Let me introduce myself. My name is Mike and I am one of the co-founders of MindValley. Vishen, the other co-founder, and I will be posting on this blog. Sometimes it will be me, sometimes it will be Vishen, and other times it will be the two of us.

Just so you know, this is going to be a very informal blog. I will simply write about whatever is on my mind. I will write about what is going on at our company, about some of the ideas we are thinking about and also about some of the trends online that I am following closely. Plus, I am going to write about how I am doing and my own experience.

So, we have a very casual atmosphere here. Right now, I am reading a lot about:
- Online communities
- Social networking and social software
- Tagging and folksonomies
- Online communication
- Online classifieds
- Blogging and the future of media

As you can see that it a big list and there is a lot of exiting developments. I have not seen the internet change this much in a long time. I think that we are at the beginning of the next big wave of innovation and hopefully, if we are lucky enough we can 1) take advantage of it and 2) if we are really lucky we might even play a role in shaping how the future Internet will evolve.

In either case, I am sure we are going to love the journey and enjoy the ride!

Mike

PS: A great place to stay in touch with what is going on in the valley is by checking out three blogs that I really enjoy. There are more but I will share those in a seperate post.

http://www.buzzhit.com/buzzblog.html
http://tagsonomy.com/
http://www.micropersuasion.com/

PPS: We have a lot of exciting projects under development and hope to be launching a couple of new sites in beta mode over the next few months so stay tuned for more!