Category Archives: Technology

The hunt for my ‘Mahalo Moment’: Part 2

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Derek

The journey continues… So, I think I have a pretty good idea of what Mahalo can/can’t do at this point and I have a theory as to why the ‘TechCrunch 100,000′ (as Jason calls us) have such a problem with … Continue reading →

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The hunt for my ‘Mahalo Moment’: Part 1

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Derek

After railing on his site enough, I promised Jason Calacanis I’d take a fair look at his latest startup (Mahalo.com) and say something nice about it, well… once I was actually about to find something.  So here’s the first video … Continue reading →

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Jason Calacanis and his human powered spam

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Derek

A little over a month ago I sent out a tweet that essentially said mahalo.com was worthless, had no value, and looked like “content throw up.” Well, as you can probably tell, I’ve never really seen the value in Mahalo.com … Continue reading →

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When the internet invades TechCrunch

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Derek

Due to Yahoo Buzz, this TechCrunch article appeared on the Yahoo.com homepage, and wow… 1000+ comments later it’s almost as if mom & dad went away for the weekend and the kids trashed the house.  Talk about some of the … Continue reading →

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iPod Killer Found, pt 2

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Derek

About 18 months ago I wrote a blog post, iPod Killer… Found.  In that post, I analyzed what would finally kill the iPod, and the requirements I said needed to exist on this mythical device was: Media player Good quality … Continue reading →

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Google’s OpenSocial API & Facebook’s SocialAds

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Derek

After Google lost out last week in it’s bid for a stake in FaceBook, it’s pretty apparent one of the reasons Facebook chose Microsoft instead was that Google is about to unleash a true contender to the stranglehold Facebook has … Continue reading →

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How To: Make Your Girlfriend Break Up With You

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Derek

Just when girlfriends thought it couldn’t get worse than seeing their boyfriends playing Halo for 8 hours straight wearing their Halo 3 collector’s edition helmet, comes the latest uber-gamer toy, the FPS Vest. “The gaming peripheral will consist of eight … Continue reading →

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IBM Aims to Patent Profiting Off Patents

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Derek

AP Link: IBM Aims to Patent Profiting Off Patents Now I don’t speak legalease and their patent application is like a foreign language, but if they just tried to patent making money off patents, then we need patent reform, now!  … Continue reading →

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Love/Hate Relationship with Amazon

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Derek

As innovative as I think that company is sometimes, HOLY FREAKING CRAP can they be retarded at other times! It looks like Amazon.com was just awarded a patent for “including a search string at the end of a URL without … Continue reading →

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AT&T = lazy and uncreative

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Derek

I just came across this article AT&T unsure about bidding in 700MHz auction (InfoWorld) “Company CEO indicates that FCC’s open-access rules for the valuable spectrum could hinder the development of a profitable business model.” Essentially what you are saying is … Continue reading →

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