Sarah wrote up our Urban Hiking experience for the NY Times small business section. Turns out these Urban Hiking expeditions aren’t just grand adventures. They also help us keep in touch with our contacts. A lot of career advice about networking talks about how you have to spend time maintaining your network. Let me tell you, if you live in the boonies and spend all your time working it takes some explicit action to keep your friends and colleagues from forgetting about you. Plus, ever since I turned my hobby into a business I can’t tell the difference between my work life and my social life.

BoingBoing gave it a mention. Plus we have a write up of the points of interests and some photos.

I think we’ll do another one in august covering some combination of telegraph hill, nob hill, and pacific heights. I want to see parrots and get some history on the city founders. If you can recommend any points of interest in those areas, send them over.

My friend Tim’s company, Infectious.com, just launched. They do vinyl art stickers for your car. For now, the art is from a select group of graffiti artists but eventually anyone will be able to submit art. His original description of the company was tattoos for cars.

They’re easy to apply, last for years, and can be removed without any damage to the car.

If we weren’t flying to NYC tomorrow (and leaving our car behind) we’d apply one immediately. I’m partial to Green Bandana Funk, pictured above.

You can also get more info and some videos from the TechCrunch review.