Author Archives: Brian Alvey

I spent today at the CES 2009 convention center, checking out hot new products and meeting with a bunch of companies that want to know more about what Obsessable and Crowd Fusion are doing. It has been a fantastic trip so far on both fronts. After a couple of morning meetings, Steve Friedman and walked across the street to the massive EngadgetContinue reading “What happens in Vegas?”

Obsessable has a great application called the comparator. Our team uses it to show a grid of specs on a bunch of products and you can do some nifty things with it — but they aren’t all obvious. So we made a brief video tour of the comparator.

Over a decade ago, when my wife and I were first dating, I shaved my head and got an earring and some quality sunglasses. I loved the look. Without the glasses, I looked a little like Mr. Clean. With them on, I’d love to think I looked like The Shield’s Vic Mackey, but I stillContinue reading ““Mr. Clean” House Peters, Jr. dies”

As I mentioned on Twitter, EZ Street didn’t get a Harvey Award tonight. That award went to the deliciously perverse — but retired, come on now! — webcomic strip Perry Bible Fellowship. Glenn has a complete list of Harvey Awards winners on ComicMix. One of the other nominees in the webcomics category was Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a book thatContinue reading “Blog of a Wimpy Kid”

This was a great week for Obsessable. Well, yeah, it was the only week ever for our little personal technology guide, but still. It was great. Here’s a recap of some of the news about our launch. David Krug posted a little about Crowd Fusion and Obsessable: On Assembling Blog Dream Teams. However, I really believe the webContinue reading “Obsess me, my sweet Obsessable you”

Obsessable got a bunch of nice welcome posts from around the web yesterday. One of them from Silicon Alley Insider was called “Crowd Fusion’s Gadget Site Obsessable.com Launches To Take On Engadget, Gizmodo.” As much fun as that sounds, Obsessable wasn’t built to try and beat the top gadget blogs at breaking news about products thatContinue reading “How Jason and I created Engadget”

This weekend was packed with family events: the final Yankee Stadium game I took my boys to last night, the Squeeze and James show Niki and I saw at Radio City Music Hall on Friday, our nice kid-free dinner in NYC before the show and swimming with all of our kids on Sunday. But oneContinue reading “Infinite curiosity”

A few months before we sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL, we covered Live8 with them in Philadelphia. We got to meet some of our Philly bloggers for the first time at the Hard Rock Cafe there. One of them was Kevin Tofel. Kevin worked with us on PVR Wire, Engadget and HD Beat — now known as EngadgetHD. SoonContinue reading “JK on the Run on the Move”

Last week was fantastic. I was back from a week away with my family — mentally recharged and physically drained. I had played really hard in Cape Cod and was so happy to dive back into our amazing little project. Velocity Interactive Group released some details on Crowd Fusion’s funding. Reading it now I just noticedContinue reading “Crowd Fusion is funded”

When we quietly released our new ComicMix comic book reader last Friday, one of our readers quickly wrote me and said, “Congratulations on the new Comics Reader at ComicMix. You’ve made the best reader around even better. Well done.” Thanks! We made the layout something way more useable thanks to input from our creators, our readers andContinue reading “ComicMix: Online Comic Book Reader 2.0”