Recently readI’ll be at the Web 2.0 Expo today in San Francisco, taking lots of meetings and shooting plenty of video. Email me if you want to get together.
Tonight is a small drinks gathering at Bebo’s HQ, followed (perhaps - I’ve registered but may head somewhere else) by the Newsvine party.
I’m loving how many friends […]
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Gina Vakili + me
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Someday I’m going to blog the story of how we met and what it led to, but it’ll have to wait until we’ve taken over the world.
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John Havens (Blog Talk Radio) + me + Nigel Eccles (CEO, Hubdub)
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John and Nigel are perfectly pleasant people, but I love this photo for the shadows on our faces. Wish I could remember who took the pic.
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Photo by Chris Heuer
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Yes, he’s the creator of the ever-popular and controversial Techmeme, but he’s also one of the most hilarious people in the Valley. Whoever you are and whatever you do, he doesn’t take you (or himself) too seriously. I admire that more than I can put into words.
And no, […]
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Sitting outside a pub at the Flickr/Moo/Blurb party, I spot my mate Neil McIntosh from the Guardian (yes, some of my best friends are socialist pigs) walk up. Last time I saw him was in November in London.
A few hours later, at another party, I’m making my way to the door when I bump […]
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Adriana Lukas (with a little help from the legendary Bob Frankston) uses tuna salad to explain the difference.
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Me + Bebo co-founders
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This is me, pictured yesterday, with brothers Michael and Paul Birch, who just sold their company, Bebo, for $850 million to AOL. It was especially nice to see a couple of Brits pull that one off, as most of the big acquisition action seems to be dominated by Yanks. […]
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Chris Yeh makes this fun. He should be writing economics textbooks.
Investing is like picking a checkout line–it is a zero sum game. The checkers can only check out so many people per hour, and which line you pick doesn’t affect the overall number, just as choosing which fund or stock you buy doesn’t affect the […]
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June Sarpong + Paul Walsh
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I was sitting at a table at San Francisco’s Clift Hotel last night, having a nice enough time with a small group of mates and new acquaintances, when Paul Walsh brought June Sarpong over to sit with us.
A British TV presenter and tabloid fixture is the last […]
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JP Rangaswami:
For many years, I have had to put up with the phrase “content is king”, a phrase I personally find irritating, abhorrent, to be classed with words like “audience”. Looking back, I now realise why content was king. Because we’d managed to drive a wedge between creators and their creations.
It’s not going to be […]
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Either that or he is one of the stupidest smart people on the planet. Oliver Kamm calls his new book “a trivial, tendentious, ignorant, and more than moderately disgusting work“. More:
In his new book, Human Smoke (New York: Simon and Schuster), Nicholson Baker gives this account of the views of Mohandas K. Gandhi in November […]
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Working the room
Originally uploaded by ScottSimpson.
Photo by Scott Simpson, whom I haven’t seen in far too long! Must fix that.
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I mean, really.
NBS suffered pretty badly from this natural disaster upon waking with his wife to much confusion (before going back to sleep):
It did occur to me for a minute that it was an earthquake. But I didn’t speak up, and now wish I had. What an authority I would have seemed!
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I don’t know if I agree with Hillary on her overall opinion of this artist and her work (is it awful if I say that my initial horror faded fast, and I no longer care very much?), but I do agree with her on this:
It’s undeniably delightful on one level that Shvarts hit on the […]
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