Congratulations to TechCrunch, who announced yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt that they have been acquired by AOL. I’ve been reading TechCrunch since before I knew I was going to do startups. Â It all started because my friend Blake Scholl was doing a startup, and I set up Google Reader to track Continue Reading
How would you like to have a program that helps you write blog posts faster? Â With Google Scribe I can do just that. Â In this post, I will use the suggestions from Google Scribe to generate some content about social media. Social media is finally about the media in the Continue Reading
Wait… what? This quote from Steve Blank (which I realize is taken out of context, but such is the nature of Twitter, I’m not sure where he was speaking today) definitely rubs the marketer in me the wrong way. Â Why would you ever want to exclude marketing and sales folks Continue Reading
My beloved side project TweetToCall recently turned one year old, and I’ve been procrastinating on re-styling it to look more like a Web 2.0 service and less like a weekend project. Â This post on TechCrunch tonight about the death of phone numbers motivated me to give it an hour of Continue Reading
I’ve been writing a lot of starts to posts these past two weeks – but nothing that feels fit to publish (yet). Here’s a teaser of some of the topcis I’ve been mulling over, I’d be curious to hear which of these (if any) interest you: Startup Stuff No One Continue Reading
Today we heard an excellent talk from Yaron Brook about the importance of defending capitalism, and he ended his speech with a rousing call to action for the audience. “I’m willing to put it all on the line, are you?” People stood and clapped, but I left the room wondering Continue Reading
I’m going to be tweeting a bunch about something with the hashtag #OCON, and I know a lot of people are going to ask me what it is. #OCON stands for Objectivist Summer Conference, and this year’s event is taking place at Red Rock Resort & Casino, about 30 minutes Continue Reading
I’m onboard my return flight from D.C. with Kevin and so happy to be coming home to San Francisco. I’ve basically been on the road for two weeks, last week I was in Seattle for the Seattle 2.0 awards and then I made a quick flight back to SF Friday Continue Reading
I’m here in New York for the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon, which is wrapping up the demos and announcing the winners of a 28 hour hack session that began yesterday and spanned into the early morning hours today. Hacks Using the Twilio API Adam and I arrived early yesterday to set Continue Reading
Today I went to Ikea to get new furniture for our loft, and I brought my iPhone and iPad. Â The iPhone battery was at 20% when we walked in, despite sitting on the charger the entire car ride from SOMA to Emeryville. Fortunately, my iPad was a little more up Continue Reading