So I wanted to do something productive to celebrate my birthday this year, I thought that it’d be great to use this opportunity to support a great organization doing meaningful work. The fundraising campaign I’m participating in for my birthday is called “Brick by Brick,” and the funds raised will go towards an organization called [...]
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$2,400 for my 24th!
August 25th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent, tech
Tags:birthday·Brick by Brick·fundraising·Restore NYC·sex trafficking·Trinity Grace
Foursquare Visualizations, Redux
August 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
Towards the end of July, I wrote a post about how you can visualize Foursquare checkins and also about my hope for developers to continue building tools that can use /display Foursquare’s user-generated content more effectively. This weekend, the folks from Movity.com did just that, building a little application called Weeplaces. You can visualize your [...]
Tags:Foursquare·LBS·location-based service·Movity·visualization·Weeplaces
Critical Mass and New York City
August 5th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, tech
Over the past few days, I’ve been at home in Alabama, which as you may imagine, is quite different from New York City. Other than the grossly uncomfortable heat index (100+ every day) and noticeably shorter skyscrapers here, I’ve also noticed that some of the mobile tools that I used in New York are no [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Giving Pledge·Gowalla·New York·nextNY·Sweet Home Alabama·tech·VC·venture capital
Rubicon: Not Every Conspiracy is a Theory
July 27th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal
For those of you who might be Mad Men lovers, here’s another great show coming at you from AMC. If you’re the type (like me) who just loves spy / conspiracy thrillers, you’ll enjoy “Rubicon” as well. Below is a sneak preview of the entire pilot episode for “Rubicon,” which will have its official 2-hour [...]
Tags:AMC·conspiracy theory·Covert Affairs·Rubicon·spy·thriller·USA
Your Foursquare Check-ins… on Google Maps!
July 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
Today, Fred Wilson wrote a short but fascinating blog post on visual representation of Foursquare check-ins via Google Maps, and the potential uses for this user-generated contend. Below are my last ~150 check-ins in New York City. Want to see your own map? Foursquare has a page devoted to private feeds of your check-ins, available [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Fred Wilson·Google Maps·New York City·user-generated content
Anonymity on the Web
June 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
This past week, I’ve run across a couple of blog posts talking about anonymity on the web, especially as it pertains to the expression of opinions (whether through comments, message board posts, or mediums of online expression). James D. Robinson III of RRE Ventures linked to a post (including a video) entitled “Are the Trolls [...]
Tags:anonymity·anonymous·Chris Dixon·Formspring·GRP·James D. Robinson III·Mark Suster·RRE·troll
What’s Next Beta Launch
May 24th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
Remember that e-book I wrote about a couple months ago? The one titled “What’s Next: Big Ideas from 25 Gen-Yers Under 25”? Well, the beta of the e-book is out to the public! Here’s the blurb: “Inspired by Seth Godin’s What Matters Now, it showcases the stories & insights of 25 bright young voices from [...]
