I attended a talk at Harvard tonight by Lisa Stone of BlogHer entitiled “What Women Want”. Much of the time was focused on what women don’t want. This made her seem angry. Angry at the world for marginalizing women on the internet. Angry at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for not doing an interview on camera with BlogHer (a lot of time was focused here). Im not sure what made her so angry, but it was a little offputting. She did throw in some great stats about how women are using the net.
Steve Garfield captured the event, so check out his 20 minute video if you’re curious.
If you missed the opportunity to watch good2gether launch live (we’re still not public though), don’t worry. Watch this video to see Greg McHale rock the auditorium in Palm Desert. Everyone on the dev team (Jon P, BDV, Bill) and the design team (Jon R., Tim) made miracles happen to get the platform as polished as it is for DEMO. Check it out after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been pretty quiet about what I am doing these days. I’ve dropped hints here and there. It’s an awesome new twist to my tale. It’s great experience and great fun. Im now working at Virosity Read the rest of this entry »
I went to see Jason Fried from 37Signals talk at Bravo Brasserie in Providence. A few of us went down from Boston. Me, Mark Doerschlag, Andrew Mitchell and Todd Galloway. I hate to love Jason Fried. His and 37Signals philosophies align with mine. Use beautiful tools to create beautiful, simple things. Get rid of all the bullshit and focus on what’s really important to you and your customers. Read the rest of this entry »
I grabbed a book at the airport on my way down to DC. “I hope they serve beer in hell” by Tucker Max. This guy has made a (writing) career for himself out of screwing things up. Incredible! His stories of debauchery are really amusing and a great easy read. Most revolve around drunkenness, sex, defecation. They aren’t for the faint of heart. Read on for a passage from the book. Read the rest of this entry »
Lee and Brent did it. They finished their bike trip across the country in for eLifeList.com and in support of the Lance Armstrong foundation. If anyone can think of anything equally crazy for me to do, i’d love to hear it. The video is after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the things I like to do on my blog is shamelessly promote my friends. The criteria for shameless promotion is high. It’s about as high as the criteria for me calling you one of my friends. My friend Dan Grover at Wonderwarp Software just released version 1.0 of his new app Shovebox
Shovebox is great name, because that’s what the app is. It’s a box that you shove stuff in to. It competes in the same class of apps as Yojimbo and Eagle Filer. The Shovebox approach is to have a little box in the menu bar like you see below:
When you want to add something, drag and drop it to the box. Organize your notes and clippings later. Shovebox allows you to dump your brain when you get a thought or see something interesting. This allows you to focus on the activity at hand.
Basically, I use shovebox to store “stuff” and Actiontastic to store “things I need to do”. Shovebox is a great addition to my arsenal. I had been toying with Yojimbo, but couldn’t find a reason to justify the $40. $25 for Shovebox is easier to swallow.
Things I’d love to be able to store in Shovebox
Passwords (integration with keychain)
Serial Numbers
Web archive from firefox (only works w/ Safari now)
Check out the picture below. Kevin Rose’s lead developer for Pownce, Leah Culveris Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) minus detective skills and plus computer skills. What skills would you use to win her? Read the rest of this entry »
Im Colin Nederkoorn. I left my cushy job in sales to become a web entrepreneur. 
I grabbed a book at the airport on my way down to DC. “
