Monthly Archives: January 2010

The AVC People List

Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I’m not sure what to say right now.  Though the AVC People list is here. (now you can’t complain, it is at the top of the post.) Originally I had started this list many moons ago because Fred Wilson told me that I should follow the people on AVC.com in [...]
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The IPad UI stupidity

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Even though I don’t really care one way or another about whether I’m blogging about what everyone else is blogging about, after seeing pictures and having to deal with weeks of (over)-hype: With all due respect to the Blogosphere, Mr. Steve Jobs, and Apple Inc., that IPad looks like [...]
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Seesmic Look! Would it work for my Ex?

Image by David Berkowitz via Flickr So Loic Le Meur and Seesmic decided to release Look. And being Shana-licious, I stuck it on a netbook to test. As many people have commented, it is an extremely beautiful UI.  This doesn’t mean I am not going to nitpick at it.  The question is, Would I recommend [...]
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This is depressing

Because of some odd scheduling stuff, I couldn’t get registered for anything I really wanted to go to for Social Media Week.  So now I am waitlisted to death.  And I am not sure what to do.  Advice welcome.   Bleh.  I hate when these sorts of things happen.
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FailProduct: Mendeley

Image by quinn.anya via Flickr This is one of those products which makes me so sad.  It actually could be a really useful product. As soon as I saw it, I realized why college is so depressing when it comes to research.  it’s because no matter what you do, the stuff out there, sucks. Part [...]
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Talking to some Bloggers last night

This post covers two areas: Who may be reading this blog, and what I should do about it.
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Freedom and Google

Image via Wikipedia Normally I avoid the subject of freedom at all costs. But the Google/China standoff has made it really important to say something, because I’m watching this in more bated breath than Haiti. Most people, upon meeting me, don’t realize that I burn with certain questions, one of them being “What does it [...]
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NYTech Meetup, The January Edition

Image by Marco Arment via Flickr Alright people, the New York Tech Meetup in ~4000 Words:
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