My friend Carl pointed out a cool site to me called wordle. It makes very pretty word/tag clouds. The one here is a rendering of my del.icio.us tags. Captures my interests pretty well, I’d say. Another fun word geek site with a name with only one character’s difference is called wordie, and it is sort…
OK, so it doesn’t appear to draw as much traffic as when one of my posts was dugg, but apparently my post about the stupidity of car alarms amused the folks over at Inc. Magazine and Inc.com. Thanks for the props, Inc!
Warning: long rant ahead, but I just concluded the worst and most protracted customer-service nightmare of my life and feel compelled to share it, since my experience was just preposterous. The subtitle of this post should be why you shouldn’t buy a big-screen TV online, even though it is so much cheaper than at your…
I’ve been on a bit of a history kick lately and recently read great biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton, men whose actions in large part helped birth our country and define the structure of our government and free-market economy. As our nation struggles today with the consequences of the last eight years under…
From the New York Times: researchers implanted tiny sensors directly into two monkey’s brains, which were wired to a robotic arm. The monkeys were able to learn to control the arm and feed themselves with it using just their thoughts. Quite a stunning example of brain-machine interface technology. Of course, this is nowhere near ready…
So my partner Jason finally decided to put up a personal blog. He’s been blogging for years now as the wizard-behind-the-curtain at AskTheVC and as a guest blogger on Feld Thoughts, but he hasn’t had a more free-range vehicle until now. So go check out Mendelson’s Musings. He also has a music page on his…
From Derek Siver’s blog. Check out Twistori, a web page that gives you a real-time filter of the Twitter stream. Twistori shows tweets containing the words love, hate, think, believe, feel or wish. A nice anonymous glimpse into people’s hopes, fears, anger and aspirations. And it is an impressive statement about the message volume flowing…
Move over Quicken, Mint.com has arrived. I just spent some time playing around with Mint.com after my wife Katherine set up the account. All I have to say is wow. As a family, we have endeavored from time to time to be regular users of Quicken. We would always eventually stop using it because Quicken…
We launched a blog on the Foundry Group website back in February, so since then my blogging duties have been serving two masters. On that blog, we post news about our portfolio, thoughts on VC in general and some “think pieces” on investment themes we are interested in and how we look at the technology…
My partner Jason Mendelson and I did a podcast last week with Larry Nelson of W3W3 and our conversation covered both the intellectual property and patent issues we’ve faced as investors in high-technology companies. We definitely have a love/hate (ok, mostly hate) relationship with patents, so if you are interested in hearing (or reading) more,…