Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
I hope McClure and Scoble aren't going through withdrawal ;-) Jason Calacanis is probably relieved.
UPDATE: It wasn't just me as CNET reported here.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "OMG - FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!!! Scoble and McClure might go into Convulsions!", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/07/30/omg-facebook-is-down-scoble-and-mcclure-might-go-into-convulsions/" });
Posted in dave mcclure, facebook, jason calacanis, scoble | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Valleywag - one of my favorite daily tech reads (please owen start covering the scene here in seattle) - posts what I believe a lot of folks are wondering - is facebook the new microsoft? Facebook is following the Microsoft development platform playbook (as discussed here previously) with their F8 ...
Posted in dave mcclure, f8, facebook, facebook apps, microsoft, scoble, valleywag | No Comments »
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
As an advisor to the Casual Games Association (CGA), I was really looking forward to Peter's keynote at this week's Casual Connect conference here in Seattle (essentially THE business show for the casual gaming business). Well on Tuesday, we learn that there's no Peter. Microsoft's PR folks are scrambling to ...
Posted in casual connect, casual games, cga, peter moore | No Comments »
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Congrats to TechCrunch on their purchase of InviteShare. Given Mike and TC's ties to startup land and their ability to wrangle invites for betas for their readers it makes a ton of sense. I tried InviteShare after reading about it on TC and love the potential. I think they need ...
Posted in inviteshare, techcrunch | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I have a friend who downloaded a copy of the newest harry potter book and let me just say if its a hoak its amazing. If its the real thing that's an amazing amount of dedication as those files my friend tells me are photos of every page in the ...
Posted in harry potter, harry potter and the deathly hallows, spoilers | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Loomia (the startup I've been working with and running their marketing) announced a huge customer win yesterday with the announcement of Dow Jones as a customer. Loomia is now serving recommendations to the WSJ.com providing recommendation under the header of "People who Read this, also read...". Here's a link to ...
Posted in loomia, wsj.com | No Comments »
Friday, July 13th, 2007
I recently switched to using google reader (google's rss reader - to which I can't believe newgator still charges for their rss reader a serious but separate are you kidding me but that's an aside). What pushed me over the edge despite my general disdain for google apps (see my ...
Posted in google, google reader | No Comments »
Friday, July 13th, 2007
There has been quite a bit of buzz for wesabe - a personal financial management web 2.0 service - since they raised their vc round which included fred wilson of union sq. ventures. Given the rave reviews I figured I might have finally found my nirvana - a financial app that ...
Posted in mint, quicken, wesabe | 3 Comments »
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Scoble beat me to the punch today with his post lamenting on how many apps on facebook just don't work. I had the same experience playing with a bunch of apps over the past few days. And looking at my news feed I am noticing that ratio of removed apps ...
Posted in facebook apps | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
another thing - thanks for dave mcclure for pointing this out for me today - great resource for fb app research - appaholic.com - check it out.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "appaholic - the facebook app billboard", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/07/11/appaholic-the-facebook-app-billboard/" });
Posted in facebook, facebook apps | No Comments »
