hit-or-miss quicklinks: Shopping Maps by NY Neighborhood – great site, would love these for every city we visit.

I am starting to find these discussions of applied microeconomics to be fascinating – for instance ProfessorBainbridge.com: The Starbucks v. Subway Puzzle and all the links it includes. I always enjoyed micro in grad school, and you can argue that my 4 years at Booz-Allen were an extended exercise in applied microeconomic analysis. Whatever, good stuff.

The Problem With Presentations – pointed to by many blogs – “It’s the story, stupid”. Great guidance – the points about making it personal ring very true. I’d also add one more piece of guidance – think hard about your audience, where they are coming from, their hopes and fears, and make sure you are connecting to their concerns.

Citrix Acquires Maker of GoToMyPC – wow, this is a pretty big price. I am a little surprised, I don’t know many people using GoToMyPC, but obviously it must have had a strong base of users and a good growth curve.

The Furrygoat Experience: HDTV Goodness – WB and Fox join in now. This is getting to be pretty good. Of course not all the channels are doing much – king5 newscasts are really lame, constantly flipping between hdtv studio shots and lo-res films. very annoying.

FolderShare.

Update: tried it out. Nice work, but has a limit of 10K items per shared folder which is a bummer, doesn’t work as a private shared network for my music collection which is what i really wanted.

Scott Loftesness: Amazon (and eBay) as Platforms – “I find this a lot more interesting than social networking…” – hear hear.

From Freedom to Tinker: Painters Buy White Canvases for a Reason. A pithy way of describing why platforms are successful.

meryl’s notes: Be e-Hercule Poirot – sounds interesting, will try to look at over the holidays.

Rebecca’s Blog – great tips on how to really listen, and a great set of links. One of my business partners, Jon Roberts, is a great listener – he constantly reminds me “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

RasterWeb! – so true. Don’t waste my time asking me about something if you haven’t even tried Google yet.

GigaOm: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog: Cameraphones as scanners – I love this idea, might actually make the camera on my phone worth something. Of course there is a huge adoption problem in getting everyone to print barcodes on everything but in some domains these exist already. And maybe in the not too distant future, the phone can detect RFID signals instead of reading barcodes.

BrilliantPhoto by Brilliant Labs, Inc. – it claims that it stores all photo metadata as tags within the jpeg, which is compelling, as the tags all travel with the photo. Might be worth trying.

ClipDrive USB Flash Drive - Portable USB storage devices that plug into any computer or laptop USB port – cool, makes a lot of sense. If i do carry a huge amount of my data around in an easily losable device, I want some access control on it.

A random related point – I doubt PCs ever get smartcard readers, but the USB port is proving to be a reasonable alternative for a lot of applications.

PhotographyBLOGpoints to Pixory, another photo sharing app, apparently akin to Electric Shoebox which I mentioned last week. BTW the Electric Shoebox team contacted me and were very solicitous of feedback, they seem like good guys.