Monthly Archives: June 2008

Growing The Plinky Team

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Jason and I are really excited to have Ryan Freitas joining the Plinky team. Ryan comes from Adaptive Path where he did led the recent MySpace redesign and a lot of the work on Plazes and Sphere, both of which … Continue reading →

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Cloudy, With a Chance of Rain

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Xconomy put together a cloud computing event at Akamai‘s HQ in Cambridge today. The location was appropriate since Akamai was one of the first companies to work on computing in the cloud or, more specifically, at the edge of the … Continue reading →

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Hacking with wget

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

I frequently find myself wanting to look at a few web pages while I’m w/o Net access, for example, when I’m on a plane. I’m heading out on a three-day trip tomorrow and so I quickly hacked together a tool … Continue reading →

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How to Add a 20x Zoom to Your iPhone or Blackberry

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Jason and I had a Plinky working session earlier which was briefly interrupted by our attempts to take a picture of Lady Liberty through the eyepiece of the Celestron Ultima 80 spotting scope in my room. Jason got a good shot … Continue reading →

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Measuring Conversational Media

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Many panels at the conferences I go to end up being drab affairs with softball questions, way too much agreement and way too little insight. Which why I was pleasantly surprised by the Measuring Conversational Media panel at the conversational … Continue reading →

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Transaction Costs Are Subjective

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Jason Shellen and I are in NYC for John Battelle’s conversational marketing summit and a number of Plinky-related meetings. We grabbed a quick lunch in-between meetings at a small sandwich shop in SoHo where I saw the following sign: Beyond the … Continue reading →

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Starting Up Plinky

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Om Malik broke the news today about Plinky. Plinky is the brainchild of founder/CEO Jason Shellen, a former Googler who worked on Blogger and shipped Google Reader. Jason and I partnered up last fall and just raised our seed round from my … Continue reading →

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Should VCs Bet on the Idea or the Team?

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

My partner Bryce Youngren pointed me to some research by Chicago GSB Professor Steven Kaplan who tackles the perennial question of whether one should bet on the jockey or the horse. The presentation, although meandering, does have some good data in … Continue reading →

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Forced Upgrades

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Simeon Simeonov

Rolling out a product upgrade used to be a big deal. Decades ago it was about replacing boards and ICs. Twenty years ago it was about shipping stacks of floppies and hoping they survive the UPS trip. A decade ago … Continue reading →

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