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About Eleanor Kruszewski: I'm known variously as Eleanor or Elle. My last name is like that coach from Duke - kru-shef-ski.

Based in Menlo Park, CA, I work for Yahoo! in their Developer Network. The easiest description of what I do is the MBA shin kicker, handling community, marketing, commercial programs and sundry backend stuff.

Disclaimer: I've done big corps, midcorps, and startups, so I overstate and oversimplify as much as anyone else. These opinions are my own, not my employer's.

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Hip pre-fab homes… with built-in networks I hope

by eleanor on 23 May 2005 @ 11:51 am in Emergent   ++

How weird is it that people who attended the Sunset Celebration Weekend stood in line for +2 hours just to file, Lenin-mausoleum style, though a pre-fab home, the Sunset Breezehouse? They did it last year, I heard, and certainly did this year. The queue was enormous, though I didn’t think take a picture. So you’ll just have to believe me. You can see photos of the display here (via Flickr). Mike and I cruised by, but did not wait in line.

Is it the “green” vibe? An acknowledgement that it’s the land that’s most important out here, or what?

It seems a Silicon Valley extension of a pre-fab fascination that we saw in a Business 2.0 write up on prefab London penthouses - created by lifting units onto rooftops. Interesting business model in light of the increasing chatter about how now it’s not just a question of getting Fiber to the Home, it’s about the bandwidth that will necessary within the home. I daresay prefab could help out.

But you’d need some serious manufacturing chops here. I told my little old dad about this, and he, a retired GM chief draftsman, said he always wondered why GM never got in the business of pre-fab buildings, considering their supply chain and competencies. If we are looking at cars as platforms (in all senses of the word), it’s true that houses follow along nicely.

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Blogging vs journalism: stacacotto viewpoints vs. synthesis

by eleanor on @ 11:16 am in Emergent   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

Satellite satellite - where are you?

by eleanor on 24 Feb 2005 @ 12:41 pm in Emergent | Life-Culture-Play   ++ Participate: 1 Comment | Trackback

Explaining co-authoring shenanigans

by eleanor on 11 Feb 2005 @ 1:11 pm in Emergent   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

Jybe plugin - cobrowsing/collaboration

by eleanor on 9 Feb 2005 @ 3:00 pm in Emergent   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

Toward an intelligent, personalized InfoRouter

by eleanor on 2 Feb 2005 @ 12:45 pm in Events & Happenings | Emergent   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

BoingBoing’s Image Ads Gone from Bloglines Feed? Yay!

by eleanor on 28 Jan 2005 @ 1:41 pm in Emergent | Life-Culture-Play   ++ Participate: 1 Comment | Trackback

Thinking thru AttentionXML before EBIG SIG next week

by eleanor on @ 12:38 pm in Events & Happenings | Emergent   ++ Participate: 1 Comment | Trackback

How can we tap into all this audio content?

by eleanor on 23 Dec 2004 @ 5:07 pm in Emergent   ++ Participate: 4 Comments | Trackback

Transcript of Jon Udell podcast on IVR

by eleanor on @ 4:10 pm in Emergent   ++ Participate: 1 Comment | Trackback

Google V. Microsoft outlooked in MIT’s Technology Review

by eleanor on 20 Dec 2004 @ 6:13 pm in Emergent | Enterprise IT   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

IBM R&D projects (or, I want WebFountain)

by eleanor on 3 Dec 2004 @ 5:25 pm in Emergent   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

Doomed pay-by-cellphone scheme discussed in The Wall Street Journal

by eleanor on 1 Dec 2004 @ 3:12 pm in Emergent | Mobility   ++ Participate: 1 Comment | Trackback

Cutting edge tech is consumer tech?

by eleanor on 29 Nov 2004 @ 9:33 pm in Emergent | Life-Culture-Play   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

SBC’s Chair discusses intent to offer integrated cable, cellular, wireline service

by eleanor on 26 Nov 2004 @ 9:16 pm in Emergent | Mobility   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

Mozilla-based browser Firefox off to strong start

by eleanor on 24 Nov 2004 @ 11:29 am in Emergent   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

Perils and travails of social networking

by eleanor on 23 Nov 2004 @ 3:08 pm in Emergent   ++ Participate: 3 Comments | Trackback

Institute for the Future report on location based services

by eleanor on 22 Nov 2004 @ 4:47 pm in Emergent | Mobility   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback

Future Salon presents Doug Englebart, inventor of the mouse

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NorcalBMA Product Marketing/Management Roundtable – breakfast meeting on Blogging and RSS

by eleanor on 16 Nov 2004 @ 10:04 am in Events & Happenings | Emergent   ++ Participate: 0 Comments | Trackback
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