Peter Chun

Chris Sacca. Remember his name because whatever he’s accomplished is likely what you wish you did too.

Chris heads Google’s team of Special Initiatives. This could arguably be the best gig ever. The haters are everywhere and I can’t per say disagree with them - but isn’t that just being jealous?

He’s working on a couple of things now:

• Get SF free wi-fi
• He’s got alot of cash
• Betting $4.6B of Google’s cash on double “0″s - (or wireless spectrum)
• He’s got alot of cash
• Investing in photobucket (not on Google time)
• But he’s got alot of cash

“Chris Sacca, Google’s do-nothing wonderboy, has updated his Facebook status: “Chris is glad his company lets him do crazy things in hopes of changing the world.” Or sit around blathering in meetings and never actually accomplishing anything. Conveniently hard to tell the difference.” - Valleywag

Here’s what he looks like too so you can either give him pound or flip him the bird:

Just a matter of time…

Here’s to hoping a2dp gets unlocked through a software update. My take is a2dp will be unlocked when Apple releases their own version.

Nomad posted some pics on his flickr page that he sent over to TUAW.

It looks pretty svelte. Leave it to apple to make a plain black bluetooth headset look so good. FYI Steve - the Kool-Aid works.

TUAW states: ‘It’s packaged in a black, minimalist box, as expected. Inside is the headset itself, a combo dock (accommodates the iPhone and headset) with USB cable and a travel cable for the headset only.’

Image credit to Gizmodo

a) the merger goes through.

b) the merger goes through.

Caveat (all good deals have them) - this will only include a combo of 50 of their channels and a quarter to add another one.

According to various sources (I’ll quote the giz here because I’m using their nifty PS image.)
This should allow users to not have to pick and choose between NHL, Nascar and MLB or as I should restate - Howard vs. all.

Image credit goes to Gizmodo.

Just picked up a pair of these earlier today from the fine folks over @ DQM. It’ll run you a buck nine with no tax.

This is my first pair of p-rod’s and I must say they are solid. Cred to Brandon for planting this sneaker in my brain and Mark for making his purchase trigger mine.

Mike Arrington and crew hot off of a spending spree has been in a gift giving Christmas in July mood.  TechCrunch is giving away 50 oooma units.  Hold on - I’ll explain what that is and yes Ashton Kutcher is the creative director for the company so stay  tuned for the viral vids to start rolling out…

Ooma is a new service set to kick off in September, where they use a peer model to make domestic calls in the US free.  No fee - just a hardware cost.  That will run you about 4 bones.  So hardware upfront - no hidden fees or fees on the backend.  Read more about TC’s post here.

Simply comment and if you have a funny story - one of 50 is yours.  I filled one out.

I’ll post unboxing pics and brief review if I win one.

According to Valleywag, Business 2.0 may be closing shop with September being the rumored last issue.

“Business 2 editors (at least one) have told writers they are not assigning any stories for the October issue because the mag’s last issue will be September.”

I have a soft spot for this magazine. Call it what you will, this magazine (and others) was responsible for me getting my shit together and also getting me into the line of work I am in now. The maxim, details and Perfect 10’s turned into Business 2.0, Fast Company, Red Herring and Calcanis’ own Silicon Alley.

Best of luck to the 2.0 crew.

Ok - So I admit…I’m a fan of the transformers. But that’s because I was just a kid and was really smart and could recite Korean folk tales like it was nothing. I did like Leo and the thundercats…Adam and his incestuous love for Teela and her Father but Transformers were the bomb ish - for me. Obviously many share this dream and a lucky person on ebay forked over $1M large for the complete collection.

• 275 Total Transformers
• 101 Autobots
• 81 Decepticons
• 92 Licensed Products

That’s pretty ridiculous. That’s also pretty dope.

Some, if not many of you have checked out Google’s new “street view” functionality on Google maps. If not, you’re missing out and it’s vv cool. Once you load a map, click on the little blue guy (only works in certain markets, check NYC results)

So it looks like Google is ready to tackle the rest of the major roads in all of USA. Here’s a pic of the lot of cars spotted by a friendly snooping neighborhood spiderman.

The actual read can be viewed from our homiez over at the Giz. They have a nice array of pics and none of the pics were stuffed down Brian’s shorts either.

Thanks to my buddy Mark and a few cats from OH, my old school love for kicks (or as my boy L from baltimore calls them “tennis”) is in full fledge mayhem. I’ve been picking up a variety of “heat” as of late but have been waiting on these in particular:

Also - shout out to Quincy Smith for making massive moves and doing it in style. More details here.

Remember…he’s just beginning….

Publisher shopping seems to be the latest craze. But when you think of it, why not? Both purchases for the most part make sense, strengthen some existing business or fuel a new business opportunity right?

So the details around the deal are as follows:

• 100M all cash
• $352M deal all in contingent on performance goals (unclear whether this is in cash or stock)

MeziMedia is mostly known for their CouponMountain property in the US, but smarter.com is picking up speed. I wasn’t aware that MeziMedia ranked that high in the shopping category.

It will be interesting to see how the integration plan rolls out and if the smarter.com brands will integrate with the Pricerunner brands as well. Looks like they have some redundancies here but potential bigger issues with conflicts of interests. Inventory’s becoming a bigger issue for affiliate networks in general, but I guess time will tell.

Nonetheless, congrats to Talmadge & Harry. You can read the release here.