Barack Obama and John McCain are going to spend the next two months arguing over the economy, mostly about how to foster innovation. The politicians blame politics. In last Sunday’s New York Times, Cisco & Google engineering executives talked about the same problem. They blame the lack of engineers. Both are right. But the real… Read More
After reading a TechCrunch post on Animoto, the new make-a-music-video-of-your-photos website, we decided to give it a quick shot for one of our own listings, in Bellevue (we had to use a Redfin listing because it’s copyright-infringement to take another broker’s): I wanted to use Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” for the music, but we don’t… Read More
April 24, 2008 addition: Redfin is correcting how it calculates the weighted average in the Redfin Advantage report. Greg Wharton, the general counsel at my last job, liked to answer questions enigmatically. When I asked him if a software pawnshop in Florida was trying to buy us, he would smile and say, “answering that question… Read More
Michael Arrington complains again today that people are overwhelmed with email. Michael cites a venture capitalist who encourages people awaiting his email reply to befriend him on Facebook, but then admits he is even less responsive there. “Someone,” Michael says, “needs to create a new technology that allows us to enjoy our life but not… Read More