2005–2007
498 posts
2007 339
December 2007
- Why I joined Path 101
- Second Life Friday
- Going down Path 101
- A Selfish View of People Leaving Google
- Okay, this smells like 1999
- The psychology of a clean slate
- Mitchell Report Infographic Porn
- Google Gear: Hat’s All Folks
- Eat Chad Hurley’s lunch
- Mass Media?
- Puttin’ on the Foil: 2008 Style
- Second Life CTO departs
- The "F U" in Momofuku
- What to Ignore – Startup Edition
- The Avatar is the Mirror
- Questions Not Asked
- Frustration > Stress = Death
- No, really, i rather be in San Francisco next weekend
- Prove It
November 2007
- YT/CNN Debate: some shots from the last few days
- Wake up to the (You)Tube
- Google Gear: Lady Liberty
- Google Gear: YouTube goes mobile
- Solidarity with my sisters
- Google Gear: Developers, Developers, Developers (the YouTube Edition)
- Google Gear: Clearly Untucked
- Google Gear: The YouTube Year(s)
- Google Gear: Parked Page Profits
- Google Gear: Developers, Developers, Developers
- Google Gear: Picnic Blanket
- Intensity 101 Part 2
- Facebook ruins birthdays
- And in the end, we’re all still monkeys
- Google Gear: Synchilla in July
- Google Gear: Grease Monkey
- Google Gear: All shook up
- Google Gear: Head Games
- So, what do product managers do?
- Google Gear: Rockin’ the Visor
- Bentleys, Cristal and Euros
- Post Founder: Donna Novitsky and Clarify
- What the F is product management?
- Hiphop explained in charts
- Jay-Z namechecks YouTube on new album
- Zune.gone
- Writer’s Guild takes their case to YouTube
- Fare Warning
- Jay-Z’s ego
- Mobile Monday
- Second Life: Dilbert’s nuts and >$500m valuation?
- Hyperbole in Sports Headlines
- YouTube on Oprah
October 2007
- Rob Zombie, YouTube Guest Editor
- NYTimes Movie Reviews: Hidden Gems
- The Lobby: Year One
- My ask of Ex-Googlers
- The Google Super Mario Cubes
- Intensity 101
- YouTube: CSI:NY episode based on Second Life
- Geek Menage a Trois
- The weird story of Cowboys.com
- Well, it was two for one drink night
- YouTube + Google Earth
- YouTube: Second Life on TV? Is this real?
- YouTube + AdSense = great together
- YouTube: Toyota pwns WoW
- Take my wife, please
- FriendFeed, URLs and squatting
- The walled garden that should have been open
- One App Platform to Rule Them All
- Go Bears!
- YouTube on every screen
- YouTube: First SNL short of the year – Iran So Far
September 2007
- How sweet it is….
- YouTube: Bill Clinton likes us
- Beware the LCD
- Broadcast Your Cause
- Ryan = on fire
- You’ve been a very bad boy Harry Potter
- If you’ve got a complaint…
- Second Life Choo-choo-Yahoo?
- YouTube: 10 Minute Burning Man 2007
- The Darker Side
- Two for Sunday: SL in NYTimes and Doonesbury
- Avoiding the Irreplaceable
- Orders of Magnitude: Tea and coffee converge
- Cringely on Jobs and the $200 haircut
- The $4k sticker
- Second Life: a backlash to the backlash
- Orders of Magnitude: Notice the end of year holiday trend
- A new lawyer for Second Life
- New on YouTube: broadcast your recently rated videos
- YouTube: Kitty said what?
August 2007
- YouTube: I spent high school playing this game
- Hollywood: Are franchises actually bad?
- Orders of Magnitude: Mythical Creatures
- New YouTube APIs launched
- Orders of Magnitude: Comeback Tours du Jour
- Poker is over, D&D is back
- Celeb Scents: sex and drugs
- Orders of Magnitude: Interest in puppet masters is high
- LinkedIn: treat me with some respect
- "The Web does not go down for upgrades on Wednesdays"
- Orders of Magnitude: 50 v Kanye
- Paint Me Not
- Google Web Alerts – an underused personal info tool
- Zagat could have had it all
- Google News + YouTube
- Google Gear: Dance Dance 05
- Orders of Magnitude: At least we know where Vick is
- Orders of Magnitude: Well, Jesus doesn’t have a virtual keyboard
- Orders of Magnitude: Clovers, horseshoes and rabbit feet
- Facebooks Apps: Display your energy consumption
- Orders of Magnitude: Rise of the Avatar over Reality
- Orders of Magnitude: Consumers win!
