A historical collection of our writing.
One of my personal projects for 2011 was to design something and print it on Shapeways. This weekend I decided that I had a couple of hours to do that and so as the first step I installed Google Sketchup. Having never done any 3D design before, instead of jumping straight into the program, I […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The blog post I was planning to write for today will have to wait until tomorrow so I can think out loud about AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post. First an admission: I used to check the Huffington Post a couple of times a day as a kind of guilty pleasure. They just make it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Our 11-year old son is increasingly interested in computers and in particular in game design. So we are looking for a summer camp that would cater to that interest. If anyone knows of one that’s good, please let me know. Here is what I have found so far: Internal Drive Tech Camps – unfortunately for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday it was revealed that Microsoft is clearly using Google search results and people’s clicks as an input to Bing’s algorithms. That raises a bunch of interesting questions about who owns what online. First, let’s talk about where Microsoft could have this data from. There are two possible […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am obviously late to the Start Fund party (since I don’t blog on weekends and wrote about games instead yesterday). The Yuri Milner + SV Angels deal to fund YC companies is interesting but I think for slightly different reasons than I have seen mentioned (I have only read a few posts, so quite […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been reading and thoroughly enjoying “Reality is Broken” by Jane McGonigal (love the name too!). One basic premise of book is that games are engaging exactly because they represent a “better” version of reality in which missions are clear, feedback is more direct, failing is fun (careening […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
