Oh man, the Canon 5d mark II is amazing. Check out this video created by Joi Ito.
(thanks to Ed Shaz via Twitter for the link)
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
Month: December 2008
White Man In Hammersmith Palais – The Clash
Making a new playlist this morning for my trip to NYC. Gotta start it with the clash. I love this song.
As many of you already know I’m In Like With You is a casual, social gaming site. Their games connect mostly young users on their site and 3rd party sites in real time. (We are investors in the company)
Their very first game, Blockles, received 9 million plays over the weekend.
That is just awesome and kudos to Charles and the whole team at IILWY.
Sole Salvation – The Beat
This song is from the album Special Beat Service
loving this.
Rag Mama Rag – The Band
I heard this song on the radio yesterday. Couldn’t get it out of my head all day. They wrote this song in the year I was born. 1969.
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum’s rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other.
What Is Web 2.0 | O’Reilly Media
Tim O’Reilly wrote this post in 2005. Worth reading again if you haven’t already.
Never Satisfied
I’ve been thinking about Dave Winer’s recent post – Tech developers and users.
One thing I’ve noticed is that many of the founders of our portfolio companies are extremely self critical themselves. They tend to be intellectually honest about the challenges, shortcomings and areas of their respective products that require attention.
Startups are hard. They are really hard. I think most folks that have never been in a startup don’t realize how unbelievably hard people work in a startup company. And you gotta be an optimist at heart because the odds are against you. So that combination of being self critical and being an optimist is quite a combination.
In the midst of startup life – excitement, stress, anxiety, thrill, success and disappointment – I always value when founders are the first one to point out what needs to be fixed or improved.
Here’s a recent example. On the day we closed the Boxee investment, I sent Avner an email saying congrats and how excited I was to be an investor in his company. His response was basically that they were excited as well but there was a lot of work to do.
Those are often the most successful entrepreneurs in the long run.
They are never satisfied.