tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51196142011-04-21T15:33:33.778-07:00Mark Pincus BlogNew Media Entrepreneur - Pilot - Biker - libertarian markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1112931582690264752005-04-07T20:37:00.000-07:002005-04-12T14:39:26.026-07:00Two Big AnnouncementsTribe Hires New CEO...I'm Moving To TypepadFind both at my new swanky home on typepad...http://markpincus.typepad.commarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1112727705501438192005-04-05T11:13:00.000-07:002005-04-05T12:01:45.503-07:00Two New InvestmentsEVDB - the service, which is aimed at providing a more open way for people to find and publish all events, was launched at pc forum last month and recently backed by draper fisher. i think that evdb represents the right approach to a web service in that they aggregate all existing events from meetup (and hopefully tribe). then they enable people to tag them into whatever markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1112668604681056972005-04-04T19:03:00.000-07:002005-04-04T20:02:56.773-07:00Vertical Search Engines and Aggregatorslast week, walt mossberg wrote about two new search services that focused deeply on a particular vertical segment. i wanted to share my own thoughts on this concept and the categories he highlights.jobs - indeed.com - he points out that indeed is aggregating most big job sites. my first question is whether the most important driver for a job applicant is markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1112629848200870342005-04-04T08:48:00.000-07:002005-04-04T19:02:07.130-07:00Dan Gilmore on The Wrong Standard...That's also why I get frustrated by the anything-goes attitude on Wall Street and in Washington and so many other places where cynical people ignore the context in which capitalism operates. Corporations are creatures of the state, not God, and they exist in a real world where employees, suppliers and communities should be, but frequently are not, given markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1112131126389047072005-03-29T13:03:00.000-08:002005-03-29T13:18:46.393-08:00Tribe gets ripped in WSJ todaymy company, tribe.net, got a fairly negative mention in today's wsj (page B6). i want to make a few comments on the story. first, i think it's sad that we continue to maintain double standards, whereby it's ok to party like a freak in vegas (cause it stays there) but we're expected to maintain the pretense of all being clean 'white' people at work. frankly, i get markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1112106675559135682005-03-29T06:07:00.000-08:002005-03-29T13:02:57.406-08:00Will the SEC ever get serious about making corporate insiders pay for fraud?we are all watching yet another venerable old company (AIG) blow up over corporate accounting fraud and investor misrepresentation. same old story, investors lose billions, often everything, while corporate insiders say 'i'm sorry'. then the SEC tries to go after a small few with expensive criminal proceedings that rarelymarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1111953834611375512005-03-27T11:47:00.000-08:002005-03-29T13:32:19.070-08:00We Need OURMARKETPLACE.ORGcanter's ourmedia.org is a cool idea. i'm not sure i get how it will gain widespread adoption without 'network partners' to make use of it and bring the end users, but we'll see. my question is why isnt anyone developing 'our marketplace'? i mean an open source ebay that any user can use to buy, sell, trade, meet or do any activity without any friction; friction being markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1111709168358775162005-03-24T15:54:00.000-08:002005-03-24T16:06:08.360-08:00Perfect Peopleweb Application - Reputationthis is an obvious point but i'll make it with a new example. the first use for the open peopleweb will be to link to your identity as a measure of reputation for transactions. this will be rudimentary in that it wont offer up people's feedback on you as a transactor, but seems to me that just seeing someone has a 'real' identity will make people feel markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1111540378055839972005-03-22T17:02:00.000-08:002005-03-22T17:12:58.056-08:00PeopleWeb Sites Starting to Sprout Uphere are a couple sites that start to point to peopleweb application. please let me know if you find more examples. i'll create a 'peopleweb' tag on delicious too.mydentity - with good interview on what they do on zdnet - cool idea to show your relevant map from a blog site as a proxy for a person linking. felt really dwarfed when i clicked on my map and then markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1111436156165643202005-03-21T12:11:00.000-08:002005-03-21T12:15:56.166-08:00iCal but can i outlook?i just started playing with ical which seems like another of apple's many hidden gems. (i know i should be embarassed to admit i'm just getting to this app now.) it seems to offer a powerful capability to create and connect many 'calendars'. for those how like me are slow to get these apps which are obvious to the apple world, ical is a cool calendar app that lets you markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1111182316327372572005-03-18T13:25:00.000-08:002005-03-18T14:09:01.293-08:00White Collar Spammersi've blogged recently about why in the future none of us will be able to list our email addresses on our cards, as we'll all get sold into 'mail slavery' by the legions of companies that make a business out of adding us to 'opt in' business lists. i include below the email exchange i had today with the ceo of one of these 'innocent' companies that most likely bought my name markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1110942767496554952005-03-15T18:58:00.000-08:002005-03-15T19:12:47.500-08:00Counting