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The Web Life

I am very excited about my new blog on ZDNet.

It’s called The Web Life. I will basically cover three topics:

Cutting-edge web utilities that I find useful. This can involve any website that helps humans be more efficient. There are thousands of startups that have great products, but no one is writing about them. I [...]

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 [...]

Medialets: Changing the mobile ad space

What is one device that everyone has? It’s not a TV, not a computer, or not even a laundry machine (me). But we all got cellphones. More and more of us are getting iPhones too, and with the development of open-source Android, the possibilities are endless.
Enter Eric Litman and Rana Sobhany, rockstars and media [...]

Draw My Thing

iminlikewithyou.com is not just a dating site anymore. In fact, people don’t even know how to find that section of the site anymore because their games are so much fun. Yesterday at lunch, Halle asked if I had ever played Draw My Thing. I was like, ‘uhh what?’

Imagine charades with a mouse. I recommend that [...]

Gooshing for a true UNIX feel

Emily Chang pointed me to this link via Twitter.

It’s a sweet Terminal-like search engine that uses the Ajax libraries from Google. Impressive what a little CSS can do!
Check out the commands:

I might use this more than google.com for searches.

Laughing Squid Lucky 13

When Scott Beale throws a party, it’s serious.

This is David Capurro using a yoyo like I’ve never seen before.
The event was held at CELLspace which is huge. The place never felt too crowded, but there were a lot of people there. I’m surprised I had never been to this venue, and I live less than [...]

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