Month: February 2008

Its my birthday today.

And I have a lot to be thankful for.

My family, my friends and my work.

At 39 I’m still learning and have much to still figure out.

But I am grateful and happy. 

As you probably have figured out by now, I love cover tunes.

I try to do a music post every day and frequently they are covers

I’m going to start tagging them as tumblrcovers in delicious from now on as well.

Please tag cover songs you post or discover on Tumbr as well. It will be a cool way to find new music and new tumblelogs

Rock on. 

I’ve been wanting a product review site with context for a long time. I wrote about User Reviews 2.0 on my old blog. (I’ll update with a link later)

I want a product review site that pulls in all my credit card and ecommerce history and then shares that with my trusted friends. That way if someone wants to buy a Verizon Pearl 8130 they will know which of their friends own one. Or if they want to buy a scanner or an electric toothbrush or an outside heating lamp or whatever. You get the idea.

I’m thinking that it might be easy & best to have a facebook app that does all of this.

Here’s how this app should work (more ideas coming)

• let me put in my favorite products & reviews
• let me put in my favorite restaurants & reviews
• grabs my banking, credit card and ecommerce data for restaurants and products only (let me filter out or block the ones I don’t want)
• let me tag it so you can pull up mobile or sushi for all of my friends
• grabbing my ecommerce history means I don’t have to write a review. If I goto Fugakyu every friday for sushi in boston, you can probably bet that I like that restaurant.

Some of you will probably suggest that Beacon takes care of all of this. But I don’t think it does. It doesn’t give me the control I want & need. Nor is it as comprehensive to deal with my offline purchases.

More on this subject coming in a later post. 

Asking an entrepreneur presenting a brand new idea about their competition isn’t that useful in my view. 

But I find that I’m asking that question more and more. Why? It’s not because I want to learn more about their market. I’m usually okay in that department. 

There are exceptions but I only ask it when I feel like the entrepreneur is potentially thinking about way too many ideas and products at the same time. It usually is a response to the founder telling me that about a long list of features and functionality and I don’t completely understand (or believe) the core offering.

So if you hear me asking about your competition, it’s really code for: are you trying to do too much, what do you really care about and why?