- Incredibly long & tiring week, but lots of good stuff. Running way behind on email. If awaiting response — will respond to most by Monday. #
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Twitter updates for 2009-09-18
- Congrats to Luis von Ahn from @CarnegieMellon RT @newsycombinator: Google acquires reCAPTCHA http://bit.ly/qX2Xf #
- RT @vctips: just because you're working 120hr weeks doesn't mean you can count yourself as 3 FTEs on the team slide (@bryce) #
- Great idea, like mail cmd line RT @niallsmart: Would be nice if I could DM email addresses from Twitter. "D someone@someplace.com blah blah" #
- Thanks zozo! RT @theonezozo: @manukumar the video is better: http://bit.ly/wmGng #
- Hilarious. RT @Jkretch: Our President is awesome. The audio of him calling Kanye a jackass: http://bit.ly/1fK8U #
- Looking forward to chatting w/ UC Berkeley CS students about 'The Entrepreneurial Bug' at 6:00 PM in 310 Soda Hall today. #
- Falling asleep while trying to do the day's email – not good. Been a loooong day/week, but lots of exciting stuff. #
Twitter updates for 2009-09-17
- RT @ethankurz: Ok, I admit it – it was me. Cool demo tho! RT @manukumar: OH: "I've never had to take my shoes off before in a pitch meeting" #
- Sometime the valley just amazes me (both positively and negatively). #
- OH: "I've never had to take my shoes off before in a pitch meeting" #
- #ChurchillClub Randy Komisar being interviewed by John Markoff http://twitpic.com/hxqly #
- Headed to an early morning @ChurchillClub event featuring Randy Komisar (after a late night at #TechCrunch50) #
- RT @andrew_chen: Lukas Biewald demonstrates CrowdFlower http://bit.ly/4wzCYg #
Twitter updates for 2009-09-16
- RT @jenmartinez: RT @kimmaicutler: Bless #tc50. Never any lines for the womens' bathroom. WORD. #
- RT @evbart Here's a quick post on how startups could do a better job with their messaging for an event like #TC50 – http://bit.ly/WYNI3 #
- Why can't I paste a phone number on the iPhone's phone keypad? You'd think that would be an obvious thing to do. #
- Surprised by Adobe's acquisition of Omniture for $1.8B (WSJ: http://bit.ly/10vb1E). #
- RT @pierre: I like how Bush said Obama "has no clue" when he's the one who raised cash for a $1 trillion war by cutting taxes $1 trillion. #
- Dolores Labs founders @l2k & @vanpelt rocking it at #TechCrunch50 for the launch of CrowdFlower #tc50 http://twitpic.com/hufxh #
- RT @Joshmedia: "I love crowdflower and am a customer" quote from @timoreilly after @L2k 's presentation at #TC50 #
- RT @leonardspeiser: Crowdflower presenting, used the product and was very impressed, demo is so impressive #
- RT @msuster: CrowdFlower is on at #tc50 – love it. I would use the product in a second. An UI / workflow looks great. #
- I just cast a #vote for #CrowdFlower in the #TC50 Favorite TC50 Finalist poll at http://buzzvoter.com/tc50 #
- Last WordPress update seemed to have messed with @k9ventures website template. Sorry the site was broken. Fixed now 🙂 #
- Loved the live demo for CrowdFlower. Great job @l2k, @vanpelt & @DoloresLabs team! New self-serve site looks freaking awesome! #tc50 #
- .@timoreilly CrowdFlower is Dolores Labs 🙂 #
- Lukas is doing a freaking awesome demo for CrowdFlower live at #TC50 #TechCrunch #
- This mornings #tc50 companies are pretty cool and doing a good job of presenting too. #tc50 #TechCrunch #
- I will be at UC Berkeley to chat w/ CS undergrads & grads about entrepreneurship/startups on Thu, 9/17 at 6:00PM in 310 Soda Hall #
- 🙂 RT @leonardspeiser: Getting eye'd like meat as I walk through the #tc50 demo pit, but they are staring at my name tag instead of my body. #
Twitter updates for 2009-09-15
- Liked @zappos' question to theswop.com: 'Do you make money or do you just collect FavorPoints?' #TC50 #
- Weakest part of LocalBacon's pitch: the name #TC50 LocalBacon? I don't get it. #
- Underwhelmed by Google's FastFlip (http://fastflip.googlelabs.com) on the desktop. Perhaps the mobile experience will be more compelling. #
- Surprised none of the judged brought up Pixazza when talking about udorse. #tc50 #
- RT @dtunkelang: RT @aaranged Bing really is the decision engine – you need to decide to install MS software (Silverlight). (ouch!) #
- #TC50 DemoPit Tip #6: bring hand sanitizer — you will be shaking a lot of hands & won't have time to step away from your table much. #
- #TC50 DemoPit Tip #5: BE BRIEF! – 10 word pitch. Then stop to gauge interest, Don't waste your energy, others time! #
- #TC50 DemoPit Tip #4: Print sign that says says what you do — don't waste energy pitching anyone / missing those that don't stop & ask #
- #TC50 DemoPit Tip #3: Breath Mints are your friend — don't make people want to run away right as you open your mouth! #
- #TC50 DemoPit Tip #2: Bring water — you will be talking all day! #
- #TC50 DemoPit Tip #1: Wear comfortable shoes — you will be standing all day! #
- The coolest website building tool: @snappages by @stevetestone. Awesome UI and great job on the overall offering http://twitpic.com/hqtlh #
- RT @om Either you are in the business of selling picks and shovels or digging for gold. #startup (via @hnshah) #
- Spawn Labs is like the Sling Box for your game console. Cool stuff. #TC50 http://twitpic.com/hqgt0 #
- Bing Visual Search using SilverLight is probably not such a good idea (HT @mattcutts for pointing out Silverlight requirement) in reply to mattcutts #
- Microsoft / Bing visual search to go live in 5 minutes at http://bing.com/visualsearch #
- Microsoft Bing announcing new Visual Search at TechCrunch50 #TC50. http://twitpic.com/hq5jw #
- Congrats @dispalt @polvi RT @venturebeat Cloudkick's simple cloud management gets $750K http://bit.ly/l9k14 by @anthonyha #
- Congrats to @mint & @apatzer. Good move by Intuit. RT @arrington: Intuit To Acquire Mint For $170 Million http://bit.ly/f5zrZ #
- Congrats indeed! RT @asenkut Congrats @mint and @apatzer on the Intuit Acquisition – what an incredible ride…http://bit.ly/zO26D #
- Fun drive up to SF for TechCrunch50 #TC50 with @rohitkhare. @arrington and @Jason just kicking things off. http://twitpic.com/hpv1p #