Yep, it may be premature but I now think of Dick’s "Ask the Wizard" -I hate the name, but I was never a big d&d guy- as my favorite. Its awesome. He has another good post here. Everything he says is exactly right. Keep up the great work Dick.
I just went back and read some of my old entires. Wow, there were a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes. Part of me wants to go back and fix them, part of me doesn’t really care.
I grew up with dyslexia. I did not learn to read until I was in fourth grade. I still really have not learned how to write very well. Having fought this battle for a long time I have gotten rather inured to my mistakes. So I think I might just leave them there and see what happens.
Now that we are getting closer to rolling out our fancy new technology over at Triggit we have started posting to the blog again. Check out the Triggit Blog and please tell us what you think
Rafat has a nice scoop that Yahoo is buying Rivals.com for 75m or so. This is big deal. Justin.tv has more traffic then this site and its going for 75m? All the sudden I am getting the feeling that we are going
to see quite a round of content consolidation. Now that the big media
players are worried about the strategic implications more then the
bottom line, a lot of properties could change hands.
Nivi at Venture Hacks once again knocks the ball out of the park with a great post about negotiating the option pool. I am really starting to love this blog.
I read Speeding The Net over the weekend, its a pretty good account of the early and middle days of Netscape. Well worth a read for those who are interested in the space. It really got me thinking about how I would have played their hand if I was them. Tough is the only word that comes to mind. Especially when taking into account to Charles Ferguson’s great book "High Stakes No Prisoners" which argues that Netscape was simple incompetent. I think he might have been a little rough on them but the challenges from Microsoft were amazingly fierce.
Mike Arrington has come up with one of the most brilliant link baiting ideas I have seen in quite some time. He is giving free tickets to web 2.0 to who ever can trash techcrunch the best. Why trash and not praise? I have no idea. Mike’s always been a bit of a masochist but he is asking for it here. I like techcrunch so I am going to take a pass the beating. No matter what he ought to get a lot of incoming links out of this.
As is obvious to anyone, I have been neglecting this blog for while. I have found it quite hard to post to it while we have been in the middle of trying to make Triggit work. Tough stuff. I have developed a lot of respect for those people who can do this on a daily basis. But yet I find myself on a regularly feeling the urge to post something here. An idea or observation usually. I think I am going to try doing that from now on. I know I can be a regular poster but it might be helpful to just try and get something down ever once in a while.