Daily Archives: March 14, 2010

Drives Me Crazy

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So the hottest new space on the web is called location-based services. Facebook will soon introduce the service. Twitter recently did so. New companies such as Loopt or Foursquare are all the rage.

Arrgghh. These services combine presence, location, local mapping, messaging, status, etc. etc.

Guess what? AOL created this space with AIM with MapQuest and Digital City and AOLbyPhone. This was another space where AOL was the leader and couldn’t capitalize on its innovation in Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. We created these services and concepts in 1995, 15 years ago.

The infrastructure and audience and technology are there. AOL should be a leader in this new category. If anyone out there is listening, make us old timers proud. Capitalize on the moment.

More Than a Game

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Here is wonderful documentary on basketball in the mean streets of Chicago. I was nostalgic watching this film. It reminded me of my street ball days in Brooklyn as a kid growing up in the sixties.

Hard top courts - no nets on baskets - winners keep the ball and the court to defend - play all day until your Mom called out to come home for dinner. This is a fun film for sports fans. Click here to watch.

The Butler Did It

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What a great game and what an intense fight to the end with West Virginia beating Georgetown 60 to 58 on an acrobatic shot by Da’Sean Butler.

That was college basketball at its best. The Big East tournament played at Madison Square Garden in NYC always brings out the best in student athletes.

The Hoyas lost but go into the NCAA tournament with a lot of momentum. Hoya Saxa.

Touched

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Wow. We made the “Top Top Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read” list along with Richard Branson’s wonderful tome. Click here to check it out.

I went into the Barnes and Noble in Tysons Corner on Saturday. They were on their third order of the book. They had ordered twelve a week ago and had two books left in stock. The books were displayed in the new arrivals of the Self-Improvement section. I am very proud that you seem to like the book. I am also touched when folks ask me to personalize and autograph the book for them. Order “The Business of Happiness” from Amazon.com as well. They have lots of book in stock.