February 2012
2 posts
“Despite Facebook’s refusal to sell information, users are still outraged at...”
– Gavin McInnes
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
6 posts
“My Agenda for America is clear:
- I want to end deficit spending and cut...”
– Gary Johnson now running on the Libertarian ticket. Glad he’ll have an opportunity to keep getting this message out.
know about it: introducing the re-imagined pu.ly →
knowabout:
When it comes to content consumption, I think there are two primary directions software can be built to help. Software can be built to save you time, or it can be built to kill your time.
knowabout.it was designed from the ground up to be in the ‘save you time’ category. All of our views and…
Twitter : StumbleUpon :: Google :...
porchdog:
Twitter’s gigantic freakin’ revenue opportunity is promoted tweets. And similar to how Google found its business model at Goto.com/Overture, Twitter is taking its cue from StumbleUpon. But first….
Remember when Google didn’t have a business model? Yeah, the Internet and media giant with a valuation of $150-200 billion, $35+ billion in annual revenue, and ~$15 billion in annual cash...
A blog from the mind of falicon: why I think... →
falicon:
Consider this sentence: “I am a Giant fan” Are you talking about the NFL, the MLB, a grocery store…or maybe a person, a place, or even a thing that you just like a lot? Without any additional clues, which conversation do you think occurred? “What is your favorite NFL team?” “I am a Giant fan”
November 2011
4 posts
Trying to turn my niece into a basketball player
A Worthy Cause →
I don’t usually sign petitions of any kind, but making sure Nickelback doesn’t perform at the Super Bowl is a cause worth standing up for…
September 2011
2 posts
Nice! Kurt Vonnegut Kindle books on sale at Amazon... →
Managing Your Startup With a Two-Person Team
(This was originally published as a guest post on Betabeat)
You’ve made the leap and are doing a startup. It’s just you and your co-founder, and you’re pushing out code on a daily basis. Fast, fast, fast. You’re well versed in the rules of agile development, have tried out 10 different feature and bug tracking tools, but you’re still falling back on email as a primary way to communicate...
August 2011
2 posts
The Get Down Guy Name
My mom is awesome. She’s writing a bunch of family stories and publishing them to a private blog for our family to read, and in one she explained the history of The Get Down Guy:
1986 William, Philip, Mary, Tipton, and I attended a University of Texas baseball game at Disch-Falk Field. Philip was playing t-ball, and we were going to see the big guys play. And of course there were hot...
3 tags
July 2011
5 posts
- Is This It covered by Peter Bjorn And John
know about it: Weekend Roundup →
knowabout:
We’re excited to be out of the closed alpha stage and opened to the public. Here are some of the stories that have helped thousands of new users enjoy Know About It:
WSJ Digits
ReadWriteWeb
Lifehacker
Mashable
During this beta period we’ll be working hard to scale the system and…
New Service Sniffs Out Secret Gems From Across... →
Great article on Know About It from one of my favorite tech writers. Informative and fair.
June 2011
5 posts
MLB Pitcher Whiff Rates →
Another great way to evaluate fantasy pitching talent…
May 2011
7 posts
Destroyer - The Sublimation Hour
I’ve been...
know about it: Your Time vs. Real Time →
knowabout:
We frame Know About It’s usefulness as a balance between your time and real time. What this means is that Know About It is not the site to replace your real time consumption of Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, RSS feeds, or any of the current and future sources that have real time consumption elements….
“I’m a big believer in human curators. Algorithms alone do a terrible job of...”
– Instapaper founder Marco Arment at Studiomates lunch (via curiositycounts)
If you replace “readers” with “listeners”… it’s the same dynamic. Humans matter.
(via danielholter)
Most definitely yes.
(via mikehudack)
Important note: Human curators doesn’t necessarily mean additional human...
April 2011
10 posts
NFL Lockout Lifted As Judge Nelson Rules For... →
Gary Johnson 2012
I’m very excited that Gary Johnson has announced that he’s running for president in 2012. He’s running as a Republican (he is a 2 time Republican Governor from New Mexico), but that is a bit misleading. He isn’t a neo-con and he isn’t going to be the right wing Christian’s dog in the fight; he’s not your typical Republican candidate.
Instead of going...
“I’ve noticed what is close to becoming a disturbing trend that might be a...”
– Charles Smith: Lean Startup doesn’t mean no grand vision.
(via david-noel)
know about it: A system where everyone wins. →
knowabout:
There are a lot of of reasons why I’m so excited to be building knowabout.it, but I think one of the biggest reasons is beacuse it’s truly a system where everyone wins.
That’s a pretty bold statement, so let me explain what I mean by that.
As I see it, we’ve really got three players invovled…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
TV on the Radio (9)
The Kinks (9)
Beastie Boys (4)
The Antlers (1)
Ezra Koenig (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
know about it: Managing Content Overload →
knowabout:
Let’s forget for a minute that the average Know About It user has 500 links flowing through their social streams daily. Taking just one prolific source like TechCrunch serves as an interesting use case for Know About It. As of 7:45 PM EST on 4/12/11 TechCrunch had posted 38 articles in a 24 hour…
Repost from the Know About It blog.
fred-wilson:
Will Do - TV On The Radio - Nine...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) →
Kid Cudi (2)
Fleet Foxes (1)
James Vincent McMorrow (1)
Panda Bear (1)
Work Drugs (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
March 2011
10 posts
“The web is also a write once, deploy everywhere environment, where apps are not....”
– - Jason Baptiste
App stores are a short term fix to problem that web browsing on mobile devices (including tablets) sucks.
“The problem is, when I log into any of my social networks today…I’m presented...”
– - Kevin Marshall (Your time is more important than overtime)
Just loved re-reading Kevin’s excellent post on the Know About It blog from last week.
