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Re: Sophistication May Vary (Am I boring you?)

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:48:42 -0000

Jeremiah,

The way I explain your tone and level of writing is this:

Not everyone in this tech blogging world loves the echo-chamber. You have a unique audience, in that they're not in the echo-chamber (probably don't know it exists) but are genuinely interested in this topic.

Don't let the naysayers tell you this isn't a valuable position. It is.
Thanks,

Nate

Re: What an Effective Analyst Briefing is Like

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:07:04 -0000

Great points. Thanks.

Re: Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 16, 2008

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:57:57 -0000

Freebase (MetaWeb, really) getting a $42 million funding round http://tinyurl.com/ytuq6n (implications for data oriented social web)

Re: Defining the term: “Online Community”

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:19:01 -0000

An online community is: People acting collectively using the web infrastructure surrounding content, information, and social networks.

Re: Some clarity needed

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:05:57 -0000

Jeremiah,

I think the most important thing is for you to keep your voice. You have a unique audience, not replicated by other bloggers. Lately there has been some critique about this, but I just hope you stay on the path of educating the non-koolaid drinkers and ignoring (rather not-servicing) the TechCrunch crowd. They have their (aforementioned) blogs already.

Looking forward to what 08 brings,

Nate

Re: Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:08:51 -0000

I'm still having trouble getting my "mainstream" friends to adopt Twitter, and usually I'm pretty good about introducing them to stuff. Perhaps they're just too embedded in their cell phone SMS and Facebook updates. I don't know.

Anyway, I'm @innonate on Twitter.

Re: Is Blogging really an Industry?

Nate Westheimer — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:58:42 -0000

Kevin and Jeremiah,

We'll be be getting all that out in the January release of BricaBox. Very pumped you liked what you saw so far... It was fun to launch at Blog World Expo.

Nate

Re: Howard Lindzon » JDate is for sale…Oy Gevalt!

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:56:24 -0000

DEIS - for all my Brandeis University friends who found true love on the site.

Re: Amazon…It’s Not About The Kindle…It’s about CLOUDS?

Nate Westheimer — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:49:51 -0000

Lombardi's pizza is the only thing worth eating in this city. Thanks again for it!

Re: Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:04:04 -0000

Great post, Fred. I wonder how the performance of regional VC firms stack up against that of sector VC firms. Here in Cincinnati (I'm in the airport heading back to NYC as I read this), a lot of our shops have a regional bent. Therefore, performance relative to other firms in general is weighted or lifted by the local economy. Though USV is a sector-oriented firm, you still cull most of your deals from NYC, it seems, so aren't you also affected by the New York tech economy? Aren't there a lot of external factors here?

Re: Tumblr

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:51:41 -0000

Great post Andrew. The idea that "blogs aren't the end all be all of web publishing" is one that rings true for me. I think you all at USV were wise to invest in Tumblr, David, and the future of this industry.

Re: There Are No Open Web Services

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:43:34 -0000

I like your last three paragraphs because they can be said about any type of community.

Interest is in the architecture, and self-interest, when mixed with disregard for others, reeks something terrible.

Openness is key, but innovation is the ultimate goal.

Thanks.

Re: Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:04:04 -0000

Re: Tumblr

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:51:41 -0000

Re: There Are No Open Web Services

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:43:34 -0000

I like your last three paragraphs because they can be said about any type of community.

Interest is in the architecture, and self-interest, when mixed with disregard for others, reeks something terrible.

Openness is key, but innovation is the ultimate goal.

Thanks.

Re: Taste Neighbors

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:27:53 -0000

Fred, Howard, Andrew, and Darren:

On Yelp you want the content (the restaurant listing) to be contextual and the past user engagement (the review/rating) to increase the value of that content. Case in point: I have one friend who knows restaurants really well, and her recommendation means 100X that of some Joe on Yelp (whose review is nearly valueless to me).

That sentiment makes a lot of sense, and I think it can be said for all types of content. Getting the perfect amount of input from the global community and the best input from your community is what it's all about. That's about 1/3rd the power of BricaBox.

