Comments on: Angel Funded In A Loo http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/ Fri, 24 May 2013 16:18:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ookles Blog » Ten things I can tell TechCrunch about Ookles http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113583 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:03:12 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113583 [...] That funding got confirmed in Om Malik’s bathroom. [...]

]]> By: Ookles Blog » Meditating on the Om effect http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113582 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:37:48 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113582 [...] Check out the huge jump in visits to Ookles.com on Friday; Scott calls it the “Om effect.” Thanks again, Om! [...]

]]> By: FuzzyBlog » Blog Archive » Good to be home and WP 2.0 Stats Rock http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113581 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:01:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113581 [...] So that said I wanted to publicly thank Matt and the WordPress.com team for the new Stats feature.  Now on January 19 Om Malik blogged about Ookles here.  So here is the scoop on the “Om Effect”: [...]

]]> By: Ookles Blog » Flushed with success http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113580 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:53:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113580 [...] Holy jumping blogmetrics! Om Malik’s blogpost “Scott Johnson just got funding in my bathroom” (and some funny comments at SiliconBeat and elsewhere) have set off a flood of traffic to Ookles.com. [...]

]]> By: mathewingram.com/work http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113579 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:02:51 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113579 Web 2.0 is one big party — if you live in SF

Om Malik has a great Silicon Valley story about how Scott Johnson — ex of Feedster  — closed an angel investment for his new company Ookles  (top secret) while sitting in Om’s bathroom, as the blogger and his podcast partner Niall Ke...
]]> By: Bob Aman http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113578 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:01:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113578 As I said on Sam Ruby’s page (and I’m now even more certain of this), I don’t buy the whole “embrace and extend” paranoia about Apple’s photocasting situation.

Hanlon’s Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Certainly, there is some danger here, as I’m sure Dave realizes. But it’s just an issue with not enough community interaction as a result of the quest for secrecy. Given enough pressure, I’m optimistic that future products have a good chance of having their RSS/Atom validated before they try to ship it. With any luck, the iPhoto/iTunes guys might confer with the Safari guys about how feeds are supposed to work, or (perhaps this is too much to hope) with, say Mark Pilgrim, under NDA.

]]> By: Dave Raymond http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113577 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:39:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113577 I used to work with Scott Johnson at a startup in Cambridge MA and I walked into the bathroom on more than one occasion to hear him talking on his phone while taking care of his other business, not surprised to hear him at it again!!

]]> By: Brian Oberkirch http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113576 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:07:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113576 Your mention of a San Francisco brought a smile to my face. As I was recounting one of my recent trips, I was telling someone — “What’s it like to be there? You actually see Om Malik bebopping down the street.”

]]> By: Dave McClure http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113575 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:59:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113575 “Ookles!” (oo’-kulz) (n.): (1) the sound made by an entrepreneur after relieving himself; (2) the exclamation made by the same entrepreneur upon closing a round of funding.

congrats scott.

om, nice… uh… “scoop”.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113574 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:39:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/san-francisco-day/#comment-113574 Sanjay,

All I can say is you have battle scar, and wear it with pride. Hey you have done a company, i just write about the stuff. big difference.

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