Identity.net

Just over a year ago, Mark and I attended IIW 2007 down in the bay area, which added fuel to a...

“That an act with millions of fans could escape the popular...”
— LA Times on...

Lobby

Six Questions for Paul Alexander, Author of...

Ugh

The downside of Internet/viral...

Over the last few days, this article (Is Google Making Us Stupid?) from the latest Atlantic...

Too many video players

Executive summary: Make VLC media player your default player for all video files on your PC,...

7 Songs

This is intimidating. I’m following glenn in this blog chain letter of sorts, which would...

Public Transit Directions in Mobile Google...

Saturday

Clinton, Conceding Little Clinton did declare it an “honor” to have Obama as an opponent...

My first interview

“I slept in my clothes, because the last time they came, I...”
— “Defiant”,...

“No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know...”
— Clay Shirky, “Gin,...

line drive homer to left…

Hotel innovation idea: why not let me choose my room furnishing style online? Give me a few to...

Advice for new parents: go out and buy a current-generation digital SLR with the highest ISO sensor...

Fremont Condos

Chilling at the downtown library

Latest sign for the boys…

Mergelab Comes to an Early Close, Shutting...

9:12 p.m. | Obama Smiles: Mr. Obama is speaking. He looks happy, for the first time in a long...

U.S. WiMAX Saved by $3.2 Billion Infusion

Watercooler: Yet another social network app...

View from the attic today

Zynganomics - tracking the growth of MySpace...

"I saw the ads"

So what’s changed? I asked Reich.“I saw the ads” — the negative man-on-street...

Have Prisons Become America's New Social...

“First of all, it’s not going to work. They are...”
— Fred Wilson - go there for the...

Feeling like this today :)  Photo credit: hawkwing3141

Piclens

Photos from Jeremy’s recent trip to France

“Applications with over 200,000 daily active users have until...”
— The cat-and-mouse game between...

Webcam, comments

Bonnie thinks the Mergelab webcam is a complete and total waste of time and that I should be...

Girlfriend Getaways?

“If capturing both audio and video simultaneously from a DV...”
— from the Adobe Technical...

At the 37th LD caucus

“9 percent of all full-episode TV viewing was done online in...”
— Study: more couch potatoes...

Google Reader in minimized mode

I’ve never been a big fan of Google Reader - or really any RSS reader with ugly, cluttered...

Applying the "Life is too short to deal...

My favorite Guy Kawasaki post ever contains this gem:   6. Life is too short to deal with...

Mayhem At Fox News: Anchor Walks Off Set,...

Open Coffee, Seattle Startups

Shout out to Andy Sack for almost a year of Seattle Open Coffee. I still think it’s the best...

This is not politics as usual

Godwin's law

Dear Amanda, Alyson, Andrew, Alison and...

You really really should stop typing my email address instead of yours when shopping, banking and...

Better Music, Better Minds

Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die

Mergelab Emerges to Streamline Friends' Web...

New theme

The experiment with the “dark” theme has been aborted. Time for plain old white again,...

A great debate (and it's not about...

The New Economics of Brands

Web 2.0 is a stovepipe system

It’s well worth reading the entire interview with Tim Berners-Lee as well as the good summary...

Lipstick on the branding iron

“In the end, we lowered the requirement to help Intel make...”
— Slashdot, “Microsoft...

WorldWide Telescope

It really does live up to the buzz that’s spreading fast across the ‘Net after the TED...

Juxtaposition

EDGE 238: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE Team Building Is For Suckers

jolma.org: Programming Powder

Door sign about to be removed

Arrington is being a wanker

…see his response to that cheery little piece from Glenn Kelman that I linked to yesterday...

This is for Adrian

Valley vs. Seattle

Holy Smokes, Microsoft Buys Danger, Maker of...

Adrian took this one

Riding the SLUT

Patrick O wore a yellow t-shirt to caucus

Caucus entrance chaos

Mergelab blog

I’ve stopped auto-importing my posts to the company blog here, because I know how annoying it...

