IKEA is Evil!

Everyone has their own definition of evil — after this weekend’s trip to IKEA I have my new category leader.

Start with the fact that the Swedish house goods empire lures you in with a major discount on breakfast — Swedish pancakes with some crazy berry compote for $1.99 —…

Commenting May Be “Ease of Use” Case

Thanks to my Polaris pal VC Mike, I took some time kicking tires on Disqus this evening. (Why Disqus when their competitor Intense Debate was just acquired by Polaris backed Automattic?…well, first off, ID is off limits for time being as they work on migrating to…

Digg’s Raise and Metrics

Congrats to Digg. A nice hefty Series C raise (nearly $29M) at a valuation north of $100M. GigaOM pulls together some interesting numbers on the media platform. Of note, 1% of Digg’s users account for roughly a third of the site’s visits and the site is currently generating 224M…

AT&T Best Ball Yard …Still

Even with a paltry crowd and a team out of contention, there’s no better venue for watching a ballgame than AT&T Park in SF.

Care to argue the point?

Auctions…the Future for Everything

Check out TechCrunch post about Google’s patent addressing an “open wireless world” — a world where user’s would tap in to wireless access on a metered basis (the diagram below is great!).

I Can’t Bear to Look…

…at my financial portfolio that is. I mean really, why would I do that at a time like this? I’m sure it’s worth less than it was a week ago. But I know it’s worth a lot more than it was 5 years ago. And perhaps that’s the point?