This poem was originally written about my upstairs neighbor when I was very little kid in Greenfield, MA. She did have bottles everywhere in her small upstairs apartment, though in my memory the quantity of them is probably exaggerated.
Just wanted to call out a few books I enjoyed in the last week:
Business 2.0: Where to find the world’s hottest startups – Aug. 10, 2006 covers a host of Web 2.0 apps. Not all of them are what I would call “startups” anymore, but what’s notable is that two of them are associated with the virtual world space: Cyworld and Habbo Hotel.
Over a Monte Cristo sandwich the other day (deadly, deadly), I had occasion to discuss the E3 changes with a Silicon Valley guy who was curious. Of course, we recently saw what the E3 organizers told the smaller guys, the ones who lurk in Kentia Hall. (Not always so little — this year, that’s where Guitar Hero was, for example).
The underlying subtext here is that E3 is about publishers, big ones mostly, showing their wares to print media, television, distributors, and retailers. The people who are getting frozen out are the indies, the smaller publishers, the bloggers under a certain mass market threshold, and the consumers.
This seems like an odd step into the future, if you look at current trends.
