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Re: Joseph Leonard to open

taterhead — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:12:10 -0000

Looks great. We'll try to get by there this weekend.

Re: Au Pied de Cochon

gothamgal — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:30:47 -0000

Enjoy NYC. It is empty in August!

Re: Au Pied de Cochon

taterhead — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:22:03 -0000

I was reviewing your blog for our trip up to NYC next week and found this about Au Pied de Cochon. My favorite place ever and had the same experience with too much food!

I need to read GG more to keep up. Can't wait to get up there next week. Thanks for all of your help.

Gregg Smith

Re: Cloud Based Messaging

fredwilson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:46:26 -0000

Pls do. I think I love gears

Re: Cloud Based Messaging

taterhead — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:50:58 -0000

Installation issues on Win XP. Mostly due to my old laptop and Windows.

I tried it again to investigate the issue so I could reply. I had to edit the registry and it appears to be working now. Ahh windows.

I'll try it with Google Reader and let you know if it works.

Re: Cloud Based Messaging

fredwilson — Sun, 31 May 2009 09:16:05 -0000

Hmm. I should try that. I didn't realize that gears supports other google apps in offline mode

What problems have you had with gears?

Re: Cloud Based Messaging

taterhead — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:08:32 -0000

Regarding an offline twitter...can you pull your twitter RSS feed into Google Reader and use Gears to read offline? I would try but I've given up getting Gears installed properly on my laptop.

Re: How to Wow For Less than $3.00

earwood — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:33:50 -0000

Gregg - I'm not a AL junkie, but here's the best pitch I can give... sites like Yelp or City Search allow anonymous reviews (i.e. - your username could be gwstar19 and I wouldn't really know who you are. AL at least posts who I am so a user can see that I actually live in Louisville.

Another BIG selling point to me is... paying money keeps out trolls and hinders those gaming the system. While a business could buy 10 friends a membership to go say nice things, I believe most won't because it look so odd in the context of Angie's List.

I prefer to ask folks that I know for a referral, but I think Angie's List is the next best step if you can't find a person you know.

Todd

Re: How to Wow For Less than $3.00

taterhead — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:41:46 -0000

Todd:
Sell me on a subscription to Angie's list. I've looked hard at it but can't get past my reliance on trusted word of mouth recommendations from friends.

Thanks
Gregg Smith
@greggwitt

Re: Youtubing

fredwilson — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:07:20 -0000

Thanks for the tip

Sounds great

Re: The Fedex Takeover

taterhead — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:22 -0000

FedEx is legendary for losing a lot of VC money. The firm I worked for here in Memphis has/had one of the original business plans (but they didn't invest). FedEx went through a couple of down rounds, but Fred somehow still stayed on top. I'll dig around for more.

Re: The Fedex Takeover

taterhead — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:04:13 -0000

I'll see if some of my fedex friends on twitter from here in Memphis can look into that (read this @mattceni?)

Re: Youtubing

taterhead — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:57:10 -0000

Fred (and others interested in the online video segment) check out fivedollarcover.com ...a series of 5-8 minute shorts about the Memphis music scene. Notable artists include Amy Lavere and Snowglobe/Tim Regan (there are some bad ones too, so be warned). Craig Brewer of Hustle and Flow did them and while the acting isn't award-winning, I think its a pretty unique take. MTV is running them Friday nights at 11 and they are all free online. AT&T paid for them.

flipsidememphis.com is a documentary video site with more background on the artists, locations and other assorted Memphis stuff. I was skeptical, but have to admit I'm impressed. Good music with a story produced for the web.

Re: Fring Launches a Better Twitter Mobile Experience for non-iPhone Users

taterhead — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:00:49 -0000

i have fring for my winmo blackjack II but it won't stay up in the background. i've looked at every setting. gtalk function for me is critical but fring won't cut it if i have to log in every 5 minutes (which takes 3 minutes). unless this changes with the new version, i'll stick with m.slandr.net. I'll give it a shot though.

Re: Yelping My Way Through LA

taterhead — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:34:22 -0000

I was going to bring up chowhound. Used to spend hours and hours searching and creating google maps of locations for travels in the US and Europe. Still have a huge note book for Scotland.

You are correct that Chowhound is multiples deeper than Yelp--for many more locations. I really don't think Yelp would even know about Wiley's Tea room on in Harray on Orkney Island. Passionate about unbiased reviews as well...Yelp has a lot of bias in my opinion.

I use yelp in Memphis quite a bit and review everywhere I eat, but I go to Chowhound if I want to find something under the radar.

Re: 6 Kickass WebApps

taterhead — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:17:14 -0000

Pretty great looking list of apps. Save drop.io, I've never heard of them. I'll use prezi and feedweaver immediately.

thanks, Bobby.

Re: Path Mapping - Career Guidance Powered by Path 101 - How to use LinkedIn as part of your job search: Networking and getting a job with LinkedIn

taterhead — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:48:14 -0000

Great advice--especially about reaching out to those in my network whom I could get to know better. I'll do that.

LinkedIn has been vital for my search. The ability to research the companies I'm talking to and the people throughout that company is a huge benefit that I have over someone not on LinkedIn. I can look up someone's past or find a common connection and get impressions about the person or the company.

Great post.
Gregg

Re: Why I Haven’t Worked an ERP Gig

taterhead — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:46:21 -0000

I had someone share an erp story this morning...how it almost killed a $100M business, but a 200k accounting package implementation in a much more technically complex setting was a huge success. Another story of a 6 month, $500k implementation not complete after 2 years and $2 million is another...I've evaluated them, but never implemented. There's a reason.

Re: Cwabs! - One of my coworkers has a side business making...

fancycwabs — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:08:22 -0000

Pretty much.

Re: Cwabs! - One of my coworkers has a side business making...

taterhead — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:19:00 -0000

Is he making ROMs?

http://www.synergyteamworkout.com/

Those babies go for 15k!

Re: The Valuation Blues (aka How FAS157 Is Tortuous)

taterhead — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:12:32 -0000

We did the same thing. We issued tax basis financial statements that allowed us to use LCM. This was 4 years ago though (got back in to running companies).

Re: Why there will never be "One Ring to Rule Them All" in web services for groups

johny radio — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:58:29 -0000

you should check out meetup, it has those features

Re: Boxee

fredwilson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:37:53 -0000

Invite sent

Re: Boxee

taterhead — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:31:24 -0000

Love one too, Fred. Thanks

@taterhead
taterhead at gmail . com

Re: Thinking About Groups

park3 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:07:46 -0000

I'm not completely sure. We've had partial success using a forum for "deep" discussions that not everyone needs to be involved in- they start with someone posting a note to the list saying "go here for discussion of ___". It helps reduce the email traffic, though a lot of people never visit the forum unless prompted.

The forum still has so many folders and subfolders that it's a pain to check for new content. I keep thinking that Friendfeed would do a great job as a replacement if it did this:

1) Post full content of original entries + blog imports and photo feeds (grou.ps really shines here)
2) Allow comment discussion around the entries like FF does currently. Ideally blog comments would tie back to the source as well (using Disqus?)
3) Make the most-commented items sticky so they stay at/near the top. Most content goes up, gets read and floats downstream. It's a fraction that generates significant conversation

That's what this user would like to do with Chris O'Donnell's API, at least. I'd still like to see a better way to sort messages so they go only to the relevant people, but something like this would vastly improve on the forum experience and help cut down the email traffic at the same time.