August 2008
July 2008
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Spiritualized,...
While You Wait for Others - Grizzly Bears
This...
Real time social news
Biz has a great post up on the Twitter blog about people using Twitter during yesterdays earthquake in LA.
This chart is really powerful to me.
As Biz describes in the post, Twitter is being used as a news-wire. The combination of Twitter plus Twitter Search is amazing for tracking real time news or alerts from different keywords. And you don’t have to be a Twitter user to use Twitter...
Reblog vs comments
I’ve been thinking a lot about blog comments lately.
Here’s a recent thing to consider that happens all the time on Tumblr.
My post about the Steve Jobs health issue from last night doesn’t have any comments yet (update: there are now several comments but the point still stands).
Yet it has been reblogged 5 times with some great commentary.
Do I wish that all the...
Happy Birthday Lauren!
Lauren is 39 today.
I’ve got a few surprises planned for today.
I’m Yours - Jason Mraz
Feeling very...
Steve Jobs health condition is private
The NYT and others can’t get enough of the Steve Jobs story.
Is he sick? Is he well?
I don’t believe he needs to disclose his health status publicly. It’s none of our business. Shareholders & Apple’s board need to decide if he’s doing the best job for the company or not. And at this time, no one that could do it better. End of story.
I saw this on Slashdot...
Another perspective on Cuil
Techmeme and SV is buzzing big time about the new search engine Cuil.
I played around with it a bit this morning. It’s fast and the search results are interesting.
But in it’s current form it won’t replace my current favorite search engines for now. Although it will be one to watch.
The reason this particular company and product has received so much attention is because of...
Wild Horses - Bush
I know Friday is cover day....
Techmeme vs Hacker News
I’ve been reading Hacker News more and more these days.
In a way Hacker News sort of captures the best of techmeme and the best of Slashdot. It’s very easy to read and it supports comments too.
The biggest drawback with Techmeme is that it’s limited for the most part to the folks or entities on the Techmeme Leaderboard.
Hacker News has broader sources of info. It also...
When the Stars Go Blue - The Corrs & Bono
We...
Mama You’ve Been on My Mind - Jack Johnson
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“So think about this: a version of Apple’s app store for Apple TV. This could...”
– If Microsoft Opens the Xbox Is an App Store for Apple TV Next? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. It’s a huge opportunity.
The Women of Provincetown
We’ve been to Provincetown a number of times. We always have a good time. Great beaches, people, sites and restaurants.
Somehow I never noticed the large photographs of these 5 women (the 5th photo is on the left side hidden from view). They are located on this building along Fishermans Wharf. I took this photo from a boat yesterday. Clearly my photo doesn’t do it justice.
These...
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Streampad comes to Tumblr
Dan Kantour built one of my favorite widgets on my old typepad blog called Streampad.
Even though I’ve ditched my typepad blog you can still see the Streampad player in the far right sidebar. It’s a mp3 player that plays all of the audio posts on that blog.
But that blog was ugly and having it in the sidebar wasn’t great looking in my mind.
Well Dan did it again. He is now...
Youthless - Beck
I’m really digging this...
iPhone Tip: Faster address book search
One of the things I’ve been waiting for since the iPhone first came out last year has been address book search. I was using a hacked app but that suboptimal.
Apple finally gave it to us address book search in 2.0 but its soooo sloooow. Painful is probably the right word.
The fix: install the free Google iPhone app from iTunes app store.
It searches your address book really fast.
Now they...
“Is there anyone you care about? Twitter is about keeping in touch and making the...”
– Jack Dorsey - Twitter took off from simple to ‘tweet’ success - USATODAY.com
Gimme Sympathy - Metric
Listening to a lot of...
Amazon S3 goes down
Many many sites were hit by Amazon S3 problems today.
Read all about it on Techmeme.
But I didn’t have to read about it. I saw it on my Tumblr dashboard. Two of my favorite social web services, Tumblr & Twitter, had this to say:
What's with these blogging MDs :)
I couldn’t help but think of my brother after reading the story about MacRumors.com in the New York Times today.
Apparently the guy who created and runs MacRumors is a medical doctor.
My brother is a MD and a fellow at Johns Hopkins. And he’s a dad with two great kids. And he’s also now blogging. His passion (amongst others) is photography and recently he lauched a blog called...
Summer Vacation
We are leaving tomorrow for a week on Cape Cod.
Not sure how much I’ll be blogging. But you never know :)
Under Pressure - Keane
I like Keane a lot but...
Watch“Sell-Out”
Check out Episode 1 of a new show, Nite-Fite, launched by our portfolio company Next New Networks. It’s hilarious.
Tim Shey has a post about Nite Fite over on the N3 blog.
Public Policy topic: Deep Packet Inspection
I was invited to testify today at the Subcommittee of Internet and Telecom on Capitol Hill today along with others. I was joined by Dr David Reed from MIT, Robert Dykes, CEO of NebuAd (that develops DPI technology), Alissa Cooper from the Center of Democracy and Technology and Scott Cleland who is a blogger and does work for the telecoms.
The topic was specifically what/if any public policy or...
Rollover DJ - Jet
I’ve been playing a lot...
Say it ain't so
Readers of this tumblelog know that I’m a big fan of Apple products.
But I’ve also been a critic at times. Mostly when it comes to their willingness to support developers of not.
The App store is the coolest thing going with the iPhone. No don’t about it. Now we don’t have to wait for all the iphone app innovation to come from Cupertino. It can come from anywhere.
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That Summer - Bishop Allen
A song for your summer...
Twitter + Summize
This post is late so many of you probably heard that Twitter has acquired the search engine Summize (disclosure: we are investors in the company and i’m on the board along with Fred @ USV).
I met the Summize team back in January in Boston and I’ve been using Summize search every day since they told me about morphing their product to become a search engine for twitter conversation.
...
Apple Front Row needs a lesson from iPhone
I have a MacMini hooked up to our big screen in our house.
We use a MacMini instead of Apple TV for two reasons
1) We still (although less and less) need to play a DVD. Mostly for the kids to playback our collection of disks or to watch new movies that come our on DVD first.
2) I like having a browser on the big screen. The wireless mouse/keyboard is a bit wonky from the couch but I like...
All The Umbrellas in London - The Magnetic Fields
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Last.fm Launches For iPhone and iPod touch →
So sweet.
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Oh, neat! I’m quoted in Julia’s Wired cover story:
“People have been so paranoid about having any presence online for such a long time,” says David Karp, founder of the Tumblr blogging service and a friend of Allison’s. “A lot of them have gone through that transition of ‘Well, shit, it’s out there. I’m searchable on Flickr or Google.’ The cat is out of the bag, and the...
20 Photography tips from Twitter users
One of the several photography blogs I read these days is Digital Photography School. It’s a great site with simple ideas and recommendations for taking better photographs.
They have recently started using Twitter and then asked their readers to contribute photography tips using Twitter.
Great idea and great results.
Take a look here.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13) →
My Morning Jacket
Nada Surf
Radiohead
The Kooks
My Morning Jacket - M Ward
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Overkill - Colin Hay
I remember hearing this...
Tweets & Tumbling in Congress
There seems to be a lot of squabbling about the use of social media in Congress.
I wonder if its because it’s July and it’s an election year? Hmmm.
:)
Anyway, I’m gonna be tweeting and tumbling away on Thursday when I’m on Capitol Hill talking about privacy and net neutrality issues related to deep packet inspection.
Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zeppelin
One of the...