April 13, 2006

It's time to give Firefox an audio mixer.

The title says it all, it is time to give Firefox an audio mixer . The web is becoming increasingly more multimedia . While the bulk of web content is still text, and will likely remain text for a long time to come;...

Technology

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April 5, 2006

How to NOT build community.

Over the past couple of days, I've had an e-mail dialog with the organizer of a meetup.com group for marketing. It all began shortly after I added the group to my list. I noticed several very pointed e-mails asking...

Rant · Social Media · Society and Culture

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March 31, 2006

Why to NEVER spam! - A Lesson From a 2001 Startup

What We Did Near the end of the first bubble, I joined a cool idea for a startup company. We had a subscription based product to sell online and I was hired as the Director of Web Development. I was stoked; but it...

Career · Uncategorized · Technology

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March 22, 2006

Frappr - It's like Web 2.0 meets MySpace

I just found Frappr.com tonight. What a surprise! As this post's title suggests, the best way to sum the site up is as "a Web 2.0 version of MySpace ". It really is kinda nifty. From what I've found about the site...

Social Media · Technology

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February 16, 2006

Building better communities by knowing your user.

I was reading Web Development 2.0 and found a lot of really interesting information. One bit relates well to virtual communities. One example: Flickr had a report of users with no contacts in the Flickr social...

Social Media · Technology

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February 15, 2006

Community Thunderlizards

I recently hit a couple of interesting posts by Guy Kawasaki . For the most part, I like his content. However, he threw me a curve ball in his last post titled " The Art of Creating a Community ". The curve ball is...

Social Media

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October 8, 2005

A New Season of Changes

It's been a long time since I posted. I have a few quick things to talk about. My New Board: Burton Custom I finally replaced my old Kemper board. I recently bought an '05 Burton Custom 162. I would have preferred an...

iRide · Product Callouts · Snowboarding

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October 4, 2005

Gmail Autosave: Redux

Back around March of this year, Vito Miliano created a greasemonkey "Autosave" script for Gmail . It was a great idea and solved a very annoying problem. This morning I logged into Gmail and noticed the " New!...

Technology

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