As the TechStars 2008 companies gear up for Investor Demo Day, many of them are asking me to write about them on this humble blog.  I’m really proud of what they all have accomplished this summer – it’s pretty remarkable to look at them now and compare them to where there were at the beginning […]

Fred Wilson – my friend and co-investor in Zynga – titled his post on Zynga’s $29 million financing Raising The Stakes so I couldn’t resist titling my post Doubling Down.  And I’ll echo what Fred said – I’m amazed with the hand that Mark Pincus (Zynga’s CEO and founder) has and am delighted to be […]

Who said the magic of Facebook is wearing thin?  Nah.  Cynics. One of our investments – Zynga – helped a nice young couple (Tyler Richardson and his (now) fiancee Christine) get engaged via Scramble, one of my favorite Zynga games.  Thanks to Inside Social Games for showing us the way with their post Suitor Pops […]

While Soul Patch’s new album Sooner or Later is not yet on the Billboard Top 10, I believe it is #1 on the VC Rock Album Chart so far this year.  My partner Ryan McIntyre explains the history of the band.  Learn more by joining the Soul Patch Facebook group and look for scandalous photos […]

In my I Love Email post, I got a wonderful comment from my friend Fred Wilson that said: to each his/her own these days. my kids use facebook and text messaging for the most part but now that they have email on their phones (bberry and iphone) they use that as well, but it’s not […]

Email.  Email.  Email. My partner Chris Wand just put up a post titled Did Darwin Skip Over Email?  Every now and then the "Email is dead" meme makes the rounds and lights up TechMeme.  The right answer isn’t that "email is dead"; it’s that new and exciting stuff is happening around the use of "messaging" […]

Josh Kopelman doesn’t blog that frequently, but almost all of them are worth reading carefully.  His latest post – Feed Frenzy – is great.  Josh is facing the "multiple news feed problem" as he joins more and more services that publish a news feed.  He takes on the notification side of the equation – the […]

Zynga has started launching its games on MySpace as part of the MySpace apps program.  Texas Hold’em Poker is up and is currently the #1 game AND the #1 application.  If you are a MySpace dude (or dude-ette), feel free to friend me as I’m completely unloved on MySpace (especially when compared to Facebook.)

Today’s Tech-Support Nightmare is priceless.  How many times have you had this particular customer support exchange?  LOI <g> WTF can’t speak sentence complete grammar bad.  We used to have the Pepsi Generation.  Now we are going to have the texting / SMS / Facebook generation.  W00t.