I love Picnik, the online image editor. I’ve said so in the past, mostly because it is so slick, smooth and user-friendly. Therefore, it made my day to hear that Picnik has, in fact, gone Free! Waved its premium membership, so that average (read: thrifty) folks can use their advanced editing features that were initially [...]
The funny thing is that unlike Twitter, which took me over a year to “get”, it took me all of 5 minutes to “get” Friendfeed (which just announced a 5M dollar round of funding). Anyway, the service is a bit mindblowing in as much as that you can basically have conversations *with* friends about things [...]
So I had a chance to listen in on the Digg Town Hall today, which wasn’t quite the format I was expecting, as they fielded 20 questions that were sent to them (ordered by Diggs, naturally), rather than answer live question from the (virtual floor).
Nevertheless, what I got out of it was a few things:
1. [...]
You may have heard about one Texas Senator, named Kirk Watson, an how he spectacularly flubbed on national television, when, as a Barack Obama supporter, was grilled by Chris Matthews (on CNBC) about Obama’s record — and came up blank.
Thanks to things like blogs, Mr. Watson gets to set the record straight on his own [...]
Interesting thoughts about the TechCrunch Effect today. Two things to say about it:
1. Its almost always unpredictable in its timing: my understanding is that Mike doesn’t email you the heads up as to when its happening, so you can’t necessarily prep your site for the giant influx of traffic from a load-handling point of view [...]
Merry Christmas, blogosphere! Its hard to believe that another year has gone by. I’ll be doing another set of predictions in a few more days that takes a better look back at tech events over the past year, and what might be in store for the year to come.
In the meantime, I hope [...]
