My brother-in-law explained to me this weekend that he was waiting to get his Nano until after the lawsuits were over.  I asked, "what lawsuits?" and he explained that Apple used an inferior screen surface this time.  Well, my good buddies at Make pointed me to a great solution for those of us "pre-lawsuit" iPod [...]

Sometimes it seems like television networks operate on a different plane of existence than the rest of us.  Previously, (I guess currently) I was involved the production of a television show called MotorSport Ranch.  When I started the project all I had was money and what I thought was a great idea – I didn’t [...]

Scott and I visited with a neurophysiological monitoring startup called Intra-Op that provides monitoring services to surgeons during surgery.  Thier service allows surgeons to detect changes in the status of neural structures at risk during surgery. Early warning of potential alterations of neural function allows the surgeon to intervene immediately and avoid potential defects. The [...]

Nope, it is not 1999.  Nope, you read it correctly the first time.  Shop.com just raised $25MM in their first round.  Who is the culprit?  Fred Harman at Oak Investment Partners.  Shop.com is going to revamp their website with the money.  Why?  Fred has $4.2 billion in committed capital to spread around. 

This evening I was attempting to use Skype as a podcasting tool on my Mac when Ethan, my four year old, asked why I was talking to my computer.  I was chatting with Rodrigo, one of the Weblogs Work guys who happens to live in Argentina.  Ethan went to Spanish camp this summer and takes [...]

Work all of the time?  Forget dates that are important to your wife?  Get this service.  Thanks to Evan Williams for pointing this one out.  (my wife does not read my blog)          

Dixon Doll lead an $8.75 million Series A investment in BitTorrent.  Think of BitTorrent as the answer to the bandwidth problems thousands of telecom startups tried to resolve with more bandwidth in the 90s.  Om Malik calls Bit Torrent the Cisco of the digital content revolution.   This investment is a SURE THING! BitTorrent has been [...]

Previously I profiled a company called Twodecode.  They recently completed the development thier beta phone client in Symbian C++.  Their earlier development with J2ME clients was stopped due to terrible J2ME-support for high-res scans. They are working on a couple of ideas to circumvent this issue; however, additional development under Java/J2ME has received a lower [...]

Rita is now Category 5.  I just got off the phone with my Dad.  The company he is consulting for relocated their primary operations from New Orleans to Houston right after Katrina.  He decided to head back to Dallas ahead of Rita.  Turns out there are no flights available out of Houston.  I suspect it [...]