Always thinking

What have I learned in one week.

Fate continues to tell me that my destiny resides in entrepreneurship.

I have since learned two completely different subjects: machine learning powered personal online shopping and green-tech.

I started the week with a talk with my developer regarding a casual Google map app that I wanted to push out, which brought another interesting subjects: online shopping. I have done extensive research on the current online shopping market and decide to combine discount shopping with credit social projects together for an eventually deal-crawling-feeding-engine/site/social network.
Then I found Kaboodle.com, then I also found an even cooler online shopping engine stylefeeder.com, a group of truly hardcore machine learning/software engineer dealing with utmost girly task: shopping. Kabooble existed since late 2005, has been extremely successful, while stylefeeder started from mid-2006, with modest to accelerating growth, both thanks to their social elements, firefox widget and complicated behavior pattern recognition technology in the backend; like.com, on the other hand, seems to be struggling because its lack of focus on social element, and too much relying objects, instead of human behavior pattern. I like Kaboodle's "helping me choose products", and style feeder's super smart shopping twin technology. Very very cool, both of the sites.

Then I came across green-tech, first through http://gliving.tv, then it opened a profound pandora's box: I just realized how big green-tech/eco-related business/space has already become, it's unfolding in a speed faster than online video sites two years ago. Josh Dorfman's Vivavi.com and http://www.lazyenvironmentalist.com/ are very interesting efforts he put up in the recent years, and he is my age. I was thinking about green credit card, have not heard of that too often.

Lot of things going on in the world, I need to stick to my direction and get busy.

posted by Road less travelled @ 11:49 PM