March 2008
“You’ll be happy to know the Penryn MacBook Pro’s are a little cooler...”
– Apple MacBook Pro Penryn tests: a little more speed, a lot less heat I could cook an egg on my current MBP. It feels that hot. I can’t wait for my new one. Supposed to arrive Wednesday.
February 2008
When fear doesn't work, try more fear
The new “It’s 3am” Clinton ad is gross. It’s designed to try and scare the living piss out of the audience and then asks the question - when something really bad happens, who do you want to answer the phone? I like David Plouffe’s response: “Senator Clinton had her red phone moment. She had it in 2002,” Mr. Plouffe said. “It was on the Iraq war – she and John McCain...
Kensington trackball rules
I had been using the Apple bluetooth mouse with a lot of frustration of late. The little nub to scroll is slow. The right button only sometimes works. And using it on a 30” monitor is cumbersome. When I came back from my vacation on Monday there was a present on my desk. It was a birthday gift from my friends Stu & Jason. It was this Kensington trackball. I wasn’t sure how much...
Motion sensor + AIM
Peter from Bug Labs stopped by yesterday and there are lots of cool things happening at Bug. They are getting closer to shipping their first units of BUGBase and initial set of modules. So I got to play around yesterday. Although the product hasn’t shipped yet there is the beginnnings of an active forum & wiki where people are starting to exchange ideas, information, ask questions and...
Think About Me - The Decemberists Original version...
“The dominant factor for the decline [in paid clicks] was Google’s...”
– James Lamberti, SVP, ComScore via No, the Sky’s Not Falling on Google, Says ComScore | Epicenter from Wired.com
Veoh stats
I usually don’t take the time to write blog posts correcting another blog - especially one that I like and respect like SAI. But today they have a post about Veoh and reported some stats about the company. It looks like they cited some stats from Nielsen or something but I can tell you that they are widely different than the stats we have internally at the company. Here’s what our...
Follow You, Follow Me - Red House Painters This is...
Loving the new Tumblr home page
There is a lot to love about the new Tumblr home page David and Marco told us about their vision at the last board meeting and I think they did an amazing job. It looks beautiful and I’m already finding & following new tumblelogs. I’m also really digging the new Art & Artists category. So cool.
WatchI saw this on Lindsay’s tumblelog today. Their marketing plan in action. I can’t wait for Moblogic to start.
“Always always always follow your intuition. It’s never wrong (and when it...”
– Jack - Twitter
This made my day
This morning I received this email from Anthony who is the founder of the Hype Machine. ——- Original Message ——- From: Anthony Volodkin To: Fred Wilson; Bijan Sabet Sent: Wed Feb 27 00:07:36 2008 Subject: Hype Machine scrobbles to Last.fm! Fred & Bijan, Was thinking of you two while working on this, and it’s now available. When you listen to Hype...
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - Editors ...
When Did You Become Someone Else’s Intellectual...
I have a guest post on GigaOm this morning on the subject of non-competes.
FriendFeed
Robert Scoble subscribed to my FriendFeed last night so I was just thinking of FriendFeed this morning when I read on TechMeme this that they just raised a new round. I’ve been checking out FriendFeed for awhile. Here’s my profile/feed over there. Right now, they have a good start at a number of popular web services so you can see when I add something to delicious, when I love...
Know Your Onion - Of Montreal this will be my last...
Free gadgets for data someday
The notion of free & open has been a major theme of our investments at Spark. Open access, open source, open APIs, free services and free content. Chris Anderson has a fantastic Wired piece about free and the impact and opportunity of free in products, services and technology Bug Labs (a Spark portfolio company) has been in the 100% open camp since Peter started the company. It’s...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-24) →
Bruce Springsteen
Sinéad O’Connor
Nada Surf
Belle and Sebastian
Vampire Weekend
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Can’t Explain - Of Montreal This is a...
