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Archive for the 'Dogster/Catster' Category


Animal Sounds are More Obvious Than We Might Think

Joy Ward, Dogster’s Dog Blogger found a great article from Discovery on human potential to understand mammals and even birds.
Scruffy of Dogster has a lot to say!
Ever since watching Koko the signing ape speak with her trainer I realized that though we don’t know what animals are saying are thinking, we have to assume [...]

Dogs Riding _______

This Japanese dog can ride a bike
Tyson the Bulldog can skateboard better than you and his new site is far better than yours too.

Tell Karl Rove ….

…. to tell George Bush to veto the atrocious “Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act.”

This highly unethical act passed the Senate in September and the House on Monday via a snuck-in voice vote on Monday. It is so far reaching it would make it illegal make you a terrorist to peacefully protest companies that churn out pets [...]

Got Passionate All Up In That Piece

Last week I gave a presentation on passion-centric online communities, which are online communities like Dogster and Catster that are dedicated to a single topic or passion. There is no doubt in my mind that in a couple years there will be tens of thousands of such online communites, many of them with more than [...]

Wasn’t no Taquitos in Chaffing Dishes

I was invited to the August Ventures Annual last night. It was a swell affair.

I think the trout sums it up nicely. This was no taquito-in-chaffing-dishes grabfest. I even got to joke at the end “I am getting so tired of waiting in valet parking lines.”
I saw two people last-named Haas, quite a few [...]

Steven Colbert Predicts Dogster & Catster To Assume Control of the Planet

I don’t how The Colbert Report got ahold of our secret plans, but since the cat is out of the bag we better just go back to our original plans of taking over the Internet.

Seriously, that above was made by a friend at Shipbrooks’ Stephen Colbert “On Notice Board” Generator.

Really Looking Forward to Future of Web Apps Summit

I’m going to be speaking at to speak at The Future of Web Applications Summit in San Francisco Sept. 13 & 14th. My panel is entitled “The State, Future and Business of Passion-Centric Communities” and I’ll be doing a run-through of the diaspora of internet-based socaility services, the deep pervasity I expect them to [...]

Tips for Starting a Small Business

Friends Chris and Tara have left their jobs are starting a new business. Starting and managing a business is /very different/ than working for one and failure occurs more often than success. Since I had no idea how to run a business until I started the last two, I made them a list of tips [...]