Broback's Blog

Been playing with oldtweets, which searches an archive of the first year of statuses posted on Twitter. Makes it easy to see who tweeted what first. Was pleasantly surprised to see an old conference cohort of mine — Jeffrey Veen, was the first person to tweet the word “Seattle.” Not only that, that it mentions […]

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For years now, the bulk of my reading has been done via an ipod shuffle, which on a daily basis ingests audio versions of The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and long emails I don’t want to print out. Thanks to the built in text-to-speech capabilities of the Macintosh, I can now “read” just about […]

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According to Google, this specific text string has never been indexed. Let me (happily) be the first to create such a unique entry. More to come.

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Right in the same building where we do our banking is Thinkspace, a new company that offers executive suites and other services to budding eastside entrepreneurs. I took a tour recently and was very impressed with the space and the operation behind it. The founder, Peter Chee has a blog where he frequently posts about […]

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