In spirit, I love audio mashups. They speak of creativity, exploration and fun. But 99% of them end up being nothing but novelties, kind of like dipping french fries in a vanilla milkshake. Yes it can be done and it has an interesting taste but not a better taste than either individually. Since audio mashups [...]

This is the article photo of John, Steven and I in the latest issue of Forbes magazine. Seriously, Forbes profiled Dogster! The articles leads with Molly surfing dog photos which inspired me to make Dogster, then goes into detail how I was able to bootstrap Dogster at first using adsense to get it up [...]

A couple weeks ago at the eTech conference Scott Beale snapped a photo of me doing a Lee Van Cleef impersonation with a Maker’s Faire marshmallow gun. You can vote on your favorite. Once person even said it was they were the best contest entries in a while … rad.
Somehow that photo got picked by [...]

Dogster, Inc. (maker of Dogster.com and Catster.com) needs to replace our coder that just moved to Japan. In fact we’re looking for two Web App. Engineers! Sick of meetings and paperwork at your corporate job? Looking to put your web hobby skills to work? We want passionate people not pretty resumes, so show us [...]

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I’m in the middle of a social geeks dream week. It’s been four years in the making but this year I managed to attend eTech and SXSW back to back.
At eTech the intriguing question about Dogster, Inc. regarded our revenue streams and profitability, at SXSW the questions are all about the community we’ve [...]

This was the best funding-related panel I’ve enjoyed at SXSW ever. The panels strength came from it’s diversity, ranging from a female VC principal, another VC, 2 types of Angel investors and a repeat fund rasier.

Once you take money stick to your same frugal ways. Don’t spend $50,000 for IDG or Jupiter Reports. Investors may [...]

Kathy Sierra gave an excellent presentation on how to engage the passionate side of your users and customers. She write on this often at her blog, Creating Passionate Users.
Products and items in and of themselves do not fire people’s passions … getting to use them and have kickass moments does. Audiophiles want the music to [...]

Jason Freid of 37Signals, makers of the wellmade BaseCamp, CampFire, TaDaList, and more on bootstrap development:

Use as little time as possible. Don’t waste time doing advance planing. Don’t spec, make test code and mock-ups.
Build less complicated products. Elegently solve one problem, don’t try and solve 10.
Don’t wait for others to help. Dive in and [...]

Technological convergence is an event that many chief technologists, financiers and equipment makers strive to bring about. They fantasize that they will release the killer handheld or software or website that will blend everything everyone wants into to one supreme offering . Imagine, the PDA that is also a full laptop, music player, phone is [...]

I took a break from blogging daily events because continuous partial attention means you’re always missing out on something. There weren’t many panels that were amazing but there were enough that were good or at least had nuggets, that my brain is definitely bigger.
My notes are mostly a list of bullet points, so I [...]