July 2010
7 posts
“Where there are sensors, there is data - and where there is data there is...”
– This is a quote from a great article about MIT’s efforts to create a fiber capable of detecting and emitting sound.
Cool technology - but the quote really reflects how I view GoodEatsFor.Me. Across the disparate communities of Foursquare, Foodspotting, Twitter, Yelp, Facebook and many...
GoodEatsFor.Me: Have you seen Foursquare Spam yet?... →
I think I have.
It’s not pretty and could add noise to what has been shown to be a reliable and pure signal of consumer recommendations.
Today I was checking out the feedback section of the GoodEatsFor.Me dashboard of Myers + Chang (another one of my favorite restaurants in the South End ).
In…
Are Shortform Twitter ‘Reviews’ equal to longform...
Unscientific, but true.
goodeatsforme:
Do Tweets in aggregate provide the same type of information as Yelp reviews? A thoroughly unscientific study of one of my favorite restaurants in Boston’s South End - Myers + Chang. In the end it appears that Tweets about a restaurant in aggregate appear the same as Yelp reviews about a restaurant in aggregate.
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GoodEatsFor.Me: GoodEatsFor.Me launches in beta →
I am happy to announce that we’re officially launched and in beta.
We’re working on some really interesting stuff in the social media and hospitality space - so follow the blog and I’ll reblog some choice tidbits here.
We are happy to announce that GoodEatsfor.Me has launched in beta.
What is GoodEatsFor.Me you ask?
GoodEatsFor.Me is a platform that helps local...
June 2010
4 posts
ESPN's World Cup ratings up 75-80% from 2006;... →
This supports my (un)scientific quote for the AFP this past Saturday.
inothernews:
Slowly but surely.
Manually getting content on your Kindle app (PDF,...
Here’s the quick and dirty conversion for text/pdf to Kindle App on iPhone.
Items required: 1) File to convert (text, PDF, doc) 2) Converter program - I prefer Stanza Desktop. its free: http://www.lexcycle.com/download 3) Jailbroken iPhone 4) A program to navigate the filestructure of your phone. I prefer DiskAid. It has a 14-day full trial / and you can pay $9 for full version. Its pretty...
My take on the US / England match this weekend... →
Ajit Verghese, a 32-year-old from East Boston, was pleased to see the level of interest in the match.
“There is a lot more love for soccer in general in this country,” he said. “It is nice to see people are going out to the bars and pubs and watching soccer.”
Backstory - I got interviewed by an AFP reporter outside of The Charles Hotel after the US/England World Cup...
May 2010
5 posts
WatchOut of Time (via @hawster)
Man I love the Parkour videos that float out on the internets, but this has got to be one of the best I have seen. You will be impressed!
For Fairfax metal trader, perseverance pays off →
Spoke to my Dad today about a number of things - two highlights of the conversation were the doubles match I played this weekend with a 67-year old Japanese woman who came off the bench, and a great article on the importance of perseverance when living the entrepreneurial life.
Enjoy the article.
A China day in Flushing, Queens. How do you say... →
My brother Tom Verghese’s first inaugural blog post. He’s an amazing chef and has a way with words. Hope to see more of this stuff. Really proud of you little bro!
under the wire: How Wired.com Tracked the iPhone... →
In response to Wired.com’s scoop identifying the finder of the lost iPhone prototype, many have asked me how we did it. The process of uncovering digital footprints to identify Brian Hogan was indeed challenging and enlightening, so I thought I’d tell the story here. Heck, it might even teach…
March 2010
1 post
Happy Birthday from Calvin & Hobbes and me - to...
Tomorrow is my 32nd birthday, and the older I get, the more I wax sentimental.
I spent the past 10 days in Austin working with my colleagues at The Dachis Group, participating in our Social Business Summit 2010 conference last week, and attending SXSW.
It was a great time had by all - Social Business Design was bar-none the BEST content around SXSW. SXSW was a blast - not so much for the content...
February 2010
1 post
Lunch with my brother Tom in midtown. Like being...
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January 2010
7 posts
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Everything is bigger in Texas. Note the 7 pillows...
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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and...
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Love me some MicroSD. Especially with my M3 DS Simply and my Nintendo DS. Geek alert!
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Apparently there is mobile based tickets on AA?
