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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

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I am a co-founder of Notches, an early stage startup currently based in NYC. We are building a free, open reviews network that anyone can participate in and anyone can build on top of. You can find out more on our official blog.

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Sep

2008

Announcing the Notches Toolbar

We released the first version of the Notches Toolbar today . From the start, we’ve always felt that reviews need to be delivered contextually and thus have emphasized partnerships over simply aggregating reviews. At the same time, we recognize that partnerships are not always possible for a variety of...

Posted Sep 05 2008, 07:09 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Technology, Startup, Programming, NextNY, Notches

Sep

2008

Friday Fun: Wait, Favre isn’t God?

A church sign in Wisconsin makes an amazing admission that Favre is not, in fact, God. On a related note, I can’t wait for this NFL season. The Giants looked great last night – when I get a chance I’ll post some pictures from the game as well. It’s a little premature, and I’m not saying either team will...

Posted Sep 05 2008, 01:36 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Sports, Friday Fun

Aug

2008

Friday Fun: Betting with weed

Posted Aug 08 2008, 10:37 AM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Friday Fun

Aug

2008

Friday Fun: Fun with Teleprompters, or the Worst Sportscaster Ever

This is just painful to watch. "Passes it to the man, and boom goes the dynamite"

Posted Aug 01 2008, 08:33 AM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Things that amuse me, Friday Fun

Jul

2008

Is Live Mesh constantly crashing? Try removing Silverlight

On two of the four machines I’m running Live Mesh on, I found the Mesh Operating Environment (moe.exe) repeatedly crashing. It was completely stable on the other two machines, but on these two machines it would just crash, restart, and crash again a few minutes later. The crash details were fairly sparse...

Posted Jul 30 2008, 02:51 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, .NET, Knowledge Base

Jul

2008

You don’t change the world with a marginally better mousetrap

For those of you paying attention, Cuil , a new search engine taking aim at Google, launched with much hype. Much of that hype comes from the fact that it was founded by former Google search architect Anna Patterson and her husband, Stanford professor Tom Costello. That hype and good press didn’t last...

Posted Jul 30 2008, 11:40 AM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Rants, Business, Microsoft, Google, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Venture Capital, Facebook

Jul

2008

Revisiting (and rethinking) the Twitter “Pay to Listen” business model

Personally, I thought Charlie was spot on when he said that Sermo’s “Pay to Listen” business model might be the answer for Twitter and similar services. This was before the acquisition of Summize, which Allen thought was a short-sighted move . When Summize presented at the NY Tech meetup , they spoke...

Posted Jul 27 2008, 12:46 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Business, Startup, Twitter

Jul

2008

Friday Fun: Unnecessary Censorship in Sesame Street

Hilarious. ( via Matt Zarzecki )

Posted Jul 25 2008, 02:59 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Things that amuse me, Friday Fun

Jul

2008

The Exaggerated Death of Voicemail

Mike Arrington said “ voicemail is dead ”, and I used to agree. I hated voicemail forever but it was a reality we had to live with. (I’ve made my suggestions in the past on how to leave good voicemail ). The thing that changed that all for me was voice-to-text voicemail conversion. I couldn't live...

Posted Jul 09 2008, 03:37 PM by Tim with no comments

Filed under: Productivity, Business

Jul

2008

Why you SHOULDN’T start a tech company in Silicon Valley

There’s been a bit of back and forth on what the best place to start a technology company is these days. The conventional wisdom these days is that the place to start and run a technology company is Silicon Valley. The key reasons put forth to justify this is money, talent, and expertise. If you’re...

Posted Jul 08 2008, 09:00 AM by Tim with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Rants, Business, Entrepreneurship, NYC, Startup, Venture Capital, NextNY, Notches

Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled

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Announcing the Notches Toolbar

Friday Fun: Wait, Favre isn’t God?

Friday Fun: Betting with weed

Friday Fun: Fun with Teleprompters, or the Worst Sportscaster Ever

Is Live Mesh constantly crashing? Try removing Silverlight

You don’t change the world with a marginally better mousetrap

Revisiting (and rethinking) the Twitter “Pay to Listen” business model

Friday Fun: Unnecessary Censorship in Sesame Street

The Exaggerated Death of Voicemail

Why you SHOULDN’T start a tech company in Silicon Valley

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