Joining Polaris Ventures Partners
August 2, 2009 – 5:28 pm | Comments

I am excited to announce that, starting Monday, I will be joining Polaris Venture Partners and will work out of the Dog Patch Lab on Pier 38. Over the last few years, I have had …

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DogpatchLabs.com Update: Locations, Roster & RSS
January 5, 2010 – 8:40 am | Comments
DogpatchLabs.com Update: Locations, Roster & RSS

A couple updates on the new DogpatchLabs.com:
- First, we have added headers for each of the three Dogpatch Labs locations: Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. You can access all Dogpatch posts directly on DogpatchLabs.com, …

Announcing the New DogpatchLabs.com
January 2, 2010 – 1:36 pm | Comments
Announcing the New DogpatchLabs.com

We are very excited to announce the launch of the new DogpatchLabs.com. Thanks to Egghaus (a Dogpatch San Francisco resident) and Wordpress.com (a Polaris Ventures portfolio company) who helped design, implement and host the site, …

Adam Carolla’s Podcast: 1M Downloads… Radio, XM Officially Dead?
February 28, 2009 – 6:27 pm | Comments
Adam Carolla’s Podcast: 1M Downloads… Radio, XM Officially Dead?

Last week, Adam Carolla transitioned from national radio talk show host. His contract with CBS prevents him from returning to radio (supposedly through 2009) – and in exchange, he is paid handsomely in the meantime.
So …

Perez Hilton Hits 14,000,000 Pageviews Yesterday. Wow.
February 24, 2009 – 2:11 pm | Comments

You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip…
You might not consider it important or meaningful…
But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
I’ve written …

Introducing TechNews (http://news.ryanspoon.com)
February 22, 2009 – 3:01 pm | Comments
Introducing TechNews (http://news.ryanspoon.com)

Introducing http://news.ryanspoon.com – I encourage you to test it out!
About a year ago, I weened myself off of Digg (at least partially) and moved onto Hacker News. Hacker News is the best mix of technology …

Wordpress 2.7 Scores a Perfect 10
February 22, 2009 – 1:02 pm | Comments
Wordpress 2.7 Scores a Perfect 10

I have always been a major Wordpress fan and used any opportunity to plug both Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org.
Now – I have an even greater reason to speak their praises: Wordpress 2.7 is exceptional. I …

Introducing New Blog Design… Thoughts?
October 2, 2008 – 9:17 pm | Comments
Introducing New Blog Design… Thoughts?

When I first started this blog, it was on a whim and I built it over a weekend on a hosted version of Wordpress. The theme I implemented and hacked-together worked well but didn’t scale …

I’m Reinstalling Disqus – Two Months After Turning Disqus Off
July 25, 2008 – 8:36 am | Comments

Two months ago, I wrote this blog’s most read article: After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to WordPress Comments. The quick, controversial summary is that I installed Disqus and, after concerns of not …

Twitter & Friendfeed: Understanding Referral Traffic, Arriving at a Business Model
May 17, 2008 – 2:42 pm | Comments

For consumers, the power of the distributed web is accessing and connecting content across one’s internet usage and social graph.
For content owners, the power of the distributed web is precisely that: one’s content is distributed …

Disqus – After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to Wordpress Comments
May 15, 2008 – 7:38 pm | Comments

I’m an avid reader of Fred Wilson’s blog and was tempted to test-drive Disqus when Fred first integrated it onto his site. I finally decided to install it on my blog (which is powered by …

15 Websites / Services I’d Actually Pay For
May 8, 2008 – 10:09 pm | Comments

One measure of a service’s utility and stickiness is its ability to charge for usage. Consequently, I regularly find myself asking, “Is this important enough to me that I’d pay for it?”
Here are some …

Why I Blog and Spend (Too Much) Time on the Web…
March 6, 2008 – 10:06 am | Comments

When my dog Manny was diagnosed with Legg-Perthes Disease last year, there was little information available on the web about the disease, it’s impact and the necessary surgery. So I documented the entire process (both …