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The best cause on the Interwebs. Ever. Really!

        Lonely Arctic Penguin, originally uploaded by happyjoelmoss. Holy schnikes! My boy Happy Joel has made it to the finals of the What Would You Do for a Klondike Bar Contest!!! That means he has...

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Congratulations to the Yahoo! TV Widgets team!

Last week, my former team at Yahoo! launched Yahoo! TV Widgets to some great press coverage. This is a project that was underway before I left, and drew heavily on the work and people of the...

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All is right with the universe.

I woke up this morning to find out several pieces of important news. First, the Large Hadron collider was switched on and didn’t destroy the earth (yet). So, that’s good. And in other news, my friend...

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Everything Must Go! – The Great Strauss Virtual Garage Sale

I moved to Palo Alto on June 13, 2004 — my 24th birthday and the day before I started at Yahoo!. I’ve been living in San Francisco since June 2005, first in Russian Hill with Damon and Eugene and on...

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WTF is an (un)class? or On Diversified Living

I first heard the idea for (un)classes a little under 13 days ago when Rahmin pitched it to Todd, John, and me at the Lair on Presidents’ Day. So, what’s an (un)class? It’s exactly what it sounds...

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Edward Sharpe Rawks My F*%$ing Socks!

My new favorite live band hands-down is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. I saw them twice in 5 days and would go see them again tonight (and tomorrow night, and the night after that) if I could....

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Mas Edward Sharpe

First of all, my life does not suck. Last night I was hanging at TechStars (and having my company mistaken for one of theirs ), this afternoon I was having lunch with the Gnip team in beautiful...

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It’s a way small world after all!

This struck me as so weirdly incestuous/small-worldly I had to post it. I just came upon a song featuring vocals by Sandra Possing, who happened to be the bartender at Delaney’s when I first met with...

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The Ringers Rocking LA

The Ringers are an LA band fronted by Joe Hursley (aka White Gold). I first caught them opening for Fool’s Gold at one of Little Radio‘s Summercamps in August (see 3rd video below) and they stole the...

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Replacing Oneself as CEO

I am very happy to announce that Fred McIntyre has joined awe.sm, the company I founded and have led for the last 4 years, as CEO (read more about it on TechCrunch). My new role is Head of Product...

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