Dan has been busy both personally and professionally.  He has been so busy he hasn’t been able to work on several of our Big in Japan projects.  But we still love him!  He just announced his new site he and Dan Benjamin created called Cork’d.  The site is devoted to the reviewing and sharing of [...]

Our very own Brian Oberkirch, CEO of Weblogs Work, is speaking this week at Syndicate 2006.  But I suspect he is having more fun hanging out with Amanda Congdon of Rocketboom!  He got to do a video interview with her at the conference that he will be posting to Weblogs Worknotes when he gets a [...]

My venture wire alert came this morning and I got a chuckle when I heard that 25-year-old Brock Blake started a company to help entrepreneurs meet angel investors. He holds “speed pitching events” and charges $500 to $1,000 to attend. He also helps entrepreneurs make videos of their pitches and posts them online for angels [...]

If safety is your number one concern when picking a vacation destination you might consider visiting Iraq this summer. As it turns out it is safer than many other locations around the globe. Iraq has a violent death rate of 25 per 100,000 people, compare that rate to: Columbia (62/100,000 – more than double) South [...]

It all started with a post from Nick Douglas I wrote called, “Got a great idea?  Join the Napking Club.”  This is the first in a series of posts I plan to post on how an idea can get from a cocktail napkin to reality.  “How do you do it?” That is a question I [...]

I was reviewing stats from the PodServe project and was surprised to learn that the top ten podcasts hosted on the site have over 120,000 listeners.  The last time I looked (45 days ago) there were only 30,000 listeners for the top ten.  Even more interesting to me was that three of the top ten [...]

Brian and I are hosting BarCamp South Beach January 19th – 20th at the Delano. Our plan is to include spouses so get your significant other excited about a winter trip to Florida and on the flight down you can mention that we are also doing a BarCamp at the same time. Check out what [...]

First, I am a fan of Seth Godin and his books.  The last one I read was called Free Prize Inside.  I have always been puzzled by his latest venture called Squidoo.  I was one of the early beta testers (I didn’t do much testing) and I never really got it (I have earned about [...]

GI Partners (private equity group out of Menlo Park) made controlling investments in two Texas based hosting companies: EV1 (Houston) and The Planet (Dallas) and announced the merger of the two businesses.  I had a chance to talk to Eric Harrison, managing director at GI Partners, about the deal this afternoon and he explained that [...]

Tara and Chris are putting together another “camp” only this time the camping will be at a vinyard.  The idea is to bring non-profits and developers together to apply Web 2.0 ideas to good causes.  Check it out if you are going to be in California. What do you get when you put a bunch [...]