Eric Frenkiel

Forbes 30 under 30

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:21:17 -0800

exciting!

Do I need a network of social networks?

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:37:20 -0700

With Google+ now competing for my attention on my phone and desktop, I’m starting to feel like I’m crammed into a phonebooth (remember those?) with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and now Google+.

Friends are updating Google+ but not Facebook, and of course I need to manage my professional network on LinkedIn, and I certainly use Twitter to blast out new blog posts, while simultaneously updating Facebook and LinkedIn. And now Google+. (Of course, I am not even acknowledging Foursquare and Quora).

Where does it end? Will someone please create a network to manage all these networks (no, please don’t, put down that Expo marker and back away from the whiteboard).

I suppose what I’m trying to say is that at some point, it’s all together too much. I can only click on so many “Like”, “Share”, “Tweet”, and “1+” buttons. That, my friends, is indicative of a much larger problem.

Speaking of friends, I now have 1,004 on Facebook. On Google+? 14. Fourteen friends I actually talk to every other day and see every weekend. How refreshing in many ways.

You know what the #1 feature on Google+ is?

Instant photo upload.

All my friends will confirm that I’m positively the worst photo-sharer ever. I have a 32 gb card that has more than 2,000 photos (and videos) across a 6 month time frame. When the card is finally full, I will kick-off Photopalooza for 3 days of non-stop tagging, commenting, photo-albuming “fun.”

With Google+, I don’t have to do a thing to share photos. And it feels glorious.

iPad 2, it wasn't meant to be

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:19:51 -0700

After weeks of waiting, I’ve given up on getting the iPad. Apparently people are still queueing up at 5 AM in front of Apple stores in Palo Alto and Stanford Shopping Center.

While the iPad 2 is thinner, the upgrades are so minimally incremental, I’ve decided to wait for the iPad 3. Hopefully it will be a better leap forward (I was never a fan of the antiquated 4:3 screen ratio and its 1024x768 resolution).

But, I’ve always been a huge fan of Android. Friends of mine can attest I have a thick skin when it comes to peculiar devices like my Dell Streak, which is a cell phone with a five inch screen.

And now to much delight I’ve found my next device: a Jekyll & Hyde tablet/netbook called the Asus Eee Transformer.

Pros: it’s a ten inch tablet running Android 3.0, $100 less than the comparable iPad, runs Flash in 720p, and with its attachable keyboard, it can get 16 hours of battery life.

Cons: Wouldn’t you know it, it’s out of stock. But this time I pre-ordered it =)

Lal hq

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:20:01 -0700

Lal hq

How unfortunate Grizzly clearly doesn’t know how to bend...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:35:11 -0700

How unfortunate Grizzly clearly doesn’t know how to bend at the knee to pass under chairs.

"Fortes fortuna adiuvat."

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:24:22 -0700

“Fortes fortuna adiuvat.”

Grizzly in the bath

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:21:30 -0700

Grizzly in the bath

Hello World

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:33:56 -0700

Tired of Wordpress’ clunkiness; looking forward to giving tumblr a whirl!