- Two high-profile stories about the intersection of racism and the Republican Party are exploding all over the internet. The flap over comments at Free Republic and the Young Republicans’ election of a new president make for a sour cocktail this weekend.
Most of the heat is being generated by this Vancouver Sun story about the comments on a Free Republic article featuring 11 year-old Malia Obama
- Juan Diego Flórez (born January 13 1973 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Sol del Perú.
- I recently gave a presentation at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Character Conference in New York. It was on Twitter, the media and chaos theory. Here’s the video (not only is it widescreen, but I had to scrunch the video to fit my blog margins resulting in fat face!) Ah vanity. Hopefully, what I say makes up for it
- Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O. To learn more visit http://wave.google.com
- We’re very happy Kent is here! Here’s the Wall Street Journal coverage. Stan was an Adviser to Friendster while Kent was turning that company around between 2006 and 2008, so we saw Kent’s steady leadership and good judgment up close. During his tenure, Kent recruited a brand new team to rebuild the product, solved Friendster’s significant (and well documented) technical challenges, and refocused the company on the Asian market. In that way, Friendster became the #1 social network in Asia, and the 7th largest website in the world. That turnaround was backed by Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital. As the company regained traction, Lindstrom helped raise more than $30 million to fund growth and recruit the head of Google Asia-Pacific to be Friendster’s new CEO. The chart below says it all.
- Hi, we're Ooga Labs. We're a group of software engineers and designers based in downtown San Francisco developing several consumer Internet businesses simultaneously. Our goal is to build remarkable Internet products loved by millions and to create a company culture capable of cranking them out year after year. We are led by James Currier, Stan Chudnovsky, Adrian Danieli and Evan Pon who have built many consumer Internet products over the last seven years which have registered over 200 million people. Ooga Labs is self-funded and can thus control the direction of its products 100%. We only develop our own internal ideas – and of those, only the ones that we feel have a chance to be very significant. We are reaching out to the best software engineers to join us.
