February 2009
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Real Love - John Lennon
I wonder how many other...
WatchEvan Williams: How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses
Twitter’s co-founder speaks at the TED Conference. Excellent.
(via mashable)
Wanting more after the concert
Whenever I see a great concert I have the show in my head and heart for days later if not weeks & months or more.
I talk about it with friends, I blog about it and I listen to songs from that particular artist around the clock it seems.
It happens all the time.
For example after the Ben Kweller show on Tuesday, I’ve done the same thing. Blogged about it after the show, checked out...
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Lenin - Arcade Fire
Another great song from the...
I still have this show in my head. Gotta reblog...
Official Tumblr iPhone App (now free)
This is great news for the Tumblr community. If you have an iPhone and use Tumblr then do yourself a favor and go download Tumblr for iPhone. It’s free and it’s beautiful.
staff:
Tumblerette is now the official Tumblr iPhone App! (and it’s free!)
Tumblerette was originally developed by the insanely talented Garrett Ross and Jeff Rock at Mobelux. We had the pleasure of hanging out...
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The portfolio entrepreneur
I’ve been noticing a trend that might have started with folks in the entertainment biz in southern california since the beginning of time but certainly has been happening more and more since the web 1.0 downturn.
The trend is for the entrepreneur to work on multiple projects at the same time.
When I was working in Silicon Valley during the entire 90’s that was extremely rare. You...
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Walk On Me - Ben Kweller
Lauren and I went to see...
“At the end of the day, I don’t think Twitter should be in the business of...”
– Bryce
We are working on things that don’t get in our users way and at the same time help Twitter become a big company. But I appreciate your bigger point Bryce. And it’s a good one. Especially the part about “getting out of the way”.
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Staralfur - Sigur Ros
A wonderful song. nuff...
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Please sign in to my reader roll if you use...
Last week I wrote about my decision to run the TwitterRemote widget instead of MyBlogLog on the right side bar of my blog.
It’s very good and I’m finding new people all the time to follow on Twitter as a result.
But there is one issue with this widget. If you use Twitter, you need to sign-in the first time on the widget where it says “Your Name Here”.
So please take the...
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Introducing TechStars Boston
As many of you know Y Combinator is no longer supporting a Cambridge program. Paul & Jessica made this announcement last month. I said it was a loss for our local market.
Unknown to me at the time of that post, Brad Feld and David Cohen were busy working with Bill Warner (founder of Avid Technology) and Shawn Broderick setting up TechStars Boston. TechStars is an early stage, seed program for...
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“Our job is no longer to sell folks things they want to hear. They want an...”
– hypebot: Indie Label Asthmatic Kitty Shares “What Is Working?”
I love this quote. It’s from the indie label behind Sufjan Stevens & I Heart Lung.
“Boxee is a browser optimized for the 10 ft experience. Much like mobile browsers...”
– Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee
“Which is to say, for magazine and online content, the Kindle is flawed mostly...”
– Waiting for that magic Kindle killing tablet
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Dimmer - Bishop Allen
I can’t wait to see...
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“One of our biggest challenges has been going from 7 people five years ago to...”
– Chris DeWolf - My Route to MySpace - NYT
Holy smokes. I didn’t know they had that many employees at MySpace.
The need for better charts
My friends Stu and Jason have been working on a better web charting application over at Visible Certainty (extra bonus points if you can tell me where that names comes from).
Their desire for better charting software comes from their belief that most charts/graphs hide the facts instead of presenting the facts. Sources are left out, readers can’t typically view source data or put multiple...
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Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
The...
Mixed feelings leaving Mexico
We are at the airport and about to leave for Boston.
We had a terrific week. The weather could not have been better. I had great quality time with Lauren and the kids. The beach was gorgeous. It was a break we all needed.
But on the 60+ minute drive from our hotel to the airport I couldn’t help but notice how dramatic the contrast is between our resort and the surrounding towns. I...
"Rip. Mix. Burn"
Rip. Mix. Burn.
Those were the three words that came along with the first version of iTunes on the Mac. The message was was rip your CDs, create a playlist and burn a new CD.
This was well before the ipod, or iTunes Music Store, before apple DRM, or before proprietary formats.
Sure there were other desktop music jukebox applications at the time but that first initial version of itunes and...
Random thoughts from the beach
Well with just a day left to our vacation in paradise I thought I’d jot down some random thoughts.
I haven’t used my macbook all week. I’m sure the kids will use it on the flight home tomorrow but I honestly haven’t missed it. I’ve been able to do everything I wanted to do on my blackberry. My friend dave winer has been on the leading edge of the netbook role but...
Kindness - David Wilcox
As of today, lauren and i...
Lauren's thoughts on the Kindle
My wife lauren is a voracious reader. She’ll read at least a book a week. Sometimes she’ll read a few books in parallel.
And even though she is having fun with her tweets and iphone, she isn’t an early adopter of new technology. Lauren watches me configure, play with, evaluate and maintain new technology at home and often wonders why I do it.
I didn’t even try to buy...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-15) →
Bishop Allen (34)
The Who (6)
Ben Kweller (4)
Bright Eyes (3)
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Off the high speed grid
So the place we are staying at in mexico doesn’t have high speed data working in the rooms. They are supposed to have it but they don’t. I have a strong feeling lauren had something to do with that:) .
That means I won’t be able to post any songs or reblog while I’m here all week.
Some of you may have noticed that I posted a song yesterday. I created that post a few...
My favorite mobile phone
Over the past year or so there have been a number of mobile phones that have captured a huge amount of attention.
Consider the marketing campaigns supporting the iphone 3g, blackberry bold and the Google Android.
But last week another phone was released to the public. And it didn’t get nearly as much attention. Its the next generation Blackberry Curve. RIM calls it the Blackberry...
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First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
this one goes...
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Vacation.
Tomorrow we are heading to Mexico for a week.
We used to be able to get away whenever we wanted and we typically avoided the school break. But the kids are getting older now and we are at the point that we need to take our vacations when they have the time. By leaving tomorrow we are getting a one day head start at least.
I won’t be blogging here that much except for my song of the day...
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Rain - Bishop Allen
These guys are from Brooklyn...
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TwitterRemote replaces MyBlogLog
With mixed emotions, I just replaced the long standing MyBlogLog widget on the right sidebar of this site with the new TwitterRemote. I am a huge fan of the team that started and sold MBL to Yahoo. But Eric and Rafer have moved on. And even though Todd is still at Yahoo it just doesnt’ feel the same I’m sorry to say. TwitterRemote is essentially MyBlogLog except it keeps track of...
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Radio.
I guess the SIRIUS/XM news isn’t that suprising.
The costs were breathtaking. The business model requiring satellites, new consumer radios and exclusive programming deals simply don’t compile.
But I think the product is very good. As a user, subscription radio works for me. Commercial free radio with lots of niche programming is a breath of fresh air. Especially for those of us in...
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My Generation - The Who
Probably the best rock...
“There used to be a mantra at the upper right of this blog. I can’t...”
– Fred Wilson - Truth - A VC
“The relief I felt at turning 40 was that when I looked in the mirror it was...”
– Originally posted as a comment by dave winer on bijansabet.com using Disqus.
