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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Does 2nd Deployment in Ethiopia
--I love the One Laptop per Child project so much. Being able to expand the horizons of young minds… showing them the world through the Web is...
Library of Congress Photo of the Week - Pres. Wilson addressing Congress
--In the Library of Congress’ recent upload of photos to Flickr, I found this gem. It’s one of President Wilson address Congress between...
Micah Baldwin on Who’ll Survive the Economic Downturn
--My friend Micah Baldwin has got a great blog post about who’ll survive the economic downturn that we’re experiencing right now. I thin...
A Little Fun at Clearspring
--On Friday, we were having fun at Clearspring playing some foosball so I decided to make a little video. Enjoy! &#...
Happy Wednesday - Widget the World Watcher
--Here at Clearspring, we’re big into helping people share widgets. So when one of my co-workers found this YouTube video about Widget the Wor...
What Facebook/Social App Do You Use Often?
--Appssavvy’s recent round of investment made me rethink about the question… What Facebook/social app do you use often? For me, it̵...
Speaking at NonProfit 2.0 Workshop in Washington, DC
--Guys, I’m going to be speaking at the workshop NonProfit 2.0 on October 27th from 3pm to 6pm. If you’re working at a non-profit, this ...
Twitter, Retweeting, and Sharing
--The social Web has really redefined the Web in a way that we haven’t really seen since the onset of online search. People are using their on...
Take Notes About Who You Meet and Then Follow Up… Building Community
--Regardless of whether your a politician or a hockey mom, throughout your life, you’re going to be meeting people and building a community aro...
Broadcasting My Sister’s Wedding Live on Ustream
--I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of broadcasting events live over the Web but never really had the opportunity. When I jokingly sug...
Where is your community? That’s where you need to be.
--I talk to a lot of folks. They ask me, “there are all these social media tools. I’m not sure where my company and I need to be.”...
Got a Ticket for Future of Web Apps Miami in February 2009
--Today, the cool kids at Carsonified released 100 conference tickets for $100 and 20 conference/workshop tickets for $200 for their Future of Web Ap...
A Great Way to Alientate or Even Lose Friends
--I love this blog. I love that I have a venue where I can really dig deep into my life experiences and try and extract out some kind of lesson or m...
BarCampDC2 Draws 30 Sponsors of All Shapes and Sizes
--I’m SO proud of the Washington DC tech/social media/web community. We’ve been working on BarCampDC2 for the last few months… spe...
Clearspring CEO Hooman Radfar on “Clearspring + AddThis = Universal Sharing”
--So… as you all know, this morning, Clearspring announced its acquistion of AddThis. Well our CEO Hooman Radfar has just recently published a...
Clearspring Acquires AddThis
--Big news today at Clearspring HQ. We’ve acquired the bookmark and content sharing service AddThis, the button thats frickin’ all over ...
Fitting Into My Routine
--I’m a classic early adopter. I love to try new things. Especially with my current job, I’m getting private beta codes to new Web apps...
Be Inclusive
--At Clearspring, a big part of my job has been traveling the country and meeting members of entrepreniual /web/technology communities and figuring o...
BarCampDC2 Tickets Runout in 2+ Days
--Whoa… so we opened up registration for BarCampDC2 at 8pm on Monday. It’s now sold out… two and a half days later. There are no ...
In Austin, TX Starting Wednesday Through Saturday
--I’m going to be in Austin, TX for the TechCrunch party and other business from Wednesday through Saturday. I’d love to meetup with oth...
BarCampDC2 Registration Opens Tonight around 8pm
--Well, I’ve had a lot of people ask me, “When is the next BarCamp going to be in DC?” We had such a tremendous amount of positive ...
Read Clearspring’s Widget White Paper
--Ever wonder what a widget is and why you should care? Well, I was lead writer on a white paper that we wrote here at Clearspring on that very topi...
Has the Web Standards & Web Accessibility Movement Lost Its Mojo?
--Was just reminiscing… Remember the good old days when it’d be just so much fun to sit around and talk about things like Web standards ...
Current TV to Mash Together Twitter with the Presidential Debates
--Current TV and Twitter are doing something really cool for the Presidential debates. Current TV is going to overlay people’s Twitter comment...
Rad Content + Shareability = Recipe for Virality
--Over the weekend, we saw something really neat. Saturday Night Live did an amazingly funny skit about Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. They made ...