Re: A Birthday Gift To My Feed Readers

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:50:26 -0000

Fred, I use NewsFire on my Mac and subscribe to your Feedburner feed (of course) and did not see the comments in the feed. Could be me, but could mean it's not working. Anyone else?

Re: Favoriting Ads (continued)

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:34:03 -0000

Fred, I proposed a much different model to Eric Goldstein at Clipmarks. Have you ever played around with their service? You can clip images you like, videos you like, text you like. Now think about doing that for ads (which are either images, videos or text).

Point is, it's not very clear to me why I'm going to "vote" on an ad. But clipping an ad makes sense: Because I like it! Because I want to share it! Because I want a searchable history of ad I like.

Re: The Community Water Cooler

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:23:05 -0000

1. Yes! about the community twitter (though if we used Chiris Messina's idea about creating channels using "#" it could be more topical). I definitely
2. Not really! about the Valley Wag comparison. More like Paid Content for NY. I just don't think Valley Wag has anyone on staff who has looked at a 10Q before.
3. Yeah... kinda! about the name. "Insider" is a good fix for it.
4. I'd love to hear about their RSS and email metrics. A site like theirs has to have a ton of people reading it in a more digesty format.
5. The community water cooler will be enhanced when they throw their first high quality conference. I look forward to it and suggest it.

Re: AT&T Is Discriminating Against People With Good Credit

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:47:00 -0000

"Steve Jobs doesn't care about rich people..."?

Cut the mic.

Fred, I just want to point out that many people whom I would not consider "deadbeats" have bad credit (often for unexpected medical bills).

Re: Social Net Interops

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:33:26 -0000

Fred, OAuth (Open Authorization) was announced last week which helps create this "interops." http://oauth.net/

Twitter was one of the signing parties.

Re: Hacking Philanthropy

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:27:15 -0000

Yes to the standardization comment. There are so many amazing organization out there who are aggregating information, data, and insight into the non-profit/public good sector. Common formats would allow this information to be shared, combined, and analyzed. We applaud when non-profits act like for profit companies, but we could certainly use a little less hording of data and information.

Re: Web Startups Are A Commodity

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:07:02 -0000

If this is so, they should all be funded immediately. I think the commodification of web apps demands differentiation. You can only differentiate yourself in two ways: make whatever userbase + userdata closed (boo!) or offer technology which provides value to users (allowing the data to roam free).

I think Boris is right on that the next round of successful companies will be more technology plays than content plays.

Re: The Social Media Living Room

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:18:36 -0000

My social media living room is my AppleTV. I watch a lot of YouTube on it and it totally changes -- 100% -- the YouTube phenomenon for me. Before I was just watching clips online, now it's like I'm watching another family's home videos, because it's on my TV in my livingroom. And I'm "leaning back." Weird.

Re: Wearing A Lot Of Hats

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:55:09 -0000

You're related to Woodrow? Very cool.

Re: And The Winner Is .....

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:08:43 -0000

That's really awesome. We need a pathway for NYC techies to help kids understand technology.

Re: Social Blogging

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:41:30 -0000

Social Knitting: The process by which people develop content and meaning together in a semi-structured fashion.

Twitter and Tumblr and Social Knitting applications. Vox is not, however. It's social, but there's no structure that develops out of people's coming together. Vox is simply "Social Networking" + "Blogging" while Twitter, Tumblr (and my very own BricaBox) are "Social" x "Creation" = "More Meaning,"
or "Social Knitting."

Re: Scar Tissue That I Wish You Saw

Nate Westheimer — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:13:38 -0000

I feel you on this one Fred. But what a luxury we on this side of the aisle! That this is how we have to pick from a list of winners is a blessing. One of the reasons I've only donated to Edwards so far is because he's also a guys who has failed and learned from his failures in really public-serving ways (the other reason is because he's an underdog-front-runner). What I mean by that is that Edwards' fall was caused by over-politicking. He came back and left politicking (as much as he could) on the curb. I guess this is my one hesitancy with HC. Sometimes she seems not to have *really* learned things. You can believe she's been though tough sh*t -- easily. But that she's learned much from it is not easy to see.

