Archive for December, 2006

Holiday Ho-Ho’s, ding dongs and Angel sprinkles

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Need more evidence that Google is the evil Empire?
Hey - to all your Feedburner users - ever wonder why everytime you try and bring up Feedburner feeds in a browser page - it crashes?  Where are the RSS feeds?  How come it won’t give me plain old vanilla RSS?  What’s up wit dat?
Comments turned back on [...]

History of the Silicon Valley Asshole’s society

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Mike Butcher rose to Sam Sethi’s defense when I called him an asshole.
Sam himself also took offense by me calling him that - so I thought I’d clarify a bit.
Business is tough.  It takes a tough cookie to succeed in this environment.  Various people use various techniques to survive.  One is to be an asshole. [...]

Comments off - for now

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Sorry folks - as much as I love getting comments from folks. This spam shit is getting out of control.
Akstmet has not been able to keep up with all the spam I’m getting. Not sure if we’re doing something wrong, but I can’t afford to spend the time fucking with it.
So send me email [...]

Person of the Year: Me! I mean You!

Monday, December 18th, 2006

There’s this really nice Flash slide show that comes on top of this article.  Unfortunately its done in Flash - so I can’t wasily copy and paste it into this post.
So you know why I hate Flash so much?  You can’t right click and copy it.  I’m sure Macromedia thinks this is a good thing [...]

Back in the USA

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Well I finally made it back.
Got plenty to think about and write about.
Its been a hell of a year and next year will be better.
But for now - gotta play catch up and sign some of those deals that have been pending.
Lots of imagery and memes to post, lots of dead time during X-Mas to [...]

Links from the Red Capet lounge at Heathrow

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

So I’ve been away from blogging, but the results of my efforts will help us all.  We’ve gotten a LOT of traction and interest and our new Version 1.2 really rocks, but I can’t forget who got me here.  YOU - my readers.
So without any further delay…….
Well I certainly hope that Robert now understands what [...]

Dear Mr. Robert Scoble

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

I’m personallly sorry and apologetic that I haven’t made SURE you grok PeopleAggregator.
So lets say I have this podcasting company - with lots of channels.
And I wanna offer my customers a way of meeting each other, flirting, schmoozing, collaborating, clustering into groups, blog, podcast, vlog - you know - a “MySpace in a Box” experience.
You [...]

Update on Jim Bankoff

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Rafat is reporting that Jim has chosen to leave.  That makes sense.
I guess Marcien Jenkes is the heir apparent.
Lord help us if some TV guy is brought in.
Lordy, lordy PLEASE don’t make that happen!
Jim is gonna make a killer CEO somewhere.

Don’t fire Jim Bankoff!

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

I’ve had the pleasure of working for JIm Bankoff for about a year now.  He’s not only smart and invigorated, but he appears to be getting great work out of his team.
So why in hell would anybody fire Jim Bankoff?
I just don’t buy that.  If he’s leaving, he’s doing it out of his own accord.  [...]

We’re in Businessweek!

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Back in the day - when I was getting quoted in big mainsteam mags all the time, I grew tainted of tidly little coverage like this article gives us.  I’d call up the reporter and let them know what angles they missed, what they got wrong and where the parties were.
You see the way into [...]