100 Invites for JamLegend… Get One While You Can
--In case you missed the comment on my last post, my boys at JamLegend have just given me 100 invites for their game which is in private beta. Use th...
JamLegend - Rock out with this game that’s Guitar Hero meets Scrabulous
--Music is definitely a major part of my life. Whether it’s bobbing my head with my headphones plugged into my iPhone or when I’m at a co...
Time To Rally Together Again for the Victims of Hurricane Ike
--(Photo by Alex-S) I can’t imagine waking up one morning and finding out that you have to leave your home and head for safety. I can’t ...
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) to Restart the Give 1 Get 1 Program on November 17th via Amazon.com
--If you’re a long time reader of this blog, you know that I’m a HUGE supporter of what the folks at One Laptop per Child are doing. Pre...
Hear Me Demo Clearspring’s Widget Platform Launchpad at Startup SF Tomorrow
--Tomorrow, I’m demoing Clearspring’s widget platform Launchpad at Startup SF. If you’re in San Francisco, would love to see you t...
Apple iPhone Data Network Still Spotty 12 Hours Later
--So… as many of you experienced this morning, it seems as if data network that is used by the Apple iPhone went down this morning. It’s...
Joe Corbett’s Video Reports from New Orleans Amidst Hurricane Gustav
--Peter Corbett’s brother Joe is down in New Orleans where he decided to shelter in place during Hurricane Gustav. They still have power and I...
Capt. Von Krosigk - This Week in Library of Congress Photos
--This week the Library of Congress has uploaded another batch of great photos to their Flickr account. The one above of Capt. Von Krosigk especiall...
Wednesday Meetup at Peregrine Espresso in Capitol Hill, Washington DC
--So in place of Murky Coffee’s Capitol Hill location, we’ve gotten Peregrine Espresso, which opened to the world this weekend. I’m...
Hurricane Gustav Information Portal on Ning
--Washington DC-based Andy Carvin has setup a social network on Ning to act as a center of information sharing around Hurricane Gustav. An online com...
Donate to Help Those Who’ll be Hurt by Hurricane Gustav
--Friends, Hurricane Gustav is bearing down on the Southeast United States. It’s a massive storm with winds currently around 115 mph. This i...
TechCrunch Redesigned - Who Knew?
--Wednesday, TechCrunch wrote a blog post say essentially, “as most of you have already seen, TechCrunch launched a redesign.“ Well, I d...
Washington DC’s JamLegend Featured in TechCrunch
--Congrats to Andrew, Arjun, and Ryan, from Washington DC-based Web start-up JamLegend. Yesterday, their company was featured in leading Web 2.0 blo...
Shel Israel’s “7 Tips for new Twitter Users”
--A lot of my friends and co-workers have been dipping their toe in the Twitter pool. They hear me and others talk about it and want to give it a wh...
Threadless Uses Their Prints Packaging Tube To Show Their Personality
--I’m definitely a fan of the online community t-shirt company Threadless. They recently launched a new product… Prints. It’s some...
I Heart Pandora
--A bunch of us here at Clearspring are really bummed that the online music radio provider Pandora may be facing extinction due to a massive hike in ...
Grab the I’m Attending SXSW Badge
--At Clearspring, we’re getting pretty excited about SXSW coming up in March of next year. So… we made a badge for those of you who̵...
Write Your Customers Love Letters
--So… I’ve been thinking more and more about how you can “make love to your customers.“ I was really blown away during my las...
This Week in Library of Congress Photos
--The Library of Congress has put up some really awesome photos on Flickr this week. I thought I’d highlight a couple of them. This one is of ...
Follow Clearspring’s CEO Hooman Radfar on Twitter
--As you know, I’m a big fan of Twitter as a way to talk to and listen to your personal community. Well I’ve been having this conversatio...
WordCamp: Achieving sustainable virality means not being a dick
--Just sat in a really good session by Ben Huh. He’s one of the dudes behind I Can Haz Cheezburger. His talk was entitled “LOLcats and ...
WordCamp, Widgets, and Blogs… Oh My!
--So… today I’m at WordCamp (the WordPress conference). It’s cool to see so much energy around blogging and how to take blogging i...
Listen to the Love Doctor Saul Colt About How to Master Customer Service
--As part of my crazy adventures traveling around the country, one of the people i’ve gotten to know and have developed a friendship with is Sa...
