techcrunch held their techcrunch7 party on friday in california. scott beale of laughing squid has photos and acted as the official event photographer. you can also browse the flickr tag for the party and see several entertaining shots. robert scoble has a nice recap of the event at his blog. jeremy wright of b5media was also there but no recap yet. much discussion and other posts over at te...
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the web 2.0 craze has brought us many new genres of webbased applications. blogs wikis ajaxified everything social bookmarking and news sites true sharingfocused photos sites and tagging everything. all of these new phenomena are great in the right context but there seems to be a bit of incorrect use of these types of products. when choosing the type of app you put out it should be considered f...
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additional update the rsvp list is now closed and the comments and wiki are locked. there may be additional openings later. update the wiki is overwhelmed and is frustrating people because it is constantly locked. i apologize. i hate wasting peoples time and i can imagine how frustrating it must be to sit there and hit refresh. all of those refreshes are also crushing our servers. weve locked do...
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i went to the techcrunch meet up this evening their 6th my 1st.anyway it reminded me of the good old days of dotcom mania although rather than the martini fueled soma fervour of those parties this was more like a college gathering complete with beer and pizza. i got there quite late because frankly i was so tired that i didnt know if i could be arsed to go. im glad i did though because i got to s...
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techcrunch and redfin are hosting a web 2.0 party next wednesday here in seattle. see you there we can party like its 1999.......
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talking with scoble today we agreed that the blogosphere has gained many of the negative traits of mail lists or usenet. there are certain topics that if approached will result in a flameout. so you dont go there. imho theres no point blogging if you accept those constraints. there arent many people who do the flaming but they do control discourse because they control things like who gets to spe...
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for many years being named shel had the advantage of uniqueness. what an unusual name people would say. is it short for something i was never confused with anyone else. then along comes naked conversations. not only is one of the coauthors named shel but we wind up at a lot of the same events. we write blogs on a similar topic. in the last 24 hours ive received a comment on my blog that reads...
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it only took 40 minutes for the 5th techcrunch party to sell out after mike announced it on his blog. 200 people registered on the wiki and those left out left out are asking forunused slots or even offering mike to get in wow talk about popularity see my notes on a previous party.on a hunch i checked ebay nothing yet departing from the original formula the 4th one became a launch party for riy...
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so in the course of moving looking for a new place and other travails i have not checkes some of my less frequently used email accounts. in most cases this just means i have a lot of unread mail nearly 8000 once for my poor earthlink account which had gone unchecked for a long time but in the case of hotmail this meant that tonight when i went to check whether or not hotmail was down my girlfrie...
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