http://aseidman.com thoughts by aseidman Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:28:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Michael Arrington recently caught an entrepreneur trying to raise money for his startup via his Twitter feed ---a clear infraction of various secruity laws from publicly raising capital to raising capital from non-accredited investors ($200K+ annual income or greater then $1M net worth), and various others that a corporate securities ... http://aseidman.com/finance/outdated-securities-law-innovation I am now on my third Bluetooth headset in the past 9 months. At roughly $70 each I could have funded my new iPhone. While these headsets burn a hole in my wallet this represents an opportunity --- a docking station for your headset that is integrated ... http://aseidman.com/product/docking-station-bluetooth-headset Innovation at the expense of laziness and old-minded dogma Ford Motors pumps billions into upgrades of its Ford F-150 pickup truck (i.e. gas guzzler) Ford Motors loses $15.3 billion in 2006 and 2007 and more to come. Ford Motors shuts down its Menlo Park, CA car dealership Tesla Motors (an electric car manufacturer) opens ... http://aseidman.com/trends/ford-motors-justice-electric-cars ...is the maximum time that software can elapse without doing anything before the user thinks something has gone wrong. I looked this up after trying to move my cable service from one location to another on comcast.com --- while ostensibly a helpful service I never actually made it thru the process. ... http://aseidman.com/product/250-milliseconds [Full Disclosure: I work at Yahoo! Search as Director of Product Management] My hiatus from this blog has been long - a couple of months - and from from the Mac far too long - 15 years to be exact - but I am falling in love with the Mac ... http://aseidman.com/uncategorized/inquisitor-for-safari In the past four years my overall flying experience has degraded so quickly that the thought of a vacation requiring air travel is frankly not very interesting. Here are some gory details from my latest trip from SFO to Brazil: Each flight was 100% full Seats were old, cloth was ripped ... http://aseidman.com/aerospace/the-us-airline-innovation-imperative Cubicles are the ultimate form of a poor compromise. Lets consider the two reasonable extremes of providing a working environment for employees. On the one hand you can go with the bullpen approach or you can go with offices. Somebody must have said, well if we just built ... http://aseidman.com/trends/kill-the-cubicle In the fall, the personal finance software space --- led primarily by Mint.com (which did a superb execution job for a V1 product) and Wesabe was all the rage. Its clear that this space was due for a refresh and had grown stale as both Intuit and Microsoft starved their ... http://aseidman.com/product/is-the-end-near-for-quicken-and-microsoft-money SPG.COM (as in Starwood Preferred Guests) recently overhauled most of their site and it is still not entirely clear to me what they were trying to accomplish. But one thing is clear, they sacrificed simplicity in the name of "prettiness" -- much of the site resembles a messy desktop ... http://aseidman.com/product/spgcom-back-to-the-whiteboard @Work we instrument our products/services to ensure that we can track important metrics -- as Peter Drucker said "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it."  Yet, for metrics that impact our quality of life @Home we have yet to develop products that help people efficiently manage some of the more important aspect ... http://aseidman.com/data/nike-ipod-the-start-of-self-measurement