an edge case, I have to admit something. I am finishing up a FB app design and I am concerned about similar types of backlash for “regular users”. Will everyone be sick application requests by the time I launch? Hopefully not. From my totally unscientific polling (asking every kid I run into), the millennial generation seem to be OK with the noise.

One last thing. I am a pre-funded startup

Confessions of an Early AdopterJune 28 2007

I am the ultimate gadget freak and poster boy for early adopters. I bought the first Apple computer, the first Palm Pilot, the first Treo, one of the first MP3 players, the first in-car MP3 player, the first gen iPod, the first TiVo and the first Samsung HD DLP TV, the first DirecTV HD DVR and so on.

There is a sadistic quality about being an early adopter of innovative v1.0 products. My Treo 150 had to be replaced 3 times because the hinge would break constantly. My Samsung TV’s circuit board had to be field updated two months after I purchased it. My DirecTV HD DVR was plagued with problems and the software was updated weekly for months to fix the bugs.  Somehow my wife puts up with it.

But will I get the

Switching from a PC to a Mac: Picking the Right AppsJanuary 3 2007

I have been a PC user for the last several years but decided it was time to go back to Apple. I used to like my Asus notebook and Windows XP but over time several little things started to drive me nuts. Every time I picked up the notebook to move it somewhere my hand would hit the side buttons and turn off my network connection or then windows started behaving badly (as it does after a year or so of use). Instead of waiting for a Notebook/Vista upgrade I decided to jump back into the cult.

It’s only been a few days and I am stoked that I made the change.
I researched the impact of a switch on my critical business and personal applications and work flow for a week or so then decided to made the switch over New Years weekend. Here’s my experience - hopefully it will help some folks out.

OS

• I was fumbling around until I read this awesome post on lifehacker. It’s a must read for switchers and couldn’t have come at a better time. It a perfect quick start guide for Windows users - why didn’t apple write this?

COMMUNICATIONS

Firefox -> Firefox - DONE

• This is a seamless switch. I just re-downlaoded my favorite plugins and I was good to go.

MS Office 2003 / Plaxo / Palm Hotsync -> Office 2004 Mac / Plaxo / Missing Sync - DONE

• This move was mission critica