December 2008
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“The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point...”
– What Is Web 2.0 | O’Reilly Media
Tim O’Reilly wrote this post in 2005. Worth reading again if you haven’t already.
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Never Satisfied
I’ve been thinking about Dave Winer’s recent post - Tech developers and users.
One thing I’ve noticed is that many of the founders of our portfolio companies are extremely self critical themselves. They tend to be intellectually honest about the challenges, shortcomings and areas of their respective products that require attention.
Startups are hard. They are really hard. I...
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November 2008
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What A Fool - The Bicycles
This song is from the...
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The other G1
I’ve blogged & tweeted a bunch about the Tmobile G1 powered by Android.
My dad just picked up a different G1. It’s the new Panasonic DMC G1. My brother has a link on his blog of a review of this new camera.
It takes great photos. Here’s my dog Jackson. Shot in low light, ISO 400.
For the past year, I’ve been using three cameras. For serious photography, I use my...
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Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
One of my...
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My favorite laptop computer ever
We used to use desktop computers at our house. Now we all have laptops. The “study” in our house is just another room where we can read, work or play. but the computer is no longer tethered to that room.
The same thing is true at my office at Spark. I don’t have a desktop computer there either. I have a laptop connected to a large monitor.
I keep all the important data I need...
“What matters isn’t any individual Twitter message and whether it’s right or...”
– I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source - Michael Arrington - TechCrunch
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Seven Nation Army - Damien Rice & Vyvienne...
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The Thanksgiving Song - Adam Sandler
Happy...
“We bounced around ideas on what the future of TV should look like,” Mr. Avner...”
– It’s Living Room 2.0 | The New York Observer (via fred-wilson)
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“You can take the boy out of webtv, but you can’t take the webtv out of the boy...”
– my friend Bruce Jaffe in an email to me right after we announced the Boxee investment. Bruce was on the deal team at MSFT when they bought WebTV Networks
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Hurtin You - Ben Kweller
This is my favorite song...
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My Blackberry Storm keyboard review
Today I had a number of meetings between Union Square and Madison Square Park in New York City.
I had a brief break in between two meetings and found myself wandering into a Verizon Wireless store on Broadway & 17th street.
They had the new Blackberry Storm on display. This is the new touch screen model that is being touted as the competitor to the iPhone.
I really wanted to see what the...
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WatchCharles Forman, founder of IILWY, was interviewed on The Deal.
Charles talks about their soon to be released virtual goods store and some of the challenges they are thinking through.
My partner Santo’s favorite IILWY game right now is Draw My Thing. Mine is Blockles and Hamster Battle. Lots of new stuff coming too.
Stay tuned.
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In Step - Girl Talk
I really need to see Girl...
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The ultimate remote control
I’ve been a huge fan of the Harmony Remote control line since they first came out.
It’s so simple to setup and use compared to other remote controls.
But since I started using the iPhone Sonos app I have a new appreciation for what the ultimate remote control should look like.
I’m thinking the ultimate remote control is going to be the iPod Touch.
Having a remote control...
reblogged via joelaz:
Ben Kweller - Old Hat
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WatchAt our local skating rink there is a ping pong table in the same building.
Yesterday James wanted to play but couldn’t reach the table so I gave him a helping hand. He loved it. Maybe Santa needs to bring a ping-pong table to our house this year.
Warning: dorky dad in action. be warned :)
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Private Twittering
Recently more and more of my non-technical friends are checking out Twitter.
A great example is my wife Lauren
I think she is getting a kick out of reading my various tweets now. She has started twittering as well. It may get a little embarrassing but we’ll see.
One thing I hear from some non-technical people is the reaction to public tweets. “Do you mean, anyone can see my twitter...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-23) →
Girl Talk
Blitzen Trapper
The Very Most
Peter Bjorn and John
Talk Talk
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zeppelin
I’ve...
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Boxee Transparency
Since we announced our investment in Boxee there have been a steady (large) stream of user feedback, invitation requests and feature requests.
The software is still in alpha so the Boxee team posted a survey on their blog. The survey asked users what they wanted next in audio, video and photo services.
Well, 12 hours and 1,100 votes later, Avner posted the votes to date here.
The results...
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Nicorette - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley...
fred-wilson:
Stop Breaking Down (cover) - The...
WatchCold morning in Boston.
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“Foley Hoag launches a blog dedicated to developments in Massachusetts’...”
– peHUB » peHUB First Read
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Stolen Shoes & a Rifle - Blitzen Trapper
The...
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Good Fight Fighting - The Very Most
This song is...
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Browser Add-On Conference Next Month
Add-on-Con is the very first conference designed specifically for developers and marketers of browser extensions and add-ons is being held on December 11th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Our portfolio company OneRiot is co-organizing it along with Adaptive Blue. Speakers include folks from a number of cool startups as well as large companies like Mozilla Corporation, Google...
Boxee
Since this summer I’ve been using Boxee. It runs on our Apple Mac Mini which is connected to our plasma television at home. And we love it.
With Boxee I can stream popular shows from Hulu, Next New Networks, CNN, CBS and others. I can also check out our family and friends photos on Flickr and listen to my favorite artists on Last.fm. And I can watch our home videos that live on a server on...
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“Here’s the thing: Your Tumblr, while clever, will not pay your bills. We want to...”
– ooh. typepad is feeling the tumblr heat (via fred-wilson)
TypePad - Why Blog - Journalist Bailout Program
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Cash Machine - Hard-Fi
This song kicks off my...
“Barack wants to remove the plasma TV from the famous Lincoln bedroom. Instead,...”
– Barack Obama: What life will be like for new US President - mirror.co.uk
(via danielholter via vruz)
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The connected President-Elect
The NYT has a story today about President-elect (i love the sound of that) Obama’s Blackberry addiction.
Just like many of us, Obama is connected and plugged in.
From the NYT:
He [Obama] received a scaled-down list of news clippings, with his advisers wanting to keep him from reading blogs and news updates all day long, yet aides said he still seemed to hear about nearly everything in...
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O New England - The Decemberists
While I’m...
“The classic interruptive [ad] model is a pretty uninspired way to really get to...”
– Why Facebook Likes Small Ads, Despite the Small Dollars - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
I like this idea a lot.
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People Get Ready - Eva Cassidy
There is something...
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Social Search = Real Time Search
Some people look at Google with disdain, they worry about privacy or they worry about market domination or other such things.
I’m a Google fan. I use their products all the time. And I applaud them for taking big bets like Android as well as their approach to deploying smaller, incremental apps from Google Labs and other product teams.
But don’t get me wrong. Google has left many...
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Sentimental Streaming
I’ve got three kids.
Lauren and I have a sort of a ritual on the kids birthdays
After they goto bed, we take a look at older photos of the kids and see how much and how fast they’ve grown.
We also look at home videos of the kids from years gone by.
It’s a great feeling. I love watching these videos
But home videos have a long way to go.
Capturing video was always hard. But...
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Id Engager - Of Montreal
For the last few days...