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Public market, where have you gone?
The market crashed or something yesterday.... or so I heard.
It really is amazing how far I've gotten away from paying attention to public markets. I'm a finance guy by background, and when I was in college, I rode the boom and bust like everyone else.
But, when I graduated in 2001 and took a job in the private equity group at GM, I started to get away from it... focusing more on pricing multiples when we were doing buyouts than anything else. By the time I got to an early stage VC firm, what the public market did from day to day was just a distant memory.
Now that I'm on the product side... who knows. I just toss the max amount allowable (hey, its pretax, why wouldn't you?) into my 401k, set it and forget it. I don't really believe I can "beat the markets" so I allocate based on risk tolerance. I guess as a homeowner I'm investing more in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn real estate than anything else at the moment.
Following the public market, to me, is a fulltime job, and I just don't have the time anymore. I pop on TraderMike every now and then just to see what he's up to, but man, that's a lot to keep up with. Not for me, not anymore. Sorry markets... I'm on autopilot.
February 28, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (4) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Because New York Geek Girls are Where Its At...
CNET Reporter and nextNY Caroline McCarthy is trailing in ValleyWag's VLog TechBabe Contest.
Show some NYC pride and vote for the hometown girl! She's only a hundred or so votes behind, so a big push from this blog should put her over the top.
February 28, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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LinkedIn adds easy search for webmail... Upload your Gmail contacts and connect
More LinkedIn fanboy action at TIGTTB... Now I can just login with my Gmail account and easily connect with all my blog friends. My comment notifications and nextNY listserv e-mails all get sent to Gmail so a lot of my contacts are sitting over there. Every service should have this... death to CSV files!
February 27, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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ooh... I like this layout
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So I asked myself what the strength of a radio station is and the answer’s apparent: promotion. A station can drive a sizable audience to something new online.
February 25, 2007 | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
I'm deranged... (Reprise)
If you've seen it, or have the soundtrack, you'd get it.
February 24, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (1) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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I just spent entirely too much money on tickets to the Police at Giants Stadium
I guess its one of those things you have to amortize over a lifetime of just being able to say that I saw them, though... like when Sting dies 30 years from how or whenever... I can tell my kids that I saw the Police play live. I'll also be able to tell them that I saw the Stones, too, but that would be that big a deal b/c they'll still be touring then.
February 24, 2007 in Music | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Who knew this guy would be a trendsetter?? I don't remember this in the Tipping Point...
A while back, I posted a blurry picture of a older guy with a huge safety pin sticking out of his collar, and tried to come up with some kind of explanation for it. I think it was one of my funniest posts ever, but maybe my humor isn't for everyone.
Well, it turns out that safety pins in clothing are now the hottest thing.
Who knew one old dude on a train could touch off a fashion phenomena?
February 23, 2007 in Random Stuff | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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Non-commerical use? Yeah, right....who's going to stop me?
There's a lot of talk out there about freemium, premium, etc... but what about products where you have one market that gains real economic value from usage, and another market segment that you really want using it that gains none? Can you offer the same exact product to two different classes of users and simply say that one group has to pay and the other gets it free, and expect no cheating?
That's what "Non commercial use only" implies. There are many examples of software out there that you're supposed to pay for if you're a business, but if you're a person, you can get it for free.
The question is how to enforce that and how many users slip one past the goalie and get away with it? Are most people honest? How do you enforce that?
There's a lot of open source stuff out there that works in this manner, and I'd be curious to see research or first hand accounts of management of this... and potential for "cheating". I mean, are developers and users of open source code just a more respectful and sophisticated class of users?
Could this work if MySpace adopted this model? I think MySpace's issue is that the little guys, like my local pool hall, would be hardpressed to pay thousands of dollars for their page... but what if there was a way to set appropriate pricing... that they had to pay 5 bucks a month for their page. Could you enforce that?
February 22, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (1) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Flat tire on first bike ride to work of 2007
Do you know how hard it is to get a bike on a rush hour express train? I was halfway...couldn't go back.