Don’t close the door on an opportunity without peaking your head through first…
--I’ve been having a lot of conversations with folks about oppotunities in their lives. What frustrates me is when I see them having opportuni...
My Thoughts on the Facebook iPhone App
--I’m surprised the more folks aren’t writing about the different iPhone apps. Thought maybe I’d put down some notes about the dif...
The State Department Embraces Social Media; What’s the Overall Strategy?
--The US State Department about a month ago wrote a blog post about all the different ways that they’re moving to embrace social media. ItR...
Library of Congress Flickr Photo of the Week - Where Wilson “will be” sworn in, East Front of Capitol
--I found this photo in the recent upload of Library of Congress photos to Flickr. I thought it was pretty cool so I figured I would share it with y...
Random Photos from My New York City Adventures
--Friends, here are some random photos from my New York City adventures. All of these photos were taken on my iPhone. You can find them all on my F...
Shameless Plug - Please Vote for My SXSW Panels
--It’s that time of year again where we all make shameless plugs for our South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) Festival panels that we propose...
Using iPhone GPS in NYC
--Now I feel like I’m pretty good at finding my way around cities that I’ve never been to before but I don’t mind an aid to help m...
We’re a Family of Bloggers…
--It just dawned on me that my entire family is now blogging. :-D This rocks. My dad was the first one to start a blog. You can find him on his pe...
Dr. Mark Drapeau is Bringing Social Media into the Defense Department
--One of the cool people that I have met and become friends with on my many adventures is Dr. Mark Drapeau or cheeky_geeky as he is called on Twitter...
In NYC - SocialMediaCamp and Mashable Party
--As I reported over on the Clearspring Blog (which I hope you’re all reading), I’m in NYC this week. There are a few parties and a Socia...
Library of Congress/Flickr Commons Highlighted in USA Today
--This made my morning. Flickr’s Commons project, which the Library of Congress helped to get off the ground and that I helped with from the L...
Happy Friday - “Social Networking Wars”
--A co-worker just sent this to me and it almost made me shoot espresso out my nose. It’s that funny. Thought I’d share it with all of ...
Library of Congress Launches National Book Festival Author Interview Podcasts on iTunes
--I’m really really pumped about this announcement. It’s been in the works for a LONG time. I remember when I was there and we were ju...
The Pandora iPhone App and the Death of the Radio
--So this morning I waited in line to get the brand new iPhone 3G. For those of you who just have to know, I opted for the black 16 gig version. One...
Random Thoughts from Facebook’s F8…
--So I’m here in San Francisco at Facebook’s F8 conference. At the beginning of the afternoon, everyone filed into the main auditorium ro...
Washington DC-based LivingSocial Raises $5 Million
--My friends and the Washington DC-based LivingSocial company just raised $5 million dollars. Congrats guys!!! LivingSocial, a company that started ...
Yes, We’re Planning BarCampDC2.
--I get asked about once a week “So… when is the next BarCamp in DC?” Well, I’m excited to announced that we are planning Ba...
iPhone Craziness in San Francisco…
--So on the way back from a meeting in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco, I strolled by the flag ship Apple Store on Market Street. On my way t...
Congrats to Matt & the Crew from Socialthing! for Getting Acquired by AOL!
--Congrats to CEO Matt Galligan and the crew at Socialthing! TechCrunch is reporting that they have been acquired by AOL! AOL is getting into the lif...
Washington Post’s Blog Profile of Washington DC-based Company Social Cash
--There is a really great profile of Washington DC-based company Social Cash in the Washington Post blog The Wash Biz Blog. And that’s in part ...
So What Does Lansing City Mayor Virg Benero Have To Hide?
--I lived in Lansing, MI for 18+ years. My parents still live in Lansing. It’s safe to say that I was concerned when I heard about gang viole...
Congrats to Digg for NOT Making an iPhone App!
--Seems like a lot of companies are jumping on the “We have to create an iPhone App bandwagon”, whether it makes sense or not. Well I wan...
Congrats to Geoff Livingston & Livingston Communications for getting Acquired
--Congrats to Geoff Livingston and everyone at Livingston Communications about being acquired. Some of you may have seen the news today. I’ve sold Li...
On my way to San Francisco…
--So yeah… I’m sitting here in Dulles Airport on my way to San Francisco. I’m kind of excited. I’m taking Virgin America. T...