But again, what a luxury we have that these are the ways we're separating the great candidates from the also-great.

Re: What To Say To A Roomful of CTOs

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:30:40 -0000

Very important, this point.

I CTO is responsible for the technical direction of the company. What technology will be used. What are the standards. What is the configuration. What's the architecture the engineers are building?

VP Engineering manages the execution of the development/engineering plan.

Re: Why I Don't Like The iPod Touch

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:10:13 -0000

Fred, I do the following and it's been a good system (needs some tweaking though):

Smart playlist of music added in last 60 days (to insure my new music on there)
Smart playlist of last 300 songs played (to insure what I'm currently interested in is on there)
Dumb iPhone playlist of stuff I manually add

Re: Meetups

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:44:57 -0000

Good to see you again Jesse. We're spoiled for being so close to L'Shack. See you there again soon.

Re: Angels or VCs? Or both?

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:42:12 -0000

I would second the idea that at this point in your company's life an angel with direct expertise in your field is going to be way more valuable than a VC -- even a name-brand VC -- forking over a small pile of cash. Sure a VC (as Fred alludes to) may want to join in a seed stage round, but even then, if you really need more money than an angel can give you, go find the next best angel in your field to take money from. My 2 cents.

Re: Meet Alex Lines, my co-founder & CTO at Path 101

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:09:38 -0000

Can't wait to hear the tales. Might you guys get a special blog going like the Carson folks did with Bare Naked App? With your spirit of openness, it would be a fantastic resource to really see inside your development process.

Re: An Idea: The Sponsored Startup

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:47:49 -0000

A few points, the first not addressing this post:

1. Don't settle on a logo early and don't let someone outside the company do it. Yes, you need a better one -- and fairly soon ;-) but don't lock yourself in and don't lock your eventual full-time designer out of the process.

2. Don't distract the people you're "fortunate enough" to have paying attention to this endeavor. You're openness in this process is a real chance to get input on the nitty gritty details of development -- get developers debating code on your blog, and business folks adjusting your pitch -- and having people distracted by the sponsors of your start-up I think is distracting.

Re: An Idea: The Sponsored Startup

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:49:33 -0000

PS: Sorry, that was a lot of "Don'ts" at second glance. Do keep being awesome.

Re: More Path 101 Uber Anti-Stealth

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:59:22 -0000

Funny, because you guys to profess. But I think you mean "progress."

Re: Path 101 Feedback Session

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:59:42 -0000

Learn to flip your photos taken by that "don't call it a phone!" @fred... it went well, I'd say. Good feedback on both technical and business levels.

Re: My Testimony to the City Council hearing on Promoting the Technology Sector in NYC

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:13:26 -0000

Awesome. Glad you could be there and speak about nextNY

Re: Free Business Plan: Give a desk, Take a Desk

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:57:25 -0000

This would be great. Do you mean 5 - 10 hr / week or / month?

Re: Poking the bear: It's not as hard to build a startup in New York City as you've heard....

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:44:57 -0000

Charlie, I'm about 70% in accord with you on this. You're right that New York is how it is so if you want to compete you have to be bigger, stronger, tougher, smarter, and more -- well -- New York.

Where you fail is offering any ideas as to how we can compensate for these challenges. After all our "competition" is in easier cities (even if they're more like lottery tickets to our 401ks, lotto can still win big).

It's my opinion that we can tackle these problems by centralizing ourselves and our information. The more we do this, the better off we are, even with the challenges of NYC.

Re: Guess our Founder's Club invites got lost in the mail... happens all the time.

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:21:29 -0000

Don't worry - I wasn't invited either. I must have made some faux pas at the first two, because I haven't been invited back since. Oh well, you should create your own club. Oh, that's right. You did. And it's open. Nice.

Re: Comment of the Day

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:26:13 -0000

Haha. Glad you liked. Not to hate on Founders Club too much ;-) I like Dina and Joel (didn't we invite them to that meeting?)

