Author Archives: Brian Alvey

We had a great night last night. Niki said she wanted to get tickets for Rob Thomas at the Beacon Theatre in New York City months ago. We didn’t get them when they went on sale and figured we’d either skip the show or buy some on the ticket reselling service StubHub. We’ve had aContinue reading “StubHub Hubbub”

In September at TechCrunch50 Craig and I got up on stage and told a couple thousand of our closest friends — and tens of thousands of our closest friends who couldn’t make it to SF so they watched on ustream — that our Crowd Fusion platform is being released as an open source project. Unlike the hour-and-a-half episode ofContinue reading “Going open”

On the way to school this morning, “Under the Bridge” came on the radio and I asked my boys to tell me who the band was. Usually, they pass these music tests on the first or second attempt. They both love the song “Snow,” so I figured they had a good chance of getting the right bandContinue reading “Bands of color”

My 6-year-old came into my basement office and was fascinated by what I was doing. At first I thought he was amazed by my giant monitor, but it turned out he was digging my wireless mouse. He picked it up and tried using it sideways on the wall by my desk, which was close enoughContinue reading “Law and Awe”

Our kids have had Slinkys a couple of times — metal ones and plastic ones. They love them, but within about an hour they’re usually twisted out of shape and don’t go down stairs anymore (unless you count rolling them on their sides as going down stairs). Watching our kids play with them got me thinkingContinue reading “Slinky thoughts”

Yesterday the wonderful Crowd Fusion team launched our second site: a green news site called Super Eco. Super Eco has been in the works for several weeks now and it showcases many of the platform features that you may have already seen on our consumer electronics news site Obsessable. You can follow Super Eco on Twitter, on FriendFeed and on Facebook. HereContinue reading “Super Eco”

Robert Scoble wrote a couple of interesting posts about having to give up Diet Coke and the end of health privacy last night. His health privacy post is especially timely with Steve Jobs’ leave of absence and all of his recurring cancer and liver transplant speculation. I used to drink a ton of regular Coke in high school and college,Continue reading “Robert Scoble, Steve Jobs and Diet Coke”

I had read some reviews of the new animated Batman team-up show, but I hadn’t caught the show myself until last night. We were eating dinner and I turned it on in the middle of one with Green Arrow, Speedy and a hooded guy who was floating with a ghost Batman, Ebenezer Scrooge-style. My first guessContinue reading “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”

Tonight I’m catching a redeye or two home after some great meals and meetings with my Crowd Fusion team and a generally successful CES. I didn’t make it to dinner with the team last night, so I tried to make up for it today. What was I doing last night? I was hanging out with some Twitter friendsContinue reading “Dancing With The Crows”

Last night I went to the Intel party, hosted by @sarahcuda, @somewhatfrank, @briansolis and @zappos, and got to introduce people like Maralyn from AOL (what, no Twitter name?) to @MCHammer and watch @juliaallison be as shy and cameraphobic as usual. At the party, plenty of people had iPhones and plenty of other people (like me) were talking about how Palm hadContinue reading “What else happens in Vegas?”