December 2009
28 posts
Start Today →
A lot of folks are providing top ten lists for the year and even the decade. I am skipping those on my blog and ending off the year a simple statement; start today.
You don’t need a resolution, a…
Hacking New Years Eve 2009 →
Last year I co-hosted a party with a group of friends to avoid the lines, costs, drama, and overall hassle of celebrating new years eve when everyone else does. We call it New Years Eve Eve in NYC…
Best of Marketing.fm 2009 →
2009 is about to come to an end and I thought I would give a quick marketing.fm wrap up post showing the top 10 posts of 2009 according to views. Below are the 10 most popular posts by a number of…
The Business Breakfast →
This post is definitely a joke, but it hit such a chord with my friends I thought I would open up the dialogue here – what to eat at the business breakfast?.
To be honest, I have never given this…
Best Sledding Spots in NYC →
(via amandalynferri)
“Meet Me for Coffee” – Informal Interviews with... →
This is a guest post from my friend David Schaffer
It’s a familiar mantra of job hunters: it’s not what you know, but who you know. So often, searching for a new job involves contacting…
Everyone in NYC should checkout and vote on the NYC Big Apps competition http://bit.ly/4T53AT
Disruptive →
I got into an interesting 100,000 ft level conversation recently that got me thinking about the companies and people I try to meet with on a regular basis.
Instead of using the normal…
Speed of connectivity and thought →
I had the unfortunate experience last Wednesday of out of the office but with a laptop and a tethered blackberry and limited connectivity. Super slow, choppy, not-always-on connectivity.
I wanted…
Techies Give Back: Ice Skating Event →
Yesterday a group of folks from the NY tech community called Techies Give Back got together with Camp Interactive for a day of skating and fun at Chelsea Piers.
Tickets were sold to…
Tumblr camera stats
staff:
We decided to organize some camera statistics from photos uploaded to Tumblr, and it revealed some interesting data:
One of the most surprising results is the dominance of photos taken with Apple’s Photo Booth application, which snaps photos from the built-in webcams in most Macs.
Entry-level SLRs are extremely popular among Tumblr photographers, especially Canon’s Digital Rebel...
The Boxee Beta Event & Boxee Box →
Last night I attended the Boxee beta launch party event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. I have been using Boxee for some time since it became a portfolio company of Union Square…
Startup Analogies: Putting the wood behind one... →
This is one I have heard at the BOD level a few times; putting the wood behind one arrow.
Here is a favorite example of putting all the wood behind one arrow from the Sun CEO back in 2007.
It…
99.99% (or its totally going to happen but isnt... →
I hear this number a lot – 99.99%.
It is usually within this context:
Me: Is it a done deal?
Them: Yeah totally.
Me: Is the deal signed?
Them: No, but it is 99.99% going to happen…
This can apply to so many different things but I thought I would share a few examples below
Google Zeitgeist 2009 →
I love looking at the data disclosed in the yearly Google Zeitgeist and the 2009 data is no exception. I seemed to have missed posting about it last year, but mentioned the 2007 Zeitgeist.