people not blogsdave sifry from technorati has sent around an interesting chart which tracks total blogs and blog creation. he finds that there are 40,000 new blogs created a day which is twice the number from 5 months ago. while this is exciting, it's ironic that on the same day myspace put out a press release saying they are adding 60,000 new users a day. as most of you probably know, markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1110940080000451102005-03-15T18:04:00.000-08:002005-03-15T18:47:12.240-08:00PeopleWeb gets some play!wow. i'm pretty new to this blogging world and am just now experiencing what i guess has been called the echo chamber (?). it's cool. in the 3 days since i (finally) posted my thoughts on the peopleweb a lot of smart people have chimed in with great insights. i'll include some of their snippets here (and i apologize if i get the netiquette wrong) and post my own comments markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1110394446074573802005-03-09T10:12:00.000-08:002005-03-15T18:34:34.626-08:00The PeopleWebi believe we are close to the point where people will start to be organized online into a 'peopleweb' where browsers will surf and search through people not pages. i will attempt to describe the what, how and why below.what is the peopleweb? as more people take on 'open' identities online, that can be crawled, found and linked to with bits of semantically organized data like 'profilemarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1109950571085002632005-03-04T07:23:00.000-08:002005-03-08T18:36:49.296-08:00Revolution of the Antswell, since i first blogged about this concept last summer it has steadily built steam both as a named concept and in the reality of our internet business world. esther dyson picked up on it with her release 1.0 titled 'revenge of the ants'. fred wilson picked up on it in several posts and most recently on jeff jarvis's buzz machine where he attributes it to fred. the biggermarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1099529248130615802004-11-03T16:30:00.000-08:002004-11-03T16:47:28.130-08:00Is Politics Starting to be in Fashion?fun dan gilmore wrote today about how this election will be seen as a turning point in integrating the web into politics. totally agree. many people point to dean's failure as evidence that 'it didnt work'. i think we'll one day view the dean campaign as the boston tea party of web politics; people coming out of the wood works to passionately push for a new markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1098117569998265372004-10-18T09:30:00.000-07:002004-10-18T09:39:30.000-07:00Using the Open Network to Fight Back - Ant Power as consumers we often feel helpless to fight back against businesses that treat us unfairly. this will change with one connected network. i want to share a story of how i recently fought back. i bought my dad a digital camera for father's day using a price comparison engine. being a dumb consumer i clicked on the cheapest and proceeded to enter markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1094675397083328572004-09-08T13:19:00.000-07:002004-10-18T09:27:32.146-07:00Telluride Film Festival i made my 4th trip to telluride film fest this year which i love for its combination of beautiful colorado mountain town, thought provoking indy films and amazingly interesting people. following are my picks from this year... "Nobody Knows" (My Rating = A) this Japanese film is a true story about 4 kids (ages 5-12) who are abandoned by their mother in a small tokyo markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1094674783294544742004-09-08T13:05:00.000-07:002004-09-29T14:25:03.080-07:00My Burning Man Experience i was able to participate in burning man again this year (thanks to generous friends with an RV). every year people return from this amazing 'place' excited to share their experience with friends and family but largely unable to convey the true essence of what or why it was. i have no allusions of faring any better but will try anyway. The Basics - BM is a temporary markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1091231579250405802004-07-30T16:52:00.000-07:002004-07-30T16:52:59.250-07:00me and zinga at brainstorm markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1091230818087505142004-07-30T16:40:00.000-07:002004-07-30T16:58:59.316-07:00 Revolution of the Ants. i was recently at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Aspen and had some lively debate around this concept. i have believed for a long time that the American people (especially the new Internet generation) are ready for a revolution of sorts...that the 'ants', that is everyone who lacks real power, in voice and impact, are inately programmed to come together, find markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1091230783720771432004-07-30T16:39:00.000-07:002004-07-30T16:39:43.720-07:00me and hilary markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1089657949688248812004-07-12T11:34:00.000-07:002004-07-12T13:59:58.713-07:00The Medium Is Still The Message I was recently forwarded a great story from Sam Whitmore of Forbes in which he reminds us of some of Marshall McLuhan's most prescient quotes... ...McLuhan was as prescient as he was nutty. Among his pronouncements back in 1964: "Electric appliances, far from being labor-saving devices, are new forms of work, decentralized and made available to everybody." markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1088794797798715602004-07-02T11:08:00.000-07:002004-10-07T18:02:50.833-07:00Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil i got to see farenheit911 last night (and highly recommend