August 31, 2007
Lijit Blog Explore aka Bubbles
Stan James just wrote a post titled Explore the world of blogs around you which describes the new Lijit Blog Explore feature. I’ve been calling this feature “bubbles” and if ...
August 30, 2007
Customer Enthusiasm
One of the great things about blogs is that it makes it easy for anyone (that has a blog) to express things – both good and bad. While mainstream media ...
August 29, 2007
Boulder Building New Orleans
A little over a year ago Amy and I had a discussion about how we could directly contribute to rebuilding New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We have ...
August 28, 2007
Let’s Get Vertical
I love to invest in companies that are developing broad horizontal technologies. Many of them – such as NewsGator, FeedBurner, and Rally – can be applied to many different vertical markets.
I personally revel in the ...
August 27, 2007
The Montana Future
In 1991, a group of ten people (including me and Amy) gathered at a resort in Stowe, VT to have a Chautauqua to discuss the future. We had a magnificent weekend ...
August 23, 2007
The Summer of ‘47
When I read David Halberstam’s Summer of ‘49 recently, I thought of my dad many times. We talked about it one day and he told me about his brilliant Summer ...
August 20, 2007
Serial Entrepreneurs and What Motivates Them
The WSJ has an excellent article titled The Secrets of Serial Success. The “serial entrepreneur” is a mysterious beast and entrepreneurship sociologists have been poking and prodding at it for ...
August 18, 2007
Fun With Friends
After waking up from a nap dreaming about Social Graphs (ok – not really) I realized I’d never tried to integrate my Outlook contacts into “the other stuff I use ...
Are You Cooler Online?
“Even on a slow day I can have a three way chat with two women at one time. I’m so much cooler online.”
Unfortunately, Brad Paisley has turned his embed ...
Social Graph – The Next Future Overused Phrase
Get ready to start hearing “Social Graph” as frequently as you hear “Web 2.0.” The construct of the Social Graph (and its friend – Social Network) has been around for ...
August 17, 2007
TechStars Launch Day
Yesterday was a blast. The ten TechStars teams – which have been cranking away in Boulder for the past three months – all launched yesterday to a packed room of ...
Resources for Widget Performance
I received a couple of comments my last post titled The Unbearable Slowness of Javascript Widgets including one from Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress and the founder of Automattic (which ...
August 15, 2007
The Unbearable Slowness of Javascript Widgets
Alex Iskold – the giant brain behind AdaptiveBlue – has a great post up today titled How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It). While ...
Blue Mountain Arts 35th Anniversary Gift to Boulder
Blue Mountain Arts has been a fixture in the Boulder community for the past 35 years. It was started by the parents of my friend Jared Polis (Susan Polis Schutz ...
August 12, 2007
Calling All Developers
The TechStars hiring wave is beginning. One of the companies – J-Squared – which makes the popular Facebook application “Sticky Notes” (Facebook app #31 – over 1.5m users) is looking ...