Surplus words

• Back to meetings. Happy new year indeed. #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• surprisingly addictive iphone game - Galcon (http://tinyurl.com/6g9642). #
• Ah. re: animoto the referrer gets 3 months, not the new user. Would have liked to try full video to see if its worth it before paying… #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• i know it is a little old, but still funny http://tinyurl.com/58tjsu #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• made myself a gift. finally bought a paid plan at highrise (highrisehq.com) #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• reading “Panic” by Michael Lewis #
• just signed up for animoto (animoto.com) #
• making year-end donations. just did Penn. #
• “Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned From My Comrades…” http://tinyurl.com/3z54kd #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Now that I am a paying customer for highrise (highrisehq.com) I can request features, right? :)

I am trying to figure out how best to use the “deals” feature, and it would be really great if I could surface emails/notes from people involved in the deal without having to make 10 clicks. It was not even obvious to me that I could assign these to deals until I tried to change the email… At the very least, I should be able to drag an email/note to the “deal” that is already shown on the right side of the screen. Ideally, I would like to be able to add notes/emails from inside the deals - also with drag-n-drop…

Offtopic: Interestingly (for me) - I have immediately begun to expect that companies follow twitter and therefore will just pick up the resultant twit and comment on the blog. It’s all the fault of the GetSatisfaction.com team.

• picnik.com is nice, its integration with smugmug is even nicer… I bet they use ec2/s3 combo as well. #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Fred Wilson wrote:

It’s gotten to the point that if I can’t interact with content, I don’t want to consume it. When I read books, I underline certain passages so I can blog about them later. If I were reading on a connected device, I’d simply reblog on tumblr and be done. I don’t think I’m unusual in this regard but I do think I’m in the leading edge of behavior and that more and more people will feel this way.A VC, Dec 2008

Ditto. Take a look at books left over from old (100+ years) writers, scientists, people. They are full of notes on the margins. This type of interaction with text only stopped recently, perhaps because a lot of content consumption went one-way — magazines, newspapers, TV. An old notebook of my grandmother’s I recently found has pages written out from books she borrowed and found insightful but did not own to write directly in. My big hope is that next version of Kindle would provide some kind of a solution. It is possible that other readers already provide these capabilities and I am just unaware of them…

I see a lot of people also blogging as they read through a book - something this type of functionality would facilitate. Does the world really need people to post half-formed thoughts the moment they get an urge to share them? Probably not, but we already do (reading this post qualifies), so making this sharing easier is not going to make things worse, but perhaps encourage those for whom current means are too convoluted or complicated to participate in the discussion.

• log note: 12/26/08 12:23:52 PM SyncServer[219] SyncServer: Truth vacuumed. Next vacuum date 2009-01-09 12:23:46 -0500 #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

• wow. last day in the office before the break is a long one #
• also cannot figure out how *not* to have a category set in a Wordpress blog. I am giving this way too much thought. #

Powered by Twitter Tools.