Much Love for the Seattle Web Community!
--So I’ve been in Seattle the last couple of days for the SocialMediaCamp Seattle and Mashable SummerMash Party. It’s really been a blast...
Twitter, Serendipity, and Seattle
--So… I’m sitting here in a Starbucks in Seattle. It’s been a great weekend!!! Upon arriving here, I was just kind of tooling arou...
When you shouldn’t create an iPhone app…
--So… yesterday, when I found the link to get early access to the iPhone 2.0 software, of course I tried it and loaded it up right away. (Yes,...
Business Week Columnist and Author Sarah Lacy is Stopping in Washington DC for her User-Generated Book Tour
--Business Week columnist and author of the book “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good” Sarah Lacy will be stopping in Washin...
Congressional Leaders are Looking to Add Unnecessary Regulations on the Use of Social Media… What Do They Have to Hide?
--UPDATE: According to TechDirt, all of these regs already exist and that this letter is to loosen them. Read their post: “Politician Using Tw...
Going to Seattle this weekend…
--So… I’m going to Seattle this weekend. I’m really excited. I’ve never been to Washington state before. Saturday I’l...
Burgers, Geeks, and Capitol Hill
--Last night John Coston, Paul Sherman, and I had dinner at the new Capitol Hill burger place Good Stuff Eatery. Yesterday was it’s grand open...
Two More Must Read Blogs - Logic’s End and Peregrine Espresso
--I have two more blogs that I’d highly recommend that you all read. The blog Logic’s End is written by one of my classmates and best fri...
Tom Bridge Launches Local Blog “We Love DC”
--My buddy Tom Bridge and his merry band of brethern (who used to write for Metroblogging DC) have just launched a new blog called “We Love DC....
PoliQuiz - Test Your Political Knowledge
--The Sunlight Foundation has just released a really cool new project, PoliQuiz. In celebration of Independence Day, we bring to you PoliQuiz, a new ...
An Afternoon at the Newseum
--This Fourth of July weekend I have the pleasure of my parent’s company in Washington DC. When thinking about fun things we could do, I thoug...
I wish Washington DC had a City-Wide Bike System
--Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson has a cool blog post about his recent travels to Paris and how they have a city-wide bike system called Velib. It wo...
Michigan State University will Require New Web Sites to be Accessible to People with Disabilities
--This is really cool news! My old employer Michigan State University (MSU) has recently enacted a new policy that will require Web pages published a...
Clearspring After Hours
--Last night some of the Clearspring gang stayed late to decorate the office walls at Central Command with the logos of some of our partners and phot...
Join Me for Dinner at Top Chef Spike’s Good Stuff Eatery Next Monday?
--Over the last few months Top Chef Season 4 contestant Spike Mendelsohn has been working on opening a restaurant in Washington DC’s Capitol Hi...
Just Added “Wine Library Reserve” to My Apple iTunes Podcast List
--When my boy Gary V. and Wine Library TV joined the Revision 3 show line up, we all got a bit of a surprise gift. It is the delivery of Wine Librar...
My Old iPhone
--I’m getting pretty excited for July 11th. It will be the launch of the new iPhone 3g. Unfortunately, I think I’m going to be in an ai...
Bibliothèque de Toulouse joins the Flickr Commons Project
--The Flickr Commons Project is quickly becoming one of my favorite things online. There are so many amazing photos to look at and more are being ad...
Blogging is Like Jogging
--With work, my life has been REALLY busy and you may have noticed that that there are big gaps between some of my blog posts. I apologize. I need t...
Curious About the Power of Word of Mouth? Just Ask Barack Obama.
--Was reading the Washington Post this morning and found a story about Barack Obama kind of interesting. Despite mass media telling a town other wise...
Clearspring Launches a Redesign
--Yesterday at Clearspring, we launched a redesign of the Web site. It’s AWESOME. Lots of hugs to our amazing Web and User Experience teams. B...
Helping People Get To “The Moment”
--Jason Calacanis has a really great post - Finding your startup’s “moment”. He goes on to say… “The moment” is...
Smithsonian Joins the Flickr Commons Project
--Now this is REALLY cool. The Smithsonian Institution has joined the Flickr Commons project. They’ve made 862 photos available through their...
The W3C Web Site is Getting a Redesign… SWEET!
