I arrived in Tokyo Saturday afternoon (It’s Monday afternoon as I type this). I’m more or less over the jetlag, which actually wasn’t that bad, and I’ve been playing tourist. I’ve never been to Asia before, and Tokyo is an amazing city. The Yamanote train line circles the city, so it’s easy to get around. Yesterday, I did the full circle on the train, walked around Shinjuku and then walked around Shibuya, where my hotel is.

Apologies for the lack of posting. In no particular order, things that I have done recently or will be doing in the not too distant future: I was part of the Recent Innovations in Search and Other Ways of Finding Information panel presented by BayCHI. I appreciated the opportunity to participate. I’ll be in Tokyo next week, participating in a couple of Ask Jeeves Japan events. I’ve never been to Asia, so I’m very excited.

It’s been a busy few weeks; here are some quick highlights: Early this week, we hired Garrett Rooney. Garrett’s super smart and we’re really excited to have him join the team. And most importantly, he’s another Sony PSP player, and we need fresh meat for our Ridge Racer and Wipeout Pure games. On Wednesday, Bloglines announced the ability to track UPS, USPS and FedEx packages. We were working on this when the Askquisition happened, and I’m really happy that we’ve finally been able to release it, as it’s my favorite new feature.

I had a great time at Etech last week and want to thank Marc Hedlund and Tim O’Reilly for the opportunity to speak. I think my presentation went over well, and being that it was the last session of the conference, I was pleasantly surprised at the packed room. Several people asked for a copy, so here it is. Here’s some coverage of my talk: Bloglines Founder - Tips from Startup Life Andrej Gregov’s Weblog: ETech - Bloglines reemer.

Tomorrow morning I’ll be flying down to San Diego to attend ETech. I’m also giving a presentation Thursday afternoon, titled “From the Garage: Lessons Learned Birthing and Building Web Start-Ups”. I’m still putting together the slide deck, but I’m looking forward to it. This is the first time I’ll be giving a technical presentation, and I think it’ll be more fun than the normal “business” presentations I’m used to giving. Plus there’s the bonus of being in San Diego again, which is one of my favorite cities.