February 21, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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Going to SXSW
Just FYI, I'll be heading to SXSW Interactive on the weekend of March 9th.
It looks like I'll be arriving late Friday night and staying through Monday.
If anyone wants to meet up, let me know... I've set up a wiki page for me to keep track of what I'm going to... I'll add more as I get closer. Please feel free to add your name if you want to meet up. The password is fordham. Does anyone know when they're actually going to post the times of these workshops? Do they run all morning in tracks repeatedly or are they just given once?
February 20, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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Thoughts about CommunityNext and Conferences on Social Media in General: Is passion for community a requirement?
I've been remiss in writing my follow up post to CommunityNext. First off, Noah Kagan did a fantastic job organizing this. He had great speakers and the whole thing went off like clockwork, especially considering the ambitious schedule.
The tough thing for me, though, was that I didn't quite get who the audience was. I hung out with Fred and Brian (who treated us to bar substinance, btw... very sneakily, too... never got a chance to thank him), saw Stephanie... Tara spoke, and got to meet Anastasia and Frank... and then I thought to myself... Why are we all here? I mean, are we all preaching to the choir?
Tara wrote in her post conference notes, "The audience, I guestimated, was more than half filled with people who were asking the question, “How can I use community to make money?”
I have to admit, I didn't run into many, or any of these people for that matter. Unlucky Tara.
Or maybe I'm just looking at these people differently. Hell, maybe I'm one of them. There are a lot of people out there who work for businesses that maintain communities.... so I guess they are "using communities to make money" or put another way, "are in the business of providing services that include communities". Sounds a little bit different depending on the word choice and order, doesn't it?
To use another example, would you rather monetize a community or create a sustainable community... because last I checked, its hard to sustain a community, grow and innovate without some dough. Even Wikipedia is asking for money. No one calls it monetizing, but that's essentially what they're doing...getting money from users.
And, that's just fine. In fact, its more than fine. Its fantastic that people are asking "How do I make money?" Because, what is implied is that they're really asking, "How do I make money without totally pissing off all my users and having them disappear in a year?"
The way I see it, with no real barriers to entry and hardly any switching costs, in a wide open web, the big bad corporations and money makers should actually be aligned with users, no? No users, no money. More users, more money. Get users by making something people want to use. People are not idiots, they will only use useful stuff.
For all the MySpace bashing that went on at the conference and that I even do here, if MySpace didn't really provide any value to its users, it would cease to exist. They'd all move over to Hi5 or back to Friendster. A lot of the evangelists at CommunityNext cringe at the thought, but the reality is that it doesn't take passion to create community and it doesn't take care, concern, etc. I think the people at MySpace care about community to the extent that it is a monetary decision and that seems to be working for them.
Why? Because, you're not really creating community online. Community was there. People talked before blogs. They found music before last.fm. They had anonymous sex before Craigslist...um... I mean... bought each others couches, or whatever. There were garage sales before eBay. Granted, online tools allow better expression of community and more explosive growth... more robust information exchange, and more efficient communication... People are social animals... they started making the web social long before the term social software came out. In the end, all you really need is to put the tools of expression and connection in the hands of the people.
That's what MySpace did. They gave people big dumb empty boxes and allowed us to throw whatever crap we wanted in there. That's community. We threw our thongs, our middle fingers and our bling in there... and MySpace threw ads all over it. Do people care? They don't seem to.
Community? MySpace is the Mott Haven to the Soho of our rich Flickr Web 2.0 life, but, gasp all you want, they're both thriving web communities.
I think people are confusing passion for community with good product design. Do the people at last.fm have passion for community? I dunno... I don't know who they are or what they stand for, but the product rocks. AIM, Skype... Good products. Passionate communities? umm... On the other side, a lot of people fail at community because their product just sort of sucks... its not because they lack passion.
