TechStars - two weeks left to apply
A while back, “Brad Feld”:http://www.feld.com/ asked “Don”:http://www.donloeb.com/ and I to be mentors for “TechStars”:http://www.techstars.org/. (Don was a mentor last year as well.) The list of “mentors”:http://www.techstars.org/mentors/ is impressive (my participation notwithstanding!), and the overall program is a fantastic idea. In short: 10 startups get picked from among hundreds, receive seed funding, and get access to [...]
eBay and Skype not going so well
John Paczkowski at AllThingsD writes that the honeymoon is most definitely over in the eBay/Skype marriage:
This morning the Internet auction giant said it was taking a $1.43 billion charge for its acquisition of the Internet telephone provider and that Niklas Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, was stepping down as chief executive of the division. The [...]
Here’s to the crazy ones
I don’t have an iPhone - I must be getting older (come to think of it, I do turn 36 later this month which is starting to sound decidedly un-young), but it just doesn’t hold much fascination for me. Sure it’s an elegant piece of equipment, but I just need my preferred phone/device to make [...]
Tracking Twitter
Twitter’s new “track”:http://evhead.com/2007/09/twitter-track.asp feature is really remarkable. Back in March, I “asked”:http://twitter.com/rklau/statuses/7877141 (on Twitter, naturally):
So… if I wanted to monitor the twitter public timeline for mentions of “FeedBurner”, how would I go about doing that?
I ended up answering my own question, and it [...]
Interview on Total Picture Radio
Last month at “SES”:http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/, I sat down with “Peter Clayton”:http://www.totalpicture.com/ to talk about FeedBurner. The “interview”:http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/468/1/ ended up covering far more ground than I expected; how I got my job at FeedBurner, how I hired “Eric”:http://www.ericjohnolson.com/ and “Jake”:http://www.jakeparrillo.com/, the guy who got me into blogging (”John Robb”:http://globalguerillas.typepad.com/), “Daemon”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/04/03/daemon.php, search engine optimization, FeedBurner’s growth, and much [...]
Flagpole Sitta
This may be the best recruiting video ever made. Tell me you wouldn’t kill to work here (btw, it’s “Connected Ventures”:http://www.connectedventures.com/ if you’re wondering) after watching this:
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Memo to Intuit PR
Listening to “this piece on NPR”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9658216 yesterday, I had one reaction to Intuit’s spokesperson’s claims that Intuit’s problem of handling tax filings on the evening of 4/17 was the fault, in the words of Harry Pforzheimer, of “late” filers and “procrastinators”.
Hey, Intuit: here’s a few other words I’d use: “customers” and “on time”. As in, [...]
A TiVo innovation I’d love to see
I was meeting with Ad Age editor Jonah Bloom last week, and threw out a suggestion that didn’t cause him to burst out into fits of laughter. Which tells me that either it’s not a bad idea, or he’s really polite. I prefer to think it’s the former.
I’ve been a TiVo subscriber for over six [...]
Accept all changes
Dick Costolo, “writing”:http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/04/convertible_debt_jeapordy.html at Ask the Wizard: “Why? Because no lawyer has ever used the ‘accept all changes’ button in MS Word, that’s why.”
Have truer words ever been spoken?
Think Different
While everyone’s getting “all excited”:http://www.techpresident.com/node/172 about the pro-Obama “remake of Apple’s 1984 ad”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo, I thought I’d share another Apple ad, which I think is the absolute best one minute of video I’ve ever seen:
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I can still remember the first time I saw the ad, and every time I see it still provokes the same [...]
