Former Yahoo! Santa Monica guy Scott Moore is heading back to his previous corporate employer, Microsoft, to run their internet business, says Paid Content, adding the news will become public on Monday. My favorite quote in Staci Kramer’s story, echoing a quote from an earlier piece, is that corporate people don’t usually go off into… Continue Reading

Earlier this month, I participated in a Silicon Valley junto lunch(which I really enjoyed) on the topic of failure. That experience drive the desire to do this session at She’s Geeky. How did it go? We had about 35 women in a room, in a circle, talking about failure (and we created a safe space… Continue Reading

Yeah, this meme is exploding. And it’s fun. So for your friday pleasure some 25 things you will definitely want to read: popvulture(jess barron):”I was a total tomboy as a child and I hated baby dolls and dolls of any kind. If relatives gave a doll to me for Christmas or a birthday gift, I… Continue Reading

There’s something so appealing about this meme, isn’t there? Yesterday, 253 people clicked on the link to go see my FB 25 things (which I had a blast writing).Given the interest (and my fondness for Megan Smith’s round up of Beyonce parodies), it seemed worth an hour to skim through other folks 25 things and… Continue Reading

Right on the heels of the Mike Arrington spit incident and the ensuing discussion, Jason Calcanis published a great essay on his private email list, which he just published on his web log (so now I feel comfortable quoting it). The key points are: It is easy to dehumanize people who you do not know… Continue Reading

A good friend of mine has a problem.  He works for a nonprofit with no $$ left for anymore tech support, and he’s an outlook junkie with a large Outlook archive, on a PC natch,Now, he;s trying to I synchronize his Gmail with Outlook, but not only is the a task complicated by a very… Continue Reading

Just did a post about Mike Arrington’s bad experience at Davos over at BlogHerLede: “If there’s any media property that’s King in the tech world, it’s TechCrunch, the blog that Mike Arrington started in 2004 as a way to track other start-ups as he worked on his own (edgeio). Of course, these days, edgeio is… Continue Reading

“The virality of Web 2.0 has had one very negative side effect: the devaluation of unique users as a metric for selling advertising, Web 2.0 startups have figured out how to leverage each other’s uniques, which makes all uniques less valuable.” – Roger McNamee, managing director and co-founder of private equity firm Elevation Partners and… Continue Reading

“I am out, but not unified. I’ve decided I’d like to feel unified, for once. I’d like to have a space on the web that can contain all of myself. Right now I have two sites and neither of them do what I what them to do. Both are limited, this site by its very… Continue Reading