3 Jan
Like many people, I’ve been spending time reflecting on the past year as I set my goals for 2012. Also like most people, I’m working with the television in the background. Right now, I’m watching ‘You Got Mail.’ Yes I like romantic comedies. Laugh it up. As it happens, this movie is strangely appropriate given the reflective exercise that I’m now undertaking.
27 Sep
14 Mar
Friends, Countrymen, Nerds – this summer is the one we’ve all been waiting for. This is the summer for nerds (at least nerd movies). This May-July, the silver screen will be graced with Thor, Pirates of the Carribean IV, X-Men First Class, Green Lantern, Transfers III, the final Harry Potter and – of course – Captain America. See below for my Nerd MovieFest itinerary, complete with movie release dates and trailers. Hope you’re as excited as I am!
May
5/6/11 – Thor
5/20/11 – Pirates of the Carribean, On Stranger Tides
4 Feb
Today, SAI joined Wikileaks in contributing to the fast-growing ‘leaking’ phenomenon growing online by publishing a Confidential AOL plan for 2011. Sources were not disclosed, but it is clear that the documents were not mean to be releases as they contain proprietary methods, processes and goals. Should the press leak these types of documents?
2 Feb
In the wake of the massively successful Demand Media IPO, many other companies have filed, or are contemplating filing to go public. Companies such as Facebook, GroupOn and LivingSocial have the potential to become the next generation of leaders online. These companies are characterized not only by rapid customer adoption, but also by breakout revenue growth.
For those of you with your head in the sand, we’re in the midst of a tech boom. The potential for liquidity has resulted in an increased amount of funding for early stage companies. This should lead to greater innovation and a better web for us all. Undoubtedly, there will be some bad bets. That said, I am hopeful that this time around, web companies will generate the shareholder value promised in the first dot-com boom.
31 Jan
[WARNING: THIS POST IS FOR NERDS-ONLY - IT IS LONG AND SEMI-TECHNICAL!]
The Semantic Web has long been considered the Holy Grail – or to some, the White Whale – of web technologists. Now, however, this elusive vision is may soon become a reality due to an unlikely force – Facebook. Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol, along with the massive distribution value of their platform to online publishers are resulting in the rapid ‘structuring of the web.’ The result for end users will be truly personalized experiences.
25 Jan
Photo Courtesy of Scoble: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4350229593/
I have been blown away by the tremendous response from a question that I posted on Quora over the last several days. Since posting mid-last week, the question was viewed nearly 15K times and was answered by 33 different people. The most highly voted-up answer, by Robert Scoble, was voted up 169 times.
21 Jan
It’s a new year and it’s time for a new blog!
Wanted a bit of a change, so moved hosting providers and launched my blog under a shiny new domain – hoomanradfar.me
Will be posting here regularly…and THAT’s what’s happenin!
5 Aug
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With AddThis, we have built not only a tremendous reach, but also a highly scalable real-time data processing engine. This engine processes terabytes of data daily, and can be leveraged to expose a broad range of real-time insights about how people engage with and share content online.
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