Rupert's Blog

Twittering

2007-03-12T22:44:00.000+00:00

Twitter is gaining a lot of momentum lately. I'm not totally in love with it yet but I know a lot of people who are. Add me here.

Warren buffet quote

2007-03-07T12:33:00.000+00:00

Quote from Warren Buffet in his latest sharedholder letter:

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful."

Hot and cold marathons

2007-03-06T09:31:00.000+00:00

A friend of mine is running (literally) a marathon-campaign called EarthFireIce as a charity project to raise awareness of global warming. They are aiming at getting a million pledges on the website, and the twist of the project are the two marathons the guys will run in the Sahara and later in the North Pole. Pledge here

Max Levchin video on starting companies...

2007-03-05T23:38:00.000+00:00

Great video of a talk given by Paypal CTO and slide.com founder Max Levchin about starting companies, particularly in the consumer space. My previous posting of this cut out but this is the full version. Its an hour long, bad quality but you really should listen to it. Embedded below and linked here.

CERN's 27km Big Bang machine

2007-03-02T09:55:00.000+00:00

CERN's 27km Big Bang machine at the LIFT07 conference. Video here

The new UK Apple ad

2007-02-13T19:26:00.000+00:00

I wouldn't normally post about a single ad but in the new Apple ad, they have created something commercial people want to send to friends and made it amazingly location-specific with exactly the right actors. [addition] quite a vitriolic take on the ads and macs from a Mac hater. I don't love macs particularly myself, I think its just a nicer screen and keyboard with better available software for music and video.

Nice creative DIY video on web 2.0

2007-02-08T17:17:00.000+00:00

Nice creative DIY video on web 2.0

75 blog posts to read before talking to VCs

2007-02-07T14:01:00.000+00:00

75 blog posts to read before talking to VCs

Steve Jobs thoughts on DRM

2007-02-07T12:12:00.000+00:00

Steve Jobs posted his thoughts on DRM to the apple site- a positive step forward.

Are Social Networks just a feature?

2007-02-06T11:58:00.000+00:00

Are Social Networks just a feature? [GigaOm]

Videos from WEF

2007-01-30T15:44:00.000+00:00

Once you hit the the WEF page click on Details to see videos.

Forbes VC Midas List 2007

2007-01-29T11:58:00.000+00:00

Forbes VC Midas List 2007

The Venice Project becomes Joost

2007-01-16T10:38:00.000+00:00

I have been playing with The Venice Project. Its just changed name to Joost. The plug-ins are cool and a lot of success will rest on them engaging 3rd party developers to build more. They have done well to focus on feeds and IM as the main things people will want while watching TV. They now need to get loads of content in very quickly.

Shrimp on a treadmill

2007-01-13T18:34:00.000+00:00

James Brown

2007-01-12T13:45:00.000+00:00

Apple iPhone

2007-01-09T20:55:00.000+00:00

Definitely a step-change in mobile phone user interfaces.

Watch this. Paypal and Slide founder Max Levchin on starting companies

2007-01-05T17:49:00.000+00:00

Embedded video below shows Max Levchin talking about starting companies at his alma mater UIUC. Inspiring stuff.

Video is grainy- just listen to the audio. It cuts out after 20 mins, full file available here, will upload it again once I get a chance.

YouTube employees name their favourite videos

2007-01-05T16:24:00.000+00:00

YouTube Staff name their favourite videos of 2006

I don't like cricket I love it

2007-01-05T15:38:00.000+00:00

Old feeds are broken, please re-subscribe

2007-01-05T14:47:00.000+00:00

Those of you who already subscribed to the old feeds, they're broken, please delete them and re-subscribe to the new ones...can't get it right first time, am new to this.

I have just made my feeds trackable using Feedburner so that I can see how many people are subscribing and reading them. Its a great little company, ripe for acquisition when that little orange icon has become waaay more mainstream in 2007. You heard the prediction here first.

What are you optimistic about?

2007-01-02T23:58:00.000+00:00

This is the first post of the year. The Edge World Question Center is asking what are you optimistic about for 2007 and why? Some really interesting articles from Dawkins et al...I should probably read his new book on religion at some point too.

Video about the early days at YouTube

2006-12-30T12:10:00.000+00:00

Great video below from Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube, now back at Stanford, on how the site got started.

Subscribe to mine and I'll subscribe to yours

2006-12-27T17:52:00.000+00:00

I've worked out how to make a Link Blog- as opposed to my own musings in Rupert's Blog, its an RSS feed of the best links and stories I come across. Subscribe to mine on the right. Then set one up with Google Reader, so I can subscribe to yours. Just think, daily news stories and interesting sites filtered by me- much better than Digg.

Why can't videos be embedded in comments

2006-12-21T14:53:00.000+00:00

Just playing around with embedding videos. I will one day build a nice website for photos, feeds, videos and this blog, that sits at vanmillingen.com

My first real post

2006-12-21T14:42:00.000+00:00

My old blog got scrapped as I moved over to this new Blogger. Thoughts for today are that its still too hard to get a professional-looking blog for free, and the integration with domain registration is still terrible. Also I need to work out how to do make a link blog, like on Scobleizer, that my friends can subscribe to. His link blog acts as a great filter on the most interesting stories in tech.