Author Archives: Brian Alvey

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?”

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”