FourSquare, I Was Not Here

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeDennis Crowley: Role Model For Kids?
FourSquare SMS Based Check Ins: Sometimes Messed Up
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Dennis Crowley: Role Model For Kids?

Image by O'Reilly Conferences via FlickrYesterday Dennis Crowley was on stage at the New York Tech MeetUp. The last time I saw that guy on that stage, I remember not being impressed. (Dennis Crowley: I Underestimated Him)

This time he was on stage to brag. He said he had done "four" internships.

I am like, get out of town. Who does four internships? Is this guy serious?

A whole bunch of interns took over the stage and made some dance moves. I got to meet a few of them after the event was over. ("Which one of you is at FourSquare?") I was going to say, you should plant some firecrackers under Dennis Crowley's chair. Just don't light them. You will be okay.

This Is Not Happening: King Dennis
Craig Newmark, Dennis Crowley, Jennifer 8 Lee: Koreatown

Imran Khan: Top Search Term

Imran Khan: Top Search Term At This Blog Right Now
Imran Khan
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Imran Khan: Top Search Term At This Blog Right Now

This is the top blog post at this blog right now and the top search term at this blog right now is "Imran Khan." I am glad.

Events: Week Of October 31

Monday, October 31
7:00 - 11:00 PM Village Halloween Parade
6th Avenue, West 8th St

Tuesday, November 1
7:00 PM The New York Android Software Developers Meetup
O'Lunney's Times Square Pub, 145 W 45th St

Wednesday, November 2
7:00 PM NY Tech MeetUp
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue

Thursday, November 3
7:00 PM Hidden Markov Models in a Nutshell
AOL HQ, 770 Broadway 6th Floor

Friday, November 4
8:30 AM DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
The Gallery, 108 Jay Street Brooklyn

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Mike Arrington: Idiot

Mike Arrington: "I don't know a single black entrepreneur ... There aren't any .... Silicon Valley is a meritocracy. Success here depends solely on your brain size and how you use it."

CNN: War of words breaks out over Silicon Valley diversity debate

Mike Arrington is an absolute, total motherfucker. There is no other adjective for this guy. This guy is like, okay, noone is talking about me anymore. The AOL thing, well, people have already moved past that. I no long write for TechCrunch. So I don't have any comments to read. What do people think? That I have disappeared? I have not. Here, let me make a blatantly racist comment and get back in the news. And so it goes.



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Tech, Women, Diversity
Race, Gender, Tech (2)
Race, Gender, Tech

Monday, October 31: Village Halloween Parade

Image via WikipediaMonday, October 31
7:00pm - 10:30pm Village Halloween Parade
On 6th Avenue from Spring Street to 16th Street
F to West 4th St



The 38th Annual Village Halloween Parade Extravaganza from Kadshah Nagibe on Vimeo.

Reuters: Anti-Wall St protesters to join NY Halloween parade
Wikipedia: Village Halloween Parade

Robert Scoble Now Following Me On FoodSpotting

54 Followers On Angel List

Should I follow him back? I thought for about five seconds. And followed him back!

My FoodSpotting Photos Are Being Viewed
FoodSpotting Follows Me On Twitter

How To Recommit Facebook To The Power Users

Image via CrunchBaseThe Telegraph: Facebook power users 'have gone to Google+ and Twitter'

I would be a power user. I am on Facebook every day. And since the revamp I have been getting a lot of news out of my Facebook timeline. After I read, I like to share. I read a lot, I share a lot.

And I feel anxious. I wonder if I am being seen too often in the timelines of my friends. I wonder if I am reading too many news articles and am flooding my profile page.

My Take On AirTime (2)

Image via CrunchBaseMy Take On AirTime
Sean Parker's AirTime Could Net Him Tens Of Billions
Sean Parker: Mystery Man

What happens when you let a billion stranger faces collide? That is group dynamics heaven.

It has to start at the random connection level. There is a random face, there is no user name. And there is the next button.

2010: Location, Random Connections, The Inbox, Frictionless Payments

The social graph of AirTime is going to be the mother of all social graphs. (I borrowed that phrase from Saddam Hussein who used to talk in terms of the mother of all battles.)

But then you don't want it to be completely random. I should be able to say narrow my pool down to people in New York City who are interested in technology. So it's still random, but it is random inside a particular city, and to a particular topic of interest.

And the block feature. You block someone you meet and you never have to see them again. And if that person gets 99 other blocks by other people, he/she (likely he) gets booted off the service. A good use would be to get rid of the penis problem. An abuse case will be ethnicities that hate each other. I don't like your kind. Off you go into oblivion and loneliness.

People, simply use the next button.

Suddenly the remotest town on earth (with broadband) is going to feel like a metropolis. You can meet as many people as you want. An end to loneliness as we know it.

All The Talk Is On Television

Image by jesuscm via Flickr
Image via Wikipedia
The TV is in vogue. Everybody is talking about the TV.

The Next Big Thing For Apple
Seven Screens

Basically what you want is a Spotify for TV. You want gigabit broadband for everyone. This is not about TV as it has traditionally been understood. This is about the video format. People should be able to watch anything, anywhere, anytime. This is primarily a business paradigm challenge. Look at what has happened to music since Napster and you get an idea. Something similar has to happen to the video format, to what has been known as TV shows. Will the networks play ball? I doubt things will be smooth sailing.

Once you thus "free" the content, then software magic can happen. The TV knows who you are, what you like, how you like your news, what shows you watch. You will probably have an app on your tablet and/or smartphone that is your "remote."

Down the line your TV is coming through the Internet. I say free up the spectrum for wireless broadband.