Category Archives: tech

The sky is not falling

Posted on August 20, 2011 by kfarr

I am writing to share some reactions to Claire Cain Miller’s piece in the New York Times, “Silicon Valley Booms but Worries About a New Bust.” I met Claire at the Founder Showcase event she mentions in her article and … Continue reading →

Posted in econ, internets, media, tech, work | Tagged boom, bust, farr, fundraising, gross margin, kfarr, kieran, new york, new york times, nyt, nytimes, quote, saas, silicon valley | 4 Comments

Fetch OAuth Authenticated YouTube API Version 2.0 Requests with GData-Python-Client, Including Insight

Posted on October 26, 2010 by kfarr

We’ve been using Google’s GData-Python-Client library to connect our VidCaster client accounts to YouTube, which allows for neat operations like importing* and exporting of video. A key component of VidCaster is to provide simple aggregated video analytics to our users, … Continue reading →

Posted in tech, work | Tagged analytics, api, client library, csv, django, gdata, google, insight, oauth, online video, python, python-gdata-client, statistics, stats, v20, version 2, vidcaster, video, youtube | Leave a comment

My First Hail Using Cabulous

Posted on October 27, 2009 by kfarr

I’ve been advising the team working on Cabulous, a new mobile location-enabled app that makes it easier for cabbies to advertise their locations — and for passengers to find them. I drove last Saturday and helped with an early beta … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, taxi, tech | Tagged android, app, application, at&t, blackberry, ca, cab, cabbie, cabulous, california, gps, gps-enabled, hail, iphone, location, location-aware, location-enable, mobile application, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab, taxis, transit, transportation, web | 4 Comments

Thoughts on group ownership with unfunded startups

Posted on August 14, 2008 by kfarr

Good news! Steve and I finally released our website, VidSF.com, to the public. More good news! We had a great initial meeting with content producers. We recruited them via craigslist and we made absolutely clear that a) we are unfunded … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, media, tech | Tagged boot, bootstrap, bootstrapped, san francisco, sf, startup, strap, unfunded, vid, vidsf | 5 Comments

Adobe hands On2 a fat wad of cash in the form of proprietary video codec support.

Posted on June 19, 2008 by kfarr

As a form of advanced procrastination, I did a great deal of research on Flash video codecs this morning. I was spurred by reaction to a presentation I made last night where a young lady quite bluntly said, “You can … Continue reading →

Posted in tech | Tagged adobe, cash, command, command line, compression, conversion, convert, cow, decoder, encoder, encoding, fat, ffmpeg, flash, flv, formats, line, linux, macromedia, mechanism, method, mux, on2, online, php, proprietary, python, royalties, unix, video, vp6, vp6e, vp6f, vp6vfw.dll, wad, wars | 4 Comments

Robots are better at space exploration than humans.

Posted on May 28, 2008 by kfarr

As many close friends can attest, I dream of the future human colonization of planets in our solar system and beyond. Ah, how I stew in the romance of this idea. After doing some math prompted by lively debate on … Continue reading →

Posted in econ, tech | Tagged automation, colonization, colony, costs, exploration, explore, explorer, fly, investment, jet, jpl, land, lander, mars, nasa, outer, output, phoenix, planet, propulsion, red, return, robots, rover, space, surveyor, usa | Leave a comment

Last.fm + iPod = Profit?

Posted on May 14, 2008 by kfarr

Last.fm is a top-rate music streaming service that suggests music based on your previous last.fm plays, songs you play in iTunes (“scrobbling”), and songs your friends like. But, it’s frustratingly tied to your computer. You have to listen to via … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, media, tech | Tagged app, apple, applet, based, browser, cast, classic, download, feed, flash, ipod, itunes, last.fm, mac, mp3, music, online, pc, pod, podcast, rss, scrobble, scrobbler, scrobbling, stream, streaming, tied | 2 Comments

Driving

Posted on May 9, 2008 by kfarr

Sunday was a busy day in the City, Monday was busy enough as usual, but Tuesday early morning was dead. It was very difficult to get orders and I was afraid I would go home with less than $100 take-home … Continue reading →

Posted in happiness, taxi, tech, work | Tagged 2-way, 2-way radio, bathroom, break, broadcast, cab, cabbie, central, channel, channels, dispatch, dispatching, driving, duplex, emotions, experience, feelings, full-duplex, graveyard, half-duplex, handheld, happiness, kma, living, living wage, mcdonald's, mic, motorola, night, order, pee, psychology, psychotherapy, radio, san francisco, sf, shift, starbucks, stories, story, tales, taxi, tips, transmission, uhf, urine, vhf, wage | 1 Comment

Finally, I see a relevant advertisement on Facebook.

Posted on April 8, 2008 by kfarr

So, Facebook knows my favorite TV shows, my favorite authors, my favorite music, my zip code, telephone number, gender, age, work history, education history, friends and personal pictures. Given all this information, you’d think that Facebook would be able to … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, marketing, tech | Tagged ads, advertisements, agencies, agency, book, capital, digital, face, facebook, fb, funding, internet, internets, media, nbc, office, online, over, overvalued, shows, spending, tech, the office, tv, valley, valleywag, valuation, valued, vc, venture, zuckerburg | Leave a comment

Making a complex customized Django form template? Remember to include form.non_field_errors!

Posted on April 4, 2008 by kfarr

This drove me crazy for about 30 minutes. If you’re making a heavily customized form template with Django, the newforms documentation suggests this format: But, if you do any sort of non-field specific (form-level) validation, those validation messages won’t be … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, tech | Tagged 0.96, attribute, dev, django, error, field, field specific, form, form wide, form-level, form.as_ul, form.errors, form.errors.all, form.field_errors, forms, forms.ValidationError, level, message, new forms, newforms, non, non-field, non-field-specific, non-specific, non_field_errors, python, release, specific, svn, validation, validationerror, validator | 13 Comments