Update: I should have read Umair Haque’s post before posting this one. Umair nails it. In my post, traction is just a proxy for underlying transitions that Umair identifies. It’s not a great proxy, but it’s a heck of a lot better than a spreadsheet.
Original Post: There’s a lot of buzz about [...]

USV just announced the investment in Twitter. I told a friendly VC about it before we announced today and he replied, “That’s the worst kept secret on the Internet today.” Ok, so maybe our blogs forecasted this one, and there’s no surprise here… but, I’ve never been one for secrecy. Comes with [...]

Bliss! More Wes Anderson goodness :) Check out the trailer to his latest film: The Darjeeling Limited.
It’s expected to premiere this fall before the Cohen’s brothers’ No Country for Old Men at the New York Film Festival. What a one-two punch!

The NY Post just broke the story about AOL/Time Warner’s acquisition of TACODA, a Union Square Ventures portfolio company. For more thoughts on the subject, check out Union Square Ventures’ take on the deal.
It’s just a coincidence that Jeremy Liew mentioned TACODA in an engaging VentureBeat article today; however, it’s a great [...]

I always hesitate to straight link blogging, but this post was too entertaining to avoid. It’s an open letter to Facebook from an addicted user; I found it in best-of-craigslist. Choice quote:
Facebook, I have also become addicted to you to the point where I display withdrawl symptoms if I am away from you [...]

A series of events comprise the SiCKO / CNN debate. If you thought SiCKO was thought-provoking then you might be interested in digesting the following five pieces of media. In chronological order:

CNN aired a “reality check” report by their health correspondent, Dr Sanjay Gupta, immediately before Wolf Blitzer interviewed Michael Moore on The Situation [...]

When I think of the places I would like to live, they are often places where the design emerged from the bottom-up instead of places that were subject to top-down urban planning. Places like SoHo, NY or the Marais, Paris epitomize the beauty of bottom-up design. Top-down design often results in ugly, artificial [...]

Wesabe just released a REST API. The key details for developers are pretty standard:

Be responsible (Extra responsible because it’s financial data).
Don’t store passwords, especially when you could just prompt the user.
It’s currently read-only

Why should you, the non-programmer (or recovering programmer) care? Even if you don’t know how to use the API, this is [...]

Does your website’s community love you? Take this quick test:

Did your community build your Facebook App for you? (Bonus points if they launched an app before you did)
Does your community shower your HQ with artistic representations of your SysAdmin when your site goes down? (See the winners here)
Does a single thread on your [...]