Hunter Walk wrote an excellent post the other day about whether one social graph can rule them all or not. Hunter is in the latter camp. And it’s clear by our investments at Spark and my social mobile/web activity that I agree with him (location, mobile, music, education, photos, television, et al). But the one […]
Continue reading "Can a social graph last more than 10 years?"Wiseman — Frank Ocean via frankocean: django was ill without it. reblogging Frank Ocean’s Tumblr FTW!
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Continue reading“I’m not looking to fund startups that rely on advertising” I heard this from another investor yesterday. There is no question that building a company around an advertising business requires significant scale. Fred has a great post highlighting the facts about CPM rates over time. And here’s the thing. Building a company around advertising has […]
Continue reading "Funding startups that rely on advertising"I had intended to write about about our most recent investment in 1stdibs today. But between the press coverage, my partner Todd’s post, and my colleague David Haber’s guest TC post on marketplaces…well, I think it’s well covered. So instead I thought I’d talk about one of my favorite things — getting the band back together. […]
Continue reading "Getting the band back together"I love vsco. In no particular order my top 10 these days likely Tumblr Foursquare Twitter Lift Exfm Vsco Kik Rdio Stoke City (English premier soccer team) Timehop I use these every day. A third of them aren’t on Android yet which is unfortunate.
Continue reading "Hey Bijan, I really like your way to present things. Would it be possible that you show us your top 10 iPhone apps you use? I discovered VSCO when you wrote about it. Now I use it every day. Thanks in advance. -Tobi"A few weeks ago, Dennis Crowley and I were hanging at ITP. Dennis was kind enough to show me around. I saw students creating and building some really interesting things including a foosball table dennis hacked to a display and student id card scanner so players could keep track of scoring and games. Very cool […]
Continue reading "Knowing how to hack"I’m sure I’m dating myself quite a bit, but I fondly remember the days of going through old photos in a shoebox. Grabbing a chunk of photos and flipping through them was wonderful. It felt good and was my own little time machine. As we have moved from analog to digital we have sort of […]
Continue reading "Modern day shoebox"Earlier this summer, I wrote about how various services do “people tagging”. It’s a really great and important feature in social apps. One of the things that has been painful is how Instagram uses @mentions as their people tagging system — just like Twitter. Because when you share the Instagram photo to Twitter, it can […]
Continue reading "People Tagging (continued)"david-noel: Bell X1 | I Fought The Law (The Clash cover) Aww. The Clash & Bell X1: <3 Happy Cover Friday — paging @bijan Took the red eye back home today. A bit tired but then saw this in my tumblr dashboard. Awesome. Thanks david!
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