Relentless Persistence
March 14, 2008
Found this via Brad Feld’s blog and thought it was a great peek into google’s internal intranet tools. Most big company folks I know say their intranets are a mess and unusable. I’ve seen a bunch of startups doing interesting stuff in this space. However, it seems like google has tried something different on their own. I wonder [...]
February 27, 2008
At Bfast on Sunday a few friends and I came up with a feature idea / request for facebook. What if you could get a feed of friends’ status messages that contain specific words. This is basically like twitter’s track feature. Mike Vernal, who just joined facebook from MSFT, was at the table and thought it might already [...]
February 25, 2008
I wonder if this article promoting placement of ads near “action spots” (e.g. links) is the right thing to do after reading Mr. Belshe’s latest material. From a UX perspective, I certainly have accidentally clicked ads near comment fields & site navigation links way to often.
February 9, 2008
Facebook’s approach to I18N, outsourcing to the userbase, seems to be going pretty darn well. What is even better about it is that popular apps will also benefit & get I18N much easier than in other development platforms. Sweet!
January 15, 2008
I was surprised when Apple announced there would be a 20 dollar upgrade fee to get the new sweetness on my iPhone. I felt like this guy does.
But then I thought about it and started to wonder…
Perhaps this is a test to see market reaction and upgrade rate for charging across all portable Apple devices. [...]
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 [...]
January 13, 2008
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!
January 6, 2008
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 [...]
January 2, 2008
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!
December 22, 2007
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 [...]