Re: Poking the Bear: Ok, that's it... I've had enough. Vote for Scott and Fred in the Alley 100 People's Choice

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:36:51 -0000

Well, you saw my poke back, but let me summarize here: 1. Hilary and Richie aren't the only ones self-promoting, they just did a better job than the dozen other people who also asked for votes; 2. I don't think it's totally necessary to self-promote (I haven't, for instance) but I do think it's important promote, and as you said, some people just don't know other people. I don't know everyone so I can't promote some folks. At least I've found that the self-promotion thing has made research easier.

Re: Thanks, Again

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:22:04 -0000

A lovely post, Charlie.

(PS: You could do a 43things-style "What I'm Thankful For" app on BricaBox ;)

Re: Oh, IN A BOX... Man, that word wrap is a killer. awkward

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:09:15 -0000

Yeah. Screw you guys. Does that sound awkward?

Re: What do you do about radio silence?

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:19:07 -0000

Sounds like your investor friend isn't doing his/her job. That's why you have them around, right? (besides for their money)

I see how this is disappointing, though. Some people seem so ideal on paper, but then you find out they're non-responsive, better-than-you types. Makes you wake up.

Re: Congrats! Andrew Parker promoted at Union Square Ventures

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:29:24 -0000

Very very cool. I think it's smart to retain someone who's built a name for himself and relationships with entrepreneurs. It was a mistake to let you go -- they won't make the same one!

Re: Trading Cash Compensation for Options in a Startup: A Formulaic Approach

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:32:41 -0000

Charlie, the Paul Graham "Equity Equation" is pretty formulaic, but from the other side of things:
http://paulgraham.com/equity.html

Re: #71 on the 2007 Silicon Alley 100! Sah-weet.

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:24:18 -0000

Congrats Charlie. I was one of those (several, I'm sure) people who nominated you on both the "real" list and the "people's list" (which you hated so much). Quick question, though: why shouldn't the curtain dwellers show up at a Meetup or two?

;-)

Even Henry admitted there was a weighting for entrepreneurship. That's where it's happening: nextNY, meetup, CooperBricolage, etc, etc.

Biggest omission: David Rose.

Re: I'm not a fan of her either, but this is probably a bit much...

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:52:44 -0000

Why dont you like her? Is it beyong her being a dem? I hear people say "idont like her" a lot but never have a reason.

Re: Looking for a CTO? Can't find one? Here's why...

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:10:03 -0000

I think it depends on the capital structure of the startup... if one founder is funding the process, for instance, and performing his share of duties, then it may call for an imbalance of equity.

Re: @innonate and @kylebagger playing with matches again

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:20:36 -0000

"It wasn't me."

(was it really our building? looks like next door)

Re: Twitter needs to level with us and open up about their problems

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:58:30 -0000

Yup.

Re: What is BricaBox anyway? The elevator pitch you've been waiting for.

Nate Westheimer — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:37:14 -0000

Sorry I'm just getting around to commenting on this post.

I love it. While I was in Miami for FOWA, I tested this elevator pitch out with people and it had a great success rate. Like some of my other pitches it struck a chord with some and didn't with others. Even yours is a little abstract, so you have to find the right level of abstraction for the audience member (some people really get my BricaBox is to social content as ning is to social networks analogy).

However, the grandmother pitch, as Andrew puts it, is around the individual solutions like "Restaurant Review Site" or "Photos with maps." Your grandma never has to know what our vision and platform strategy is, so making a pitch for her is pointless.

Re: BricaBox: Create Your Own Social Content Site

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:51:52 -0000

Thanks for the review. I think you come to a conclusion I'm comfortable with: BricaBox is a tool for people with an itch they can't scratch with other tools out there. Therefore, it's probably something people can turn to again and again for different needs.

Either way, I appreciate the insight.

Nate
CEO- BricaBox

Re: What is “the news”? Good question

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:43:04 -0000

Matthew, I'm quite sympathetic to the pressures of modern journalism. But there's a difference between those who try to get it right and those who try to get it first. Those who get it right will win the long-run... I can prove it (and will in an up coming blog post). Anyway, I appreciate your thoughts on the matter -- and again, I'm sympathetic to these pressures, but I don't find any room for excuses for plain-old bad reporting, such as Riley's, in that sympathy.

