-
LastFM, Pandora are nice. Musicovery is astonishing.
UPDATE: Musicovery is down. Too big of a response. On the site, “We plan to rapidly provide the service again on a more sustainable basis.” Send mail to get an alert when they are back to: postmaster@liveplasma.com * * * * * * LastFM and Pandora have gotten much deserved attention. And, i’ve been pleased…
-
Gay men are great managers. (A tupee = No respect)
Levels of job engagement, job satisfaction and workplace morale among employees reporting to white-collar gay men to be upwards of 35% higher than nationally reported statistics. –Kirk Snyder in Huff Post on his new book The G Quotient (Goffspot affiliate link) And when more CEOs and senior execs come out, they’ll be more powerful, not…
-
NowPublic takes it up a notch
Congrats to the NowPublic management team on closing their $1.4 million angel round. (Disclosure: I’m an advisor and now a minor investor.) I got some perspective on how hard it is to facilitate and encourage citizen journalism working on Bayosphere last year. NowPublic‘s come a long way since the first site I saw that they…
-
BS: Find Love! FREE trial! Cancel. Match.com!
Match.com: The Best Dating Site? (Warning: zombie writing ahead. Poker. A search engine optimizing test. Just testing techniques in a story I read. Viagra. One-time only. Cheap mortgage. Promise. Gambling.) For research purposes i made an internet dating profile a few months ago, but never paid or used the service. I mean, when i made…
-
Webnotes 2: Free phone & conf calls; MySpace explained; Treehugger notes
My last post suggested trying Skype. This post’s tipping you to what looks to be a not bad FREE $40 VOIP phone with which to use it (or AOL, or Vonage, or any of the others. internet phone services.) Check out Vyew, among the coolest of the new wave of web applications. It just works.…
-
Webnotes 1: Hook Me Up with Yahoo, Free Skype. Hold the gay misogyny
While I blogged at Yahoo’s expense in the previous post, we’re laughing with Yahoo’s new “reality show,” Hook Me Up (video link). I bow down in awe of the brilliant programming: Tech advertisers are among the biggest spenders per slot online PLUS, the reality show should bring in a more mass audience solving age-old problem…
-
Backfence buys Bayosphere in move west
It’s not without some sadness that i switch “CEO of Grassroots Media/Bayosphere” from the “Now” to the “Before” category of my bio. Of course, I couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome: Backfence, the leading hyperlocal community startup has acquired Bayosphere to lead it’s move into the Bay Area and to provide an ongoing home…
-
Hot agency (cool shop) chats flash-mob instigator.
Check out the ZeitSwarm: Wildly talented and only modestly modest, Gyro Worldwide (“We are the inventors of…guerilla and viral marketing, integrated event programs, unorthodox promotions, innovative new product development and packaging design.”) publish the Vulture interview with Bill Waskis (“We Eat Brains for Breakfast”) on his recently published Harper’s piece: The Untold Tale of His…
-
Joy of Sects: Chef, a cult, a Cruise, and his wives
So much has happened in such a short time with Southpark and Scientology. A chronology is in order and Kerry Bailey’s done a great one. Even if Tom Cruise didn’t threaten to skip doing promotion for his next film, someone did get Comedy Central (whose parent company is releasing the next Mission Impossible) to pull…