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"We are all faced with conflicting forces: excellence and learning. This past year I've made some progress in moving the two closer together. To share and practice while listening. If you would like a compass direction for where to flex your marketing mojo, look to your most pressing genuine passions. What drives you each day? Share that infectious enthusiasm with the rest of the world and allow your visions to influence others and evolve with feedback. The amount I want to learn, grows much faster than the knowledge I master." - Mark Essel

"How about Louis seeded my6sense or mytweetsense initialization, then followed by Mark's personal twists and style tastes. I'm still searching for the greatest finds with least time cost." - Mark Essel

"My blog was highlighted in the same post and it was wonderfully to be considered a quality blogger by someone as tied into this space as Louis. Completely agree Damond. Louis calling out blogs under the radar is a great way for those that don't always follow his tremendous information filtering pipeline." - Mark Essel

"Well said Steve. I have found incredible value from my small interactions, and heavy reading of Louis blog and shares." - Mark Essel

"Thanks Kid be well ( blogged about more free schwag, but you're the master of free content, I should have just asked you)" - Mark Essel

"Great pic Arnold, have a good one" - Mark Essel

"Merry Xmas to you Fred, and the whole AVC gang. (don't forget to listen and grab your favorite 1290 free songs on amazon, thanks to Amazon)" - Mark Essel

I agree, SETI would be great. But whoa, it would be a huge amount of work to open-source it. - Daniel Dulitz

@Tudor Bosman: I do not agree that the competitive advantage is the knowledge of fine tuning and implementing the algorithms. The concept/design of Google's machine learning infrastructure is very important. Don't get me wrong, I do think that Google SHOULD open source this. But I think they WILL not because of business considerations. - yusuf arslan

To distract you from her creepy teeth. - Joe Pierce

I'll have to watch it again to verify.. and again.. and again. What a fun film. Had my heart pumping, totally felt inside Pandora's story - Mark Essel

I did peep that and I think Joe's right - Richard Lawler

Nice work Dave - Mark Essel

What an incredible year Mahendra. You're a natural tech blogger, super human filter, and mortal portal (ka-ching another nickel to Louis Gray) - Mark Essel

My soapbox Http://www.victusspiritus.com/ - Mark Essel from email

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"Haha, great to see you and GothamGal are already planning the travel blog I requested on Twitter. Note to self, read here before shooting out a post. Thanks for documenting the vaca for those of us that will be working locally." - Mark Essel

"I agree Ranjeeth. Even though I'm based in the US, I see opportunities of startup harmony globally. Quality information, and social web evolution are ubiquitous. Mahendra's posts are in the top 1% of all bloggers I read. I have found strong patterns between the way he and Louis Gray, and Robert Scoble all analyize web info flow. Brilliant all around tech journalism and discovery." - Mark Essel

"I thought you had been around a while as well :). You certainly write and analyze like a pro, I'm jealous of your talent." - Mark Essel

"I started blogging in February at typepad, but my first real tweet (and friendfeed) were later on (March?). Although I share a new perspective on this space, we have both chosen very different methods of embracing it. You have a gift in capturing the essence of the tools you work with. Social media (certainly Friendfeed, twitter) are evolving channels and you understand how best to discover the information you find most useful. I tend to read much of what my friends suggest (minus you and Louis Gray, I could never keep up with all of your suggestions). Fantastic year, and I look forward to many more of enjoying your great work. (ps any specific posts you want to make from your perspective would be much appreciated)" - Mark Essel

"Agree that more interested visitors will yield greater revenue. But David this is a tool that will increase the click through rate of existing visitors by targeting their interests with timely, and relevant ads." - Mark Essel

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"We definitely share a vision for how this space is going to develop. You can always catch up on some of my thoughts at Victus Media, or at our service http://imm.victusmedia.com, or our new parallel development windowed environment, http://victus-imm.heroku.com (love user controlled environments and this was a fun for the lead tech Tyler to chew through with a javascript library he's enjoying)." - Mark Essel

"1) ha, I do the same :D. There's so many pearls I come across but don't have the window to absorb them properly. Maybe I added myself as a contact so now it just auto completes when I start typing du (dude jones an old identity I created my gmail account with). It happens in a second or two so it's fast. 2) That's a biggy, I see the send and receive email and it can take too long. The gmail direct interface doesn't suffer from that, and I don't notice it as much with 3G and wifi as opposed to 2G 3) I have also noticed a delay when it's loading. Another good reason to use gmails direct interface for me, thanks for reminding me 4) I hear you on this one. I've adapted to the touchscreen typing. I blog every morning with it while exercising, and comment/tweet, etc with it. Still prefer tactile The gmail direct interface may be more to your liking (when on your wife's phone). It's great to see your ideal device. Why not have a prototype built, I'm certain you're not alone in desiring those..." - Mark Essel

"Well said Arnold, this is precisely the problem we're working on at Victus Media, although from a twitter status perspective (first). As data becomes unbottled from social sharing users can opt in to relevant social search applications. Beyond the timing, and contextual relevancy of an ad to your latest status update, perhaps your friend (connected by Disqus comment sharing) has given a review of an awesome product that would greatly aid your search. Social semantic search can allow you see what's most relevant, in addition to serving up directly related ads. In this way we can begin to see ads as content, or at the very least meaningful information." - Mark Essel

"I use Gmail through the web on my iphone but only check it in specific intervals (don't use email as a real time/synchronous link). What kind of delay does Apple mail have. I'll check Apple's mail now...ok it took 3 seconds, is that abnormally slow? Seemed pretty real time Aaron." - Mark Essel

"Groovy Bob, checking out your post. Thanks for sharing the link." - Mark Essel

"I wonder what guaranteed performance is available to specific agencies. A multi-service card would be a good start (if service a fails, cut over to b, etc). Not sure if multi network cards are available. My preference would be a dumb wireless connection that just grabs the strongest/cheapest local signal but I'm unfamiliar with cellular data service beyond simple physics, and the ownership of the networks. Often wondered why a more distributed data flow architecture didn't win out (between hand units as optional network channels). Basically a distributed wireless Internet that grew stronger the more units that were sold." - Mark Essel

"As a developer I love simple generic cross platform handling. Certainly graceful handling of unknown interfaces is a big perk (must have?), and a smooth loss in speed performance for lower bandwidth situations." - Mark Essel

"Totally agree Ryan, I want LTE for my home and mobile with one bill. In fact take my voice/sms and shove it, I just want big fat dumb pipes of sweet data. I'll use VOIP, and Google Voice to simulate a phone." - Mark Essel

"Dig your history point Shana. The value acceptance curve explodes when a segment of our society get's over the radical, frightened of the unknown feeling and begins using the new technology." - Mark Essel

"Dig your history point Shana. The value acceptance curve explodes when a segment of our society get's over the radical, frightened of the unknown feeling and begins using the new technology." - Mark Essel

"What's a good page for me to link to when I reference your name. What's your HQ blog, idea platform?" - Mark Essel

"If AVC is the colliseum, Fred is our Sparticus. He can handle our crowd jeering. If I emailed you hinting at a super secret that I couldn't tell you, you know you'd be guessing and making fun of my secret at the same time ;)." - Mark Essel