I fascinated by the evolution of the “@___” functionality in Twitter.
When people started using Twitter they saw similarities between the a thread of Tweets and a thread of comments. In a thread of comments, a convention emerged over time that the way to reference “foobar’s” comment in your comment is to write [...]

Dave Winer filled in the following SAT analogy:
Blogging : Twitter :: Podcasting : ________
The answer is “Twittergram”. A 200k or less audio file that is linked from a Twitter post.
It’s a fun idea, but I’m not a big fan of the artificial limitation. Twitter is limited technically because SMS messages have a fixed [...]

I’m late to the party as usual, but I’m absolutely loving the new Blonde Redhead album: 23. They knocked it out the park (I’m sure it helped to have Alan Moulder producing on this one).
I’m such a sucker for spooky dream-like vocals that drift over droning guitars. And the retro New Wave drum [...]

Whenever I think about web services that require money in exchange for service, I think of Josh Kopelman’s terrific post: The Penny Gap. From Josh’s post:
The truth is, scaling from $5 to $50 million is not the toughest part of a new venture - it’s getting your users to pay you anything at all. [...]

This is my personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are mine and do not reflect the opinions of my employer (currently USV).
So, if I act like an idiot and say something dumb, this is Andrew Parker “the individual” saying something dumb. Not Andrew Parker “the employee” saying something dumb.

You aren’t cool these days (both around the office and the blogosphere) if you don’t obsessively link to Marc Andreessen. So, it’s time to join the club ;)
I’ve been very impressed with all of Marc’s posts recently, but the one that really stopped me in my tracks was the post on Science Fiction [...]

Scoble revived the meme about how social networks hijack the term “friend.” At this point we all realize “Friending” someone on a social network has little to do with real-life friendships.
The act of “Friending” is just creating an edge between two nodes in the work. It’s a pair of values in [...]

I dig web services that are so lightweight that they don’t require a registration or login and yet still offer significant value that competitive services only offer with a login.
For example:

Craigslist - Post all you want without ever creating a login. Each time you post, your email address is used to setup a one-time [...]

I went to see the Richard Serra exhibit at the MoMA and bumped into the exhibition by Dan Perjovschi in the second floor lobby. Dan drew a bunch of politically-infused doodles on a giant wall. The combination of hard-hitting political message and childish wall-scribbling is a very cool dichotomy. The drawings are both [...]