I had an itch to build something over the weekend, so I wrote a little Twitter toy script. I call it TwitterSnooze. It allows you to hit the snooze button on your Twitter friends. That means, you stop following them for a period of time, and then automatically re-follow them X days later.
Why use [...]

I’ve noticed an increase in the number of spammy companies, random websites, and unrealistically endowed women following me on Twitter. It’s a simple form of spam: by following me on Twitter, spammers know that Twitter will send me an email with a link to their Twitter user account, which will encourage me to click [...]

Are you asking this question? If so, then take two and a half minutes to watch this video:
Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Fred Wilson recently wrote about the declining power of firms. Fred argues that the internet has reduced the costs of transacting with a market so significantly that the nature of firms (as outline by Ronald Coase) must change as well. I totally agree with this argument on an intuitive level. I see this [...]

Google announced a game-changing hosted platform for application development last night. Our initial enthusiasm at Union Square Ventures about this platform is captured by Albert over on our blog. I’m trying to tease out initial limitations in order to wrap my brain around the implications of this offering. Any insights would be much [...]

This is a crime against all that is cardinal-colored. Mike Montgomery, legendary ex-Stanford basketball coach, just signed on to coach Cal! Seriously? How is this not some belated April Fools joke?
The Trent vs Monty games over the next few years are going to be epic… better than the Lute vs Monty [...]

What’s up with the way airfare is marketed? I clicked on a link at Orbitz that listed an American Airlines flight from NYC to London for $218. I knew the fare was too good to be true, but the result was pretty ridiculous. The airfare is $218 and after “taxes and fees” [...]