### Jul 20, 2008 14 tracks - great design and concept - online music sales grouped around concepts of 14TiltViewerTwitter search for "WTF is up with" (via mediaeater)Twitter acquiring SummizePoketoZemantaTrendrrconversational search [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/07/more-things-i-like-lately.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### Jul 8, 2008 TipjoyAdNectarSeedcampBit.lyTinydb (and Quickerly built on top of it)Structuring unstructured data [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/07/things-i-like-lately.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### Jun 17, 2008 Screw all manner of betaworks' objectivity, this is pretty cool - John Geraci:Don’t have time to start a placeblog? Neither do I. But now, thanks to outside.in Radar, Twitter and Summize, we can placetweet. Placetweeting? I’ve got time for that. [...] [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/06/placetweeting.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### Jun 11, 2008 While eating Chicken Adobo at Cendrillion every other day for the past 6 months, we talk constantly about the value of data - how can an application or a technology create value to an existing or new group of users [...] [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/06/velocity-of-data.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### May 4, 2008 This week, I traded alot of emails with a great hacker in Barcelona, had a skype call with a CEO in London, and had lunch on Friday with a South African and a half British/half French guy (at a Filipino [...] [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/05/post-americanism.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### Apr 16, 2008 Paul Graham:The exciting thing about market economies is that stupidity equals opportunity. And so it is in this case. There is a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup investing. Y Combinator funds startups at the very beginning. VCs will fund them [...] [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/04/betaworks-vc.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### Apr 11, 2008 Why did betaworks get involved with someecards? See below - Brook Lundy, co-founder. [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/04/someecardscom.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### Apr 6, 2008 My list of most important apps/products of the last 30 years: * Remote control * MTV circa 1980-84 * Curb-side check in * Caller ID * Email * Instant messaging * iPod 80 gig * EZPass * EpiPen * Metrocards on NYC subways * Suzuki method of teaching guitar * Senduit/Rapidshare/yousendit/megaupload etc etc [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/04/killer-apps.html) --- [Andy Weissman](/content/people/andy-weissman/index.html) – ### Mar 16, 2008 Y Combinator's investor demo day was last week, out in Mountain View, showcasing the latest batch of companies that Paul & Co. have funded and worked with . Kind of blew my mind. Not because I saw 19 very interesting [...] [Read more](http://blog.aweissman.com/2008/03/y-combinator-demo-day.html)