Today’s Techmeme meme is based on Facebook advertising brings poor results. Most of the posts are talking about the rotten clickthrough rate (0.04%) on Facebook. Some of the posts – like Scoble’s – have some constructive suggestions about how to make the advertising more relevant (note to self – “tie it to people, just like Google ties AdSense to search results.”) In the past two weeks, I’ve seen or heard of four Facebook focused ad networks that are about to launch that are specifically aimed at Facebook apps. One of the TechStars companies – J-Squared Media – has a rapidly growing Facebook up (Sticky Notes – 232,137 users – ranked #52) so we are getting an inside look at the action, traffic dynamics, and advertising (oh yeah – and dealing with scale on short notice.)

Yeah – it’s old news now (announced on Monday) but it has been a busy week with little sleep (due to the existence of a puppy in my life.) My partner Ryan (congrats man!) has the detailed version of the story if you are interested. I’m extremely proud of the Postini team, especially the co-founder Scott Petry – for their amazing job in building this company. It’s extra gratifying given that 42 days ago I wrote a post titled Google Acquires FeedBurner*.* Congrats to the folks at Google for acquiring another great company – now Google will really engage in the mission of eliminating the evilness of spam from the universe.

If you are making the move from a big company to a startup, Scott Converse has a must read post up about passive-aggressive behavior titled Corporate vs. Startup behaviors. I can’t stand passive-aggressive behavior, especially in a startup context. I’d much prefer a good argument. The value of being direct is extremely high, especially when faced with the amount of ambiguity that exists in a startup. I’ve never really worked for a large company (even my time at AmeriData was really more of a big startup since it was growing so fast and doing so many acquisitions) so I’ve never really learned (or experienced) how to survive in a big company. Nor do I really care since I doubt I’ll ever be in that environment. However, I do care about how to map big company experience to entrepreneurial experience and Scott provides some very useful insights in his post.

As StartupWeekend continues, a 90 second yoga break has been introduced at the tail end of the 7 minute check in that happens once an hour. The yoga has gotten a little creative nerdy. Laptop yoga anyone? It’s a new ancient style from the far west end of Boulder.

Several of you had “pleasant” reactions to the childhood photo I posted yesterday (where “pleasant” is most definitely a euphamism.) One of you who is of my generation and shares my sense of humor (and will remain unnamed to protect you from certain persecution), pointed out the similarity to one of our childhood icons, Alfred E. Neuman. I had forgotten many of the old Alfred E. Neuman quotes, but since the web is such a wonderful place it was easy to find them along with some great Spy vs. Spy pictures. One of my all time favorites is “It takes one to know one — and vice versa!” Recursion appealed to me when I was seven, even though I had no idea what it was.

I met Brian Williams – the CEO of Viget – on his swing through Boulder on Thursday. Brian runs a successful web design and development company that has been involved in a number of interesting projects including Seth Godin’s Squidoo. Brian spent the afternoon at TechStars and gave a presentation on his 9 Conflicting Tips for Start-ups. I agree with them all, especially since most of them are the opposite of each other. Maybe my friends at Startup Weekend will put this up on a board somewhere.

A fascinating sociological experiment is going on this weekend in Boulder called Startup Weekend. Several people in the local tech / entrepreneural scene including Andrew Hyde, David Cohen, Kevin Cawley, Danny Newman, Joe Scharf, and Alex King decided to get a bunch of people in a room for a weekend and see if a company could come out of it. Whatever comes out of the weekend will be up for grabs for someone to run with it.

Eek. Oh well. I knew I was due for a new favicon. (Thanks Uncle Charlie and Seth.)

I’ve found my fair share of bugs in Vista. There is one that is particularly annoying to me. Someone at Microsoft – please add this to the bug database and fix it in the next service pack – I’ve got to believe it’ll take a competent person 30 minutes from start to finish. I find the Vista Snipping Tool invaluable. It’s simple, does what I expect it to do, and is something that under older versions of Windows required at the minimum a shareware program.