While the dustup over Bing’s possible appropriation of Google’s long-tail search results is presently occupying the attention of the world of search, I thought I’d take a step back and offer a longer-term historical perspective about an aspect of search that fascinates me: namely the evolution of search algorithms to adopt ever greater amounts of…
My partner Brad Feld and TechStars CEO David Cohen just wrote a book called Do More Faster, which will be released in a week or so, and is presently available for pre-order on Amazon. In keeping with the title of the book, they have put together a compelling book in record time; they did so…
I came across this gem at Data Center Knowledge, mentioning Twitter’s plans to move into their own data center, having outgrown the managed hosting services they use at NTT America. The article includes a great slide deck by Twitter’s John Adams entitled Scaling Twitter, and was presented at this week’s Chirp 2010 conference, which, sadly,…
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Well, today I read about a new audio editing that performs magic: Melodyne Editor. As readers of this blog know, I’m a guitarist and hobbyist recording engineer. I built out a ProTools HD recording studio in my converted garage in Portola…
A few weeks ago, during my family’s Spring Break vacation, I had the pleasure of reading a great history of George Lucas and the massive impact he and the extended Lucasfilm family had on the technology behind filmmaking, and, ultimately on the broader technology ecosystem. This book is exhaustively researched and is almost textbook-like in…
The fine folks at Cloud Engines, makers of my favorite consumer electronics gadget, the pogoplug, have been very busy in 2010. They launched at retail here in the US and Canada and followed quickly with announcing availability of the pogoplug in the UK and Europe. It has been fun to start seeing French and German…
Warning: grammar rant ahead… FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, PEOPLE, NEVER EVER USE AN APOSTROPHE WHEN PLURALIZING A WORD! Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. I don’t know what is so confusing about this, but I encounter this mistake many times a day. Because I had an excellent English teacher in high…
I’ve had the pleasure of working with the fine folks at Topspin Media since I joined the board of the company when Foundry Group invested in Topspin’s Series B in 2008, and I’ve been fortunate to know Topspin’s co-founders, Peter Gotcher and Shamal Ranasinghe since the late ’90s. Topspin was founded with the premise that…
It has been a while since I’ve written a blog post. I think some of it is twitter-induced. Instead of a blog post, I simply tweet a URL and feel that I’ve done my part. Ahh, the lazyweb. Actually, there is now an official description of this phenomenon: the Gresham/Morgan Internet Law. My friend Howard…
While we’ve lived (quite happily) in Boulder over the past three years, we spent 17 years in the Bay Area and like to get back there on a regular basis for an extend stay to reconnect with old friends and to reconnect with the great cuisine the Bay Area has to offer. … Here goes: 7/18 – Yank Sing, San Francisco 7/18 – Kokkari, San Francisco 7/19 – Pizzeria Pico, Larkspur 7/20 – Sushi Ran, Sausalito 7/18 – Slanted Door, San Francisco 7/30 – Tres Agaves, San Francisco 7/31 – La Ciccia, San Francisco 8/01 – Village Pub, Woodside 8/02 – Tacubaya, Berkeley 8/02 – Little Star Pizza, San Francisco 8/03 – 21st Amendment, San Francisco 8/04 – Quadrus Cafe, Menlo Park 8/04 – Spruce, San Francisco 8/05 – Sanchos, Redwood City 8/06 – Stern Hall Cafeteria, Stanford University 8/06 – Straits Cafe, Palo Alto 8/07 – Tres Agaves, San Francisco 8/08 – Ame, San Francisco 8/12 – Yoshi’s SF, San Francisco 8/13 – Pizzeria Gialina, San Francisco 8/14 – Fish, Sausalito 8/14 – Isa, San Francisco 8/15 – Range, San Francisco We also had numerous trips (in person and takeout) to Pizzeria Delfina (Pacific Heights location), Bittersweet and La Boulange (Fillmore & Union St. locations), but I can’t recall the precise days we visited those fine establishments.