Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled

January 2008 - Posts

• Jan

  27

  2008

  Putting kids where retailers won't go

  I read one of the most bizarre stories recently in a local Brooklyn newspaper. The city wants to open a new middle school — in jail. Developers responded so weakly to a city invitation for ideas for retail and residential use at the soon-to-reopen Brooklyn House of Detention that the city is now considering... Posted Jan 27 2008, 08:56 PM by Tim with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Things that amuse me, Friday Fun

• Jan

  27

  2008

  TheFunded brings more transparency to raising venture capital

  Asymmetry of information plays a major role in negotiations, and it is often said that venture capital investments are made under extreme information asymmetry. On one side of the table, the limited partners don't know much about the company, the VCs know a little (relatively speaking), and companies... Posted Jan 27 2008, 04:16 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Business, Law, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Venture Capital

• Jan

  27

  2008

  Facebook opens up with a JavaScript API

  Facebook just announced a new JavaScript Client Library that allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site . In other words, you can start building Facebook applications are live outside of Facebook. I agree with Charlie that this move " makes membership in Facebook that much more valuable... Posted Jan 27 2008, 12:38 PM by Tim with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Software Development, Web 2.0, Facebook, Notches

• Jan

  27

  2008

  Taking the Plunge and Rediscovering Passion

  In my first few years in college, I took a few gut courses that older friends assured me were easy, requiring only 4 hours of work a week. I did terrible in every one. The reason, of course, was that I hated those 4 hours and avoided the work whenever I could. After a couple of semesters of this, I just... Posted Jan 27 2008, 11:17 AM by Tim with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Notches

• Jan

  25

  2008

  Friday Fun: Hillary's inner Flick

  Tim Lee on TechDirt discusses the copyright implications of this Slate video . The copyright discussion is interesting and worth revisiting next week, but I figured for this edition Friday Fun I'd share the video if you haven't already seen it. (It helps if you've seen Election ). Clever... Posted Jan 25 2008, 08:03 AM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Intellectual Property, Things that amuse me, Copyright, Friday Fun

• Jan

  22

  2008

  What exactly is "User Generated Content"?

  There's an interesting discussion going on over at CenterNetworks , with Allen calling out Mike Arrington and co. for giving Digg the award for "best user-generated content". Allen says that Digg doesn't belong in that category (which he includes Wikipedia, your blog, and Flickr), but... Posted Jan 22 2008, 04:02 PM by Tim with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Web 2.0, Business, Blogging, Social Behavior

• Jan

  09

  2008

  Scoble, Facebook and Data Ownership

  I've sort of ignored the whole Scoble/Facebook fiasco, with people arguing on both sides who "owns" the data. Jimmy Gutterman misses the point a bit , because Facebook has already opened up the social graph through the Facebook Platform API. What they don't expose - and why this script... Posted Jan 09 2008, 11:08 AM by Tim with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Privacy, Blogging, Law, Facebook