“Make this your homepage!” links remind me strongly of the late 1990s, when people thought that the only way to keep you coming back to a site was to force your browser to bring you there, time and time again. Surfing the internet, or logging into AOL, was a big event back in the days Read more »
Facebook At 10 Figures
Mar. 28, 2006
Rupert Murdoch got a deal when he bought MySpace for $580 million, because the next social site to be bought will be Facebook but it’s going to go for over a billion dollars. $1,000,000,000! There were rumors a few weeks ago about Facebook going after another round of venture capital funding with a high 9 Read more »
Extratasty Launches
Jan. 7, 2006
Our friends over at Skinnycorp have done it again — their newest web project is Extratasty.com, a “web 2.0″-style drink recipe site. Store your recipes, find new ones, tag ‘em, comment, rate ‘em, drink ‘em all up. My first added recipe is my favorite margarita mix of all time. I named it The Cadillac of Read more »
Joyent Acquires TextDrive
Nov. 28, 2005
Big news (to me at least) in the industry today — our friends at TextDrive were just acquired by my favorite startup, Joyent. Joyent has some really cool web-based collaborative software that currently runs on an all-in-one device you pop into your company’s network infrastructure. Now that Joyent acquired TextDrive, a web hosting company, I’m Read more »
Interview: Dave McClure of Simply Hired
Aug. 4, 2005
While Paul finishes up his entry about weblog best practices and reputation (Sorry, Mark!) I thought I would post a great interview I just conducted with Dave McClure, Director of Marketing at SimplyHired.com. In case you haven’t heard, Simply Hired is the hottest job search engine around and uses RSS and other smart goodies to Read more »
Get Fired, Then Get Simply Fired
Aug. 3, 2005
Simply Fired is the new website/contest from Simply Hired, that cool new job site we’ve praised in the past. If you’ve got a story about being fired from a job and want to submit it for some cool prizes, jump on over and post it! The judges look like a Who’s Who from the dotcom Read more »
Blinksale For Great Invoices
Jul. 8, 2005
When Josh let me have a sneak peek of his company Firewheel’s new invoice application Blinksale, I was really excited because I know the kind of work that his company puts out. IconBuffet? Yeah, that’s them, they do world-class design work.
Backpack by 37signals
May. 3, 2005
Backpack officially launches this morning, but I’ve been using the app from 37signals for a few days now and wanted to record some of my thoughts, so here we go. What is it? Jason wrote on Signal vs. Noise about what Backpack actually is, and to be honest, it’s difficult to explain because it can Read more »
