Bubba Murarka

Fred Wilson, Brad Feld & others just made an investment in Zynga, a social network game network with no destination site.  Fred outlines the thesis on the Union Square Venture Blog. 
It seems like folks are aligning to one of two beliefs for social network apps:

They are another distribution channel with low cost to build but […]

An old friend of mine and his partner just released a rich IM client that works with your facebook friends list.  It already got written up on Techcrunch and they’ve been making it better and better every hour since!  Check it out at www.social.im when you’ve got a chance! 

I’ve had a mixed experience with my Blackberry Curve (8300) over the past 6 months.  My favorite aspect of the Curve has been the battery life…I end up charging it about once every 3 days!  The keyboard is pretty darn good & the voice quality is legit.  However the browser sucks, the sync software sucks, and the […]

Update: I tried embedding the video but it doesn’t seem to work.  Here is the direct link.  
It is long, but at least I now know there are people that like Street Fighter more then me!

Over the past 3 months I’ve been focused on brainstorming and researching different ideas to start a company around.  When I left my job in October without knowing THE idea I was going  after I received a wide variety of reactions.  They boiled down to:

Yoiks. Are you nuts?
Wow. That is ballsy / crazy…good luck…let me […]

In my last post I shared raw notes from The Stanford Facebook Class final presentation.  The class got some press when it was announced and the apps built by the class got 16 million installs and ~1M daily active users in 10 weeks.   I cleaned up the previous post a bit more but also wanted to […]

Updated 12/17: Corrected some typos. Also check out follow up post here.  
I attended the Finals presentation tonight as did ~500 of my closest friends. Seriously, it was amazing scene with gobs of people - mad props to everyone who helped pull the night off. Below are slightly cleaned up  notes from the presentations. I was […]

I’ve been trying to recover some music previously purchased on iTunes but on a laptop that I no longer have access to.  Turns out this isn’t possible based on this email from Apple support:
Thank you for purchasing music from the iTunes Store. I apologize, but I am unable to place this item back in your […]

So I just got my iPod Touch (i know, i know…but I’m on a budget given the whole start up thing) and wanted to christen it with some new music.  I decided to check out a few of the newer music services in lieu of iTunes to see if Steve Jobs had anything to worry […]

I’ve been using Office 2007 on my laptop and enjoying it for the most part.  However,  no one I collaborate with uses it so the whole new file format thing has been a pain for me.  Since everyone’s time is short, getting them to download & install the adaptors for office 2003 is a non-starter for […]