--Yesterday, W3C staffer and resident blogger Karl Dubost put up a post to tease what I’m assuming is a redesign of the World Wide Web Consorti...
iPhone Web Apps vs iPhone Software Apps
--On Monday, geeks from around the world watched with baited breath as Apple CEO Steve Jobs, in addition to announcing the 3G iPhone, gave a status u...
More Evidence of the Decline of the Web Page
--Found this kind of interesting when I was doing my morning RSS readering. Michael Arrington did a story about a new feature on Twitter’s Web...
W3C Launches eGovernment Activity
--Recently, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) launched its eGovernment Activity and Interest Group. The group is being co-chaired by my former bos...
The Power of Offline Community
--In our Web 2.0 world we seem to talk an awful lot about online community but the offline community is almost equally if not more important. Recent...
Washington DC’s Mixx in the Washington Post
--Congrats to the folks at Mixx. There is an awesome story about Mixx in the Washington Post: “Web Site Puts Personal Spin on News Surfing̶...
The Brooklyn Museum Joins the Flickr Commons Project
--It’s been such a blast to watch the success and the growth of the Flickr Commons project. Since it’s launch with the Library of Congre...
In San Fran This Week for Under the Radar Conf. and Meeting Folks
--Early tomorrow morning, I’ll be taking the flight to San Francisco from Washington DC National Airport. Tuesday I’ll be at the Under t...
The Rwanda Documentary “As We Forgive” Wins Student Academy Award!
--I’m so pumped!! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given my friend Laura Waters Hinson a Student Academy Award for her docu...
Your Customer Support is Your Marketing; Why FreshBooks Rocks!
--One of the most important things that you and your company can do is value good customer service. As I wrote before, if you’re in business, ...
TechCocktail: Micah Baldwin on “SEO is All Grown Up”
--Probably my other favorite presentation at TechCocktail was by my friend Micah Baldwin, the VP of Biz Dev at Lijit Networks. He talked about SEO. ...
What I’ve Been Reading: “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good” by Sarah Lacy
--Ever since the whole SXSW Sarah Lacy/Mark Zuckerberg incident, I was very anxious to read Sarah’s book that was coming out. Well it came out...
Don’t Engage in Social Media. Engage Your Users Who Use Social Media.
--I’m really tired of hearing folks from companies tell me “I wanna engage in social media.” It’s such the wrong way of look...
TechCocktail: Jared Goralnick on Hacking Your Life for Productivity
--I forgot to mention here that I’ve been in Chicago for the last couple days at the Tech Cocktail Conference, put on by Frank Gruber and Eric ...
O’Reilly’s Graphing Social Patterns Conference in Washington DC on June 9-11, 2008
--Here in the DC area, we have a really sweet upcoming opportunity. The O’Reilly Graphing Social Patterns Conference will be in Washington DC ...
Photo of Titanic Survivors in the Library of Congress Flickr Account
--The Library of Congress continues to add photos to its Flickr account. There is one from May 23rd that particularly caught my eye and I thought I&...
I’d pay for a Twitter Pro account. Would You?
--Seems like the only thing the Web 2.0 blogosphere has been talking about as of late has been Twitter. Whether it’s been problems they’...
On being a Community Manager
--I really do think that every company needs to have a community manager. Your CEO isn’t going to have the time always be the publicly accessi...
Twitter Needs a Community Manager
--After today’s and the last few days’ drama around Twitter, I think they need a Community Manager. While there management has been kind ...
Personalized Start Pages vs. Feed Readers
--So I’m curious… how many of you use personalized start pages (i.e. Net Vibes, iGoogle, and PageFlakes), feed readers (i.e. Google Reade...
Screening of the Documentary “As We Forgive” Next Thursday in Washington DC
--Over the last few years my friend Laura Waters Hinson has been working on a what I’m sure she’d know consider a labor of love. It̵...
Clearspring Raises $18 Million
--So… yeah. Mashable has a great story on this: Clearspring, the widget company that has broken into the advertising and distributed media rea...
I want to be able to read & write comments from Google Reader
--I was with some friends about this the other day and then saw the notion mentioned on Jeremiah O’s blog. People are reading blogs from a fee...
Yesterday, I Spoke at Social Rockstar Workshop on Widgets 101
--Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Social Rockstar Workshop here in Washington, DC at Busboys & Poets. The workshop was for peop...