- Orders of Magnitude: The Real Straw Poll
- YouTube: Profane and historically inaccurate but funny
- There is no spoon
- YouTube: Pearl Jam – w/ and w/o AT&T censorship
- Freakonomics Link Love
- Tattoo You
- Apple + YouTube, Round 3
- Wither Conchords?
- In the Valley, it takes lots of $ to feel rich
- Does Sequoia make you more likely to succeed?
- Virgin America: create and save MP3 playlists in-flight
- NY’er reviews R.Kelly
- Chocolate Rain (and the Green Day version)
- G4, that’s yesterday
- Henry Jenkins on the YouTube Snowman
July 2007
- Twisted and Wonderful
- Books of Summer
- YouTube: A Second Life Starry Night
- How much is your reputation worth?
- Mike Harkey’s Widget
- Rob Curley strikes again
- Post Founder: Dave Shen and Yahoo
- Paris Hilton’s bars
- Google CEO hangs with reporters until bar closes
- Google Footprint Expands
- Leg-d’oh
- Google Maps + YouTube = Crazy Delicious
- Shellen Sr = gone
- Et tu Time?
- Post Founder: Stewart Bonn and Electronic Arts
- EA remembers what business it’s in
- That was quick – new Mayfield principal leaves for Facebook
- What killed Backfence?
- White Stripes rock a day camp
- Finished: Founders at Work
- One Less Mitch at Second Life
- SL in WaPo OpEd
- YouTube: Transformers
- On Open Table, four is the magic number
- FeedBurner is now free
- He loves me, he loves me not
- Keep control
- Hear Hear Volunteer
- Oh he would look so hot in that fedora
- Coca Cola tells SL residents the logo is theirs
- Skeletons on a Plane
June 2007
- I was a LinkedIn Spammer (or so they said)
- My experience with Larry’s helicopter
- Cow goes Moo
- Yipee-ki-yay YouTube
- The NYTimes LOVES second life
- What’s that smell
- Every VC Firm Is Gonna Want One
- Ok, the last Dodgeball post (i almost promise)
- Together we’ve sold millions of books
- iPhone’s 12th button
- Hillary gets viral video
- Post-Founder: Joel Jewitt and Palm
- Wah Wah Digital Agencies Cry About Second Life
- And when there’s virtual goods, there will be virtual lawyers
- Forget Tony, it’s all about Journey
- Sign of Impending Doom: Banana Twinkies are Back!
- What if it really was about virtual sneakers?
- Labor vs Capital video is live!
- Why one should hire great designers
- Jack White, on Business
- Professional Content? Who wants that?
- Toys in the Attic
- Labor beats Capital
- Second Life Parodied In the Onion
- Bruce Willis in Second Life
- Ryan Sholin knows newspapers
- YouTube APIs at Google Developer Day
May 2007
- YouTube on iTV
- Second Life fashions: the evolving brand story
- I’m Lucky?
- Stop Snitching Culture
- Adjust for Inflation: Movie Grosses
- Dio’s Wikipedia Entry
- Today I Heart Amazon
- YouTube: Misheard Lyrics
- Oprah for President
- 50 Cent gets rich off of the smartwater
- YouTube: Super Mario Line Rider
- Today, I heart Eric Rice
- Amusement of the Day
- The biggest story yet on domains
- Second Life makes its first acquisition
- Buy this Book on Monday
- One query box to rule them all
- Dodgeball, June 2nd 12-2pm in Silicon Valley
- NYTimes: Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog
- Friends with New Blogs
- What’s the resale value of a "madman’s shed?"
- Playboy enters Second Life
- Happy Shareholders
- YouTube: Conan visits Intel HQ
- Baseball meets Good Design
- Screech knows talent baby!
- Resume Flood
- MSFT job post from 1984
- Bike the Shark
- Enter "The Lobby"
- A Stern look at Second Life
April 2007
- Rolling Stone calls Second Life "hottest spot on the net"
- New YT Feature: Active Sharing
- Writing vs Editing
- HP scoops up LogoWorks
- High Class Ethics Disclosure
- Gartner Gets an Avatar
- Alanis Humps: Commentary
- Wither Music or Weather Music Industry?
