Hunch Is About To Explode

".... more than 25,000 API clients making more than 400,000 calls per day ....."

Source: Chris Dixon: Taste Graph Infographic

Tweet From Husni Mubarak

Former dictators are entitled to tech news as much anyone else. That is what I think. What do you think? By the way, Mubarak, in Urdu, means congratulations. I don't know Arabic, but I have a feeling it might mean the same in Arabic. This bird's name has a meaning.

The Wilsons Were In Cairo Recently

Live Nation And GroupOn: That Offline Component

Image via WikipediaTo my understanding, the Live Nation proposition is that you might listen to all the digital music you want, pirated, bought, shared, what not, but when it comes time to pay, you will pay to see those artists perform. And so if the big chunk of the artists' money is coming from live performances, then it makes perfect business sense for that artist to give out her music for free. You want to steal? Steal.

That business model of Live Nation has long fascinated me. And their tickets are pricey. At one point they were giving rise to monopoly accusations. But people are paying.

GroupOn reminds me of Live Nation. GroupOn has not come up with code that has confounded the minds of the Mark Zuckerbergs and Sergey Brins of the world. Their technology is quite simple. You could argue their business model is also equally simple, and hence the hundreds of copycats. But what I notice most is they took that step to go offline. They employ thousands of salespeople who go knock on the doors of local merchants. I find that proposition exciting.

Tweet Embed Option Needed

Image via WikipediaNo, Biz, Twitter Has Real Issues

I think Twitter needs to give me the same embed option that YouTube does. Very often I feel the need to embed a tweet at my blog. And I ended up taking a screen shot, using the Paint software to resize it and all. It is tedious. It is a few different steps. I think it is like five steps. Takes a lot of time I don't have.

Linking to a tweet is not the same thing. Just like linking to a video is not the same thing. And taking a screen shot makes the tweet go dead. The links freeze. There is no retweet button.

A tweet is like an atom. It is a basic building block of the web. And we should have the option to take the atom wherever.

Nick Gray: Bollywood Moves

(Via Soraya Darabi)
Photo by Clay Williams

BollyBrook Says Hello
Bollywood Loves Brooklyn
Brooklyn Loves Bollywood

BollyBrook Says Hello

Top Bollywood Songs 2010
Bollywood Loves Brooklyn
Brooklyn Loves Bollywood
Bollywood Needs To Conquer
How To Date An Indian: Andrea Miller
Jessica Wilson Hearts Mahatma Gandhi
Doing Two Tech Startups
Me In The New York Times
Dekha Teri Mast Nigahon Mein
Himesh Reshammiya
India Beats Sri Lanka To Win Cricket World Cup

Kaante (2002)
Bollywood Over The Decades (6)
Merry Christmas (2)
Bollywood Over The Decades (5)
Bollywood Over The Decades (4)
Bollywood Over The Decades (3)
Bollywood Over The Decades (2)
Bollywood Over The Decades (1)

Good Will Hunting

26 Best Cities

Image by flemming. d5000 via FlickrAccording to The Atlantic.

1. New York City
2. Toronto
3. San Francisco
4. Stockholm
5. Sydney
6. London
7. Chicago
8. Paris
9. Singapore
10. Hong Kong
11. Houston
12. Los Angeles
13. Berlin
14. TokyoImage by Vicky Tsavdaridou via Flickr
15. Madrid
16. Seoul
17. Beijing
18. Abu Dhabi
19. Shanghai
20. Mexico City
21. Moscow
22. Santiago
23. Istanbul
24. Sao Paulo
25. Johannesburg
26. Mumbai

Am I A Musician?

Rana June: iPad DJ

Social Media And StartUps: Striking The Right Balance

Image by jamesomalley via FlickrI don't apologize for my active social media presence. But I have to be careful not to take my eyes off my two startups. The startups are where the action is. It is not like I am worried. It is not like I feel like I am losing the balance. For much of 2009 and 2010 I really did not have the option to do the tech startup thing. And then it made a ton of sense to focus primarily on things like tech blogging and networking. But those things don't go away. You don't switch. You learn to juggle a few balls.

Gonna Write For Technorati

I am particularly fond of blogging. My blogs feed into my Twitter and Facebook streams. I set the same for my Tumblr stream, but Tumblr has been messing up the past few days. Many things I read online I have a tendency to tweet out. So if you follow me on Twitter, you get a pretty good idea about what I am blogging and what are some of the things I am reading that day. I read a lot of tech news. And I follow the democracy movements as closely as I can. I was Barack Obama's first full time volunteer in New York City, maybe even the country. (Switching To Obama, Jupiter And Obama, 30 Points Down In The Polls) All that work I would like to cash out on behalf of democracy. I feel very, very strongly about democracy.

Jessica Brillhart: Brilliant Filmmaker: Water Is Life

Water Changes Everything
Happy World Water Day
Bottled Water: Liquid Gold
Sunshine, Water, Rest, Air, Exercise, Diet


California Academy of Science - Water is Life from Jessica Brillhart on Vimeo.
Part of the Steinhart Aquarium at their museum in San Francisco, CA. Formerly a five-screen, 360-degree experience. Flattened to two for your sanity and mine. Narrated by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Jessica Brillhart on Vimeo
Jessica Brillhart on Twitter
Jessica Brillhart Website
Tweet

The sight of water makes me happy.

Mating

(Via Andrew Sullivan)

Gonna Write For Technorati

Image via CrunchBaseI got an email from Technorati a few days back saying they want me to write for them. I promptly agreed. This is not a big change to my lifestyle, if any. All they ask is that I first publish a post at their site. After I do that I can go ahead and publish the same at my own blog.

Why did I say yes? Are you kidding me?

1. There's not going to be additional work for me. I have been an avid blogger on my own. Now I get to cross publish. 
2. This will bring me more visibility. 
3. I get to link to my own blog from my posts at Technorati. That is going to jack up the traffic at my personal blog. This just might be the number one reason to do it. 
4. Technorati is a Top 30 property on the web. I am okay being associated with their name. 
5. They asked for my Google AdSense ID. They will run ads on my behalf to go with my posts. So I guess there might be some money too. I am not complaining.