Darren Herman is starting a cool series of 8 person wine table salons to discuss various tech-geek subjects (these salons are appropriately named darrenSalon). I attended the first one last Tuesday, and the topic of conversation was Apple. It was a fruitful discussion. (I should be shot for that pun).
Seriously though, it was [...]

The New Yorker wrote a piece at the beginning of the month about the BoredAt network of anonymous message threads at Ivy League schools. I thought it was pretty interesting (I’m embarrassed to admit it, but the New Yorker managed to show me a web service I had never seen before). I didn’t [...]

Union Square Ventures hosted Matt Flannery of Kiva.org two nights ago. Kiva is a website that enables anyone online to engage in microfinancing of individuals in third-world countries.
Microfinance is obviously a hot topic in the wake of Dr. Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize for work on microfinance. It was a [...]

AdaptiveBlue is starting to pull back the curtain and let people peek at their developing long-term strategy. This post is only a teaser as to why I’m so excited about this company, but it’s an exciting start.
From the post:

BlueOrganizer is web-wide technology. It plugins into your daily experience and helps you enhance your browsing [...]

A friend of mine gave me a brief tour of the ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) workspace at NYU yesterday. Wow… that place is candyland for geeks!
The whole space is buzzing with people working. It’s this big collective workspace where people are tapping away on laptops (primarily Macs), tinkering with interesting visualizations on big [...]

I went to a Fujiya Miyagi show at Barnard (Broadway & 116th) last night. Pretty entertaining night.
Escort opened. They’ve got an electronic funk vibe (much like Fujiya Miyagi), but much more upbeat. The highlight was the two female vocalists pounding out soulful vocals, competing for the lead.
Fujiya Miyagi only played for [...]

Does anyone know what happened to Sand Hill Slave? I wish I could read the archives, but the whole blog appears to have been deleted.
For those unfamiliar, here’s some old Valleywag coverage on Sand Hill Slave as an introduction. She was an admin for a nameless Sand Hill Road VC firm, and she [...]

I really enjoy the content in the New Yorker, but I hate the way they trash their own content with annoying ads.
On their site they use javascript moving float-over to call their readers to action. Yuck.
And their published (paper) content is no better. Last issue they had an 8 page mini comic [...]

Will Wright spoke on the concept of stories. It was a remarkable talk… it’s really criminal that I can’t find a solid replication/transcript of it that actually does Will Wright’s presentation justice.
Here’s a video of the complete talk (I can’t find an embed code! grrr….), including an introduction by Justin Hall, but [...]