- The De-evolution of America
- The continuing saga of GreenTea Girlie
- Warriors Hoops: It’s Poo-Tastic
- Second Life in Cannes
- Chappelle v Cook: Fight
- Sniff test antiquated
- Barbie going virtual world?
- Welcome Freakonomics Readers
- Second Life flurry
- Object lessons: The Reverso watch
- Twitter for your car window
- Taking it to the Edge
- MLB got $15 – they could have had more
- No comment, well, maybe just a small one
- YouTube: Work, Rinse, Wash, Repeat
- Find the bad guys by watching the money trail
- MOG Round 2
- Now That’s Synergy
- YouTube: You talking to me?
- On-board cruise ship spending down?
- YouTube: Kit Kat and Second Life in The Netherlands
- Confused by teens? Try Totally Wired
- YouTube: Pole Position is… people
- YouTube: White Chicks and Gang Signs
- YouTube: Alanis covers ‘My Humps’
- Kill the "page view" metric and reap better design
- YouTube: Kermit sings "Hurt"
March 2007
- Rob Curley’s Google visit
- NYTimes: Too busy to notice you’re too busy
- Interview with 1984 Obama ad creator
- I, for one, welcome our new monkey overlords
- Magic Numbers
- Farewell Simply Audiobooks
- Business card best practice: scan or type?
- Google Gear: It’s all around you
- Most fun turing test ever
- When is NBA Jam like a venture blog?
- Google Gear: I like to watch
- Seeking Alpha: Now 100% LESS useful
- Are corporations starting to understand Second Life?
- Forget the kids, I get nightmares
- MySpace Icon becomes Second Life Avatar
- The eye knows what the heart wants
- Google Gear: My first shirt
- Information wants to be unlocked
- Zero Sum Game: More Twitter, less ???
- Les(s) Technology? Not a chance.
- Google Gear: What?
- I voted against patents before I voted for them
- Google Gear: All together now
- Good thing they didn’t have THAT problem
- Tuesday Night TED
- Matt White: Rock On!
- Google Gear: Stealth Mobile
- Best new expression: Barn Queen
- Wondercon glory
- Indexed got a book deal
- This week’s notes
- The Five Things meme, a little late
- My friend Dina gets asked to pose topless
February 2007
- Google Gear: All aboard the AdSense express
- Batman for the finish
- Google Gear: Little effort, high reward
- I (heart) Caterina
- Do you have a coach in your life?
- Google Gear: YouTube Fleeced
- Google Gear: An Army in Primary Colors
- Water is the New Oil
- Second Life: Do you fire your first customers?
- Will Wright on Second Life
- Google Gear: Packin’ Heat
- Dress Up Like You Mean It
- Reluctant YouTube Stars
- Google Gear: Keep movin’ folks, nothing special here
- Google Gear: The IPO Hat?
- Take a lick of Colbert
- Sim a Song: Part 2
- Google Gear: Always looking for talent
- Because you know they all look alike
- will.i.am and hunter i be
- Sim a Song
- James Hong = Really Kicking Ass
- Seth Shears Sheepwalking
- Etsy frustrate-sy
- Google Gear: Dance Dance Revolution
- Google Gear: What, that’s not a Google shirt!
- WiFi almost did SL in
- Google Gear: AdSense Turns One!
- Google Gear: The day webmail changed forever
- Pomelo on the rise
- NY <> SF Neighborhood Translations
- DWI, DUI, DWE
January 2007
- Early Second Life Investor Preso
- "Second Life was just unfundable"
- League of Okay Gentlemen
- The Billion Dollar Prerequisite
- Second Google
- Google Gear: Farewell Charlie
- Graphic novelty
- AOL gets a Second Life
- Jessica Hagy you rock!I
- Bi-polar eligible for car pool lane?
- Ce yes
- My first $1000
- On TV this Sunday
- Eddie Van Halen, Inventor
- Princess, Saint, Soulman, President, Dictator
- Chevy Chase is an Asshole
- Holiday notes: Comic Relief
- Holiday notes: Evil Dead the Musical
- Holiday notes: Wife beats Freakonomics in Rock-Paper-Scissor
- Someone who sorta sounds familiar on Line 1
2006 117
December 2006
- Blank Slate
- Linerider + dick in a box
- "Jewish Cabal" is a term of affection
- Litigant Song
- Worthy of Debate
- Boxers or (Legal) Briefs?
- Go Elf Yourself
- How much is that K-Fed in the window?
