I attended a community conversation on BizDev2.0, the implications for the business development profession in a world of simple syndication, mashups, open APIs for data sharing, and bizdev implementations that never require explicit permission. There were a number of industry professionals in attendance as featured speakers: Fred Wilson, Tina Sharkey, Chris Fralic, Katherine Levine, [...]

Web services today often emphasize the value of their service once they have +100k users. They talk about users interactions with each other creating incremental value which can be used to drive human-computation-based features, like recommendations. Digg, Del.icio.us Popular, Yahoo Answers, Craigslist, MySpace, YouTube, etc are all examples of value derived from the [...]

I have been subscribed to the Laughing Squid blog for about a year now. They always posted interesting cultural occurances and offbeat events in San Francisco. As I read over the past year, I learned it was more than a blog, but I never knew just how much more. Now I know… [...]

My new logo looks terrible on a mobile browser (or any browser that ignores my CSS) because it is a white logo displayed on a white background. I would like to keep my logo white when my CSS is used, but change the color of the logo when my CSS is ignored.
Anyone [...]

Plate of truffles

Originally uploaded by ccho.

I attended the Chocolate Show (careful: this link blasts music at you: terrible official site) this weekend at the Metropolitan Pavilion on the corner of 18th and 6th. It was a pricy entry fee ($25), but once inside, you [...]

The meme today about Valleywag relaunching with a new look-and-feel along with a new (soon-to-be-picked) blogger didn’t surprise me too much. I always read Valleywag the same way people watch trash tv: with equal amounts of interest and recoiling disgrace. Reading the very personal commentary about the social lives of the digerati was [...]

For those reading in RSS, you won’t notice a change. But, for those reading The Gong Show via my site, I’m proud to say that I have a new logo. My old logo just said “The Gong Show” in Ariel font, which was pretty lame.
To create the new logo, I found the font used [...]

Lisa and I went to the Opera at the Met today, courtesy of my grandmother. We saw Tosca. It was a beautiful production, worthy of the Met, which is saying a lot. I’m kicking myself for not bringing my camera, but here’s a few choice Flickr photos of the Met:

It [...]

I was reading Google News today when I found a concert review for one of my favorite bands:The Fiery Furnaces. I was disappointed to read that The Fiery Furnaces put on a poor performance, but I am glad to surfed across the article because I found a wild new band as a result. Man [...]