Or look at what I'm up against in my area. IAC has used paid advertising to get over 4 million people to register for the Zwinky avatars, which come with a lovely Ask.com search toolbar that installs itself all over your system. Long after you abandon your Zwinky, the toolbar remains, generating search revenue for the company. That kind of behavior should lead to a massive revolt by their community, no? No... people continue to click and register everyday.
Show me a fantastic social product that went nowhere because the founders lacked passion for community.
I guess what I'm saying is, while passionate founders and community caretakers definitely instill an authenticity and quality to their community...think Craigslist, Vimeo, etc...that hasn't shown itself to be a requirement, nor, unfortunately, an advantage. Hopefully, though, when Voki arrives in March, we will use our passion to our advantage and you will see it in our usage, our content and in our marketing...and in the product itself.
February 19, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Waiting on the carwash line...
Time to clean the black snow off the car...its flithy.
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Flixster does viral right.... but what about the product?
If anyone wants to learn a little something about online viral apps, walk through Flixter.
First, I got a message from someone who accidently uploaded their whole address book and sent invites to take a movie quiz. Loving movies, I signed up and took the quiz, but the whole while, it made a big point of getting me to invite my friends, and then it had me paste a MySpace bulletin as well as a widget in my MySpace movies section... automatically.
Plus, smartly, it tells me when friends of mine have answered my quiz and coaxes me to go online and see how we match up.
Admittedly, I haven't gotten into much of the depth of the product.... I'm not sure they've developed enough hooks yet to pull users deeper into the system to encourage more movie ratings, but that will come in time as they grow their community. For now, I can see how this is going to grow like a weed.
Of course, I'm ceonyc on there, too...
February 15, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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Now this is the kind of privacy violation I like
I buy Gilette Good News razors...have been for years. My dad uses them, so they were the first ones I tried.
Duane Reade knows this, because I use their loyalty card, so Gilette bought the opportunity to send me a free Fusion five blade razor.
If it works, both companies will know about it.
They didn't ask to use my data, but I'm glad they did. Next time I shave my head, I'll let you know how it goes.
February 14, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (1) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Searching for Some Web 2.0 in My One True Love
So, for some reason, I'm a little more conscious of being alone this year, even though its actually a rarity that I'm actually dating someone on Valentine's Day.
Being so swamped with work lately, I started to think that maybe what I'm looking for in the woman of my dreams is the same as what I look for in a good social Web 2.0 app.
Hear me out!
1) First off, low barrier to usage. I don't see myself registering and giving all my data beforehand. Whoever I wind up with is going to slowly seep into my life and get me hooked over time. Call it the New Dating Deal.
2) SMS and IM notifications... I really hate the phone, so she's going to need short form message capability.
3) Voice enabled... She needs to be outspoken, especially to be able to talk over and interrupt me. I get very excited about what I'm into and can too easily drown someone who is too quiet, even if I'm really interested in them and want to know about them.
4) Doesn't require too much money. I'm lucky that my career has kept me in a comfortable living situation, but I've never taken any of it for granted. She should appreciate whatever she has and be able to make do in rich times and in poor. Money doesn't buy happiness or a successful startup necessarily.
5) Uses AJAX...Small superficial changes should not require her to completely refresh her pages...she should be able to change on the fly without a lot of fuss...go with the flow
6) Tagging... She shouldn't easily fit into one static category...she can have many seemingly random traits and be many things to many people.
7) Open APIs... She plays well with others and is selfless and giving.
8) Uses OpenID...She's true to who she is in all situations.
9) Skinnable... She can dress up for a party and lounge around in PJs with no makeup and feel comfortable and functional in either attire.
10) Rounded corners. I'll be honest...I like a few curves in both my dates and my Web 2.0 app UIs.
February 14, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (3) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Welcome... new bloggers, new readers...
In the last week, I went from about 950 readers to 1100. Feedburner glitch or real human subscribers? We'll see if it lasts.
