April 2010
30 posts
WatchSaw this in TechCrunch this morning. Best qoute is,
“If you want to break down someone’s door, why don’t you start with AT&T, for God sakes? They make your amazing phone unusable as a phone!”
“VCs having coffee with one another is a key conduit for VC groupthink. This is...”
– Ben Horowitz - Four Things Some VCs Do That I Don’t Like // ben’s blog
(tipped via hiten)
Apple Buy or Build this Now, Please...
There is a story in TechCrunch today about a wireless sync APP for iPod/iPhone/iPad. As I have added devices to my iTunes account it becomes more and more clear that Apple need to embrace the cloud.
The first problem is that syncing is broken to iTunes. It does not properly sync where you are on say a TV show to all of your different places. It is supposed to but as you grow your device list,...
“Probably the strongest character trait of Steve Jobs is his absolute lack of...”
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Mac and the iPad, History Repeats Itself
The pressure to fit business into quarters is a disease in my opinion. It does nothing to build a strong company in the long run and in my opinion has trained aggressive buyers like myself to always wait for someone’s quarter end and then just kill...
“…publishing the name, photographs, and personal information of the Apple...”
– John Gruber
Even though I have my suspicions about this iPhone leak I totally agree with John that exposing this programmer is just a dick move.
Apple, I call bullshit.
Everything that I have read so far says that the iPhone 4G that Gizmodo sort of “found at a bar” is not a orchestrated leak but a real mishap. I just do not believe that to be true. I know the story is to do radio checking but the reality is why not do that in something chained to a car, why let some young kid walk around with it in the wild.
Anyway if you want to read more I did...
“My personal belief is that patents are primarily a defensive weapon, not...”
– Martin Tobias founder of Tippr
This one is going to get interesting, the full article is here. Not a knock on Groupon but it is just not what I consider a “invention” and there should be no way that they should have to worry about patents.
“She was in the conference room, pouring a cup of coffee, when the other...”
– so fucking great
Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? - NYT (via nickdouglas)
(via fred-wilson)
WatchThis is a commercial from 1995 of Josh Kopelman’s company Electric Library. Oh how far we have come…
Hey Adobe, Just Reverse It
So in case you have not heard about the Apple/Adobe fight, here is a quick synapses. Apple hates flash, Adobe makes flash. Apple decided to not allow a Adobe product that was going to take flash code and automatically make things into iPhone Apps. It has gotten so bad that the official Flash evangelist said on the Adobe blog, “Go screw yourself Apple“
Now back to cooler minds. ...
Shaking the Tree
I made up the phrase ”shaking the tree” for situations where you are in some sort of a deal and you go back to request new terms. As a serial entrepreneur I have found myself in the situation on both sides of the table pretty frequently. Obviously if you have a contract things can be different, this is for things where you do not necessarily have a locked long term contract.
Last...
Think Gene Patents Are Controversial Now? Just... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Exclusive patents may already be keeping some patients in the dark, the WSJ article says. It describes a new method of genetic testing called chromosomal microarrays that can pick up chromosomal abnormalities in the genome. What’s a doctor to do if that kind of analysis encompasses a gene that’s already patented — tell the patient or stick to the letter of the law?
Our genes have...
Another Example of why Social E-Commerce is...
I was on some random blog and I saw a picture of the “fish’n’flush”. I googled around a bit on it, called the company and bought one. Installed it this weekend in Oliver’s bathroom.
What I really thought was so cool about this, besides having a real aquarium on the back of my toilet, was how the internet is enabling a product like this to exist. In fact the...
22 Entrepreneurs' Tumblrs You Must Start Following...
Flattered to have made it into Business Insider’s list of Tumblr blogs to follow (thanks to David for this).
Full list below:
Bijan (VC at Spark Capital)
Mike Hudack (CEO of Blip.tv)
Jamie (Founder PhoneTag, PoketyPoke, NobelBiz and Grid.com)
Scott Rafer (serial entrepreneur and founder of several -ery companies)
Albert Wenger (VC at Union Square Ventures)
Mo Koyfman (VC at...
Grudges
If you are going to be an active serial entrepreneur you are going to work with a lot of people and friends. Some of those relationships will go great, others will be neutral and some will just suck.
When it comes to the ones that go bad, a lot of times I find it is my fault that this happens but other times the person has done something that I can just not accept as being fair.
I have...
How to kill Goliath*
It has now been a liitle over a year since Google launched free voicemail transcription. For those who don’t know, I founded PhoneTag, a service that supplies voicemail transcription that you pay for…
If you had read my emails the morning Google launched you would have thought there had been a death in the family, they basically all said “so sorry for your loss...
“I don’t think of my life as a career, I do stuff. I respond to stuff....”
– Steve Jobs in Steven Fry’s Time Magazine article
This article is a bit long but it is the best I have read about the iPad launch so far. As for the quote, well I guess this is why Steve just rules.
April Fools 2010: The Definitive List →
Every year it seems that April fools becomes a bigger and bigger holiday. I think it is a sign of the shift from traditional media to the blogosphere. TechCrunch has a great list (click the title above) that they are keeping updated with all of the April fools jokes being done in the tech area.
So far my favorite is Google going nuclear but I will wait till the end of the day before I declare...