New Google Reader for the iPhone Rocks
--So yeah… the new version of Google Reader for the iPhone (http://www.google.com/reader/i/) is 10,000x better then the old one. This makes me...
What I’m Reading: Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter
--So… I’ve been reading a lot of good books lately and for some reason have forgotten to mention them here. The book that I’m read...
HBO on iTunes Will Get Me To Try the Sopranos, The Wire, and Rome
--Yesterday, Apple announced the addition of HBO television programming to the iTunes store. This is awesome and seems totally like a no-brainer for...
Library of Congress Adds More Photos to Flickr
--The Library of Congress has continued to add photos to its Flickr account, at a pace of about 20 per week. Enjoy them. Be inspired by them. Tag ...
Happy Mother’s Day
--I have the coolest mom on the face of the earth. She is an inspiration and an angel in my life. She has been there supporting me and cheering me ...
The Guitar Hero Widget - A Great Teaser for the Video Game
--A lot of my friends have been talking about the Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games but I haven’t really gotten into them yet. The other da...
Happy Wednesday - R2-D2 DVD Projector
--Happy Wednesday everyone! So… a co-worker sent me this video of the R2-D2 DVD projector. It made my inner-nerd smile. Anybody wanna buy it fo...
Would you work standing?
--There is this new trend which has been popping up. Instead of sitting at a desk, people are standing. I noticed this first at Clearspring. There...
Browsers Supporting WAI ARIA :-)
--Just read on Gez Lemon’s site Juicy Studio that with WebKit’s recent announcement of support for WAI-ARIA, all the major browsers are n...
Robert Scoble Did A Redesign. Who Cares!
--Yesterday, Robert Scoble announced the redesign of his blog. That’s awesome. My question is: if he wouldn’t have said anything, how ma...
On My Way to BarCampPortland
--So… yeah! I forgot to tell you all. This weekend I’m on my way to BarCampPortland in Portland, Oregon. I’m currently sitting in...
Start Using WCAG 2.0 Right Now!; Yep, It Advanced to the Next Stage!
--If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that one topic I’m passionate about is making the Web accessible to people with ...
Contact Forms Feel Like Black Holes
--I’m really starting to have a dislike of contact forms. You want to get in touch with someone or with a company and the only option that you...
Where’s your personality?
--LOL… I have a problem. I like buying books. It’s this impulsive thing. I can’t walk into a Barnes & Noble without walking o...
Audio Interviews of Athletes on the 1936 Nazi Olympics (in a Widget)
--The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has a brought back a popular exhibit entitled, “Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936.“ It chronicles the histor...
TECH cocktail DC 2 was NUTS!
--Last night geeks from across Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia (DC), and other parts of the country converged upon a club near Dupont Ci...
The Importance of Shareability
--One question I get asked a lot is “how do I make my content/app/video viral?” Everyone wants to know the formula or the secret sauce. ...
Two Big DC Tech Events This Week - Refresh DC and TechCocktail
--There are two big DC tech events this week that you should be at. The first is Refresh DC. It’s tonight at 7pm in Arlington, VA. There is g...
Happy Tuesday - Are you ready for some football?
--Happy Tuesday everyone! Found this priceless photo of urinal football on my buddy Paul Downey’s Flickr feed. Sooooo funny! It made me smile...
Had a blast at PodCamp DC
--Had a blast at PodCamp DC this weekend! It was great to see old friends and meet some people that don’t typically come out to DC tech events...
PodCamp DC this weekend
--This weekend I’ll be at PodCamp DC. There is the opening party tonight and the talks all day tomorrow. Clearspring is sponsoring and I̵...
W3C releases a Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers
--This is really cool. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) has just release as Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browser...
Buy Gary Vaynerchuk’s Book “101 Wines”
--I was so excited when I heard that my friend and host of Wine Library TV Gary Vaynerchuk was writing a book that without thinking about it I went o...
RSS will NEVER go mainstream
--Brian Clark at Copyblogger has a great post where he asks the question, “Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream?” He goes on to say… Over tw...
Widgets Make Everything Better, Even the Environment
--Widgets really do make everything better. For a long time, widgets have made beer better. Now widgets make the environment better too. ABC and th...
Random Thoughts from the Dulles Airport Gordon Biersch Pub
--So… I’m sitting here in the Dulles Airport Gordon Biersch Pub in D Terminal and of course I have a lot of random thoughts…. If y...
