Monthly Archives: February 2011

Technology Rules

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President Obama visited Silicon Valley yesterday and had dinner with its leaders at venture capitalist John Doerr’s home.

The attendee list included Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, Cisco’s CEO John Chambers, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Genentech Chairman Art Levinson; Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; former state controller and venture capitalist Steve Westly Doerr, and Stanford University President John Hennessy.

Technology Rules

Technology Rules

With a collective a market capitalization of over $500 billion sitting at the table, Obama’s toast surely celebrated the triumph Silicon Valley’s ingenuity and success have given both America and the World.

Tweet Optimization: Best Times To Tweet

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The following graph from Crowdbooster.com illustrates optimum times for me to Tweet based on my followers Twitter usage habits.

Tweet Optimization

Tweet Optimization

What has been interesting to learn about my Twitter audience is that the optimum times for reaching them are sub-optimum times for me to Tweet.

I haven’t yet had the time – so to speak – to figure out how to solve this particular problem.

Why I Chose IT

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I was once asked the following question by a headhunter -

“Why did you choose Information Technology  for a career over Biotechnology?”

To which I replied -

Biotechnology is the by product of information technology, therefore information technology is superior to biotechnology.

I realize the idea for a new drug or treatment comes from individuals.

However, when its comes time to analyze ideas and implement them, the process is conducted within the constraints of information technology.

Put another way – Would biotechnology even exist without computers?

 

Twitter Branding @TimCohn

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Seems obvious doesn’t it – Twitter Branding?

Shouldn’t anyone who has their own domain and Twitter account include the @ in their website’s headers and Title Tags?

@TimCohn

@TimCohn

Or it could just be obvious to me because I look at couple hundred web pages a day.

While this domain and my Twitter account name aren’t exactly the same, using both namess within this website ought to increase the search visibility of each.

Google Search

Google Search

 

 

New Facebook Feature: People You May Not Know

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After scrubbing all but my sex and birthday information from my Facebook account, I noticed something peculiar.

Without the social graph to rely upon, Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature is worthless.

I haven’t heard of any of the four people Facebook suggests I may know.

This set of Facebook recommendations could instead be called “People You May Not Know”

Facebook People You May Not Know

Facebook People You May Not Know

I then drilled down into my account further to see what Facebook’s “Find friends from different parts of your life” feature produced.

To my surprise, Facebook couldn’t predict a single person I knew without my signaling to them who I am or who I already know (my social graph).

Facebook Find Friends

Facebook Find Friends

The same however can not be said of you to the degree that you have already provided Facebook with your personal and previously private social data.

My New Facebook Profile

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I shut down my Facebook account several months ago, or at least I thought I did.

Today I was searching Facebook and discovered information I had apparently left in my profile settings which had since been moved to the top of my profile.

I scrubbed every single detail out of my Facebook account except for the two data fields you can’t remove – sex and birthday.

While scrubbing my account, I decided to upload a new profile picture.

Facebook Profile

Facebook Profile

Why the Question mark?

Because Questions are the Answer.