- Post title of the day
- Bad Math!
- Warner CEO: My kids have stolen music
November 2006
- 300 Classic Concerts Now Streaming
- If a Zune falls in the woods….
- Bats All Folks
- linerider jumps the shark
- Call the CEO at Wesabe…
- Hip-not
- Earl-style Karma
- Feet and wallet
- Best and Brightest
- Round 1: Sugarcube beats Cloud
- Birds of a feather
- Soylent Green is…. people
- But it’s still a duck
- Six words i didn’t need to hear…
October 2006
- Pay? No way!
- Aliens like Bowie – proof!
- Borat Overdose this Halloween
- Numa Numa Ben next?
- Weird Al leads us to the promised land
- Chips, and when to cash them in
- When Avatars Read
- One Million Served
- With great power comes…
- Burning desire
- Flashback: NYTimes covers Friendster
- Peep Show – best show ever?
- Second Life sells names
- Stocks are like wine
- Amazon Prime snags me
September 2006
- Second Life: $ and Sense
- Songs that make me cry: You Got Me – The Roots
- NPR’s On The Media covers Second Life
- Songs that make me cry: Everlong (acoustic) – Foo Fighters
- Fight back, bite back
- Before there was fire…
- The "fake pump" is not sufficient
- Starfish, Spider, Starbucks
August 2006
July 2006
- Owen, you had me at ‘hello’
- A-Rod thoughts
- Em me
- That $100 is working for me
- Snickering
- Friends don’t make friends pay service fees
- Screen Name: aLL3n m0rg3N
- Prosper: the bids
June 2006
- Happy 3rd Birthday Second Life
- Extreme Vacations
- Go forth and prosper
- Boots on the ground and umbrellas in my drinks
- How to exploit the stillness
- The world – and the Hudson Hotel – are too small
- Freaking in NYC
May 2006
April 2006
- My last six years
- Holy Cow! BusinessWeek cover story on Second LIfe
- More SL Love
- Don’t buy a "chimney sweep" on Craigslist unless you’re into that sort of thing
March 2006
- Linden’s Full Coffers
- Alert? Yeah, right.
- Eric Rice really likes SL
- My first Google Video press
- Two Buck Chuck meets NYC
- No queries were hurt in the process of making this demand
- GYM love
- Hue and 50 Cent
- Bow to your ant lord
- Bells & Spurs debuts at SXSW
- Civic Duty, update
- Gaydar
- Civic Duty
- The influentials are coming
- Not what apple had in mind
- Oscar Blushing
- "Photo Shoot"
February 2006
- U2 in Second Life (kinda)
- What’s a Sunday Times worth?
- PersonalDNA
- Virtual Worlds getting Real(er)
- Three things I did Tuesday
- "Will you watch this for me"
- Consumers? Nah, personalizers.
- That’s some fine counterprogramming
- Anything can be securitized
- Great Headlines
- My famous friends
- Three cheers for Best Buy
- But did dad get a board seat?
- Calacanis blasts YouTube
- Great Pumpkins
January 2006
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December 2005
- On a Hot Tin Roof
- Tamiflu for the holidays
- That’s one popular avatar
- Fool the cabbie
- Fred Norris Flickr Stream
- Satellite Radio: A Possible Solution
- Something in the Air
- Courtroom Shoutout #1
- The URL pool of hopes and dreams
- Family Guy + MySpace
- For my new friends at Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, etc
- I want to give my money to Sirius
- Thanks, but i read the movie
November 2005
- Born to Pac
- Ghosts in the the Museum
- Pet my monkey
- Customizable Products
- Parked Pages = $
- "Horrors!"
- Short flick takes
- ‘Crash’ Into Me
October 2005
- Lost w/o a paddle?
- 31st largest public company traded in the US
- It’s kinda like Herman’s Head but funny…
September 2005
- As Seen on Google
- Goldberg and O’Donnell back to the soup line
- Mancrush on Jason Lee (but I fear for Earl)
- The holy trinity (but no monkey)
- Friedman behind the wall
- Does Jesus love Emily Rose?
- The Search (on order)
August 2005
- Louis CK: still masturbating
- Cooking up a movie
- When in doubt: Vs.
- Freakonomics Guys @ Google
- Troy’s Achilles Heel: Running Length
July 2005
- Joe Morgenstern (WSJ) agrees: show kids blood
- Husky voices and corner offices
- Actions without consequence (or "How to earn your PG-13")