• Search, Subscribe, Advertise

    Posted on February 18, 2005

    Feedster was awarded Best Overall Presentation at the Bay Area Interactive Group (BIG) Technology Shootout last night. The main message presented was the future of XML based formats such as RSS and how they lead to a model that can best be summarized as “Search, Subscribe, Advertise.” Search is of... [Read More]

  • Feed of the Day

    Posted on February 17, 2005

    So there was massive feedback from putting up The Year of Coffee as the Feed of the Day, people really liked it. Happy I could help out! So tonight was my turn to pick the feed again. I’m a geek at heart. Serious geek. My natural inclination is to put... [Read More]

  • Feed of the Day for Wed

    Posted on February 17, 2005

    I didn’t have time to post about it when I put it up, but I want to talk about the last Feed of the Day I put up: The Year of Coffee. I ran across it cause I have a subscription to a vanity feed for Feedster so that I... [Read More]

  • Notes from Jeff Clavier Presenting at BMA

    Posted on February 15, 2005

    Here are some notes from the talk Jeff Clavier gave at BMA this morning. A lot of the talk was about the enterprise side of the equation. “What does it take to get an enterprise software play to market” type of questions. But the discussion started out with a preface... [Read More]

  • Geek Dinner in Palo Alto

    Posted on February 15, 2005

    Greg Gershman from Blogdigger is in town for a little bit and wanted to do a get together. The plan is to meet up at Jing Jing downtown Palo Alto at 6:30pm on Wed Feb 16th. Here’s a map for those who need one. Getting to Jing Jing from the... [Read More]

  • From an Idea, to a Product, to a Company

    Posted on February 13, 2005

    Jeff Clavier is speaking at the BMA roundtable on Tuesday morning. Eleanor organizes the event, and I’ve been to a bunch of them. The discussions tend to be very good. Maybe events that start at 7:30 in the morning attract only those highly dedicated to the cause. [Read More]

  • Feedster Feed Of The Day

    Posted on February 11, 2005

    There’s a “Feed Of The Day” feature on the Feedster home page. See the thing in the middle of the page, right above the ridiculously large count of feeds in the system? Basically, it’s a feed that someone at Feedster thinks is interesting. The responsibility had been falling to Chris... [Read More]

  • What's in My Wallet

    Posted on February 10, 2005

    Dave McClure asked imagine for just a moment that you’re Ballmer, Semel, or Schmidt and you’ve got a couple billion burning a hole in your pocket– what companies would you put on your shopping list?. Interesting question. I would probably pick a ton of mobile companies. Flickr, Buzznet, WirelessInk, LifeBlog,... [Read More]

  • 106miles

    Posted on February 9, 2005

    I went to the 106miles event last night. A big part of the Geek Krew were there: Niall (who took audio and should have that up on his site at some point), Eleanor, Russ Beattie, and Brendon Wilson. We’re starting to form a pretty consistent traveling discussion group. Michael Fagan... [Read More]

  • Plugins for Wireless Games

    Posted on February 9, 2005

    I’m just catching up on some posts I’ve had sitting around as drafts (there are a lot of them actually). I saw this article about Infected, a wireless game for Playstation Portable that has some viral dispersion features. That got me thinking about a whole bunch of different things, mostly... [Read More]