February 27, 2005
Jim Lejeal (Oxlo CEO) on Working With Microsoft
Jim Lejeal has written a great post on Working With Microsoft. Jim is CEO of Oxlo – one of our companies – and was previously co-founder and COO of Raindance (now ...
February 23, 2005
NewsGator Expands Into Europe
Today, NewsGator announced a broad European partnership with VNU. NewsGator is partnering with VNU to distribute both their consumer and enterprise RSS services throughout Europe, with an initial focus on UK, Germany, ...
The Somerville Gates
Yes – one more post on The Gates (but still in the humorous category). My friend Doug DeAngelis, the CEO of Lynx System Developers, sent me this link to The Somerville ...
February 22, 2005
Venture Capital – An Entrepreneur’s View by Tom Evslin
Tom Evslin – the founder / CEO of ITXC (public, and then acquired by Teleglobe) – has written two great posts on An Entrepreneur’s View of Venture Capital. They are ...
Jon Stewart on The Gates
Dave Jilk forwarded me the Jon Stewart segment on The Gates (click on Piles of Sheet). “The Gates will do for New York what the West Wing did for Washington D.C. Or ...
February 21, 2005
Book Review: On Bullshit
I must have a fascination with books with the word bullshit in the title, as On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt is the second I’ve read in the last twelve months (the ...
February 20, 2005
Ban Bullets
I’ve written before about how most powerpoint presentations are miserable and gave some specific suggestions on how to make them better if you are presenting to me (or any other ...
February 19, 2005
Book Review: Nightwork
I spent seven years of my life at MIT. I ended up with two degrees, an addiction to caffeine, the ability to do several things at once even when massively ...
February 18, 2005
True Art or Fake
If you are struggling with whether The Gates is true art, I recommend the following test sent to me by Dave Jilk. I got a 75% – which means I’m ...
February 16, 2005
The Gates
Several friends have been raving about The Gates. My mom – the artist – just sent me an email saying it was an amazing installation and I had to look ...
Blarketing
I got the following email from a friend today that I hadn’t talked to in a year or so (see – email isn’t dead…).
Brad,
Just wanted to drop you a quick note ...
What Are The Bloggers Smoking?
I stole Matt’s subtitle because it’s so cute. If you are part of either side of the “email is dead, no it’s not” debate, go read Matt’s post on “The ...
Gmail Steals Users From Hotmail
Return Path just released a study showing that a majority of users of Gmail come from existing Microsoft Hotmail users who are switching to Gmail. The stats are interesting – ...
The Me Too Zone
I don’t learn from demos, conferences, or listening to other people present powerpoint presentations. I figured out a long time ago that I learn by reading, reflecting, experiencing, and playing ...
February 10, 2005
Feedburner on Podcasting
Dick Costolo and his gang at Feedburner have been on the front lines of the podcasting explosion. They’ve got great metrics on the growth and dynamics of podcasting and just ...