January 2008
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find chuck norris →
In Google type (without the quotation marks) “find chuck norris” and hit the I’m Feeling Lucky button. You should get that link above.
Mike Schmid on the Stage
….and such. :) http://mikeschmid.tumblr.com/post/23689197
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Encouraging Entrepreneurs →
Seems like a great time for that article to come out because the Techstars applications for 2008 are now open. One thing that really helps is to get your application in very early. It allows more time for Techstars to review your idea and team and in our case, allowed us to have an ongoing dialog that certainly helped us get accepted.
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Credit Where Due and the Power of Asking Nicely
If you read the site Lifehacker you may have seen the article called “Staying Awake at Work or School. And if you know me you may recognize the two people in the photo as two friends of mine - Jeremy Tanner and Ben Brightwell. You may have even notcied that it is a cropping of one of my photos. What you (and it would seem Lifehacker/Gawker) may or may not have noticed is i have a copyright...
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*New~!!* Webclip Icon Just Added!!11!!!!
Thanks to the quick little How To over at iBoughtAMac both this blog and socialthing! have a webclip icon for iPhones and iPod Touches. I have shown you mine so now let me see your webclips! :)
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“Hate to see where the dollar goes from here. Buy American, folks; u can’t...”
– from Eric Marcoullier in response to the Fed cutting the interest rate by .75 percent
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Paired Programming Prevents Pickles
(thanks Gwen for the title) I’m watching Ben and Joel code away today. And all day they have been huddled over the same desk, same computer and same monitor. They’re cranking away at solving some tough things for socialthing! and it is a perfect example of Paired Programming and Peer Review. I have always believed in it and its so great to have witnessed amazing proof that it is a very...
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WatchThe first socialthing! screencast. In it i show you how to add services, group a person’s different service usernames into one identity (that person), remove a service and leave us feedback. :)
Facebook Wants Your Content... and Takes It
During the TechStars program we met a lot of great entrepreneurs. One of the first ones was Greg Reinacker, the founder of Newsgator. He is someone that i look up to and who’s opinion i respect. As such, when he wrote about Facebooks Terms of Use and how they can “take your stuff, make a copy, and use it for a multi-million dollar ad campaign if they want. Or, they could license YOUR...