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A much simpler design

My great friend and colleague Marc Mendell built me a new design last June, and I loved it. But soon after, my site started to get slow. I was having problems with my hosting service too.
Plus, older stories were getting broken because the content was too wide.

I needed a more extensible design. I asked Marc [...]

A new design for Neha

Out of every blog I’ve ever created for a friend, no one updates as much as Neha. I always tell her that I am gonna work on her site, but I usually let her down and just push it aside. So today I put some time into a new design.

She totally deserves a new blog [...]

TechCrunch August Capital 2008

It’s always an honor to be in the south bay. Last year’s TechCrunch party in Menlo Park was one of my first experiences being away from the city where I live and work. This year’s event was even better.
Special thanks for Michael Arrington for inviting us to his event and being a great host.
Julia Allison [...]

CNET Networks is now CBS Interactive

We got the memo this morning.

“Together, CBS and CBS Interactive represent an unbeatable combination of premium content online, premium content on air, and premium audiences. As a leading online media network, CBS Interactive has an impressive portfolio of brands, including CNET, CBSSports.com, CBS.com, GameSpot, TV.com, BNET, and Last.fm, to name a few. Together, we [...]

This is not what Twitter is for

Twitter asks, “What are you doing?”, not “Please paste any thing under 140 here that you want.”

Josh Chandler is a smart guy that has a good blog and makes interesting videos, but he just lost a Twitter follower.
Josh, try Plurk or Pownce for sharing links and other media.
Also bad: retweeting
I blame Twhirl for this:

Plurk has Twitter beat on interactivity

I logged into Plurk for the first time in a week yesterday, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that people had responded to my messages.
Once you get the hang of it, you can have a lot of fun with it.
I strongly recommend that you start Plurking!