Content Sync is a mess
We have about 100 gigs of music on my home server. All of the speakers in our house are connected to this server in one way or another. My new laptop has a 160 gig drive but I have lots of other stuff on it and as a result I don’t carry my entire mp3 collection on my laptop. So I create a “bijan macbookpro” uber playlist. Copy just the subset of the tunes from the server to the...
More than just words
This excerpt from the recent Obama/Clinton debate is quite significant in my mind. It was in response to the question about a possible meeting with Rahul Castro of Cuba. CLINTON:I would not meet with him until there was evidence that change was happening because I think it’s important that they demonstrate clearly that they are committed to change the direction. Then I think, you know,...
“As for countering what she sees as the empty Obama brand of hope, she offers...”
– The Audacity of Hopelessness - New York Times
I Will - Of Montreal smooth acoustic cover of the...
Obama: 152, Hillary: 20 →
reblogged via marco: From zetahydrae: Those are counts of the bills that both senators have introduced. Obama’s count is in two years as a senator. Hillary’s is in six. And, honestly, most of the ones that she has introduced are just weak, honoring someone or the other, declaring a month/day for “______ awareness,” and naming unnamed courthouses and post offices. One thing I noticed in watching...
little chat with my 8 year old sophia yesterday
Sophia: daddy, when i’m 10 I’ll be an adult and all grown up me: really? Sophia: yeah, when you are ‘double digits’ that means you are an adult me: but i like that you are my little girl Sophia: I can be grown up and your little girl. me: you are so right. (I was thinking of fred’s post about his girls when i wrote this down)
What I want from the iPhone SDK
The top story on Techmeme at the movement is about the iPhone SDK and speculation that it may not ship in February. My guess is that it will either ship later in the week or early March so I’m not terribly worried about this. I do have high hopes for the SDK and what will be possible when it’s in the hands of the community of developers. My wish list for native apps: -wireless...
Happy birthday James
Our little boy James is two years old today. It’s hard to believe that all of this was just 2 years ago. Amazing.
Let My Love Open the Door - M. Ward mellow version...
Age of Consent - Arcade Fire I’m back in an...
Online health records? Absolutely!
Google is making a push into the online medical records space. Unlike enterprise software companies that have been at this for decades now, Google is targeting consumers - not hospitals. Smart. The natural reaction will be privacy and security concerns. I’m concerned about that too. But patient directed care is overdue and this is a big step. It’s crazy that your medical records...
reblogged via daryn: Jenny Lewis & The Watson...
Build vs Buy
I’m catching up on all of my favorite blogs right now while I’m still on vacation. I’m really enjoying great posts about cloud computing from Fred and Alex. When it comes to basic web infrastructure, startups have a variety of build vs buy decisions. Bandwidth is always a buy decision so that’s not really a choice. But there are various choices when it comes to storage...
Handle With Care - Jenny Lewis w/the Watson Twins...
WatchThis is me on one of the slides at the Atlantis in the Bahamas. It’s really fast. You can hear Lauren laughing at my dorky form and a little bit of James calling out too.
All the Umbrellas in London - Arcade Fire This is...
Format War is Over
It’s no surprise but Sony’s Blu-Ray has won over Toshiba’s HD-DVD. Engadget has the best coverage of the announcement here. Between the studios, Sony PS3, Walmart and others, I’m sure Howard Stringer and others are celebrating this outcome. I’m glad this is over for consumers as well. Wondering if I should get a Blu-Ray player now or wait for a future MacMini to...
WatchThese days James is either on my shoulders or running. Here he is running down the hallway at the hotel the other night. Everyone gets a kick out of this silly little guy.
“Microsoft and Yahoo have drastically opposite philosophies on open-source...”
– Of All the Hurdles to a Merger, View on Technology is the Highest - New York Times, 2/18/08
Roaming Premium
Out here on vacation there is a huge premium fee to use my mobile phone, send txt messages or use the ATM. I can’t decide whether this premium is offensive or if it’s a miracle that this stuff even works here in the middle of nowhere.
Kindness - David Wilcox Tomorrow is our wedding...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-2-17) →
Nada Surf
Billy Bragg
Old 97’s
Snow Patrol
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr