I am a glass is half-full kind of guy (which can come in handy as an early-stage venture investor). So while I was not excited to be at Denver International Airport at 7am this morning, at least I got to see this great sunrise. Technorati Tags: DIA, Denver, Sunrise
Hooray for Sonos for listening to their customer feedback. Today, they released version 2.5 of their system software, adding the most useful feature yet: search. Sonos also added access to Napster, but as a subscriber to Rhapsody and Pandora, I’m less interested in access to yet another online service at this point, though I definitely…
Took this shot on my trusty iPhone at the SF Moma last week during a break from the Web 2.0 Summit. If one Ryan is good, an infinite number of Ryans must be better… Technorati Tags: iPhone, SFMoma, Web2Summit
Well, not really, but today’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, were each honored for their independent discoveries of Giant Magnetoresistance, or GMR in 1988. The stunning growth in storage density in magnetic media was enabled in large part by the introduction of hard drives heads that employed GMR,…
At the Postini/Google closing dinner last Wednesday night, Postini investor David Cowan gave a toast. In Limerick. Here it is in all its glory. Thanks for the laughs, David! Technorati Tags: Google, Postini, Limerick, Toast
Today, EchoStar announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sling Media for $380m in cash. Sling is a Mobius VC portfolio company where I’ve had the pleasure of serving on the board for three very exciting years. I first met Blake Krikorian, Sling’s CEO and co-founder shortly after he presented at the May…
Yesterday, Joe Zawinul passed away at his home in Vienna, Austria. Joe Zawinul played keys/organ and shares composition credits with the great Miles Davis on two of my all-time favorite (and groundbreaking) jazz-fusion albums, In a Silent Way (iTunes) and Bitches Brew (iTunes). These two albums are incredible to experience and are worthy of a…
Hats off to my friend Jud for passing this video along to me over enchiladas and margaritas at the Rio last week. It is an image manipulation technique for resizing images by removing less relevant visual data, instead of by cropping or shrinking/expanding. Hard to explain, so watch it. If a picture is worth 1k…
Girl by the whirlpool Lookin’ for a new fool Don’t follow leaders Watch the parkin’ meters -Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues So in the past couple weeks, I’ve noticed something strange. The parking meters throughout downtown Boulder are disappearing and being replaced with new Swedish-built solar-powered parking pay stations located on each block. Happily, these…
The fine folks at Speakeasy Ales & Lagers are celebrating their tenth anniversary and are having a shindig to celebrate. Since I’m in Boulder this weekend, I won’t be able to make the party, but wanted to encourage folks in the Bay Area to attend. Speakeasy was the first angel investment I ever made, and…