Snowed in

I know there are still a couple folks from out of town who read my blog - you may not have realized...

…but it is definitely *not* normal to see 17” of...

This is a typical Seattle winter forecast…

Analysis: Obama has advantage in...

Dollar (from maiken)

Barack Obama at Seattle’s Key Arena

Please help - I am outnumbered 2 to 1

My mergelab co-founders have adopted a radical stance towards product improvements - in which they...

And this restores my faith...

…that indeed it is possible to be a conservative without being an asshole. Take that, Romney.

Creative Visualization

AAAARGH THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY

Read this shit. Really. Or if you can’t stand to do the whole thing, let me summarize: 1960s...

Amazon Unbox and iTunes Movies fail the...

I’m a huge fan of the idea of downloading movies - and, yes, paying for them too - ala Amazon...

“As a measure of what makes a nation beautiful, the...”
— Dan Savage

Microsoft/Yahoo: A Bad Deal For Silicon...

How does your garage startup schedule...

“You won’t see us building a RescueTime Facebook app any time...”
— Tony Wrighthahaha -...

Unplanned maintenance

Wow - Jon Favreau is the man

Tonight, for the seventh long year, the American people heard a State of the Union that didn’t...

Twitter is like Napster

The Revolution: Both opened people’s eyes to a significantly new type of online...

If you would like a Mergelab invite...

…and you have not yet been directly pestered by me to help test out our latest features,...

“Hey guys, we just lost $7 billion!! lulz!!!!111”
— via umair - don’t miss...

“[…] here’s the general theory: to clarify, add...”
— Edward Tufte - watch the video...

News about your friends

Ultimate Guide for Seattle Entrepreneurs

15 years of progress…

January 30th is International Delete Your...

It's just a website, right?

Memo to PC software producers: raise prices now and maximize profit over the next few years, because...

Friends of Mergelab

The Bill Problem

OpenID: Google tips over as well, all...

Google’s Blogger takes the OpenID plunge, see Google Operating System It’s starting...

Next: sharing your Mergelab feeds

Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The...

“I do think that for smart liberals, the depth of...”
— Hating Rightey

Learning from failure

In light of this announcement, it is well worth reading this book: Dreaming in Code if you...

“I think there should essentially be a stratification of...”
— Degrees of Privacy

Verizon Buys Twitter

San Francisco, CA March 28, 2008 — In a bold and unexpected move, Verizon Wireless announced...

High definition video is a royal pain in...

Let’s say that Santa brought you a nice shiny new high-definition video camera for Christmas...

Robot wearing seat belt

OpenID, OAuth, user-centric identity .....

  1. See “Yahoo!, Flickr, OpenID and Identity Projection” - here  2. See “The...

Last Obama post for today

Substance, not Style  Obama’s preference for reducing healthcare costs while preserving the...

“But as important as the iPhone has been to the fortunes of...”
— Wired Magazine, “The...

Kerry Picks Obama

The OpenID Train Steams Ahead: Google, IBM...

Believe It (courtesy: Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic /...

Edwards vs. Obama

Edwards, October 7, 2002: My position is very clear: The time has come for decisive action to...

Comments

I am trying out Disqus for comments on this tumblelog, since I’ve written a few more long form...

Angry, vindictive, unforgiving

A side-by-side comparison: Read about The Angriest Man In Television in the latest Atlantic: This...

The language of trust

I’m obviously reading too many VC blogs these days, as I catch myself saying things like the...

Social Network Aggregation, Killer App in...

Email is not the social network - A...

Several weeks ago I posted a neat quote from a NYTimes article about Yahoo and Google trying to...

That there is the sun. Yay sun.

Mutual Fish is hopping at 830am

Online vacuum cleaner buying experience

From 10:04am to 11:43am today (thanks Google Web History), I scoured the Internet looking for vacuum...

Woodstock

When Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Atlantic recently about “a nonviolent civil war that has...

Writing for the Google platform

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more written about Google’s experime