Shopping online is great.  I think I probably buy 70% of my non-essential goods online and I only see that number increasing over time. But online shopping really only caters to certain categories of goods.  Mostly the ones in which […]

Digg Does Data Portability: Is This All We Get? – ReadWriteWeb I know there a lot of skepticism about the Data Portability Project and OpenID. But I for one think that there is something very big brewing here. I’ve already […]

Nancy and I are headed to Jacksonville Florida for the weekend.  We have been a little worn down by some personal stuff, so it will be nice to get away. We chose Jacksonville because Nancy has a conference there the […]

A friend’s post about Wright My friends Roger and Frank have done a little bit of work to try to wade through all the media sensationalism around Rev Wright’s comments and try to bring some balance into the discussion. I […]

Brian Balfour and Jay Meattle are helping to organize an event for the local tech community in Boston.  It will be on Thursday, May 15th at 6:30pm. Hope to see many of you there.

Paul and Norman at ‘The Transiberian’

One of my goals this year was to try learning a new skill. I was inspired by my friend Eugene Hsu who picked up the guitar a couple years ago and got to a pretty decent level very quickly. At […]

Had a great dinner discussion tonight with a group of students, university faculty, entrepreneurs, and other folks involved in the local start-up scene.  The gathering was organized by Scott Kirsner and the focus of the evening was how to stop […]

Reblogging Bijan’s post about our latest investment in Eqal.  As Bijan said, this has been in the works a long time, and Todd and I discussed the concept of a new genre of entertainment during my interview with Spark. Many […]

Can’t wait for the playoffs to start!