Carl Mercier's blog

Ari Paparo is a founder of Blink.com (RIP), a social bookmarking website, similar to del.icio.us. They raised 13 million dollar, had 1.5M users, yet, they failed where del.icio.us succeeded. The later was acquired by Yahoo! this week, and Blink.com is a bust. Paparo’s article is clear about this: having a great idea is important, but [...]

I really miss the days when I lived in the Boston Area (Brockton to be more precise). Here’s a great view of the house where I lived. Microsoft’s Virtual Earth is still in beta and navigation is somewhat a pain in the neck, but it is definately cooler than Google Maps. Bird’s eye view is [...]