Todd Sampson

MyBlogLog Product Manager and all-around great guy Ian Kennedy will be speaking at the upcoming Net Tuesday event. The event will cover building online communities for non-profit organizations with MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Groups and Upcoming. The festivities kick-off this coming Tuesday (February 12, 2008) at 6pm.
Note: I will not be able to attend due [...]

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Yes, I know this is probably quite a bit of CG, but I just don’t care. It is too cool.

(Via Tim Ferriss.)

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Writing the TechStars 2008 post earlier today reminded me about the video the team shot of Eric and I while we were there last year. As Eric mentions in the video, this was really the first time since selling MyBlogLog to Yahoo! that the two of us discussed the whirlwind adventure. It was [...]

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Eric Marcoullier and I were fortunate enough to help mentor the 2007 TechStars. It was a fantastic experience for all involved. Eric and I got to meet, encourage, and help focus some budding entrepreneurs. The startups gained invaluable advice, some A-list contacts, and the chance to do something amazing — which many [...]

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According to Nielsen Online, Google’s domination of the U.S. search market dropped slightly in December. Google’s search percentage fell to 56.3% from 57.7% the previous month. Yahoo’s search share also fell .2% to 17.7%. Microsoft gained a not-insignificant 1.8% to 13.8%.
So is this a holiday anomaly, the impact of Microsoft Live/Vista, the [...]

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Comcast is giving the option to switch from the standard HD DVR to Tivo. Nice!
The roll-out is starting in the New England market first. (Bijan already got his — lucky bastard.) If you live in New England or want to be notified by email when Tivo gets to your area, visit http://www.comcast.com/gettivo/ [...]

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Congratulations to Allen Tom and the rest of the Yahoo! crew that worked so hard to make OpenID happen. Well done guys! This is the right thing to do and a huge win for the company going forward.
Learn more about Yahoo’s OpenID plans.

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Great turn out at the OpenSocial hack event at Six Apart. Over 130 people.
Looks like things are moving along with the OpenSocial platform, but they still have a ways to go. Hi5, Ning, Orkut and Plaxo all have sandbox or production implementations up and running. MySpace showed off how their apps will [...]

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Sun Microsystems buys MySQL AB — the developer of the database behind most websites and startups. What a great move for Sun. (Who still has tech’s greatest logo.) Wow, “Sun” and “great move” in the same sentence. I haven’t said that, even with their other open-source announcements, in quite a [...]

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So, I already pissed away 90 minutes watching Steve Job’s full 2008 Apple Keynote. But if you haven’t, save yourself some time and check this out.

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