Congrats to Milo

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Toni Schneider

Milo, a startup from True’s portfolio, has a very successful sale to Ebay.

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I found this snapshot the other day – Diane and me, 15 years ago on our wedding day…

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Toni Schneider | 4 Comments

+1 for keeping the web open and universal.

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Toni Schneider | 1 Comment

Springfield Castle

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Toni Schneider

Snapshots from Springfield Castle in Ireland, scene of the 2010 Polldaddy team meetup:

A couple of the original Polldaddies in the wild:

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Privacy

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Toni Schneider

After reading a couple of excellent posts about online identity/privacy by Om Malik and John Battelle, I decided to sign up for Rapleaf to see just what they know and track about me. My reactions:
- Their data about my location, jobs, age, etc is accurate
- Seeing that someone collects that data about me isn’t as creepy as I expected (since it’s all public data I’ve shared elsewhere)
- The interest data they have about me is pretty generic: Music, TV, photo sharing, auctions, online shopping, blogging, business networking, web personalization, social networks (these “interests” fit millions of people, they’re too broad to feel engaging or interesting to me)
- Their influencer score made me want to become more influential :)

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Exciting news

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Toni Schneider

Microsoft partners with Automattic to make WordPress.com the default blogging platform for Windows Live. WordPress.com news blog. Windows Live news blog.

I took this snapshot while waiting to go on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to announce the news:

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Founders build companies, not VCs, not super-angels. Founders.

- Jon Callaghan

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Toni Schneider | 1 Comment

Swiss news

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Toni Schneider

Swiss TV station Tele Zueri featured me in a news story about San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. It was quite the out of body experience to be followed around by a video camera for the day, but Stefan Kaufmann (the reporter) got me to feel comfortable and enjoy myself after a little while. Thank you to Diane and Beau for being extras!

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