Archive for September, 2007

Announcing: Feed Each Other

Monday, September 24th, 2007

In February, I made the tough decision to leave the incredible Yahoo! Answers team and dive full time into a venture of my own. That venture is a new site called Feed Each Other (feedeachother.com). Today, the invite only beta period is over and the site has been opened up to the public. (That means [...]

Living the startup life III

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Some advice and observations from the past couple of months. It’s all fun and games until the lawyers get involved. Don’t pick movies with subtitles. They’re really hard to watch while you work. No matter how insignificant a feature seems at the time, someone will quickly complain about it if it’s not done right. When [...]

Doing for the sake of doing

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

I was reading The Sports Guy’s latest mailbag today and he had this to say about why the big TV networks keep putting up bad NFL programming: You know how everyone always wonders why networks make so many bad decisions and ignore common sense so often? Well, the problem is every network has too many [...]

I’m just not feeling this ‘social graph’ stuff

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

There’s been a large amount of discussion in the blogosphere lately about the notion that there should be some uber social networking platform that all social web applications will be built upon. Most bloggers are calling this ‘the social graph‘. Guys like Robert Scoble and Dave Winer are bringing this up almost daily now. I [...]