Archive for July, 2006

Is this what blogging has stooped to?

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

To think that I made it onto the same page as an article on Amanda’s tits - wow - what an accomplishment.
Clearly Valleywag has set new levels of blogging integrity.
I sure would like to know who claims that I asked them to do work - and refused to pay them?
I wonder if anyone has the [...]

People must think I’m made of money or VC funded

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

We’ve been getting all sorts of incredible feedback and requests for our PeopleAggregator product.
That’s a good thing.
We ever hired the Citizen Agency to full-time just bitch at me.  Though Tara did get some details wrong, we’re listening to everyone and we hope to start flowing out new features any day now.
We were determined ot make [...]

Coolio article explaining ‘what’s up’

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Here’s a giant article written by somebody named Jerry Weinstein.  We spent :30 on the phone.  Jerry is pretty smart and had an angle I encouraged him to pursue.
He may have gotten a few details wrong and mispelled my last name (i’ve corrected it below), but this is a call to arms. Whether you’re MySpace [...]

Heather Gold show - July 21st 8 PM

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

I used to have this horrible crush on this wonderful woman named Heather Gold.
Now she’s a famous comedian.  Come check out her show at the SF JCC (where my sons play basketball and my eldest son is a DJ.)

Theme:  Self-made. How do you move from wanting something to make it happen? How do [...]

This says it all

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

from bLaugh
Clearly Jonathan Abrams is back. This has his fingerprints all over it.  Its part of that ’sue to make profits’ school of thought.
Why would anyone have anything to do with Friendster - ever again?

Excellent PeopleAggregator article by Richard MacManus

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

I have never met a writer who says more in less words than Richard.  No wonder we hired him!
This article sums up perfectly where we’re coming from with PeopleAggregator.  We’ve been engaging in an internal debate since Gnomedex - on our messaging and positioning.  I am so close to the product that I didn’t realize [...]

Congratulazioni!

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

New Header dedicated to the spirit of boring conferences and panels

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

I have been going to technical conferences since 1980.
There are good panels and bad.  Boring speakers and exciting conversations.
Even Gnomedex and Bloggercon had boring sessions.
My body is the ultimate judge.  I have been known to wake up a crowd, keep a flame burning and tell it like it is.  Sleep is the ultimate statement of [...]

More sleep footage

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

I actually planned this one.
I heard the cameras clicking and I thought “just don’t dribble”.  I knew everyone was waiting for this one - so I obliged.
I just hope people try out PeopleAggregator in exchange for trying to ridicule me.  See if I care? Just spell my name right and point to our software.
Meanwhile read [...]

Links, Notes and fun stuff

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

1.  Coolio - Universal MAP APIs - it had to happen.  We’re hoping that this happens with storage, dashboards, modules, aggregators, media repositories, tools, IM, presence, events, the whole thing. Every domain shoiuld hgave it’s wons et of open APIs - shared in common by all vendors. [via Matt MacAllister]
2.  Tara Hunt blogged about us.  [...]