Writing

This week, I traded alot of emails with a great hacker in Barcelona, had a skype call with a CEO in London, and had lunch on Friday with a South African and a half British/half French guy (at a Filipino [...]  Read more

Paul Graham:The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity. And so it is in this case. There is a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup investing. Y Combinator funds startups at the very beginning. VCs will fund them [...]  Read more

Why did betaworks get involved with someecards? See below - Brook Lundy, co-founder. Read more

My list of most important apps/products of the last 30 years:*Remote control*MTV circa 1980-84*Curb-side check in*Caller ID*Email*Instant messaging*iPod 80 gig*EZPass*EpiPen*Metrocards on NYC subways*Suzuki method of teaching guitar*Senduit/Rapidshare/yousendit/megaupload etc etc Read more

Y Combinator's investor demo day was last week, out in Mountain View, showcasing the latest batch of companies that Paul & Co. have funded and worked with . Kind of blew my mind. Not because I saw 19 very interesting [...]  Read more

There is one way that a Microsoft - Yahoo merger makes very important sense, and that area has as its base email. Yahoo mail, according to Wikipedia, has 260 million users. Microsoft Hotmail looks to have 280 million users.Putting aside [...]  Read more

MySpace is a service that has tremendous benefit and utility to its users, and in terms of an efficient, scalable business, is wildly underrated in the tech industry. Facebook et al seem to get more attention and have more sex [...]  Read more

Marco built (well, released) something called Instapaper the other day which allows one to save web articles to read later.Its goal is simple (save to read later), its functionality is simple (click the read later button/bookmarket) and its design is [...]  Read more

Ian Rogers of Yahoo and elsewhere writes that that scale of the web creates media opportunity through the creation of:" . . . a loosely-coupled value chain including users as value creators. The value chain is not owned by a [...]  Read more