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Mets up, Yanks down... See how everything evens out for me?
The Mets are in first and the Yanks are in last.
Really, would you have it any other way?
The Yanks have already had nine different pitchers start games, including Darrel Rasner, Jeff Karstans, and Chase Wright.
haha
(Sorry.)
You know what the best part of this is? The Yankee MVP and frankly, the MVP of the whole baseball universe was A-Rod. He's batting .355 with 14HR and 35 RBI after 23 games. In 1968, I think that might have qualified for the Triple Crown.
Everyone makes such a big deal about Captain Derek Jeter, but for my money, A-Rod is the best shortstop on the team. Captain Derek wouldn't come to A-Rod's side last year when Rodriguez was struggling and he added to preseason controversy by saying a chilly "We get along on the field" or some garbage like that. Derek, I think it's time for you to embrace the guy who is carrying your patchwork overpaid team on his shoulders.
Jeez... How's that Kris Benson trade looking now? John Maine is 4-0 with a 1.35ERA. In fact, the Mets have a team ERA of 2.74.
No Bradford? No problem. Submariner Joe Smith hasn't given up a run yet.
Ya gotta believe... in April.
April 30, 2007 in Baseball and Other Sports | Comments (3) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
links for 2007-04-28
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Hey... I love three blocks down from here and pass this house everytime I walk to the train!
April 28, 2007 | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Cool NYC Apartment for Sale
No, not mine... this place belongs to a friend. Tell him I sent you...
April 27, 2007 in Random Stuff | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Twitter Strikes Again
So last night, I had a late meeting and I wound up in Union Square at 10PM having not quite eaten yet. I really don't like eating alone and so I figured I'd just give Twitter a shot.
Me: Anyone hungry near union sq?
Avi Karnani, two minutes later: I'm walking back from the office, through union sq right now actually, looking for food.
The most bizzare thing is that its the second time that Avi and I have met up this way... and it's the only two times we've met. We meant to try to connect at SXSW and it didn't happen... but not too long after, I twittered that I was going to a nextNY bar outing and he just happened to be in the area. I bumped into him in the bar, only to find out later that it was my Twitter that brought him there.
I think the key to Twitter's geolocation capability is the broadcast model and its simplicity. I didn't need to have GPS going or post cross streets or anything... and Avi didn't need to identify his location either. Twitter doesn't know the difference between "union sq" and "peanut butter" but an actual human in NYC clearly knew where I was.
Twitter still needs to figure out group features and ways to market this to localized groups of people, which this works best for, but b/c I'm lucky enough to have lots of techy friends using it in the same area, I'm finding it very useful.
April 27, 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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April 27, 2007 | Comments (1) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
Web 2.0 LolCat
Andrew made this based on #5 of the Web 2.0 Sucks List... Hilarious! I love LolCats.
April 26, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
nextNY Social this Friday at Coppersmith's
If you're looking to meet up with other up and comers in the NYC digital media and tech scene, drop by Coppersmith's after work this Friday.
April 27th… Coppersmith’s 6PM-9PM
793 9th Avenue (bet 52nd/53rd).
Tell us to look for you by RSVPing here.
April 26, 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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Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks
- The finger pointing culture of fear will always dominate a culture of openness. Media
thrives on taking people down and creating a general fear of the worst
possible outcome. Whether it's trying enact anti-MySpace laws or
firing everyone who says a dirty word or two, until we hold our noses
and fully embrace freedom of expression in this country, we're going to
hold back the real potential of the internet as a medium of
conversation and open exchange. Everyone will be too scared to publish
anything thought provoking for fear of being stoned by glass house
dwellers.
- The thinking, not just the building, has gotten small and lightweight... Too many people building features, not applications, or, gasp, companies. People are confusing design with innovation. Just because you add AJAX and rounded boxes to something does mean you have innovated.
- Web 2.0 hasn't even come close to breaking open the carrier choked mobile world. E-mail and WAP? That's what I'm paying unlimited data for? Come on. We can do better than this.
- Web 2.0 is a conversational vacuum. I'll prove it. Unless you live in the Valley, walk outside your door and try to find a Twitter user... You've got six hours. Go. Trust me, we're talking to ourselves. (Don't get me wrong... I really like Twitter... We just need to remind ourselves about how close to the edge we all are out here.)
- Spelling and grammr (beta) have gone to hell in a handbasket. I'm in ur domainz, droppin' ur vowelz.
- M&A Wack-a-mole stopping innovation in its tracks... Dodgeball, del.icio.us, MyBlogLog... Some of the most innovative startups have been swallowed into the black holes of big companies, abruptly halting their innovation paths. Unless we get some more robust business models, some more risk seeking entrepreneurs, maybe a real IPO market, most of Web 2.0 is going to wind up becoming the corporate walking dead of long forgotten or poorly understood acquisitions. Consumers suffer when entrepreneurs won't make a go of it on their own and make a bigger impact on their online experience. (Pleasant exceptions being the Office-like apps at Google...)
- Content licensing is still a bottleneck. Web 2.0 is all about people and sharing, two things that music and video content owners don't seem to be big fans of. For now, much of what we share is illegal or user generated. Freely shareable stuff probably makes up about 2% of the millions of hours of content ever created professionally. I'd like to blog a clip from the A-Team... Not only can I not access it easily, I can't clip it easily, and I sure as hell can't publish it legally. Yet, no one current monetizes it on the web, so it just sits and collects digital dust.
- The really juicy data will always remain locked up... I'd very much like to be able to share my purchases, particularly restaurants, at my own discretion. Of course, that data is at Mastercard, and I think I'll start wearing "I love the RIAA" shirts before Mastercard starts creating personal RSS feeds or APIs for users to take their own financial data to various applications. The same with my credit history. I need to sign up for lots of junk mail to get a credit report... and don't even get me started on my own medical history.
- A lot of powerful people don't participate. How many VC's out there fund widget companies without having a blog or a MySpace profile? Any Sony bloggers out there? What about brand managers that want to do Second Life campaigns without ever having been inside. How about my elected representatives? They get out there and kiss babies during election time, but how many blogging elected officials are there? (And not watered down campaign blogs... actual blogs written by the actual people.) We could do great things if we weren't so segregated into a small group of people punch drunk on Kool Aid and a great deal of people who've never even heard of Kool Aid.
- MySpace is the most popular social network. Seriously, is this the best we can do? Spam, hacking, viruses, one song at a time, and no developer network or API? Facebook is such a better product, but it's really pretty limited as a self expression tool. Plus, neither really comes close to being able to be my digital home on the web as much as my blog is.
April 25, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (34) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
This fucking blog will now be blocked by ScanSafe
Think of ScanSafe as a kind of enterprise NetNanny for Web 2.0. They just came out with a report that paints the blog world as a seedy hangout for foul-mouthed pornmongers.
"ScanSafe's Monthly "Global Threat Report" for March 2007 says that up to 80 percent of blogs host offensive content, ranging from "adult language" to pornographic images. The company suggests that businesses should be aggressive about preventing users from accessing some or all of this material. And of course, they'd hope that you'd use their products to do so. ScanSafe says that it discovered the "offensive" nature of blogs by analyzing more than 7 billion web requests coming from their corporate customers."
I don't think professional people need a piece of technology to prevent them from seeing a dirty word here and there. If your employees are accessing truly inappropriate content at work, perhaps you should beef up your screening not in the web browser, but in your HR department. Just a thought...
April 25, 2007 in Venture Capital & Technology | Comments (0) | Remember this post with del.icio.us| E-mail this post to a friend
