Announcing Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Roster
May 10, 2010 – 4:59 pm | View Comments

We are excited to announce the newest Dogpatch Labs class here in San Francisco. It includes entrepreneurs and companies that have been part of the lab over the last few months and those that just …

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My Xobni Love Affair is Sadly Over as it Doesn’t Play Nice with my Blackberry
February 1, 2008 – 7:38 pm | View Comments

I’ve written before about how innovative and useful Xobni is (and can be).
I’ve also written a great deal about how important the mobile net and connectivity are to me.
Apparently the two don’t coexist very …

Microsoft Makes Unsolicited Bid to Acquire Yahoo
February 1, 2008 – 12:10 pm | View Comments

I spoke too soon.
Last night I posted about the plight of big tech stocks in 2008. I left off Microsoft from the Tech stocks and also from the video games sites – not expecting that …

January 2008, Cruel to Tech Stocks and Video Game Stocks
February 1, 2008 – 1:19 am | View Comments

Today’s weak earnings announcement by Google capped a very difficult month for big-name tech stocks (Google coverage at Cnet, TechTrader and GigaOm). The volatility of each stock is remarkable considering the short time-frame and that …

Can Twitter Be Taken Seriously If I Never Visit Twitter.com?
January 30, 2008 – 11:01 pm | View Comments

Let me first state that, as a publisher and a user, I love Twitter.
I love Twitter’s portability – whether it exists between Twitter.com, SMS, or Gtalk. But that’s precisely what worries me about Twitter.
There is …

Three Companies Advertising A LOT Right Now: Flock, Disaboom and Microsoft Live
January 30, 2008 – 8:00 pm | View Comments

I always keep an eye on who’s advertising where.
It says a lot about the state of the company and/or it’s growth stage.
It also says a lot about the network publishing those ads – I regularly …

beRecruited Colleges Revamped
January 30, 2008 – 7:45 pm | View Comments

This has been an important last few weeks for beRecruited – we hit our 2,000,000th recruiting connection, launched a couple new features and have some exciting things coming in the near future. One exciting site …

Google Universal Search vs. Ask, Yahoo, and Live
January 30, 2008 – 6:56 pm | View Comments

Very thorough, thoughtful article on Google’s Universal Search over at SearchEngineLand – but it leaves me asking how anything can be considered universal when the formats change with nearly every query. To give Google credit, …

Ron Paul Dominating the Web According to Compete.com
January 29, 2008 – 10:38 pm | View Comments

Last week I posted about using Quantcast to predict the 2008 election – and suggested that Obama and Romney were favorites based on a combination of aggregate numbers and acceleration of traffic.
That post resulted in …

Using Wikis & Google Docs to Increase Team Productivity
January 29, 2008 – 9:45 pm | View Comments

sfEntrepreneurs kicked off Sunday evening and one of the first questions we faced was how the 20+ of us would be able to efficiently communicate in a form other than email. This was a question …

Hiring Bloggers – Where to Look (Oh yeah, We’re Hiring a SportsWrap Editor!)
January 29, 2008 – 9:02 pm | View Comments

Over the course of beRecruited’s growth, we’ve relied heavily on organic growth and grass-roots marketing. Similarly, we’ve used Elance, Craigslist, and Kijiji to outsource smaller projects… and, while each is time consuming, it’s been effective …

AT&T Raising SMS Rates to $0.20… When Will We Move to Email?
January 29, 2008 – 8:36 pm | View Comments

Starting March 30th, AT&T is raising SMS and MMS rates by $0.05 to $0.20 and $0.30 respectively… which is absurdly expensive considering that the actual cost of an SMS message to the carrier is close …