I know I’ve been off of the radar since I left MySpace, and I’m happy to finally be able to talk about my newest project: gravity.com.  We’re officially out of stealth now, and it is a great feeling to be able to now talk about something I have been pouring my heart and soul into over the past six months.  We’ve assembled an amazing team here, and today we’re unveiling the site and the problem we are tackling.

The online conversation space has been historically undeserved, with outdated tools that create fragmented and unwieldy discussions.  Our mission is to help people engage in meaningful conversations about their passions.  Be it gadgets, cooking, Voltron, or whatever you may fancy, Gravity will provide users with a place to have discourse with other people who share their interests.  Traditional tools like forums, group email lists, and collaborative blogs haven’t offered users with simple, functional, and fun way to interact and share.  When we talk about what we’ve built, we like to describe it as a turn-based conversation site.  This isn’t about allowing for chatter, but instead about creating a destination where we provide a framework for people to better share and communicate.  We’re focused on building out the Interest Graph for the web to help people connect with their passions and discover people and topics that are personally relevant.  Additionally, we’re embracing the distributed nature of the web, current movements in open API’s and technology, and are looking at how we open up our technology while inter-operating with others.

Please check out this TechCrunch post that delves into more detail on the company and our mission, and be sure to follow us on Twitter at: @gravity.  This is an exciting moment for me personally and professionally, and I can’t wait to share more about the project, and more importantly, give everyone a chance to play with the product and tell me what you think.

I made the trek back to New Haven to catch up with old friends and enjoy the grand tradition that is the Harvard Yale Football game.  Unfortunately, we lost this year, but I didn’t even ever make it inside the stadium and out of the tailgates.  Then again, “The Game” has never been about the game…

For this Halloween, I went as half of a Double Dare duo, which was a fairly fantastic last-minute costume that we put together at the mall hours before the celebration.  We encountered many other excellent costumes as the night went on, and good times were had by all.

Last weekend I made the trek up to San Francisco to spend 3 days in Golden Gate Park enjoying some great (and occasionally not enjoying not-so-great) music. Thievery Corporation, Blind Pilot, Bat for Lashes, M.I.A., Conor Oberst, and Band of Horses were definitely the highlights. It was an exhausting time, but in the most wonderful way.

I recently took my first trip to Vancouver pretty much on a whim, and it was a wonderful moment of spontaneity. I felt that the city combined the best elements of San Francisco with the choice parts of Brooklyn and wrapped it in a unique flair. The scenery, people, and food were all fantastic, and it whet my appetite to return again to explore the city more deeply.

Here are some various audio/visual artifacts from the trip: