IT Conversations: Patrick Grady - Supernova 2005

IT Conversations: Patrick Grady - Supernova 2005: Good historical perspective on attempts to create services centered around the individual. As former VC, Mr. Grady certainly knows how to describe the potential of the market very well. In this talk, he gives one example of users spending an average of 2.5 hours a day attempting to coordinate schedules and make service-oriented purchases. The missing ingredients include knowledge of one's schedule, one's preferences, and secure agents (my term) that can monitor availability of things and buy/book them for you. With the right tools (his Company's), right security, and right scale (he calls "network effect"), he thinks he can succeed where so many have failed thus far (e.g. MS Passport and Haelstorm). He speaks of having a million users of his product, and he makes some good arguments, so I think it's worth a listen.