May 2008
Apple Designs a New Kind of Machine
No, this isn’t another apple-fan boy post waiting for the big announcement on June 9th. It’s about the Apple Lisa. I saw this article on Hacker News this morning. It was one of the first reviews of the Apple Lisa from February 1983. This machine at the time cost $9,995 and had 1 meg of RAM and the 68k processor ran at a whopping 5MHZ. There was so much excitement and so much unknown...
She Is - Sufjan Stevens This is a wonderful cover....
“Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web...”
– Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers - NYTimes.com
I Gotta Move - Ben Kweller Later this morning we...
reblogged via rickyv: Jenny Lewis and the Watson...
“During our visit we spoke freely, having a very intimate understanding of the...”
– Bryce Roberts reblog of my post about my top 5 favorite company workspaces I felt the exact same way.
My top 5 favorite company workspaces
Okay, I know this is a silly post. I don’t believe there is any correlation between a cool looking, beautiful office and success but I thought it would be fun to give a shout out to my top 5 favorite company workspaces (disclaimer: I’m not including our office at spark) 1. O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. I stopped by to see Bryce last week in SF and went to see his office at One...
“What makes this exciting to me is the notion of wrapping user created content...”
– Peter Semmelhack - Bug Blogger: Pelago shows the way
Help, Help - Mates of State Yes, I know, I know....
Watchreblogged via david: Julie Alexandria interviewed me for Wallstrip! She was so nice!! I forgot how good I look on camera. Here’s David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, on Wallstrip. We are investors in Tumblr and I’m a Tumblr addict as well. Lots of new stuff coming soon! Stay tuned.
Get Better - Mates of State This band is tearing...
Creating apps should be as easy as Hypercard
It’s been a long time since I’ve written any software that actually worked. I miss the days of Hypercard where anyone could build apps so easily. It was a big deal and so innovative at the time. I fondly rememebered the genius behind Hypercard when I blogged about it last summer on my old blog. Wired has an interview with Bill Atkinson who created Hypercard and MacPaint (one of my...
What makes Firefox so great?
I’ve been using Firefox as my default browser for a long time. I’ve had short little flings with Safari and even Camino but I always return. For us Mac users, Firefox has been a godsend. Do you remember how bad life was when IE for the Mac was our only option running System 9. Those days give me a shudder. So now Windows users and Mac users have plenty of great choices in which browser...
Panic - Spoon This cover brings back so many...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-25) →
Death Cab for Cutie
The Cure
Bishop Allen
Arcade Fire
Radiohead
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“Bijan, if you were John Doerr you’d start a Twitter Fund. :-)”
– Dave Winer’s comment from my post about Twitter apps.
Hands Open - Snow Patrol I took a page out of...
Twitter & 3rd party apps
The amount of third party apps and services that integrate with Twitter is fantastic. Mashable has a long list and they include some of my favorites like Summize, Twhirl and Twittergram. They are missing a several including Flixwagon, Hype Machine and MotherBUG. What are some your favorite Twitter apps (on the Mashable list or not) ?
Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet I posted a cover of...
The historic link between subsidies & walled...
For a long time there has been a well practiced business model regarding subsidized devices and service providers. They give you the device for free or a low price and you are forced to use their service. Ma Bell did it decades ago. You had to use their POTS phone to use their service. MSOs do this. They give us a cheap set top box but it only works with their service. Now we have CableCards in...
Just Like Heaven - The Watson Twins confession: I...
BUG + Twitter = a big idea
A few days ago Peter Semmelhack, the founder/ceo of Bug Labs, sent me an email about a new app they built for the BUG. It was a webcam app so you can turn the BUG into a webcam. I thought it was pretty cool and I twittered about it. That was only the tip of this iceberg. Peter called me the next day and told me about a better version of that app. The idea was to tie the motion sensor module with...
“Yes, there are opportunities to profit by evil - from misery. But there are now...”
– Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
We Are Nowhere and It’s Now - Bright Eyes I...
Thoughts about the Netflix set top box
The coverage of the new Netflix set top box was all over techmeme this morning. I’m not surprised that Roku built this product for Netflix. Anthony Wood who was the founder of ReplayTV is the founder of Roku. And he’s the head of the digital buisness at Netflix. And more importantly, startups can often outgun large companies (ie where is the L.G set top box that was supposed to work...
Grapevine Fires - Death Cab For Cutie I’m...
“But what flowed out of the speakers was completely unexpected. It sounded more...”
– Bob Lefsetz writing about Death Cab’s latest record via The Leftsetz Letter, 5/19/08
Please join us at an upcoming Berkman Center event...
I’ve been discussing the notion of getting rid of non competes for some time now. I believe that it stifles innovation and there are better ways to deal with protecting the employer and at the same time creating an environment that fosters the creation of new value, new ideas, new products and new companies. Many people have agreed with this notion and supported this effort thankfully. At...
Comfortable - John Mayer This is a shout out to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-18) →
The Rolling Stones
Old 97’s
Death Cab for Cutie
Bon Iver
Kate Gaffney
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Less is more
We all know the advantages in making things simpler & easier when it comes to a web service. I like how at the last Tumblr board meeting, David was telling us how many options were removed from the Tumblr Dashboard. So smart. Here’s another example: when it comes to setting up an online party you could use something like Evite. Over the years they just keep adding more features and more...
“Voting against Clinton does not make a person sexist — there are other reasons...”
– The Hillary Lesson - Hillary Clinton - Women in Politics - New York Times My daughters are too young to pay attention or notice this stuff. But I’ve been paying attention. And even though I’m in the Obama camp, there are too many Hilary attacks that come from an ugly, sexist point of...
Boy From School - Hot Chip This band became all...
A fourth reason to use Disqus
Last week Fred wrote about three reasons why every serious blogger should use Disqus. I absolutely agree with those but here’s another reason I’ll add to the list. Daniel Ha, the cofounder of Disqus, is one of the most (if not the most) responsive & active entrepreneurs I know to his community of users. Since I started using Disqus last fall, Daniel has always gotten back to me...
“If you’re a touring act, you’ve got to stop thinking of your new music as a...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » The Ticket Comes With The Album
True Love Waits - Radiohead It seems like I cant...
WatchBy now, you may have seen the video of a younger and very angry Bill O’Reilly (original here). Some thing don’t change with time. Well the very creative and hilarious folks at Barely Political have put this together and it’s so funny. Enjoy. (disclosure: Barely Political is one of the fine online properties of Next New Networks. They are also a Spark portfolio company)
