Monkeynotions

Last Wednesday (08 Aug) I went to Lunch 2.0 at AOL. What a difference a year makes =). Lunch 2.0 was first held at AOL in March of 2006. Mark Jen had asked me to host at AOL back when we were sneaking in cafeterias. I mentioned to Mark that we might have to pay […]

*SIGH* I saw this post at Techcrunch. I know I’ve seen previous iterations of the AOL.com page, and they did not look like this…they definately had color and creativity to it. I’m not sure what happened to make the AOL.com such a copycat of Yahoo , but I’m pretty sure it’s not because of […]

Ficlets was a skunkworks product within AOL. It allows a group creation of short stories. Here are the kickers:

It supports OpenID
It is under the CC License
“AOL” shows up only twice on the front page

Yes, I’ll let you soak that in for a bit. I went and visited it and was impressed by the ui, […]

Well it’s weekend time, and that means manifestos are flying everywhere. I call this the Tuna Fish Manifesto because it doesn’t just stink at Yahoo. It stinks everywhere.

Execs are completely out of touch with the people doing the work.
This one can only be explained by examples.
Example 1: Jason Calcanis and his eulogy to […]

Well after 2 and a half years, I have decided to leave AOL to pursue other opportunities.

Like the corpspeak? I’ve decided to join startup land. There I’ve blogged it, so I guess that makes it real =).
This will be the first time I’ve worked at a company that had less than several thousand […]

SF Web Innovators Network is an event that meets monthly to network in San Francisco, demo, and schmooze. Oh and there’s some whine, i mean wine and cheese. At this event there was AOL, Pandora Media, and VideoEgg
Technorati Tags: sfwin, aol, pandora, orrick, videoegg

The other day I hired a contractor who happened to be a phD from Berkeley. He’s an awesome designer and bringing in such new ideas. I found myself in a new position … While he was asking “why not?” I was passing on the pushback given to me tacitly, explicitly, or personally. I had […]

How do your wrap something like this up? Here is the video.
Big thank you again to Hitachi Data Systems and Jeremiah Owyang!

Note: The view counter is broken for now, but it’s still keeping the count. I’m told it will be turned back on in this Thursday.

It’s become increasingly clear to me that this is one thing you cannot buy, create, or force: passion.
I heard one of my preacher friends say it best: “The worst thing a person can be is apathetic. I’d rather them hate God than not care. Apathy is the enemy of passion. ”
I find this […]

Yes, I am milking this meme for what it’s worth. I just got out of editing my last pieces of A/V from the party…got a lot of footage, thanks to mike for hosting another great party! . A podcast AND BONUS video. Since the original video had some boring bits to it, […]