Archive for November, 2008
My iPhone Hates Me November 22nd, 2008
You really should not blog in anger. In other news, I do not listen to my own advice.
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Twollow – Amazing November 18th, 2008
This just launched a bit ago, and how epic it is. Twollow lets you follow people based on topics of tweets. You set up special keywords such as "techcruch" or "I love Alex Wilhelm." Whenever a Twitter user tweets with one of your 5 keywords in it, you autofollow them.
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Twitter Done Got Broke November 18th, 2008
Again.
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Saturday Thought Pile November 15th, 2008
New concept here on this blog, the “Saturday Thought Pile.” A collection of thoughts from the week. Links galore. Let’s begin!
- Funny funny look at the matrix, if it ran on windows.
- God’s Facebook.
- GigaOm’s NewTeeVee <a href=”http://newteevee.com/2008/11/13/newteevee-live-
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EntIdol – Fun Times November 15th, 2008
I was at the Entrepreneur Idol competition all day today. It was a great time, interesting people and most importantly, interesting business ideas. There is a recorded stream of the entire conference here.
It was great to see some of my friends in the final round. Eventually a company called eMotion won. Their idea revolves around a little wireless heart shaped messaging thingy for tweens. If it takes off, they are going to be swimming in cash. Its a fad concept: huge ups, huge downs.
Long live the entrepreneur!
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Fail November 14th, 2008
Sometimes life is just like this:
So swim dammit!
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The Clicky/TechCrunch Hullabaloo Ends – Sean Wins November 14th, 2008
I hate to quote something that you have heard so many times before, but there is no such thing as bad publicity. And now I have some hard proof.
Recall that I posted before that Sean at Clicky Web Analytics had gotten into something of a public sprat with TechCrunch, that crested with TC posting a full email that Sean had sent to them. After the furor and drubbing had subsided, Sean posted a full apology today:
Public apology to TechCrunch
Clicky’s success gets to me sometimes. The last few weeks have been particularly stressful. A week ago I was having an awful day and somehow ended up writing a nasty email to TechCrunch for no good reason. I really wasn’t expecting anything of it, but a few days later Michael made me drama story of the week.
I’m not mad at Michael for posting my email. I got what I deserved. This post is my public apology to him, and to TechCrunch. I sounded like a damn fool and I’ve permanently damaged the brand I’ve worked so hard to build over the last 2 years. That email does not represent who I am in any way. I am confident that any of my customers would attest to the fact that when it comes to my business, I am professional, respectful, helpful, and quick to respond with any questions or problems they may be having. Everyone is stupid when they’re mad and my email is a perfect example of that.
A few months ago, TechCrunch wrote us up when we released public stats on Google Chrome usage. Clicky had been mentioned in passing before but this was the first TechCrunch story specifically about us. We were obviously excited, and we got a ton of new users because of it. Now we will probably never get mentioned by them again.
I’m not expecting this post to change that, but I want Michael to know that I am truly sorry for the things I said.
Now I know Sean quite well, and I know exactly the type of person that he is. A great, good person. And so reading this I had a twitch of regret, knowing how much of a jerk Arrington can be. Sean had to kowtow in pubic to an ass. Still, maybe it had to be done.
All that aside, Clicky won. Look at these comments:
“I can vouch for you being nothing but professional and helpful with my interactions with you and Clicky.”
“you were just being passionate and defending getclicky. That’s totally understandable and cannot hurt in any way what people think about the product.”
“I support you 100% because you are passionate about your product. I have truly enjoyed Clicky and would easily name it in my top 10 favorite web 2.0 SASS list.”
Etc. Over 30 comments have been posted, all defending Sean. So what happened? Clicky got another round of publicity, and the Clicky community still loves their product. Profit!
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Wikis – Collaboration Evolved November 13th, 2008
I posted this at MidVentures.com, but wanted to put it here as well.
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Here at MidVentures, we appreciate things that make our lives easier. Especially things that make work easier. Why work harder than you have to? Not that we mind work, (really, we love it), but anything that cuts out steps is something we are going to use.
Enter our new wiki.
We are a bit late jumping on the wiki train, but jump we did, and how happy we are. A wiki is a wildly simple concept: a website that anyone can edit. But at the basis of every great idea is a simple premise with myriad applications. A wiki is just that.
We use it for everything: project management, standards sheets, contact lists, anything. New uses crop up every day; it
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Google Video Chat! November 11th, 2008
I am religious about using Gtalk as my instant messaging client. I love not having to flip between chat and and a browser. Saves me time.
And I hate Skpye. Long story short, they were making me pay something like $.5/min to call my now ex-girlfriend’s cell phone in Italy.
But now, Gmail has video chat! Ive tested it, and it works quite well. No need for me to run chat/mail/skype at the same time. Convergence is always a win for the consumer.
Although, this does put TokBox on the ropes. Link is here.
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Deadlines November 10th, 2008
There is a reason that that the word “dead” is in that word.
And because I have 18230 to get to, I’ll be posting later!
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