15 minutes of Silicon Valley fame for the ‘Influential Blogger’

We were sitting at lunch at the AlwaysOn Summit yesterday, talking to IBM Capital’s Drew Clark, when Alexandra Johnson, a partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson sat down next to us. I’m running a digital voice recorder, capturing Drew’s ideas, so it looks like he and I are in some sort of heavy discussion.
Most of the […]

Live from AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford

We just finished community platform session… Technology enablers coming up… Wyndstorm is presenting its Socialframes product…
Everything, it seems is moving to the cloud, including the office switchboard, according to RingCentral, a Voip-based virtual PBX that can be set up from a web page…
Bumped into IBM Venture Group’s Drew Clark, who we talked to at […]

Monetizing culture

Some unexpected delays in San Francisco curbed our Stanford Summit plans today, but two of the participating companies that pinged me and caught my attention, are both in the second wave of social networking. With Facebook and MySpace well established as the way many choose to interact with the net, there are opportunities both to […]

Stanford Summit 2008

Always On’s 2008 Stanford Summit kicks off tonight, with the major happenings commencing tomorrow. Naturally, my neuro-oncologists scheduled my latest round of chemo to start tomorrow as well, so we’ll be doing our best to follow Wednesday’s events remotely, probably on the iPhone (though I’m not sure we’ll have live, streaming video this year.) This […]

The good and bad about transparency

We recently wrote about our latest health news, which prompted a minor flood of concerned email from friends and colleagues, though I wasn’t quite sure why. One comment was that it ‘didn’t sound like Chris.’
I’ll repeat that the news was very good for a person with glioma. The tumor is stable, indeed a faint shadow […]

New ‘world land speed record’

Thanks to pacing this morning by sweet spouse Linda who patiently (!) walked the 2 miles with me, I did the ‘stop sign’ circuit in one hour and ten minutes, shaving 7 minutes off my previous personal best. Even better, I walked the first 1.5 miles (also a new personal best) without the cane…

Gold and green, up and down

Linda and I jogged/walked our much loved trails in the Arastradero Preserve today, and I took the opportunity as I doddered along the path to try to peel back the layers of gloom that have descended upon me on this sunny, pleasant weekend.
And the day was indeed very pleasant: summer is here, and the oak […]

New mascot

So, we decided that Pixar’s Wall-E was our new mascot. Figuring that Wall-E and his maker, Buy’nLarge, Inc. would be online and receptive to orders, we quickly negotiated for our very own Wall-E, who is now happily roaming the house, looking for junk to pick up.
I really like Wall-E’s work ethic: whatever happens (which, in […]

Blogger block

There have been a million (well, many) things I’ve wanted to blog about recently, and somehow have just not managed to get brain to fingers to keyboard - maybe some cybernetics hacker who is also a Wordpress fan can do a little hardware/software hack to make this process easier?
Actually, the real problem is mental inertia […]

The iPhone 3G, and how to take it apart

Aaron Vronko has not only already got ahold of an iPhone 3G, but he’s taken it apart and published a HOWTO guide. You’re a braver man than I, Aaron…

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