Beauty and Simplicity that comes with Constraint
--So yeah… Flickr has launched Flickr Video and the big surprise is that the videos can only be 90 seconds long. Before you start moaning and g...
Australia’s Powerhouse Museum Joins the Flickr Commons Project
--While at the Library of Congress, I had the pleasure of helping with the Library’s participation in the Flickr Commons project. It’s ve...
When You Live Online, Your Life Is Your Portfolio… Live Accordingly
--On my post yesterday about starting to think about your personal brand early my friend Samantha Warren left a very wise and true comment. Students ...
Start Thinking About Your Personal Brand Early… Even in College
--This weekend I had the pleasure of hanging out with some awesome RIT students and alumni at BarCampRochester3. I led a discussion on widgets and t...
How to market your company at SXSW
--I had the pleasure of getting to know some of the awesome guys from Freshbooks at Future of Web Apps (FOWA) Miami. We chatted over drinks and the...
For the love of the game…
--I guess one thing that I’ve learned for myself is that I don’t wanna work with folks who do something because they wanna get rich. If ...
How to be noticed and have people market you…
--Tonight I was having dinner with a friend whom I have a TON of respect for. We both agreed there are more and more people who want to be noticed...
In NYC, My iPhone Was My Best Friend
--Last Wednesday, I popped up to New York City to fill in for our CEO, where he was scheduled to speak at a conference. I had never to be to NYC be...
Congrats to Webkit’s Leadership with Acid3 95/100 Score
--The Acid3 browser standards compliance test hasn’t been out that long and WebKit, the open source framework behind the Apple Safari browser, ...
Are you coming to TECH cocktail DC 2?
--If you’re new to the DC tech scene or you’re just looking for an opportunity to hang out with some geeks, I’d highly recommend th...
Congrats to Blogdigger & Greg Gershman for Getting Acquired by Odeo
--Congrats to Washington DC-area entrepreneur Greg Gershman on the acquisition of his company Blogdigger by Odeo. The folks at Odeo are really cool ...
I’m speaking at AJAXWorld in NYC Tomorrow
--So… Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk at AJAXWorld in NYC tomorrow entitled “The Social Aggregator - Widgets Reshape the Social Web....
Finally! The Library of Congress Adds Photos from 1910s to Flickr
--After much waiting, the Library of Congress has FINALLY added more photos to it’s Flickr account. The 50 new photos were added to the 1910s ...
Our current biggest online revolution isn’t user facing…
--There have been a lot of folks who have been down on the current state of Web startups. They said there is nothing interesting and nothing innovat...
Where’s my MagSafe Headphone Connector?
--Heh… I think my heart is just starting to stop palpitating. I was getting up from my desk to throw something away and my foot must have been...
Sharing YouTube Videos
--Here at Clearspring, some of our developers did a proof-of-concept using YouTube’s player user interface API and the Clearspring’s Laun...
Why Twitter Was So Successful at SXSW… Geography
--So Twitter was a big success at SXSW for bringing people together. As was laid out by Jeremiah Owyang, it was used to revolt against the Zuckerber...
Browsers Need to Support Acid3
--I’m excited about the recent release of the Web browser standards test Acid3. Now lets encourage the browsers to do it. Sounds like the Web...
Coffee shops shouldn’t close at 7pm
--Tonight I was on my way to church for an event they were having and wanted to stop by Port City Java in Eastern Market to grab a coffee before I we...
iPhone SDK DevCamp???
--At WidgetDevCamp, I floated the idea of doing a iPhone SDK Dev Camp. Seems like there was some interest for it then. Now that the Apple iPhone SDK ...
The DC Tech Community was at SXSW in force
--It seems like this year the DC tech community was at South by Southwest (SXSW) in force. As I mentioned before, when I got into town on Saturday af...
When is the last time I listened to the radio?
--His tech excellency Leo Laporte just posted a twitter message: Getting ready to speak to radio executives at the Radio Ink conference. Q: Is radio...
SXSW…So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
--Well I have to say that among the conferences i’ve been to this has by far been one of the best. South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive is AW...
It’s about trust…
--Steve Rubel has a great blog post - “Startups That Fail to Invest in Trust Will All Die“… Web startups need access to talent. Oft...
I’m finally at SXSW!
--I’m finally at SXSW! Praise the Lord! It took so long to get here but it sounds like I’m not the only one who had travel horror storie...
