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Kids need discipline.

woah.

“Le serveur à l’adresse www.swivel.com met trop de temps à répondre.”

Thanks to Robert Kosara for his post on eagereyes about Swivel – and it’s untimely demise. “The Rise and Fall of Swivel.com”

I left the following comment (my typos remain intact here):

“With any startup, there are ups and downs, small mistakes and big mistakes. I joined Swivel as VP & Chief Data Officer early on and was completely blown away by the talent and intelligence of the team and the vision of the founders – Brian Mulloy in particular. I think everyone involved truly had (and some still have, as I do) the strong belief that data and tools for understanding them are the next place for the web to have true impact.

I chalk a lot of the shortcomings of Swivel to timing, not lack of vision, interest by early-adopters, mass-market appeal or talent of the team. Web-based technologies needed to assemble complex interactions (but in a simple UI) for real-time data analysis are still maturing and people’s comfort level in sharing data on the web is still evolving as well (Particularly business or research data – this was before “in the cloud” was a phrase middle managers had ever heard of, and frankly are still afraid of. And last I checked, even tax-payer funded research data sets are pretty closely guarded).

I left Swivel to run Product at Flickr and am now overseeing Product strategy at PLoS, a non-profit dedicated to making more scientific and medical research open access with open data supporting it. Through Swivel I met an amazing community of like-minded folks (like the Robert, who runs this site) that, on a personal level, make Swivel a huge success for me. People with whom I hope to have healthy discussions into the distant future about the intersection of data, the web and the impact on society.”

I was a little late to the Old Spice party… but, I hope the Old Spice marketing people all got huge raises.

Goes something like this:

1. Make Old Spice commercial
2. Spawning Old Spice twitter stream.
3. Twitter users directing tweets to @OldSpice.
4. Old Spice commercial man responds on YouTube (in this case, to Ashton Kutcher).
5. Twitters about his new YouTube response.
6. Ensuing more discussion on Twitter where Twitter users send more tweets to @OldSpice.
7. And sometimes even on Reddit.
8. Or Facebook.
9. And also on media outlets.

Utterly brilliant.

It really does. And will kill some younger rather than older.

‘I’m not worried about his health, he looks healthy,’ shrugged the boy’s father Mohammad Rizal.

Two-year-old Ardi Rizal, who was given his first cigarette when he was 18-months-old, throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette