January 31, 2006
I’ve Got A New Computer
I decided today was a retro day at the office and decided to see if some of my old computers still worked. My dad cleaned out his attic last week ...
January 30, 2006
Oracle Meets The A-Team
Niel Robertson, the CTO of Newmerix, has what I anticipate will become a legendary blog post up called I Pity The Fool that dissects Oracle’s recent “Half Way To Fusion” ...
Censorship
Other than reading a bunch of blog posts about the Google / China thing, I hadn’t paid much attention to it. Early today, I got an email that fits the ...
January 29, 2006
Miami Marathon 2006
This was another marathon weekend for me. Amy and I spent the past week at our friend Jared Polis’s apartment in South Beach getting acclimated. I ran the Miami Marathon ...
January 27, 2006
FeedFlare on Your Blog
The guys at FeedBurner have had a busy week. Earlier this week – they announced that their FeedFlare service – which they announced in December – could now be incorporated ...
January 26, 2006
The Coming Irrelevance Of My.Yahoo For Me
After reading Fooled By Randomness, I found myself becoming increasingly annoyed by the information on My.Yahoo page. I’ve had My.Yahoo as my default home page since 1997 or so and ...
Stratify’s Hockey Stick
It’s always really exciting when a portfolio company hits its inflection point and has a year of extreme growth. All venture backed companies always predict their growth will follow a “hockey ...
FeedBurner Turning Japanese
FeedBurner launched its Japanese site today with its Japanese partner GMO Affiliate. While I can’t read any of the Japanese on the site, I’m am assured that it says the ...
This Is What A Honda Feels Like
This beautiful web movie is the first thing in a long time that’s made me think of my old Honda Accord (owned circa 1990, vintage 1984, brown, four door). It ...
January 25, 2006
March of the Penguins
Amy’s making me watch March of the Penguins. So far, it’s been about these totally bizarre looking birds that can’t fly and have chosen to live in the Antarctic. It’s ...
January 24, 2006
Disney and Pixar
What Fred said. Absolutely spectacular and brilliant.
Evslin Signs First hackoff.com Books
Ah – the sound of a fresh binding cracking open. Tom Evslin just signed 25 books for me. These are apparently the first copies of hackoff.com to be signed by ...
Do You Publish Lots of Feeds?
Today, FeedBurner announced that USA Today is now using FeedBurner for managing over 100 feeds. I sure do love clicking on that orange XML button and seeing “syndicate content powered by FeedBurner.”
At ...
January 23, 2006
Pascal Levensohn “Rites of Passage” White Paper
Pascal Levensohn just released his latest white paper titled “Rites of Passage: Managing CEO Transition in Venture-Backed Technology Companies.” Last fall I posted my partner Heidi Roizen’s responses to a ...
Jack Bauer Map Tracker
What happens when you cross Jack Bauer with Google Maps? While I doubt this had anything to do with Google’s stock movements on today and last Friday, you never know. ...