In the meantime, I'm proud to say that my Fordham undergrad class got marching orders last night to start up their blogger blogs. Last week, they e-mailed some bloggers to get tips and they're building that last as they get responses here. One student jumped all over it and had his blog up about 40 minutes after class ended. Should be a lot of fun as, in a couple of weeks, we'll be moving from a discussion on tools to a talk about how specific industries are being affected by technology. They'll be blogging their responses and thoughts on the subject. Should be fun.
Plus, I'm going to open up those pages on how industries are being affected to the public... so you'll have a chance to have some input into the content of my class.
It's snowing here, by the way. I'm sort of unimpressed.
February 14, 2007 in The Blogosphere | Comments (1) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
I'm blogging...
Thanks Nicole...
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First Class, Coach, or Handbasket?
Let's see.... there's a conga line of men who claim to have fathered Anna Nicole Smith's child.
Norbit grossed nearly three times as much as Hannibal Rising.
The Mets signed Chan Ho Park.
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and recently, Flickr and Friendster told me that my ex has a new boyfriend.
Well, at least my dodgeball teams are good... Between my two teams, we're 31-8-1 and both are in first place.
February 13, 2007 in Random Stuff | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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This is really an amazing story....
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Ok, who ordered the sexy fries?
February 12, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Twitter just sounds... dirty
But I signed up for it anyway.
If you're connected to me on Facebook (which I've been keeping pretty much friends-only, btw... in case I turned you down), then you've noticed that I've been obsessing over the whole "I'm in ur (noun), (verbing) ur (noun)z" cat thingy. In fact, I'm so obsessed with it, that I just secured iminur.net. I don't even know what I want to do with it yet.
In any case, the idea of away messages that are freed from the IM client and universal is interesting, and so I thought I'd give Twitter a try. I think they have a long way to back into a whole social network or business, but it's an interesting concept.
Actually, though, if I were AIM, I'd just break the status messages out of AIM and allow people to place them as a blog widget and change them from my phone... they're well positioned to do this.
February 12, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Exclusive digital distribution of sports games eats away at the core of my soul
When the Mets were in the playoffs last year, I couldn't get a video stream of the game on the web, even though I had paid for MLB Extra Innings. Why? Because I was actually in New York, so the game was blacked out locally. Well, without a TV at my desk, I literally had no access to some of the daytime games. It had nothing to do with whether I was willing to pay... I was just shut out cold.
Now, the NFL wants to feature similar TV packages exclusively on DirectTV. I don't have DirectTV. Therefore, this sucks.
Argue away about business models and pricing... about whether content should be free, paid for, freemium, ad supported or what have you... and that's fine... but the following is UTF (utterly... ridiculous).
It is 2007 and there is digital content that I as a cable subscriber and broadband internet user still cannot access, even though I am willing to pay for it.
When is this going to end? It's one thing to say that the stuff is mispriced, but access? Access should not be an issue. If I want to watch any baseball game, I should be able to... on my TV or on the web, regardless of who I pay for my big fat dumb data pipe, which seems to be getting dumber by the minute.
All content on demand for anyone, period. If I have to pay, I'll pay, but at least give me the opportunity.
Anyone want to venture some guesses as to when this happens?
February 12, 2007 in Baseball and Other Sports | Comments (3) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Thoughts from the Left Coast
So first off, I'm so tired right now... Its 3AM in my world, yet West Coast time is only midnight. Couple that with the fact that I'm only on 5 hours sleep that finished around 5:45 AM this morning, and, well... sleepy sleepy soon.
But I did want to share a few thoughts...
First off, Jamba is like at least 20% cheaper here. I think that singlehandedly explains the difference in startup activity.
Second, why didn't anyone tell me that MikeCrunch was so tall? First time I met him in person and I couldn't help but stand on my toes a little... and I'm 5'11''.
Third, the sandwich I just bought only cost me $4 but it took like 25 minutes to make. CA: Cheap and slow. NY: Expensive and fast. I guess you get what you pay for.
Four, I really hate turbulence. Left right, not so bad. Up down, not so good. I nearly tore off the arm rest, Total Recall style.
