Author: Rick Klau

I was fortunate to get an early prototype of GoogleTV over the summer (the Sony stand-alone box). I was particularly happy to see it worked with my existing setup – I have a TiVo HD running through an Onxkyo receiver which is connected to my Samsung TV. I routed the TiVo HDMI connection through the…

We took a brief vacation to Disneyland last week since the kids were off from school on Thursday and Friday. Upon arriving at the park, I checked into Disneyland on Foursquare, and since the Android app prompted me to alert Twitter and Facebook, I opted to route the checkin to those services as well. Photo…

A couple years ago, Brad Feld reached out to me and asked me to be a mentor to TechStars. In 2008, I joined Dick Costolo, my old boss at FeedBurner who’s now the CEO at Twitter, for a two hour session in Boulder that basically told a room full of young start-up founders the story…

Here’s an oldie but goodie, made possible through a relatively recent Gmail enhancement: add your blog to your outgoing messages in Gmail. Wait, what? Back in the FeedBurner days, we were big fans of a feature called Headline Animator. This takes your feed and converts the last 5 posts into a rotating, animated GIF. Lots…

Image via CrunchBase As a new owner of an iPad, I was eager to dive in and get to know the device. A number of co-workers had raved about Flipboard, the “personalized, social magazine” app designed for the iPad. Sure enough, it’s a really fantastic re-imagining of how we can consume content. Briefly, here’s what…

Kevin Kuwik, working w/families of flight 3407Photo by Jerry Zremski, BuffaloNews.com Back in March, I asked those of you in Massachusetts to call Sen. Brown’s office to persuade him to sign on to a bill as a co-sponsor. This was a result of an appeal I received from a friend of mine who I’ve written…

Image by Anirudh Koul via Flickr I’ve been on a genealogy kick lately. Starting about a month ago, I signed up for ancestry.com and started trying to track my family tree. At the time, I had about 120 family members (from a prior attempt at using Geni.com), so I imported that into ancestry.com and got…

In honor of the 4th of July, I went over to Wordle and created a word cloud out of the Declaration of Independence. Kinda cool: (Just in case you’re wondering, this is definitely not the geekiest thing I’ve done for the 4th of July. That’d have to be this.) Happy 4th of July!

Last night I was lucky to be invited to join a group of super smart people at an event hosted by Techdirt (and sponsored by Google). The event was provocatively (and with tongue planted firmly in cheek) titled “Techdirt Saves* Journalism” (see the disclaimer at the bottom of the page for more about the title)…

Just did a quick, unscientific sample of one blog – mine – to better understand where the stuff I write on my blog was producing the most engagement. Though I was peripherally aware of this, the conclusion was nevertheless a bit surprising: by a wide margin, there’s more interaction going on on Buzz than anywhere…