Twitter in Plain English
--Lee LeFeever and company over at Common Craft have put out another great video! It’s Twitter in Plain English. This is a great one to share...
Community Manager - the relationship guy
--When I’m out talking to people, they’ll ask “oh what do you do?” Most have never heard of a community manager at a company ...
Stupid Snow in Dallas; Flight to Austin/SXSW is Delayed to Tomorrow
--This morning at 6am I was supposed to be on my way to Austin, TX for South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive with a connecting flight in Dallas. Appa...
Please Please Please Don’t Treat Pownce Like Twitter
--There is this whole Twitter vs Pownce debate, which I’ve already weighed in on so I’m not going to rehash that. Till things get cleare...
Will I get rid of my cable television in 2008?
--eMarketer recently released an interesting report on online video consumption: eMarketer projects that nearly 80% of US Internet users will watch o...
Apparently Washingtonians are unfriendly…
--Found an interesting story today over at the DCist blog. Apparently the DC Metro chief reported “customer feedback showed that Washingtonians...
MashMeet DC Remix is THIS Wednesday
--I’m kind of excited. In DC this week, we have MashMeet DC Remix, Mashable’s big local party. I’ll be in attendance thanks to my ...
Gary Vaynerchuk - He’s changing more than just the wine world.
--Last night I got back from Miami where I attended BarCampMiami (which Clearspring graciously sponsored) and Ryan Carson’s one-day conference ...
What is your pleasure model?
--In the intro talk here at Future of Web Apps, Brian Oberkirch quoted a Kevin Marks tweet which is AWESOME: Before worrying about your business mode...
My Walk This Morning…
--This is where my walk led me this morning. More photos of my adventures.
WhyGoSolo Gets Some Much Deserved Blogosphere Love
--It’s really cool to see Ann Bernard and Keith Casey’s Web app WhyGoSolo get so much deserved love from the blogosphere. They were recen...
Headed to Miami on Wednesday
--I’m totally pumped. I’m headed to Miami on Wednesday. It’s so frickin’ cold in Washington DC. It’s 82 degrees F in...
Miss the Oscars? Watch the Oscars in 60 Seconds from Mahalo Daily.
--Last night, I was flying from Michigan back to Washington DC and didn’t get home till around 11:30pm. I completely missed the Oscars. I was...
Refresh DC is HUGE!
--I’m in Michigan this weekend so I didn’t get a chance to make it to this month’s Refresh DC. It’s fun to see the photos th...
Really. What’s holding you back from geting an iPod?
--It’s been really interesting to watch as Apple has continued to lower and lower and lower the barrier to entry for people to buy their first ...
Options - a book that made me laugh out loud
--Because I’ve been traveling a lot lately and have had a longer commute to work, I’ve had much more time to read. One of the books that...
What’s the future of the newspaper?
--As I’ve mused in the past, I don’t think the paper newspaper translates very well into the online space. With the news of the New York...
Getting AfPub Online
--Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of hanging out with my buddy Livingston. He’s getting his Master’s Degree in Publishing at Geor...
Real Video On-Demand
--On Friday, I was walking out the door on my way to work and I realized that I hadn’t seen this week’s episode of LOST yet. I stopped w...
The Library of Congress Blog is a Finalist in the SXSW Web Awards
--So this will be my first year attending the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas and it’s already promising to be ...
2008 and The Componentization of the Web
--Last weekend in California there was the 2008 DEMO conference. The conference serves as a launchpad for new Web startups. It’s a great opp...
Follow My Widget Adventures at the Clearspring Community Blog
--As I mentioned earlier, Wednesday I started at the widget platform company Clearspring Technologies. As part of my duties as Developer Community M...
Viget Labs is hosting Design Talks in Washington, DC on February 29th, 2008
--On February 29th, Washington DC Web firm Viget Labs is hosting the inaugural Design Talks conference, which is organized by their very own Jackson ...
The Library of Congress/Flickr Project is in Newsweek!!!
--Okay… so a lot of crazy things have happened in my life but this is on a whole new level… The Library of Congress/Flickr project that ...
January Washington DC OLPC Learning Club Meetup is Tonight
--I’m excited because tonight is the January meetup of the Washington DC One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Learning Club meetup. As you all know, OL...
Starting at Clearspring…
--So… it’s official. I’m now the Developer Community Manager at Clearspring Technologies. There is a lot of work to be done and ev...
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