I made it on the TechCrunch Party invite list but won’t be able to make it to the party. They are selling a two tickets the party on Ebay. You can buy them here.

Seems like the Launch Party is returning. More modest perhaps. Reminds me of the bad old days.

AOL is having a pretty bad run over the past month or so. First there was the uproar created when Vincent Ferrari tried to cancel his account. This was followed up with stories of folks having trouble canceling the accounts of deceased relatives. This was followed by a leak to the WSJ about moving to […]

Be forewarned, this is a rant. Like Ed Sim over at BeyondVC, I really do not care for bad software. I have been using Quicken since 1993. That’s thirteen years. And with thirteen years of financial data, Quiken could be the most deeply valuable piece of software on my machine. I know that the file […]

Is yours? http://my.yahoo.com/ is been giving me a blank since yesterday afternoon. Update: Now it is fixed.

Yahoo Finance recently made some changes to its message boards. Seems to me they made the navigation much more difficult in order to increase page views. Ho John Lee’s post is a nice summary of what is going on. And like him, I am hearing that people are fleeing Yahoo’s message boards in droves.

Donna Bogatin is just a little bit annoyed.

When you have 40 minutes this is only not worth the time but very entertaining. Favorite quote: “Western Union should be Paypal today.”

Theodore Levitt passed away. A great marketing mind. One of my all time favorite marketing books is The Marketing Imagination. Great Quote from that book: “The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer.” Amen.

Heading to the beach for a week with the Kokomo Kid, Kate, & Jack to celebrate the 4th of July. Happy Birthday America!