Re: Productizing good: social capitalism at work

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:00:58 -0000

This is why we're bringing all these great socially minded websites together to form a new ad network.

Re: VentureBeat hiring VP of sales and business development

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:25:50 -0000

I can understand why you'd want one person to do two things, but I'll tell ya: a good ad sales person is good at selling ads, but not necessarily doing other deals. Why are you choosing to go in-house with these positions if you're not ready to support the roles 100%?

Re: IAC, conglomerate of web properties, launching new “content venture”

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:34:07 -0000

Link to the job description is broken. Thanks.

Re: I Am Not A Woman Blogger

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:06:03 -0000

Ahh the wonders of Identity Politics.

Is the "Woman _______" identifier a political, organizational, practical , socially impressed suffix?

BlogHer is, of course, much more a "moms blog" network than a "woman" blogger network (Parenting is their focus in ad sales materials, you'll find). Women, then, end up sharing information, stories, etc, of being a mother. And, while mothering is a similar experience to being a father, there are some practical reasons to share information just as mothers ("Which breast pump chafes the least?" is a too easy example).

Now, of course there's much more to being a woman than the possible designation of "mother," and BlogHer is there to cover that too (only 58% of their readers are mothers).

But, regardless of the identity and the role they're playing in society, I generally have no object to coming together in self-identified groups and talking about common issues of that identity.

Would it be a bad idea for Jewish bloggers to meet and talk about Jewish issues? No. Just don't meet about other stuff and use Judaism to leave people out.

In this sense, BlogHer is a win for me. Women's issues are discussed by women who self identify as women bloggers. Now, if that energy was direct to other activities (i.e. singling you out for NOT being there --- "traitor!") then I'd feel differently.

But no. BlogHer seems to be largely productive and inclusive. Can't ask for much more from a group lead, fundamentally, by identity. All too often that's not the case.

Re: Wine Library TV Party At De Loach Vineyards In Santa Rosa

Nate Westheimer — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:54:43 -0000

Oh I so wish I could have been there! @verygreenteam FTW!

Re: Is Twitter Worth $1 Billion?

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:09:25 -0000

One of the smarter conclusions which has come out of the discussion about my post is the idea that PayPal wake up and build something on top of Twitter. I think the talk about Twitter's reliability is a valid one, but I state early in my post that the reliability issue is a constant for me. They either will or they won't fix things in the end. Clearly they can't proceed on any plan without fixing the most fundamental issues.

Good discussion though!

Re: Twitter Acquisition of Summize Highly Unlikely

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:36:15 -0000

Agreed!

Re: 2007/07/08/mashups/

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:09:55 -0000

Ha ha ha. BricaBox.

Re: 2007/07/19/tech-startup-northeast/

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:12:08 -0000

Pete, I love this blog a lot, and have appreciated your coverage in the past, but this kind of crap has got to be embarrassing.

I'm offended not only as a mid-westerner (we're not the NE by ANY consolidation), and not only as New York tech entrepreneur, but mainly as a NY tech community memeber.

Why would Eric mention all of these acquired companies, while dozens and dozens exist in NYC alone which are more exciting (i.e. still private and still doing new things).

I mean, under this line of thought Eric should have included Facebook (MA)!

In NYC, we have:
- Blip.tv
- Meetup.com
- 30elm.com
- Mogulus
- Urbis
- I'm in Like With You
- Radiotail
- Blue Organizer
- OddCast
- Squarespace
- Socialight
- more, more...

Re: 2007/07/19/tech-startup-northeast/

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:24:04 -0000

- Gawker Media
- Flavorpill
- thehypemachine
- MusicNation
- Goloco
- TechPresident

Re: 2007/09/17/worlddevils/

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:17:48 -0000

Thanks for the link, but FYI VentBox has been taken offline to get ready for the BricaBox platform release next month.

