CRAIG KERSTIENS

On an entirely separate blog I have a full write up on seduction.

The cloud has a lot of technical arguments going for it.

A coworker and I were recently having conversations over employee compensation.

Facebook is where I have more noise than any other social site, twitter may even tie facebook at amount of sheer content I receive in my feed.

I often encounter people whether at my office or at other places of employment that are distraught after getting an earful from a manager from some problem arising.

I have a tendency of really latching onto very simple ideas.

The web is becoming saturated.

There’s a continual shift that seems to be happening on whether contextual advertising is better than behavioral.

Facebook is as authentic of a network as you can have, you have you, you are you, you’re not FunChick21, or MotorcycleGuy42, You’re Craig Kerstiens.

I’ve done some recent advising for someone working on a site that’s of a social nature.

Three times in recent years I’ve had to micromanage others.

Most of my working career has been in what many would call an enterprise environment.

Something I learned very early on in my working career, not so much from my experiences but from observing the results of others, was to engage at a social level as early possible.

Take ownership of the process

Google doesn’t understand social or collaboration.

Due to many recent events, which I’m sure I’ll disclose later, I’ve been in an interesting situation of a good bit of leverage.

Twitter has finally hit mainstream, it was bound to happen and with Ashton, Oprah, Shaq, among many others it’s now going to be around for a while.

I’ve learned a great deal since being out in the valley, first, is the confirmation that I do love the atmosphere.

As I watch the news and posts roll in each day with new layoffs in the valley, ranging from large corporations such as HP and EA, down to the small guys such as seesmic, imeem, searchme, and zillow to name only a few, there still seems to be a demand for…

I recently attended part of the recent Techcrunch 50 conference, and when I wasn’t there I was watching much of it online.

Forget the benchmarks, forget whether its truly faster or slower, forget whether the market share is 30% for non-IE browsers (though is this only for US or internationally).

As I currently work at a startup I have a small stake in the company.

Many people criticize Wal-Mart for the way they run their business.

Live video streaming from your phone might just seem like another form of lifecasting, a video form of twitter, or even a mobile version of ustream.com or justin.tv, but it really is far more than that.

So traditionally I’ve been a very do it yourself person.

In the coming weeks I’m going to be working with a friend to help his venture in a new partnership that someone has approached him about.

At a conversation today we got into a discussion about how ebay can compete with amazon.

Social advertising is a very different than traditional web advertising.

I find it extremely amusing that Microsoft and Apple are in many senses the very same company, at least in their actions, yet people feel very different about the two.

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I recently posted about web 2.5, and since that time have been diving into two sites that attempt to do this.

Facebook’s development platform just over a year ago seemed like a genius idea, with an almost infinite amount of potential.

I’ve talked about web 2.0, talked about web 3.0, but today realized theres still a middle ground we have to reach in between the two.

I’ve written many posts here about business, technology, and the like.

This week I want to talk about one of the hands-down best sites on the internet.

There’s been a lot of buzz in the valley lately around this very small startup, that has a few pretty heavy hitters.

So this week they announced what many expected was coming the iPhone 3g.

While I may or may not know how to be successful in silicon valley, I feel pretty confident that I can point out a few ways to not be successful in valley terms.

There was a recent post over at ReadWriteWeb about how content is becoming a commodity.

Adobe’s former CEO, Bruce Chizen, when asked ‘What advice do you have for new/young public companies?’

So yesterday I posted around blurring the lines around your personal and professional life.

Someone recently commented on by tweeting after having given my two weeks notice to my company, that it may not have been the best idea.

I’m pretty sure I’ve said it before, but in case I haven’t voiced it on here yet, watch out for Adobe.

A recent conversation of someone that was offended when the were introduced to someone new, then was not greeted first since they were a female brought what follows to mind.

I recently read an article on Techcrunch on how web 2.0 had undoubtedly made an impact, but had yet to truly make money.

I’m finding it a growingly interesting balance in consuming versus producing information.