June 2008
Hospital Bed - Ben Kweller
Saw Ben’s tweet...
“I want a 10” MacBook nano if that’s what they r gonna be. Need FW...”
– Ben Kweller on Twitter
I hope so.
Sony: so close yet so far
I’ve been a fan of Sony products for a long time. But somewhere and somehow they lost their way.
They should have owned the digital camera market but they don’t.
Same thing with video cameras and mobile phones.
They have an amazing combination of technology & content though and the PS2/PS3 is still huge.
The NYT covers Sony’s recent announcement to release the movie...
Everything’ll Be Alright - Joshua Radin
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There’s A Light That Never Goes Out - Death...
I'm In Like With You
I’m thrilled to announce our latest investment. We led the Series A in an early stage company in NYC called I’m In Like With You (or IILWY) along with our friend John Borthwick at Betaworks, Ron Conway & Marc Andreesen.
IILWY is a social gaming company that since December has released 4 fun games and many more to follow.
The games are a blast to play. They are casual...
Congrats to Next New Networks
TubeMogul just announced their first monthly list of the Top 40 publishers on their service.
And our portfolio company N3 is on the top of the list. Great job guys!
Here’s a screen shot of the top 15. Go here for the full list.
Online abuse
jakoblodwick:
After reading my mom’s post on shutting down her tumblelog, I can’t help but agree, and it’s time for me to end this.
It’s not about Tumblr, specifically. It’s about the web in general. It’s become overrun by too many animals. One of the last straws was adventures of mascarah, who, after reading a few posts where I expressed myself, wrote this:
I will say that if you cut off his...
Space Wrangler - Widespread Panic
My song of the...
Web In Front - Archers of Loaf
Hard to believe...
Twitter
It’s no secret that I’ve been a Twitter user and a big fan of the service for some time now.
In April of last year, I wrote a post (on my old blog) about getting into the feel of Twitter, the potential for 3rd parties app and enjoying all of my 19 friends that were in my immediate Twitter network.
Then about a month after that, I wrote this post about being addicted to Twitter. That...
Always Free - The Kooks
This is the b-side to...
Thinking about message boards
There are a number of message boards that I use quite a bit as my goto source of information. Mostly they are based on some of my personal passions around photography, audio/video & apple computers.
For photography I goto dpreview
For audio & video info, it’s gotta be AVS
And for apple related questions it’s still Apple’s very own forums.
These message boards are...
Caring is Creepy - The Shins (live)
I just heard...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Fleet Foxes
Coldplay
Death Cab for Cutie
Oliver James
Sigur Rós
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“It was an all-too-familiar situation: Ahead, a red light glared, and...”
– Ciao car, hello Vespa - Boston Globe, June 22nd
I’m so close to buying one of these for scooting around town.
WatchWe had a very good, informative discussion about employee non-compete agreements last night at the Harvard Law School. The event was hosted by the Berkman Center along with Spark Captial, Gunderson & Dettmer, Silicon Valley Bank and Highland Capital Partners.
I want to thank everyone who came and a special thanks to John Palfry who is the director of the Berkman Center. John also did a nice...
Such Great Heights - Ben Folds
One ben covering...
Outlook Web Access question
I can’t seem to fix my Entourage database woes for the Mac I use at my office.
I’ve tried rebuilding the database several times and it still doesn’t work.
I guess I can always nuke the whole database and start over but that seems like a bad idea because at some point I’ll be back here again, right?
As much as I’d like to ditch MS Exchange server, I can’t. Our...
reblogged via daryn:
Led Zeppelin - Good Times,...
Check out the Covestor leaderboard
I’ve blogged about our investment in Covestor in the past. It’s a social investing site.
Here is a look at the top 10 investors/users on Covestor. The results are quite impressive.
I’m now following 2 of these users now. I hope to learn a lot about their strategy and more importantly hope to improve my public stock returns as well!
And with the new version of Covestor...
GrabUp - Lightning Fast Screen Grab Sharing! →
If you take a lot of screen grabs then you will want this installed on your Mac yesterday.
Sing Me Spanish Techno - The New Pornographers
I...
AmazonMP3's Daily Deals via Twitter →
cubicle17:
If you’re looking for DRM-free music on the cheap, Amazon’s MP3 store maintains a twitter stream for their Daily Deal (older album for ~$2) and Friday Five (5 albums for $5 each).
I just started following this and it’s already my wallet’s least favorite twitter stream.
Just followed. Thanks Bill.
The future of radio (continued)
Yesterday I wrote a post about the future of radio.
Well today, our portfolio company Buzzwire announced that their service has just launched on AT&T. Buzzwire is a subscription streaming service that gives subscribers the ability to stream virtually any video or audio to your AT&T phone (except for the iPhone right now) without installing any new software to your phone.
So you can watch...
I Wasn’t Being Heartless When I Said Your...
The Future of Radio
I was listening to SIRIUS this morning in my car.
A house ad came on and said “satellite was the future of radio”
I only listen to satellite radio in my car because it’s the best option in the car right now in terms of convenience.
But the future of radio isn’t satellite which by defintion is a one way system. Radio is broadcast as well. Not the future in my book. The...
If She Wants Me - Belle & Sebastian
I was...
Thinking about home networks
Since moving into my new place I’ve noticed something that has changed since the first time I installed WiFi in any home I’ve lived in.
My local network speed via WiFi (802.11n) is slower than my connectivity to the internet (thanks to Verizon FIOS). And setting up these networks still feels hard and fragile.
My home office and a few other rooms have ethernet in the new house but I...
Custom Tumblr Themes →
amwelles:
nostrich:
Well, fear not. I am here to save the day. I am pleased to announce Tumblr Themes.
Richard is doing an awesome thing here. Check it out if you’d like to spice up your Tumblr with something other than the default themes. You can also find my themes on there.
Check out these super cool Tumblr themes!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15) →
M. Ward
Shout Out Louds
The Rolling Stones
The Wombats
Sufjan Stevens
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Father and Son - Johnny Cash w/Fiona Apple
This...
OpenCoffee Cambridge is open for all
I’ve been a big fan of OpenCoffee Cambridge. It’s a great way to meet new people, get feedback on projects and exchange ideas. Here’s my twitter update on some of the things we discussed from the OpenCoffee a few weeks back.
I try to attend at least once a month. The last month has been tough for me with my travel schedule and next week isn’t any different unfortunately...
Same Old Drag - The Apples in Stereo
Was...
Berkman Center Non Compete Event (update)
There has been a slight change in the time of the upcoming Berkman Center Non-Compete Event.
The date is unchanged - still taking place June 19th.
But the time is now from 4-8pm and the panel will start at 5pm.
Hope you can make it. More info here.
Movin On - Bad Company
Last night was our last...