Re: 2007/11/08/bricabox-launches-social-publishing-platform/

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:47:18 -0000

Andy,

Thanks for the review. Let me know if you (or anyone) wants a publisher accout to start playing with.

Best,

Nate
CEO-guy | BricaBox
{my first name}@bricabox.com

Re: 2008/03/22/mashable-verygreenteam/

Nate Westheimer — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:01:30 -0000

Pete, I knew you were a good man.

Add stuff to http://verygreenteam.bricabox.com/ to see what the best @verygreenteam things are.

Re: 2008/03/27/streetview-api/

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:38:14 -0000

Rad! We're going to have to include this with BricaBox

Re: 2008/04/29/secondbrain-launch-contest/

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:03:13 -0000

I'm trying it out folks. You can follow me at http://innonate.secondbrain.com/

Re: 2008/05/09/tech-cocktail-conference/

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:24:26 -0000

Looking forward to the conference. I'll be there!

Re: 2008/05/18/mashbash-nyc-recap-and-thanks/

Nate Westheimer — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:50:40 -0000

I had so much fun! Thanks Adam, Adam, Brett, and team!

Re: 2008/05/20/summize-huffington-post/

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:32:52 -0000

Congrats to the Summize team. Worth noting, of course, that Ken Leher is a very active investor in both companies (former CEO of HuffyP and investor in BetaWorks, where Summize was developed).

Re: 2008/05/21/caption-this-utr-contest/

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:41:05 -0000

In 2008, any cat can be a social media consultant.

Re: boxee blog » more good coffee in NYC

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:34:33 -0000

You guys def need to check out Roasting Plant over on Orchard right south of Broome.

Re: boxee blog » more good coffee in NYC

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:16:02 -0000

Absolutely. Sticky Rice (next door to Roasting Plant) has great Thai food. The Tunisian place next door is also very good.

Re: boxee blog » last-minute opportunity for boxee users at CES

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:54:01 -0000

Hey Avner and team, I just posted a blog post and a video regarding why I'd LOVE to join you all at CES!

http://innonate.com/2009/01/02/why-id-shill-for...

Re: boxee blog » team-boxee at CES gets a serious upgrade

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:17:08 -0000

This will be fun!

Re: http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78884559

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:22:11 -0000

You nail it bro. I'm green because it's been my favorite color my entire life. I had a green sweater i wore to shreds. I would have killed for a forest green Honda Passport when it came out in 1993 and I was 10 years old. My rain jacket is green. I cry when my wallet is out of green. I love the forest because it is green. I love mowing my farm's lawn in Ohio because it smells better than any other green in the world.

I AM @verygreenteam !

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - Better than Zero Way too many people worry about...

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:34:42 -0000

FIRST COMMENT!

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - You can have both….Jobs. Way to many people out...

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:40:58 -0000

This is sooo true. Some folks came to my office yesterday telling me about a video series they wanted to do sometime "next year." I showed them directions to the BestBuy down the street, told them to buy a Flip and post their first video today.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - PHCC This is a great recap video of all the...

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:47:43 -0000

Muy listo, Gary. Tienes un formula magica.

Re: beginning 2008 with a dream

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:05:50 -0000

GO!

Re: webapps as social experiments - obvious case study 1: twitter.com

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:25:58 -0000

Alex, good response. I'm realizing that my post was more a rant about what's been built on top of the service. I realize that the beauty is the the simplicity -- Kyle articulates this well in his post -- but I have been thoroughly unimpressed with the services built on top of Twitter. Is a Technorati and Techmeme clone the best we can get? [hashtags and twittermeme, respectively.] The other day, the Freebase community manager sent out an email on the list asking, "Who's stuck?" I took that to mean, why aren't you people making cooler stuff with our API, and how can we help from our end. I'm not on Twitter's email list like you are, but I imagine they need to be kicking more developers in the ass to make cool shit. I see the big vision for Twitter, I just don't see it being played out anywhere. All of your examples of how you use Twitter and the same as mine -- breaking news, lifestreaming, and serendipity instigation -- but they haven't changed one bit in the last year. That's how we used Twitter a year ago. If this platform was as promising as we want to believe, I think there would be more built on top of the promise.

