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”
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Infinite curiosity
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”
JK on the Run on the Move
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”
Crowd Fusion is funded
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”
ComicMix: Online Comic Book Reader 2.0
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”
Twitter’s business model
I finally figured out a business model for Twitter. It’s advertising based and it only works if Twitter doesn’t solve their scaling problems. The way I see it, the most the Twitter user base needs Twitter to be running smoothly is about fourteen hours a day. That leaves ten hours a day of those cute “pleaseContinue reading “Twitter’s business model”
Superman, I am so glad you’re here!
After a doctor’s appointment in the middle of the day today, I stopped at Starbuck’s to get Niki the green iced tea she loves. I was wearing a black t-shirt with a silver Superman symbol on the chest. As I walked in the door, the woman behind the counter said “Superman, I am so gladContinue reading “Superman, I am so glad you’re here!”
Video of Nick White trapped in an elevator
I worked with Nick White for years at Business Week. I was working more from home in 1999 when this happened, but I remember the horrible story being relayed to me by some co-workers when I was at the McGraw-Hill Building that next week. Working late on a Friday night he left for a smokeContinue reading “Video of Nick White trapped in an elevator”
Twitterbirth
Niki and I both use Twitter, despite the fact that neither one of us is a teenage girl. When Niki went into labor 10 days ago, she kept her family and friends updated via Twitter. None of them follow her using the service itself. They just kept reloading her blog to see the new updates in herContinue reading “Twitterbirth”
The Audacity of Code
In the end, that’s what this internet is about. Do we participate in a project of cynicism or a project of code? Project managers call on us to code. Investors call on us to code. I’m not talking about blind optimism here — the almost willful ignorance that thinks bugs will go away if weContinue reading “The Audacity of Code”
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