February 10, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Just landed and already found a San Fran Jamba
Waiting to pick up Shaival for our 3PM meeting... This one is in the Potrero Center. mmm...pb moo'd... I'm STARVING.
February 9, 2007 in Random Stuff | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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Three years ago today, I started blogging...
My blog has a post on February 8th, 2004, but actually, I really didn't "get it" until April 8, 2004, when I left a comment on VentureBlog... my first blog comment on the blog of someone who was doing this as a somewhat professional exercise. Up until then, I didn't know that anyone was blogging anything other than relationship issues and their trips to Cancun.
I was just looking for a reason to keep writing... because I had written a book for college freshmen that never really went anywhere because it never got published. One day, I'll e-book it or something.
Who knew what it would turn into.
I don't know the best way to celebrate a blogiversary, so I'll just do some highlights from the last year of blogging... my favorite posts and some red letter days.
So, let's see....
I changed jobs... that was probably the biggest thing.
Starting nextNY was huge, too, but that was sort of an accident. I'm very lucky to have met all the people I have from this group. Watch out for these people this year... I think they're primed to make a very big impact on NYC.
I broke up with television. This post was funny, but only I seemed to think so. This one, too. Kerri and I got attacked by a bird at USV.
I debunked Guy's quiz... funny, b/c I'll be seeing him at CommunityNext on Saturday.
I started teaching a class at Fordham, encorporating these how-to intro posts.
I pondered MySpace Tom's death, too... but people seemed more interested in the bird video.
We gave $550 to charity for the Superbowl Wiki... that felt good, as did my Christmas plan.
Oh and the Pillow Fight was fantastic.
So thanks everyone... I appreciate your comments, links, feedback... and offline or digital friendship. May your startups succeed, your posts get tagged and your Voki speak highly of you...soon, very soon.
February 8, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (4) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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Yes... there are rules and norms to this...
I love Clay Shiry's quote here:
"Shirky describes this generational shift in terms of pidgin versus Creole. “Do you know that distinction? Pidgin is what gets spoken when people patch things together from different languages, so it serves well enough to communicate. But Creole is what the children speak, the children of pidgin speakers. They impose rules and structure, which makes the Creole language completely coherent and expressive, on par with any language. What we are witnessing is the Creolization of media.”"
This is what a lot of people who aren't "of this world" don't get... the advertisers, the brands, the agencies, and even some of the social networks themselves... you can't just throw any crap up and say, "Come and create" or "tag this" or "be my friend" and expect the dollars to start flowing.
Few people really want to learn the culture, which every international businessperson will tell you is probably more important than just learning the language.
February 6, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
9 Degrees
Damn, it's cold here.
My little Firefox weather plugin is just mocking me.
"Now: Sunny, 9F" with a little picture of a sun.
It should say:
"Snot: Frozen, 9F-in' degrees" with a little picture of an ice cube.
February 5, 2007 in It's My Life | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Maybe I'm just not the target demo... FOR ANY PRODUCT ADVERTISED DURING THE SUPERBOWL
...or the ads just royally sucked.
But Fred and I are in agreement.... the Doritos one was the hands down winner... and of course, it wasn't created by an ad agency... it was a make your own ad contest winner.
Users 1. Ad agencies 0.
I'd be curious to hear from agency folks on this one... did they really think any of these were any good?
Here are some random thoughts on the bunch...
Of course I was eyeing the Careerbuilder ones, and, well, they were sort of amusing, but really kind of heady, I think, for Joe Six Pack. I mean, if you don't work in a cubicle, did you really relate to that commercial at all? So it was like Office Survivor... I guess?
And what about those Toyota commercials. So let's get this straight. We go out to a canyon and contruct a huge and overelaborate track that just ends hanging over a cliff. Then, we construct two huge metal doors halfway down the track... and see if this dude in a pickup truck can accellerate fast enough to make it through the closing doors, then brake hard enough not to go over the cliff. If he fails on either part of the course, he'll die.
Are these people Bond villians, or what?
