All posts by Mark

I’m the founder of The Hawaii Project, a new book discovery engine. Previously I was responsible for Product Strategy and Product Management at Telenav, after they acquired goby. Prior to that I was the ceo of Goby, since acquired by Telenav. Before that I did time at Endeca, PTC, Netezza, Evans & Sutherland in a variety of R&D, professional services and business development roles. When I’m not obsessing over work, I’m a proud husband and father of two great kids, love to play tennis, am a compulsive reader and book collector, and am really into way too many different kinds of music. (What’s with the Viking you might ask? While the vikings were known to split a skull or two, I mean more the verb than the noun, as in “to go adventuring” in the sense of the Old Norse fara í víking. I’ve always been interested in the vikings and started using viking2917 as a handle to avoid spammers way back when, and have just kept using it….)

What I’m listening to…

Who knew? Right in my back yard, Dispatch had a concert in Cambridge a few years back, that drew 100,000 people. Never had heard of them. I’m sitting in a nice restaurant in Gloucester (http://alchemybistro.com/) after wandering the harbor, and this really hypnotic music is on…it’s Phish! No wait? It’s Al Dimeola! (e.g. “Passerby”) Who is this?? The server blandly informs me it’s Dispatch. Never heard of ’em, but it’s pretty good. Come home, talking to my son, he’s like “Oh yeah. Check out State Radio. And check out this website: http://www.dispatchmusic.com/dispatch.html – you can listen to the whole thing”….nice. Now I just can’t turn it off 8). And, strangely enough, an acoustic guitarist I admire (but who is not well known), Phil Keaggy, is playing Al Dimeola-like electric guitar with them live. Who knew?

Hingham to Scituate

Took a sail with my friend M- on the good ship Bella…from Hingham down to Scituate….12-15k winds, a fine sunny day, good food, good beer….all I had was my crappy cell phone camera, but… http://www.flickr.com/photos/40968444@N00/tags/scituate/ there are some shots anyway, plus a *very* rough map… http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=42.280357,-70.817184&spn=0.222514,0.462799&t=h&z=11&om=1&msid=107006297205264855906.00043657029a03cf530f2