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.
Matt Haughey launches 'fortuitous'
Matt Haughey of Metafilter fame has just launched fortuitous, a site about everything he's learned setting up and running a business around his blogging empire. I'm biased in favor of Matt since he's a friend and a great guy, but he's also incredibly thoughtful and forthright — his 2003 essay Blogging for Dollars, for instance, was so good it became…
Dopplr
The coolest app I saw at ETech, by far, was Dopplr, which Matt Biddulph kindly demo'd for me. I wanted to clap with glee. You really have to spend enough time on airplanes to be able to repeat the safety instructions from memory in order to jump up and down about it, but I'm in that group and I love…
Ask the Wizard
FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo's new blog, Ask the Wizard, is turning into a fantastic resource for entrepreneurs. If you're an entrepreneur or thinking about becoming one, go read the whole thing and subscribe. Nice work, Dick!…
Thanks, Ze
Thanks, Ze, for a year of giggles and bits in the form of The Show. I'm bummed that I'll have to start thinking again. Hopefully you've signed a contract to replace Oprah once she retires. Ze is amazing enough, but his audience is just as amazing. Stephen Colbert turned on comments (as it were) for his Green Screen lightsaber contest,…
Jedi build their own lightsabers
I was down at Stanford recently with Adam, and sat in on one of the classes he's taking there. Later on, I looked around at some of the resources Stanford makes available on the web. They provide a lot of fantastic material for free. One thing I found was this video series of Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google,…
Adaptation
In Dale's recent post, "Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs Spam", he asked if the war against spam is winnable, or if email will go the way of Usenet, drowned in abuse of the system. I liked a lot of the answers Dale collected, but I don't think it is possible to lose this war. Prophecies of Internet doom…
'sfearthquakes' on Twitter
Apropos of NOTHING AT ALL, you can now get Bay Area earthquake information through Twitter by following sfearthquakes. Nice, Coda! (Coda's had a busy week — he also backed up a righteous beat-down with code to fix it. I like working with people who are hilarious and right at the same time.) One of my favorite business model suggestions for…
ETech Preview: Super Ninja Privacy Techniques for Web App Developers
I'll be speaking at ETech this year on "Super Ninja Privacy Techniques for Web App Developers," about the various techniques we use at Wesabe to keep people's data private. Since we deal with very sensitive information (your money, how you spend it, and how you can get more out of it), we've tried to come up with as many new…
Mark Fletcher's "Startupping" launches
Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines (now owned by Ask) and OneList (now owned by Yahoo, as Yahoo Groups) has just launched Startupping, a community site for entrepreneurs. The site has blog posts, forums, and a wiki for entrepreneurs to share information about starting a company and what to do next. To kick the site off, Mark has asked a bunch…
The Video Library of Alexandria
One of the fun things about YouTube is that it is a very effective magnet for rare or unavailable video clips. In that, it certainly seems like an appropriate purchase for Google, much like DejaNews before it. Today I was looking around and happened across a clip of Nina Simone singing "My Baby Just Cares for Me," with claymation by…