Marc Hedlund
Marc Hedlund is an entrepreneur working on a personal finance startup, Wesabe where he is Chief Product Officer. (He also blogs at Wheaties for Your Wallet.) Before starting Wesabe, Marc was an entrepreneur-in-residence at O'Reilly Media. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering at Sana Security, co-founder and was CEO of Popular Power, a distributed computing startup, and founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd. During his early career, Marc was Director of Engineering at Organic Online, and was CTO at Webstorm, where he wrote one of the Internet's first shopping cart applications in 1994. He is a graduate of Reed College.
And don't make me tell you again
Jason Kottke seems to have decided this week to empty a full clip of silver bullets into the just-stilled heart of the New York Times' ill-conceived TimesSelect subscription service. He's been digging through the now-free archives of the Times, finding treasures and blogging the hell out of them. Earlier this week, he celebrated the first day of free archive access…
The Impressionists
Some blogs I'm loving for their loose, associative wanderings through their worlds: Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect I wound up at a crazy oil industry conference in England last January and sat with this great designer from Nokia who seemed totally fun and interesting. Months later I stumbled across this blog and started reading it, and only later put together…
Map the Candidates
Totally cool mashup of the day (for our US readers or those that like to mock our wacky political circus): Map the Candidates. Track where the US presidential candidates are traveling, marvel at how little of Iowa and New Hampshire are visible on the map, gasp at the amount it must cost to flit back and forth like that. Good…
Radar's Irony-Meter is Waterlogged
In case you missed this front-page news from February 2nd, here's a refresher: Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’ In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming is “unequivocal” and that human activity is the main driver, “very likely” causing…
Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not)
Last week, my company, Wesabe (which makes a personal finance community site), launched a REST API that allows anyone to get their bank or credit card data in XML, Excel, CSV, or a bunch of standard financial formats. Tonight, we launched an open source Firefox extension that allows anyone to automatically extract data from their bank every night, and upload…
They're Beautiful: virtual flowers from Jackson Fish Market
Jackson Fish Market, which I've mentioned on Radar before, has just launched They're Beautiful, a virtual flower delivery service where the flowers slowly die if you don't water them. Here's their write-up about the new project. I've thought that virtual, degrading objects are interesting for a while now. While I was working on starwars.com, it was always frustrating to me…
Saying only new (-ish) things about the iPhone
We've all read about how cool flicking is and how lame EDGE is. Enough on that. Below are some things I haven't already read a thousand times about the iPhone. Full disclosure: I've owned one Newton, two Blackberrys, three Palms, and three Treos (geeeeeeek!), and I'm switching from a Treo 650 to an 8GB iPhone. The iPhone kicks the Treo's…
The iPhone box office
The iPhone and Ratatouille are opening on the same day (tomorrow, if you haven't heard) here in the U.S. Ratatouille currently has a 93 on Metacritic; the iPhone lags behind that a bit, with a 73.75 on Valleywag. First showing of the iPhone is 6:00 PM; Ratatouille shows as early as 10:30 AM in San Francisco (with a midnight showing…
XULRunner for the iPhone
There are two current conversations about development platforms that I think deserve a little merging. First, there's a lot of interest in so-called "rich Internet applications" platforms, like Adobe's AIR and XULRunner. Second, there's much debate over the meaning of this week's iPhone application development announcement, that iPhone apps will be written in HTML and Javascript, just like any other…
Satisfaction on the Digg Revolt
I've really been liking the blog over at Satisfaction, the as-yet-unlaunched new company from Adaptive Path veteran Lane Becker and others. I liked what they had to say today about the Digg Revolt: Beware of business decisions that masquerade as legal issues. You’ll be tempted to defer to your lawyer’s advice. And it’s a good bet your lawyer’s instincts will…