Apologies for the amount of context which precedes the actual topic for this post. If you want to skip to the first numbered point, that’s where the meat begins.
Someone (whom I won’t name, because he’s expressed his desire to drop the matter) tweeted this in the wee hours of Thursday morning:
If Twitter is worth $500 […]
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I was talking to my best friend Karri today about what happened after that video - the one I’ve watched at least 20 times now, and which makes me cry every time. (Quick rundown of details: Karri’s husband arranged the surprise visit with Kelly months ago, her parents knew all about it, and Karri says […]
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Just last week, my best friend since high school, Karri, was telling me how sad it made her that our friend Kelly (who is practically Karri’s sister, they’re so close) hadn’t yet met her baby girl, and how much she missed Kelly, who moved to New England last year. Little did either of us know […]
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JP said he was flying in from London for something ridiculous like ten minutes (okay, 36 hours or so) and wanted to organize dinner. Randi Zuckerberg had recommended Caffe Riace in Palo Alto for its atmosphere, service, and food, so I suggested we try there. Boy, was she spot-on. What a dreamy place for an […]
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Here in our Silicon Valley bubble, the real surprise for me was how we found out the news.
The story broke sometime between us walking away from our computers and walking into a restaurant five minutes away from Qik HQ, where it was all over cable news.
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Today was my birthday. Ever since I was a kid, I looked forward to age 32. It sounded, for some reason, like The Grown-Up Age.
Hah!
This reminds me of one of my favorite C.S. Lewis quotes:
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire […]
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From the provocatively titled post Evan Williams vs the Internet, the author of the 1994 piece Bill Gates vs the Internet writes:
If you find yourself in competition with the Internet, you should find a way out.
Whenever I quote Dave Winer, I make sure to run a disclaimer along the lines of: “This is from […]
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Today I had the honor to spend two hours speaking with the leaders of the National University of Singapore’s Entrepreneurship Society about business, marketing, and start-up life. They are here on a ten day trip in conjunction with Stanford University (where Qik gets its exceptionally talented and motivated NUS interns), and I was floored […]
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I have a lot of brilliant friends, but Chris Yeh (aka the Harvard MBA behind Ask the Harvard MBA) is definitely one of the most intelligent and creative. Our conversations push my mind in new directions, and I also get a huge ego boost whenever he agrees with me or suggests that something I’ve said […]
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[I am] a hybrid, fitting properly neither here nor there, being neither English nor any longer Italian, always missing something when I am here or something else when I am there. Even now that I am old, I have the dilemma of where I should be buried: here in the lovely churchyard of this picturesque […]
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This is one of the most hilarious Parliamentary performances I’ve ever seen from Mr. Hague, and that’s saying something. The Labour gang doesn’t bother trying to hide its delight in his jokes at the expense of their leader, Prime Minister Gordon Brown. This is what it’s come to - Labour MPs openly laughing at their […]
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Great piece from Bobbie Johnson that will interest anyone who’s ever wondered what it’s like to work inside a hot internet start-up. It’s safe to say that Twitter is the hottest one on the planet right now, isn’t it? I did find this quite applicable to Qik HQ:
What’s most strange about the calm in this […]
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I got back to California from NYC just in time to enjoy a day that reminded me exactly why I yearned to work in Silicon Valley in the first place.
Yesterday was the TechCrunch Real Time Stream Crunchup, a one day conference packed with excellent panel discussions and speakers, plus a handful of fantastic demos […]
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If you’re sick of the T-word, look away now.
I love this! Sign in to Twittruth and it will analyze your Twitter activity (in 20 seconds) and break down all sorts of interesting stats about how you tweet. Here’s my profile. Link to your own in the comments if you’re brave enough!
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