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NetSquared Mashup Challenge: Hack Day for non-profits and NGOs
Over on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, I wrote about something I’ve been helping out with and supporting in recent months, the NetSquared Mashup Challenge:
I wanted to draw your attention to an organization that I and Yahoo! have been supporting that you might want to support, too — NetSquared. The goal of NetSquared is simple: […]
Must-see film for geeks and hackers: Moog
By total accident, I happened upon the documentary film Moog recently — what a pleasant surprise! I had missed its 2004 release entirely. The subject of the film is Bob Moog, the inventor of the modern synthesizer. The way Moog and his compatriots talk about his work with music and […]
Party at Brickhouse tomorrow night!
I just posted over at the Next blog about the latest at Brickhouse (all good — Fire Eagle and Yahoo! Live are cranking!), plus details on our party tomorrow night during Web 2.0 Expo.
I’m extremely proud of the team and the work they’ve done over the past couple of months with these products. I’m […]
Laura Cantrell: finally saw her live (you should, too)
Whenever I come to NY, I step off the plane, grab a copy of TimeOut New York, and flip through the pages on the cab ride to my hotel to see if there are any good shows while I’m in town. More often than not, I’m handsomely rewarded (this is NY, right?) Every […]
In NY on Wednesday and Thursday
I’m in NY on Wednesday and Thursday with a fairly full schedule, but if you read this blog and want to meet up for coffee or a drink, drop me a line. My email is chad@ the domain of this blog.
(Photo credit: Trey Ratcliff, licensed via Creative Commons)
The last time I saw the Olympic torch. . . .
. . . . I was living in Atlanta before the 1996 Olympics (and during, too). This is one of my all-time favorite photos of myself because it is ridiculous on so many levels. The Harley shirt was sort of the trucker hat of the mid-90s (at least for me).
The torch is […]
Facebook and platform complementors: history repeats?
The longer I am in this business, the more amazed I am at the new things being invented daily. In an attempt to stay on top of things, I try to train my critical eye for common themes and patterns that transcend the breathless Techmeme zeitgeist because they usually provide the deepest and most […]
Fire Eagle Developer Evening: this Thursday at Brickhouse
As Upcoming says: “The first in a series of developer workshops for people who are interested in building apps using Fire Eagle - the new geo-platform from Brickhouse. For people who aren’t familiar with it, we’ll be giving a quick overview of the service plus an introduction to the API, help with OAuth and […]
The SXSW plague of 2008: Shinerbockellosis
Update: it’s not a real infection unless it can follow you on Twitter. Check out SouthByScurvy’s first tweet: “collecting souls.”
This has got to be one of the sickest winters in my recent memory. It seems like everyone I know is battling something. The latest strain seems to be related to going to […]
Fire Eagle!
A big congrats to the Fire Eagle team for launching the developer beta of the service today, especially to Tom Coates who is standing on stage in front of me at eTech making the formal announcement as I write this.
While the magic of Fire Eagle is primarily on the backend where developers play, the Fire […]