I’m at the Glue Conference today. The room is packed with a bunch of great folks, including a large contingent of locals (thanks guys – especially the BDNT crowd!) So far we’ve heard from Josh Elman (Facebook) on “Gluing together the web via the Facebook Platform” and Aaron Fulkerson (Mindtouch) on “What is Web Oriented Architecture?” Andre Durand (Ping Identity) is up now talking about “How Identity Makes the Future Internet Possible”. Great stuff so far – follow along at #gluecon OR #glue.

My partner Jason Mendelson (an ex-lawyer) has a dynamite post up titled Quick Ways To Get Fired as a Lawyer*.* While some of my best friends are lawyers (or ex-lawyers), I’ve encountered most of the stupid lawyer tricks that Jason enumerates in his post. The big ones (immediate termination) are: Screw around with redlines. Endorse the chief competitor. You provide little leadership and wait for someone else to come up with the answer. You provide advice to the CEO adverse to the company’s interest. The medium ones (you’ll lose us over time) are:

Now this is rap I can relate to. Zynga rocks. My friend code on iPhone Mafia Wars is 1901 3272 26.

Jean-Gabriel Morard – formerly of SugarSync – has a great post up on GigaOm titled Why Sync Is So Difficult. It was one of the things I read before my run yesterday and it was in my head the entire time. Jean-Gabriel’s main points are: Push sync is deeply asynchronous Sync matches different data models Sync messes with third-party applications Sync is hard to test I sent the URL to Hong Bui, the CEO of Memeo (one of our investments) who responded with “Great article. I agree. Our approach is zen-like, on one use case at a time.”

Each month my friends at Foodzie send me and Amy a “blogger care package” to taste and review. My friends Joanne and Fred Wilson also get one – Joanne blogged their reviews earlier this week. Amy’s in Africa so I just ate everything myself in one sitting. I generally have poor impulse control (sort of like Hiro Protagonist) so I didn’t feel like waiting until Amy got home next week. Here’s how it went down in my house.

It blows my mind how many people think they can treat entrepreneurs and other investors poorly and think that it won’t come around to negatively impact them some time in the future. I had two interactions last week with companies around a particular VC investor. I’ve worked with them in the past and had a crummy experience. I have a “fuck me once” rule where I’ll always give someone a second chance, but I’m wary and – if I have a second bad experience – I’m done.

Earlier this week Dave Lavinsky, who writes the Growthink Blog, interview me on How to Raise Capital as a First Time Entrepreneur. Other than me doing a crappy job of answering the first question since I was distracted by something going on in my office, I thought Dave put together a great interview. His post also summarizes three important points he drew out of me: Your VC firm is your partner Angel investors are the friend of the first-time entrepreneur Don’t look for investors who are not a good fit If you are a first time entrepreneur, wander over to Dave’s blog and have a listen.

Summer Glau just totally kicks ass. So does xkcd – it’s my every other day dose of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. You’ll have to go to xkcd for the rest of them. Race 2, Race 3, Race 4, and the grand finale – Race 5. How could anyone possibly thing that it was a good idea to cancel this show. Weren’t they afraid Summer might kill them?

Yesterday Gist announced that we led a $6.5m Series A financing. Gist is right in the cross section of our email theme and our implicit web theme. To better understand this, spend three minutes and watch the video below that explains the cerebrum communicator. I first met T.A. McCann, the founder/CEO of Gist, at the Defrag Conference. We helped Eric Norlin create Defrag because we wanted to go hang out with a bunch of smart people and talk / learn about the Implicit Web. At the beginning of Defrag last fall, T.A. sent me a tweet that he was looking for a running partner during the conference. We ran both days, sweated together, and got to know each other. I started playing around with Gist shortly thereafter and was immediately hooked.