January 2010
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iPad: First Overhyped, Now Underestimated
continuations: Yesterday’s “reveal” of the iPad was predictably anti-climactic. With the hype that had built up, anything short of a mind-reading, teleporting device had to be a bit of a letdown. But we are now likely to enter the phase of underestimating the iPad. People are already obsessing about such flaws as the omission of a camera. Or the lack of support for Flash. Or the absence of...
Jan 29th
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“I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.”
– The always classy Chris Matthews on President Obama after the State of the Union. (via arigreenberg)
Jan 28th
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Integration of the Day: Plancast and Salesforce
Note: ‘The Integration of the Day’ is where I take two or more web services and create a HYPOTHETICAL integration. This is not an announcement or breaking news, just the thoughts of a fellow entrepreneur. I’d like to thank Charlie O’Donnell (check out his blog) for the idea. Today’s ‘Integration of the Day’ combines schedule-sharing tool Plancast with CRM platform Salesforce. Plancast is like...
Jan 20th
Some Real Estate Tips for Startups
continuations: Now that the cost of servers and bandwidth has plummeted, office space tends to be the biggest expense following payroll for a lot of web startups.  Here are some quick tips on what to do. When you are just getting going, simple get some desks, ideally at a friend’s startup. New York City also has some great deals in the NYU Poly incubators.  Whatever you do, it should be...
Jan 20th
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple... →
Will it still drop calls?
Jan 19th
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Integration of the Day: Hunch and Indeed
Note: ‘The Integration of the Day’ is where I take two or more web services and create a HYPOTHETICAL integration. This is not an announcement or breaking news, just the thoughts of a fellow entrepreneur. I’d like to thank Charlie O’Donnell (check out his blog) for the idea. Today’s ‘Integration of the Day’ is a mashup of job search site Indeed.com with decision-engine...
Jan 19th
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e-book 'backups' for books you own?
ryankent: With my new Kindle in hand, I would love to box up or donate all of my old books and use my e-reader for everything. The only problem is that to do so would require me to pay again for each title I own - and with hundreds of books in my house that certainly isn’t an option! I really wish there was a site where I could download an electronic version of my books for free (or a small...
Jan 15th
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Software Patents Need To Go
continuations: My partner Brad put up a great post on the USV blog yesterday, arguing for an independent invention defense against software patents.  A while back, I had proposed an alternative, a change in how litigation works.  In that post, I wrote that: Some folks have suggested doing away with software patents altogether as a way of addressing this problem.  That strikes me as too...
Jan 12th
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Q4 investments: Internet hot, cleantech cold →
Checkout my story in VentureBeat on a Q4 venture investing report released by ChubbyBrain, a New York based startup aiming to be the Bloomberg for high growth private companies and investors.
Jan 12th
Jan 8th
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First Round Capital Incubator Trek
Over the past few years, New York City has become a hotbed of startup activity. On Tuesday, the First Round Capital team took a tour of incubator spaces to survey the NYC scene. A seed and early stage venture capital firm, First Round already has 15 New York based startups in its portfolio including Hot Potato and 33Across. “We typically fund PowerPoints, we fund prototypes, we fund pre-revenue...
Jan 8th
WatchWatch
funsize: theinterwebs: Meghan and Alli visited with Justin aka “the Potato” Shaffer at Hot Potato, a new real-time startup dubbed “the next Twitter” by Business Insider. Hot Potato is way for people to connect about real events in real time as they are going on. Their goal is to connect attendees with people watching or following along at home. They are mainly focused on building a smart...
Jan 8th
Jan 5th
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Skype to Be Integrated Into TVs From Panasonic and... →
Will I still get spam messages from shady Eastern European hookers? Yes, and in high def.
Jan 5th
2010 (?)
continuations: Well, it’s the 4th of January, 2010 and I have so far written and crossed out 2009 at least half a dozen times.  My brain is apparently reluctant to accept that it is 2010.  After all, in a few minutes I will be braving the cold on the way to a (probably frozen) Metro North train, instead of firing up my jet pack or better yet beaming myself into the office.  On the other hand, I...
Jan 5th
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“You should always limit what you say during sex to moaning and helpful tips.”
– Veronica from Better of Ted (check out the clip) http://bit.ly/69t9VD
Jan 4th
Hello, New York!
awesomefoundation: Happy New Year! The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is thrilled today to kick off 2010 by announcing that we are officially launching a new chapter of the Foundation in New York City. Additionally, we’re honored and seriously pumped to be welcoming a simply stellar cast of micro-trustees steering this project and forwarding the interest of awesome in the...
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st