October 2008
47 posts
Chase Bank (5)/5) on Yelp.com →
Though I have plenty of gripes with Chase in general, this branch is small and attentive. They’re all very friendly yet keep lines moving. When someone stole money from my account by writing fake…
“What does MTV have to do with music? I’m confused.”
– Abby Spice via Twitter, responding to MTV’s online video announcement. (via whitneymcn)
“My ghostwriter must be a man of Middle Eastern background who possesses ability...”
– Osama bin Laden
whitneymcn:
Anybody going to the CMJ MusicWeb tech meetup later this afternoon? I need moral support to get out of the office. :)
I will be there to show off some Musebin and see what other kind of new music technology NYCers are cooking up. I will unfollow anyone who doesn’t show up.
Venture Voice interview with Derek Sivers of CD... →
Interesting facts:
CD Baby sold for $22 million (you heard it here first)
Derek owned 100% of it (no VCs)
Derek had not been to CD Baby’s office once in the last year he owned it
“I enjoy dealing with [Facebook] a lot more than Google. Because they are really...”
– Scott Rafer, from Facebook Developer Garage ‘08 in Berlin, Germany. Here (via betaworks)
Louis Armstrong’s rendition of I’m in...
“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen… A great...”
– John Steinbeck
rickyv:
Amongst the chaos, these are refreshing to watch.
“The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in...”
– Paul Graham (via mikehudack) (via entrepreneurwisdom)
“You want to help me out? Don’t pour your grease down the god damn drain.”
– Joe the Plumber
24 hours of feedback on DHL
This is just 24 hours worth of Twitter commentary on DHL, found via Twitter search. Inspired by DHL screwing me today.
Rat_Race: Extremely frustrated @ DHL right now. I have been home all day waiting for a package & I get this, ‘Delivery attempted; recipient not home’
badpirate: IS SO ANGRY! DHL Sucks! I want to vent but I’m going to need more then the allotted...
“Well, I don’t know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with...”
– A focus group member, via Talking Points Memo (via caro)
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus (via simko)
“They are canceling all the Christmas parties on Wall Street this year because...”
– Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, on CNN (via gbattle) (via caro)
newspeedwayboogie:
themusic:
Lucinda Williams...
“If you can’t be creative, disciplined, persistent, and rationally optimistic in...”
– Sam Wyly (via entrepreneurwisdom)
“Things look ugly, but with distress comes opportunities. Scarcity drives...”
– John Borthwick
“Dennis received a shorter sentence than his co-defendants (the convictions were...”
– Financial Times’ Andy Davis on Felix Dennis
Click here to check out The unofficial CMJ NYC MusicWebTechnology meetup!
Adam and I are helping Seth get the unofficial CMJ NYC MusicWebTechnology meetup (UCMJNYCMWTMU) going. It’s like the NY Tech Meetup for new music technologies. Please sign up!
“I lived through this during the dotcom bubble. There are some VCs and bankers...”
– Brad Feld
“I’ve had two examples of times when BigTechCos said they were working with...”
– Dave Winer
“So, I am off to my fallout shelter deep in the Berkshire mountains. Also stocked...”
– Jim Cramer
“There is so much potential in Twitter it makes my head hurt.”
– John Battelle (via fred-wilson)
“That experience anointed me ‘Entrepreneur’ and inducted me into ‘The Club of...”
– Wilson Harrell
“Facebook pulled off their recent site redesign admirably: they did bucket...”
– Arvind Narayanan
“But there is no escaping the fact that we’re losing some excellent...”
– Nick Denton
“If you have a 10 person internet company looking for VC money and an investor...”
– Kevin Ryan