My 2 cents.

Re: Your problems aren’t what make you special, your solutions are.

Nate Westheimer — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:59:24 -0000

Too much fun. I'm still drunk ;-)

Re: Next Steps for Alex - Team Anthillz

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:59:22 -0000

Awesome dude. Sounds like a good fit.

Re: Next Steps for Alex - Team Anthillz

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:04:38 -0000

[viddler id-d8db8e29]

Re: Rant: Coworking vs. Incubator

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:01:30 -0000

Who has an identity crisis? Seriously?

I love coworking but run an incubator. That makes my incubator that much more community oriented. I'm sure if I ran a coworking space and loved deliberate business incubation as much as I do my coworking space would benefit from it was well.

Re: SXSW Party Hype heats up…

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:49:17 -0000

You can also check out SXSW parties here: http://sxswhere.com/

Re: Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:10:50 -0000

Thoughtful post, Robert.

I agree with much of what you're saying, but wouldn't be so hard on most of the top bloggers, including yourself.

a) Everyone has trouble dealing with success at first, especially when it's been brought from the bottom up. How do you remain famous and down to earth!? It's tough.

b) The last four years have been the social bubble. Noise. Noise. Noise... and I'm not talking economics and companies -- I'm talking social interaction wise, with the "tech set." This will mellow out (though we'll always, due to our closeness with innovation, be a little hyped up in this area).

Re: Get Invites For The GDrive Killer Dropbox!

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:04:31 -0000

would love an invite. thanks

Re: Features on Our Sites: Mobile Versions; Tip Box; Network Search; Social Tools; Jobs Section

Nate Westheimer — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:08:34 -0000

Any plans on revealing who did your mobile site development?

Re: The First Five Years

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:09:38 -0000

Indeed, congrats on all accomplishments!

Re: Digitas VP: Mobile "Doesn't Have The Scale" To Grow As Ad Medium

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:30:28 -0000

From the ad rep side of things, we've encountered this as true. Mobile doesn't scale yet. Take the price of SMS, for instance: if you're lucky you can get 2¢ per message rates. You have to get $20cpms just to cover the cost, let along make any money.

Re: What the iPhone Doesn't Have: IM; Games; Video Recording And Others

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:19:45 -0000

Ahh, Rafat, forget ye the Safari as the SDK tid-bit? Just pump up Meebo or something like that on Safari.

Duh?

Re: There Are No Open Web Services

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:43:34 -0000

I like your last three paragraphs because they can be said about any type of community.

Interest is in the architecture, and self-interest, when mixed with disregard for others, reeks something terrible.

Openness is key, but innovation is the ultimate goal.

Thanks.

Re: Why Past Performance Is A Good Predictor Of Future Returns In The Venture Capital Asset Class

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:04:04 -0000

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Re: Questions for Steve and Bill: The Facebook Platform Launch Edition

Nate Westheimer — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:10:14 -0000

I think you've squandered an opportunity to ask REAL PEOPLE what THEY would ask Bill and Steve. Who cares what the rich and famous think?!

Think like John Edwards and get the community involved!

That's my 2 cents.

Re: Questions for Steve and Bill: The Four Seasons Edition

Nate Westheimer — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:11:16 -0000

That's more like it :-)
Kinda.

Re: Kara Visits Yosemite, Where There Is--Horrors--No Cell Coverage or Internet Access

Nate Westheimer — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:01:49 -0000

Have a great trip... hope the don't have to call in the satellite link-up for you.

Re: A-Joost-Ments!

Nate Westheimer — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:23:03 -0000

It does seem a little better, though still choppy, even with my office's T1 line.

And I don't like this "commercial break" thing. I think I sat through two T-Moble 15 or 30 second spots in 10 minutes. That doesn't fly.

Re: Memo to Yahoo: Incoming--Duck and Cover!

Nate Westheimer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:54:37 -0000

Fred, you're spot on. How about this question:

What does a good outcome look like?

(Same question asked to Generals about Iraq)

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