…I’ve just punted on Facebook out of sheer annoyance with the redesign and am going to give Twitter whatever social software love I have to give (which isn’t all that much). Thanks to AJ Vaynerchuk for the quick tutorial on linking Twitter to FB, and to Ralph Zimmerman and Thomas Marban for creating Twidroid, a continue…
I’ve noticed a few phrases creeping into my everyday speech and am wondering if they reflect a broader trend or are specific to my little software / Web / high-tech world. These are: “Missing a chip” – denoting an inability to understand or process a certain kind of information, e.g., a friend and I were continue…
Lots of news & commentary today about Google Voice. I got my invite earlier today and, after clicking around a bit, am wondering why more of the analysis (as in none that I’ve read) doesn’t mention the implications for Google Voice when combined with Android. As I noted in a previous post, it’s not hard continue…
I’m not a doomer, but I *do* believe that the accelerating rate of technological change (i.e., Moore’s Law) will continue to cause disruptions in our society and the global economy, and that these disruptions will likely increase in amplitude as the future acclerates toward us. In that spirit, I’ve been following with interest the mainstreaming continue…
I’m still a Twitter skeptic as an individual user, but I just got home from the grocery store to find my neighborhood crawling with cops and three helicopters overhead. So I jump on Twitter, search for “Wallingford” and get my answer: a bank robbery + car chase ended about a block away (side benefit, one continue…
After 2+ years as a more-or-less-satisfied BlackBerry user, I just made the switch to the G1, the first (and currently the only) production handset running Google’s Android OS. As regular readers know I have high expectations for the Android platform, but felt like I needed to get closer to the OS and developer ecosystem to continue…
I’m still a little mystified by the appeal of Twitter to the individual user, but I definitely see the argument that – taken in aggregate – the service offers a useful window into what a (rarefied) slice of the global population is thinking about right now. But when I read pieces like this one by continue…
Last week Founders Co-op added a new company to our portfolio: Frugal Mechanic. This deal won’t surprise anyone who’s familiar with our investment thesis: It’s a niche offering (vertical search + price comparison in the $40B DIY auto parts market), With a smart distribution insight (white label parts search for auto enthusiast sites, of which continue…
Last week I wrote about a small investment Founders Co-op had made in Array Health Solutions, a Seattle company that helps small employers control the spiraling cost of health benefits. This morning I unfolded my New York Times to find a front-page article on the very problem Array was created to solve. The story, titled continue…