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Re: Brand advertising on social networks

laurelfan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:04:03 -0000

interesting way to get around the text message spam ban, at least.

Re: Brand advertising on social networks

asteele — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:30:47 -0000

Exactly! That's why I half-jokingly posted about Verizon buying Twitter last year:
http://asteele.net/post/23808630/verizon-buys-t...

Carriers are making bank on this thing.

Re: Brand advertising on social networks

asteele — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:28:14 -0000

Indeed. Long overdue, I know.

Re: 2904 S Washington St

asteele — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:02:43 -0000

Just passing through on the way back from Tahoe. I didn't know about Louis' Basque Corner, perhaps we'll have to check it out on our next visit!

Re: Rob Go's Tumblelog - Do my followers like my Twitter updates?

asteele — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:00:09 -0000

I agree - prefer to keep twitters separate from blog feeds. I tried splicing my twitters into my tumblelog at first too, but decided I didn't like it.

Re: Rob Go's Tumblelog

asteele — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:45:55 -0000

A problem we hope to solve... :)

Re: Amazon Unbox and iTunes Movies fail the Pulp Fiction test

Laurel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:27:11 -0000

or maybe it's 1998. Go body bgcolor=#000000!

Re: Amazon Unbox and iTunes Movies fail the Pulp Fiction test

maiken — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:13:48 -0000

Reactions in order:

- What the hell happened here
- Why isn't there any whitespace between the left edge and the comment machinery?

:-)

Re: Amazon Unbox and iTunes Movies fail the Pulp Fiction test

asteele — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:26:00 -0000

by the way, in case anyone notices, I have a new tumblr theme now. i've gone from white to dark. comments welcome.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

asteele — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:12:12 -0000

You're right that the Clintons are going ugly, especially Bill. But this restores some of my faith: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?...

It remains the 2nd most popular video on YouTube as of this writing.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

asteele — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:35:33 -0000

as a tumblr user, I'd be interested to see it too. asteele at gmail

Re: 2904 S Washington St

asteele — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:36:30 -0000

It was a beautiful day at Snoqualmie Pass...

Re: Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?

asteele — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:36:29 -0000

NO. Definitely not.

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail should take the high road, let Facebook continue to be a "dead end" until they realize that by opening up they could unlock far more value, by which time it will probably be too late for them.

Re: Angry, vindictive, unforgiving

asteele — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:36:14 -0000

oh cool: http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives...

from here:
http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/200...

Re: in there any place for humor in the race for president?

asteele — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:18:39 -0000

Mitt Romney doesn't think so:

“This is not a time for frivolity,” Mr. Romney said at a party in Pleasant Hill. “This is a time of somber seriousness.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/us/politics/0...

Re: Angry, vindictive, unforgiving

asteele — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:51:25 -0000

Actually, I tend to be friendlier towards the VC world than many of my technical colleagues, because my very first experience at a VC-backed company (eRoom Technology) was enormously positive both professionally and financially. So I have seen the model work. I have seen it fail since then in lots of interesting ways too, but my views will always be colored by that first success.

VC culture (the good kind, at least) is totally explicit about the waste inherent the process. You can read dozens of VC blogs right now that will tell you in plain english that at least half and perhaps as many as 8 out of 10 investments will more or less go down the toilet, translating into billions of dollars in "waste". Yet without that system, there would have been no eRoom Technology for me and I might well still be working at a large technology company instead of having been involved in a series of far more exciting startups.

My theory about the truly egregious cases of waste involves mistakenly applying outdated industrial investment, governance and management practices to modern technology businesses, but I'll save that for another post :)