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I don’t have a bank anymore.  Well thats not exactly true, but I don’t have a physical bank I can go into anymore.  I now bank with Ally (Formerly GMAC) and have been happily with them for the past year.  They don’t have any locations or branches that I can physically walk into.  I do [...]

I have been playing with Google+ since its debut last week. Its amazing how much folks are discussing a new social network, myself included. There have been many reviews on the web, including my own, but none have mentioned what I think is a very bold photos related feature. Google+ apps users are automatically having [...]

I have been playing around with Google+ for the past 24 hours and wanted to get down my thoughts. I have been thinking for awhile that Google is in fact a social network that is essentially hidden. Google+ is the common thread between all the services.  Its a final connection point between networks and services [...]

I recently saw that Amazon is running a smart promotion where they give away one paid app every day on the new Amazon App Store for Android.  This is an incentive to get Android users to try out their version of an app store marketplace to compete with the one Google provides on all Android [...]

Cloud based document editing and viewing simply make more sense. Google understands this well and introduced their office suite to the next generation of email users (gmail) to their offering with a very simple, yet effective way by including a “view” link next to the dreaded “download” link in any viewable document. This was no [...]

I think the idea of Rate Limiting usage as a business model is very interesting.  I recently read that Google is going to begin charging for using their Prediction API for a fee monthly plus usage.  Another popular example is Twilio, which charges based on usage of their API.    I could be using this [...]

A few weeks ago I got a nice holiday present from the folks at Google – a new CR-48 Google Chrome OS Notebook. I of course immediately unboxed it, pictures are below, and started using it.  I told the kind folks at Google in my application that I would be a solid beta tester giving [...]

I am very excited to announce that Foodspotting has acquired Eat.ly I am extremely proud of this sandbox project created by my co-founders and friends Mike Singleton, Sam Huleatt, and Sam Brown Below is the final goodbye page we posted on Eat.ly notifying our users on 12/17/2010 We began working on Eat.ly in the fall of 2009 as [...]

Last year I had the pleasure to listen to Danny Meyer speak at the USV Portfolio Summit.  Oncer per year USV asks the CEO’s from portfolio companies and other executive management to come for a day of information exchange, reflection, updates, and introductions. Over a great lunch Danny Meyer, author of Setting The Table and [...]

I got the chance to work with some talented partners on a recent voting visualization which tracked voting check-ins on foursquare on a voting map. (its also embedded below) When we first conceived this idea, it was setup to accomplish three major things Encourage civic participation through the distribution of the I Voted foursquare badge [...]