Back on Jan 19th 2006, the DOJ subpoenaed Google to turn over search records in support of their child pornography case they were building. The headlines were horrible: stuff like “Google Sued over Child Porn.” It was a PR mess, and Google stock slipped ~10% to 399.
I felt confident that it [...]

I rolled my eyes hard this morning as I peered over the sholder of a fellow subway rider to see the New York Times front page headline: In Web World, Rich Now Envy the Superrich. Boo hoo for Reid Hoffman and his paltry $1.5 billion exit to eBay in the boom hayday.
I [...]

I spent a large chunk of my time at Stanford studying Product Design. I studied a combination of mechanical engineering, human-computer interaction, psychology, cognitive science, and computer sciences classes to develop an intradisciplinary program which suited me well for my first job: Product Design at Homestead.
Yet, despite a wide range of classes, [...]

The NYTimes posits that any potential buyers for Yahoo will wait for early returns on Project Panama first.
Students of Yahoo say that while the company may be acquired, no deal is likely before Project Panama begins to show results, one way or another. Merrill Lynch figures that the project will raise Yahoo’s revenue [...]

I made a nice looking image mosaic of myself. You can make one of any picture you provide. The image consists of Flickr images. Very cool!

I just received my first piece of ASCII-Art spam. It’s an inventive way to bypass spam filters. Perhaps this is an old tactic that never hit my radar before, but this is new to me. Pretty interesting. I am tempted to go to the URL to see what the author is [...]

I was about to leave for work this morning when I found this post by Blake Ross on the tasering of a UCLA student for not showing proper ID (and being generally unresponsive to police requests). It’s really sobering and the YouTube video is sickening. I really don’t know who is at fault [...]

Brad and I attended the TechCrunch Meetup 8 tonight. The venue was BED (warning: obnoxious website). I think BED is going to need an exorcist to clense the venue of the level of nerdiness it encountered tonight. There were companies everywhere running demos on sexy, thin Mac monitors.
The New York [...]

Check out this video about Etsy, an online service for buying and selling handmade goods. It’s very entertaining and has great art style.

Buy handmade!