What else was there? I vaguely remember some floating car parts. Of course, there was GoDaddy... was it me or was the GoDaddy chic not as hot as usual on that one? I think that gag is getting a little tiresome.
The worst of the bunch? Anything with a song was root canal painful... the Garmin one, the Chevy song, Sheryl Crowe.
I will hand it to K-Fed, though... took a lot to totally make fun of himself like that.
Hmm... Jeez... I don't even remember half of them... Some lame animal ones... Gorillas, lions...
I watched the game in Brooklyn with about a dozen people and we were all in agreement... worst superbowl for commercials ever. Maybe the remakes on YouTube will be better. Wait... I'm confused... YouTube has me voting for existing Superbowl commericals... weren't they having fans make their own versions or something?
February 5, 2007 in Baseball and Other Sports | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
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These bloggers fared better than Rex Grossman in the Superbowl
It was a sloppy game and the commercials were pretty much the worst of all time, except for the fan created Doritos one in the beginning... but at least one good thing came out of this year's Superbowl:
$550 in charity donations in the Charity Superbowl Wiki.
At the end of the first quarter, it seemed like we might have an upset in the making. The first play of the game resulted in a Bears TD and Peyton was the first QB to throw a pick. Six turnovers later, the Bears were up 14-6, making sexy commedianne blogger Heather Fink our first quarter winner. That will send a $55 check over to RAINN.
Of course, the Bears hold on the game, and the football, didn't last, and the Colts came back with 10 unanswered second quarter points, taking a 16-14 lead into the half... which... wait a second... makes Heather a winner AGAIN. Tack on another $137.50 unto the check for RAINN, bringing her halftime total up to $192.50.
The third quarter was all about kicking... and three fieldgoals later, the Colts extended their lead ever so slightly with two of their own to one from the Bears, making the third quarter score 22-17. Score the third quarter for Matt McLaughlin of Thermodepot's sponsorship of the American Cancer Society. They'll get a check for $82.50 on Matt's behalf.
Still, the Bears were in the game... until Grossman tossed up a duck and the Colts returned it in the fourth, putting the game out of reach, and giving us a 29-17 final, eh... I add the "eh" because our final score winner is Ken King and he has selected the Canadian Diabetes Association as his sponsored charity. They'll receive 50% of our pool total: $275 American. I wonder if Ken is as successful in his Grey Cup boxes.
Thanks to everyone who played our Charity Superbowl Wiki... see you next year!
Checks will go out tomorrow.
Thanks
February 4, 2007 in Baseball and Other Sports | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Charity Superbowl Wiki Numbers Selected
So, it turns out I screwed up the roman numerals for this game.... its XLI not LXI... eh... Doesn't change the fact that we'll be giving away $550 (thanks to a few people for some extra donations to the pot) to charity today based on the scores of tonight's game.
So here's the number selection video. Check out what numbers you got here. (Everyone got an extra box, by the way).
February 4, 2007 in Baseball and Other Sports | Comments (2) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
MBA Valuable?
We're posting a job here that includes the following line:
"An MBA is not only not required, it is frowned upon."
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Charity Superbowl Wiki... not just for bloggers... Open to everyone now! Go check it out!
So, I'm a little bit disappointed we couldn't get a meme going out of the Charity Superbowl Wiki, but the momentum has slowed and I'm only up to 40 bloggers. Right now, there's a CSS design post up at the top of the popular list. I guess charity doesn't really get the blog world hot and bothered.
Maybe the combo of the wiki and paypal was a bit too technical for people? I dunno.
So, I figured I could just push for 10, give everyone a free box, and call it a day.. but that would only give 500 bucks to charity.
Instead, I'm going for broke and opening it up to anyone. Still one box per person, but you can now sign up regardless if you have a blog or not.
So, seeing as how there are supposedly 970ish of you out there, I don't think its asking too much that 60 of you contribute a 10 spot to charity.
So, pick a charity, pick a box, and tell others!
February 2, 2007 in Baseball and Other Sports | Comments (3) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
