November 28, 2007
Silicon Flatirons Roundtables
I sponsor a roundtable series titled The Silicon Flatirons Roundtable on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy. It is hosted four times a year by The Silicon Flatirons Program at CU ...
November 26, 2007
Will Microsoft Exile Your Data To Siberia?
Which is an easier place to visit, Irkutsk or Angarsk?
November 25, 2007
Testing an Image Post with Live Writer
Feel free to ignore this post. Or – you can just laugh at the picture of a bunch of lame people trying to play Rock Band (the only one ...
Weekend Books
I’ve been in a reading slump lately – I just haven’t felt like reading. This happens sometimes and whenever I break my "at least two books a week" rhythm, I ...
Getting My Attention
Every day I get inbound emails from entrepreneurs looking for funding. I triage these quickly as I can usually tell within a couple of minutes of looking at whatever is ...
Sunday Morning Political Link Love
Yesterday was a great "very little computer" day that resulted in me reading three books (one great, one 50% great, and one poor that turned into a skimmer.) More on ...
November 22, 2007
What’s The Origin of Automagically?
While catching up on some stuff today, I came across the word “automagically” on Bebo.
I first heard the word from Todd Vernon. Todd is now the CEO of Lijit, but ...
Is eBay, Google, or Apple Building a Boulder Campus?
Someone is far down the negotiating path to buy the old StorageTek 440–acres in Louisville from Sun. The Boulder Camera is speculating that it’s eBay, Google, or Apple. Whoever it ...
Thanksgiving in Baghdad
Jared Polis is continuing to blog his trip to Iraq. His post – Arrival in Baghdad – was better than most stuff I see in TV (ok – I’m setting ...
November 21, 2007
The World’s Dirtiest Film
David Spade is hysterical. I’m glad my first meeting didn’t start until 10am today – it gave me time to watch the World’s Dirtiest Film.
Making Money on the Internet
I just went upstairs and taught the folks at Lijit how to make money on the Internet. They are all now proud and happy recipients of a bunch of pennies, ...
Lijit Live3D With Google Earth
Wanna see a cool hack? Fire up Lijit Live 3D. This is semi-real time view (there are some delays built in to prevent you from getting nauseous) in Google Earth ...
Jared Polis in Iraq
I was at a meeting with the other two TechStars founders yesterday (David Cohen and David Brown) to discuss some new and exciting things around TechStars 2008. Jared wasn’t there ...
November 20, 2007
My New MacBook Pro and Exchange
If you’ve been following along at home, you know that I just got a new MacBook Pro and am going to give it a shot for a while due to ...
Data vs. Facts
The notion of “data vs. facts” made its way into several conversations today. I was at an interesting lunch today where we rolled around the in the idea of the different between ...