it). while it was obviously disturbing to watch bush vacationing (and always tan) while iraqi women and children and young americans were getting killed and maimed, i found myself agitated on a higher level. was this really just the story of a few bad politicians? no. we are no longer 'governing' or markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1079913340786162612004-03-21T15:55:00.000-08:002004-03-21T16:32:06.280-08:00Notes from PC Forum...day 1 spending the next few days at PC Forum. havent been back here since 2000. wow, 4 year absence. it's fun to be back. lots of old friends. seems like the right energy, back to business...startups back to the hard road of balancing drive to innovate with need to show traction and revenue. fun to see a lot of the 'blogerati' here too. not sure how they justify the high markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1072151344404311642003-12-22T19:49:00.000-08:002003-12-23T10:37:46.200-08:00It's the Movement, Stupid Napster Runs for President in '04 Frank Rich wrote a terrific, insightful piece in yesterday's sunday times. the big point, which also applies to the recent Gonzalez campaign is that it's not about the candidate, it's the movement. "...The elusive piece of this phenomenon is cultural: the Internet. Rather than compare Dr. Dean to McGovern or Goldwater, it may make markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1068520867065474362003-11-10T19:21:00.000-08:002003-11-10T19:21:31.326-08:00Vote for Matt Gonzalez so we invited matt to our tribe.net party at the last minute and he just shows. really cool guy. the only politician i've ever met who just comes off genuine and honest. i offered him the chance to do some shameless self-promotion and he chose to just have a few beers and hang out. i think he's the kind of mayor sf needs. my own story with matt... he's been my city markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1061590829697857282003-08-22T15:20:00.000-07:002003-08-22T15:21:39.520-07:00Film Festival Blogging i am looking to create a group blog for film festival goers starting with telluride labor day weekend. seems like a great way for film fanatics to share immediate reviews during a festival which can then also let the broader world know about which movies played well at the festivals. this goes on anyway by word of mouth at festivals, and i'm always frustrated that there ismarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-1058566001029357972003-07-18T15:06:00.000-07:002003-07-18T15:09:35.080-07:00Here is an interesting counter point from Chris Alden on why we dont need more democracy... We need less Democracy Mark Pincus has an interesting idea he’s calling eParty. Mark and I chatted about it in late April and I grumpily challenged some of his assumptions (for some reason I was in a bad mood that day—sorry Mark). Specifically while I was supportive of the idea of empowering individuals markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-934341532003-04-28T18:04:00.000-07:002003-04-28T18:06:01.000-07:00i noticed that ross mayfield and marc canter gave some nice feedback regarding my eParty idea. i really liked marc's coined term of 'moral capitalist' which may be a term more of us in the business world should aspire towards. ross also added some crisp thinking, especially around emergent democracy... Its interests will emerge -- a potential governance mechanism that is truely emergent Its markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-933742592003-04-27T19:51:00.000-07:002003-04-29T19:12:15.000-07:00eParty - Lets Build a Web Based Political Lobby at the recent O'Reilly conference i connected with peter kaminsky, ross mayfield, mark graham and joe kraus on this concept and volunteered to start getting the ideas down so we can all brainstorm at least virtually on it. i welcome input from anyone who shares an interest. eParty Vision my vision for the eParty is to spawn a web based politicalmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-927555052003-04-16T20:22:00.000-07:002003-04-16T20:31:34.000-07:00are we really supposed to believe that the cfo of peregrine went and did all this accounting fraud single handed, so he could make a measly couple million on his stock options Ex-Peregrine CFO Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges? c'mon. where is the article pointing the finger at the guys who walked off with hundreds of millions like moores, the founder and chairman who walked away without any markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-915302402003-03-27T22:14:00.000-08:002003-03-27T22:14:38.623-08:00markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-900157722003-03-02T14:28:00.000-08:002003-03-02T14:28:30.216-08:00i recently attended a meeting for the NDN - new democratic network (www.newdem.org). while i applaud their interest in 'modernizing' the Democratic party platform and bringing in new voices, i have to say that their approach sounded like the same old political machine just trying to incorporate a few more lucky souls. i pleaded with simon rosenberg, founder and president, to consider building a markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5119614.post-900066442003-03-02T10:37:00.000-08:002003-03-02T10:37:01.576-08:0010:15am i'm interested in the potential for people to use blogs to connect on issues, especially political. it would be cool if we could all 'register' our views on key issues and then remain connected to each other - ad hoc groups; so that we can immediately organize and act. the best example of this happening was moveon.org, which managed to get 500,000 registered members in a month and $13m markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04963828341781496505noreply@blogger.com