Rob Johnson

Josh is featured in the latest Techstars Founders video.

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:33:14 -0600

Josh is featured in the latest Techstars Founders video.

Money quote from danah boyd's piece about facebook as a utility

Sun, 16 May 2010 11:31:08 -0600

I just wish that Facebook would’ve taken a more responsible path so that we wouldn’t have to deal with what’s coming. And I wish that they’d realize that the people they’re screwing are those who are most vulnerable already, those whose voices they’ll never hear if they don’t make an effort.

Read the entirety of danah boyd’s argument that facebook is a utility and should be regulated.

When I hang out with my nontech friends now, they want me to talk about why facebook is scary. They don’t understand what changed, but they know something did.

My answer is now the same. I don’t trust facebook anymore. I used to love what they were trying to accomplish - making the web more open and encouraging people to share information more often - but now I question their motives too often.

This is important. When you sign on people for a mission that sounds like “make the world a better place” you’re asking at some level for a selfless decision. Obama asked for our support for hope & remaking the face of america. It’s a big ask, one requiring a huge chunk of trust.

Facebook got similar trust from us in the beginning. I wanted to participate in their movement. I wanted the web & facebook to lead a revolution where individuals had more of their ideas heard. More of the voices listened to. And yes, that has happened. But now i just think they want to conquer, one optimized user sign up form at a time.

Caterpillar Cowboy: How Facebook will win the Internet and why that scares the shit out of me

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:57:13 -0600

Caterpillar Cowboy: How Facebook will win the Internet and why that scares the shit out of me:

(This post is a longer take on the things mentioned here and here.)

Pre-condition #1: Identity

Facebook, with the release of social plugins, has officially announced that they believe they are the Internet’s digital identity system*. How so? Their new social plugins — Like buttons,…

THE COMMENTS! AHAHAHAHA THE COMMENTS!

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:41:39 -0700

THE COMMENTS! AHAHAHAHA THE COMMENTS!:

fascinated:

zoya:

laughing through my tears:

Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as a bookmark in your browser.

Shutting down EventVue.

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:58:47 -0700

I use this blog for 2 reasons - to share stuff with personal friends (you’d have to be a friend to care about what i say here) and to mark events and thoughts that I consider to be important in my life.

This week Josh and I decided to shut down EventVue. We’ve been working on it for 3 years now and I’ve given a lot of myself to its success. (If you know me really well, you know that i’ve given too much to it).

We learned a ton over the past 3 years and I made an effort to at least document what happened on our blog.

Thanks to all of you who have been supporters of us over the past 3 years. I’m already starting to look forward to what is next.

Relaunch of EventVue.

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:22:20 -0700

We relaunched EventVue today and i’m very excited about it. The immediacy of the realtime web has created the possibility for a whole new experience around events. Because short messages can be shared so easily and distributed so quickly on the realtime web, we think that the time has come where people can truly connect at events in a way not seen before.

Now, when you are interested in the State of the Union address and are watching it on TV, you can actually connect with other people watching it all across the world in real time. Or when you’re interested in a conference in your industry, but can’t attend, you can share you ideas or suggestions and watch them actually make it back into the conversation in the conference hall.

The realtime web is a revolutionary force for events and we’re relaunching EventVue in hopes of pushing it forward. You can read more about our relaunch on our blog, and you can go check out the response to the relaunch at #eventvuerelaunch.

I’m been completely captivated by Mumford & Sons this...

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:51:00 -0700

I’m been completely captivated by Mumford & Sons this week after discovering them through the excellent 2009 Hype Machine Zeitgeist. There is so much to love about their music and I am blown away by the excellent banjo melodies behind the hymn-like choruses.

This song is one of my favorites and shows the depth of emotion in their songs. In many of their lyrics like “Night has always pushed up day / You must know life to see decay” i sense the voice of hope from brokenness that I connect with so well.

You really have to listen to this. And if anyone wants to go to their show in San Francisco on Feb 11, I could be convinced to fly out there…

the pictures from the event of the cadets was the most moving...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:12:27 -0700

the pictures from the event of the cadets was the most moving part

fred-wilson:

i’m glad he went to west point and told them directly because they are the ones who are going to pay the heaviest price

azspot: David Fitzsimmons

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:07 -0700

azspot:

David Fitzsimmons

bijan: Congrats Anthony. You rock. (via 30 Under 30 -...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:52:05 -0600

bijan:

Congrats Anthony.

You rock.

(via 30 Under 30 - Inc.)

congrats anthony - hype machine is awesome.

"too many have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows"

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:18:47 -0600

““too many have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows””

- - Martin Luther King Jr in Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

May this never be said of my generation.

388. If you don't know what a knob does, don't fool with it.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:33:54 -0600

(via rulesformyunbornson)

COROLLARY: buttons are made to be pushed.

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than..."

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:31:00 -0600

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) - found via JLM

On Urban Outfitters now selling fixies

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:47:38 -0600

A friend of mine, known around here as DJ Double A, had this to say about Urban Outfitters now selling fixies:

How cheap are these things to produce, if urban outfitters sells $25 tshirts but can sell these for 400 bucks. They must be total crap.

But what does it matter when you can get double-takes on your bodacious pink rims with checkered slip-on vans, tight girl jeans rolled to the calf, white punk rock belt, and a sleevless tshirt to show off your arm tats on the way to sit at the heroin-chic, bohemian, 2-cool-4-school, coffee joint to sip an organic free-trade 6 dollar espresso so you post tweets from your smartphone while reading dharma bums, hoping somebody notices.

Best hipster rant ever.

Great idea from Nike & Livestrong - Chalkbot. Send messages...

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:16:20 -0600

Great idea from Nike & Livestrong - Chalkbot. Send messages of hope to be printed on the road during the Tour de France.

Good luck Lance.

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:12:10 -0600

Good luck Lance.

I’m craving some SC barbeque about now. The best in the...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:56:03 -0600

I’m craving some SC barbeque about now. The best in the whole state has got to be Brown’s Barbeque.

"She replies that life never presents us with a single big question, that every day, he’s being asked..."

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:07:00 -0600

“She replies that life never presents us with a single big question, that every day, he’s being asked to choose, and that each time he misses an appointment or doesn’t make it home, he’s making his choice.”

- Chris Yeh in a comment on Steve Blank’s post about the ugliness of startup workaholics.

I think this is true beyond the context of just this comment - most of my big decisions were made daily over time and rarely in one moment.

"This generation will determine if the world can avoid the apocalypse that will come if the..."

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:25:15 -0600

“This generation will determine if the world can avoid the apocalypse that will come if the fear-ridden establishments continue to dominate global politics, motivated by terror, armed with nukes, and playing old but now far too dangerous games.”

- from Andrew Sullivan.

As my friend Justin said: I do hope the next generation will end the dangerous war games of our fathers. That is something to hope for.

Yes, this is the siphon pot coffee from blue bottle. Todd...

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:23:55 -0600

Yes, this is the siphon pot coffee from blue bottle. Todd Sampson first introduced me to this place and it’s now a must-visit on every trip to San Fran.

marco:

Decidedly not Peet’s. Blue Bottle Cafe, San Francisco.