Giving in to temptation

I finally gave in to temptation and created a MySpace profile. Although Facebook is a lot more user-friendly, I can see the appeal in MySpace.

Why is everyone obsessed with TechCrunch?

People seem to think that a TechCrunch write up will make or break a company. For example, PodTech is peeing in their pants over a bad TechCrunch write up. Frankly, I couldn’t give a crap if TechCrunch writes about my company or not. Since we’re exclusively in the college space, a campus newspaper write up would matter more than a TechCrunch mention.

VC investments on the up

According to a TechCrunch post:

Investment in information services companies, including Web 2.0 startups, hit $979 million in the second quarter of 2007.

The figure is 52% up on the same period last year and the highest figure recorded since the 2001.

In laymen’s terms, we are now officially in a boom; not that we’d probably need figures to prove this.

There maybe more money circulating, but let’s not pretend that securing venture capital is an easy thing. Statistically, the majority of start-ups pursuing VC money will not be successful.

Tech cocktail: young entrepreneurs need not apply

A mixer event called Tech cocktail is going on tonight. It sounds like a fun way to meet other techies & entrepreneurs here in Chicago.

1 tiny problem, they’re holding the event at a 21 and over bar. 3 of my co-workers won’t be able to attend because they are under 21.

There are plenty of combination restaurant/bar spots in Chicago that card at the bar rather than at the door Many entrepreneurial minded people are under 21, it’s pretty lame to exclude them.

UPDATE: Check out Frank Gruber’s response. We’ll come out to Tech cocktail tonight, if they don’t let our group in because of my co-workers’ age (20), we’ll just hang out in Wrigleyville.

UPDATE2: We didn’t go. The idea of getting turned away didn’t sound terribly appealing.

JetBlue to allow mobile txt messaging and e-mail

 

Sweet. Check out this blog post by Ben Mutzabaugh:

JetBlue “will detail plans by year’s end to let passengers send free e-mail or text messages from wireless handheld devices. No U.S. airline (currently) offers such a service.

Anyone else have iPhone fatigue?

Is anyone else tired of hearing about the iPhone?

Before fellow Apple fans start yelling at me, I’m buying one on the 29th. I just can’t take anymore iPhone buzz. We get it, it’s a new kind of phone without buttons, just one big screen. It’s hard to tell who’s worse, the media or bloggers? They’re both regurgitate the same thing over and over again and drooling like you wouldn’t believe.

UPDATE: Apple iPhone Hype Machine in Overdrive