Check out my latest toy.  It is a WiFi phone that connects to our office VoIP PBX (Asterisk based).  I can take it anywhere with an open WiFi connection and receive and make calls as if I am in the office.  Watch out, if you call me at the office I might be at home, [...]

We are in Durango for our family ski trip.  Ethan, almost five, is going to be on the slopes for the first time.  Cross your fingers I don’t break my leg. If you need to reach me before Monday try my cell 214-477-4554 – don’t leave a message.

Netvibes announced seed funding by Index Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Pierre Chappaz, and Martin Varxavsky. The company provides a fairly popular (over one million home pages have been created) Ajax home page product. Mike Arrington calls Netvibe “a Web 2.0 Company [he] couldn’t live without.” The company is located in Paris and London. Via Techcrunch. More [...]

Our favorite TV host, Amber Mac, spent quite a bit of time of the March 20th episode of commandN talking about Big in Japan and our prosumer blogging tools.  Check out the iPod video here. Amber is the host of G4 Tech TV and one of the producers of commandN.

Weblogs Work, our social media company, is working with MTV’s Real World and their sponsor Mystic Tan to join the social media conversation. The first step was the creation of a blog for the co-founder of Mystic Tan, Ricky Croft – check it out here.

If you are an Indy band how do you release your music? Via podcast if you are on the bleeding edge. What service do cool bands use to podcast their albums? PodServe of course. Inside Pulse ran a review of a band called The Favorites and the Much Ado About Nothing album. They mentioned that [...]

IBM and National Geographic took on the exciting task of tracing my lineage in an undertaking called the Genographic Project. As it turns out I am related to an African man who lived between 31,000-79,000 years ago. I sent in my DNA this summer and my results finally arrived today.  Here are my results: The [...]

Rebecca Buckman has an interesting article in the WSJ titled “Silicon Valley Start-Ups See Cash Everywhere.” She detailed a new phenomenon called “pre-emptive financing” that has become more common over the past several months. She details the phenomenon: Pre-emptive financing happens when a venture capitalist seeks out a promising start-up business and offers it money [...]

My mother in law watches a show called ‘Deal or No Deal‘, you may have seen it on NBC. David Hornik linked the concept behind the show to early stage acquisition of startups by Yahoo, Google, IAC and Fox Interactive. He contends that these early stage, non-vc deals, are good for entrepreneurs and VCs in [...]

It is 1999 all over again. I was at lunch with a guy with $50,000 – he wants to invest in the Web 2.0 space. Now I learn that just down the road Sequoia Capital, Austin Ventures and Star Ventures were pumping $13.2MM in a VoIP security company called Sipera. Here is the about: Sipera [...]