clock … watching time, the only true currency

I left OpenDNS in April of this year, after two years helping bring the startup from pre-launch to profitability. I remain a firm believer in the service, and its growth potential.
PCWorld (and every other IDG service) ran this Robert McMillan article yesterday, “VMware Security Chief Leaves to Run OpenDNS,” announcing Nand Mulchandani as the new [...]

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Engineering positions in San Francisco, available now. Even if you’re not an engineer, if you refer someone we hire, there’s a cash reward in it for you ($1K).
(Just in case good karma wasn’t enough.)

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It’s been a few weeks, but I still smile thinking of this movie. Raunchy funny and serious at the same time. I can’t believe some of these lines were said out loud, but here’s one of the safer ones:
I wish I liked anything as much as my kids like bubbles. (Pulled from IMDB)

Metacritic score of [...]

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You know how it’s hard to write something brief sometimes?
We’ve worked hard to make shortcuts come alive.
The power of DNS just got a lot easier to explain. Sure, you don’t need to care about DNS itself, but shortcuts are something you can see, something you can use…almost something you can touch. After improving life behind [...]

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On Tuesday, when David announced 100 billion DNS queries for OpenDNS, the chart was enhanced with a dancing banana. Go ahead, click through and see.
Back yet?
Good. Now compare the dancing banana to Snappy, the dancing logo of the original Snap.com, shared here. (Thanks to David, Snappy loops continually now.)
This is before Snap became NBC [...]

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On Tuesday afternoon, KPIX, the local San Francisco/Bay Area CBS affiliate ran a ConsumerWatch segment called “Faster Internet For Free?” They didn’t need the question mark, because this was about OpenDNS. (Yes, I’m biased.) It was a good description of DNS, which isn’t easy for a non-technical audience. Kudos to Allison for convincing the CBS [...]

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When I met Matt for lunch, I didn’t realize we’d wrap up with podcast #7. Apologies for the sound. Matt’s looking for a better device. Being outside the restaurant, on Mission Street, didn’t help. But this was fun all the same.

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I’m using my blog as a testbed for something new cooked up by Aaron and Noah. If you visit my blog at http://www.pencoyd.com/clock/ (instead of just reading via the RSS feed), you’ll see a yellow button on the right-hand side of the page, under the heading “Are you using OpenDNS?”
The button has two states: one [...]

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Back in my early days online, AOL went from the rising upstart (behind Prodigy and CompuServe, which it later bought) to the behemoth…before the Internet wave swamped most of the pre-Internet online services. A few of the early folks with content areas and services on AOL rode the wave, kept building their audience, adapted to [...]

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OK, I’m biased. But I think OpenDNS CacheCheck is remarkable. Very simple, sure: you can see what address OpenDNS has for a domain, and ask OpenDNS to refresh that address if it’s not correct. Nothing more. Read what I wrote on the OpenDNS blog for more.
But if it’s so simple, how come no one has [...]

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