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Apparently there is mobile based tickets on AA?
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Benjamin Zander on music and passion
via ted.com
This is a great Ted talk - they all are - but this one has a special place in my heart. I grew up a classically trained pianist. From the age of 5 till I was 18 I took lessons and performed recitals. Chopin was a mainstay of my teenage years and while I am still intimately involved with writing and performing music, I stopped intense classical performance when I went to...
December 2009
4 posts
Notice Virgin's plane status!
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WatchHere’s an old commercial I put together for Radius Toothbrush during my MBA internship. This was a proof-of-concept marketing idea that I wanted to experiment with. Production-wise it could use some better lighting and my voiceover didn’t come out as well as I wanted.
Overall pretty fun - I was reminded of it when my friend (and CEO-in-training) Saskia asked for a link to the video....
“Reformations make counterreformations as surely as right makes left; every time...”
– http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/11/23/091123crat_atlarge_gopnik?printable=true
November 2009
1 post
An Oldie but a goodie Mashup. The Who + Beastie...
October 2009
11 posts
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Apple's Hidden Gaming play
According to this article in Businessinsider.com, the iPhone will be the primary driver of growth within the mobile gaming industry by 2014 - as the PSP & Nintendo DS have reached their growth potential and the ability to purchase games on the iPhone immediately via the App Store will be the future of gaming.
As an iPhone and DS user, there is an appeal in both devices and a use for each...
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How to Download & Edit Videos from Qik
(image courtesy of http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com)
Two weeks ago I attended the 2009 Babson Forum on Entrepreneurship & Innovation where I had the chance to attend many great panels and hear several wonderful keynote speakers. I recorded and streamed the Corporate Entrepreneurship panel via Qik.com on my jailbroken T-Mobile iPhone. The panel featured keynotes and Q&A by Mark...
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“What they should have been taking away all of this time — and have increasingly...”
– Rick Webb:
Agencies Need to Think Like Software Companies
(via jayparkinsonmd) (via mikehudack) Rapid prototyping is a core pillar of entrepreneurial marketing in software development when determining what a customer truly wants and is willing to pay for. Strategically, it makes sense to apply...
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WatchMy band - The Startups - cover ‘Stay’ by Dave Matthews Band. Apologies for the poor lighting.
WatchThis is an amazing stop-motion flip book type video. I would love to see the intro to PBS’ Mystery done in this fashion.
Beautiful art.
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Why does cable television cost more than...
Great post below by Bijan. This is something that has been on my mind recently as I realize that my main consumption of video content is now via my AppleTV & Boxxee and I cannot justify $160/ month for content that I don’t watch nor do I care for.
Yesterday I tweeted :
about 90% sure I’m going 2 cancel my comcast cbl & just keep internet w/ appletv + boxxee. maybe fios...
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
6 posts
Does Your Startup Have The Right DNA?
I ask myself this question every single day.
The answer varies. Obviously. ;)
mikehudack:
continuations:
In 1997 I started a company with two professors from MIT in the emerging Internet healthcare field. We made a lot of mistakes, but probably the biggest mistake was made at inception. We did not have the right DNA in the company for what we were trying to accomplish. The two professors...
WatchAll-star spoof shows tender side of G.I. Joe
This is pretty amazing on so many levels - via Adweek’s blog AdFreak
This might be the first Web video that stars bigger-name actors than the big-screen blockbuster it’s spoofing. “The Ballad of G.I. Joe,” a Funny or Die exclusive, shows us the softer side of the action flick’s heroes and villains. The cast features...
The Power of Twitter In Case of Emergency
Apparently a DDoS attack took down the social web this morning while I was running around trying to check out a new apartment. My business partner Mike Cardosa tweeted this an hour ago
@doza I got caught in an infinite loop earlier. Twitter was down & I wanted to send a tweet to tell people. #iFail
CNN is running a front page story on it and it shows how we all get used to what some...
ESPN Charged with Roughing the Reporter
The blog/twit(osphere) is still abuzz with questions, comments and criticisms of ESPN’s new guideline for social media engagement. While it is important that organizations create a code of conduct for online engagement, I think the newly published ESPN rules of engagement are heavy handed. My former colleague Todd states that these rules are about exercising ‘some editorial control...
July 2009
7 posts
Last week I had the good fortune to attend my...
