I’ve posted my pix from last night’s Ignite Seattle event.
Ignite Seattle is a tech geek meetup held semi-irregularly that brings out some of the best and brightest in the Puget Sound region.
Had a great time and hope the next one isn’t so far off in [...]

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Under construction

August 1, 2007

God, it was everything in my power not to put an animated gif up. Instead, I leave you with a relic of the late 1990s.

I’m working on a redesign of Stewtopia based on Dean J Robinson’s Redoable template. Good stuff, but it’s taking a while to get everything up and [...]

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It’s like riding a bike

April 4, 2007

I seem to keep falling off of my Stewtopia blog. I’ve been spending a lot of my time working on Boxbe’s blog, prettying up the UI and talking about recent improvements such as Gmail integration, I’ve been pretty busy.
I tend to build up a lot of pressure in my head about blogging. [...]

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Community Next – this weekend

February 5, 2007

Sorry, faithful readers for my long departure. I’ve been buried under a few projects. Hopefully, I will be posting more regularly very soon.

In the mean time, I’ll be attending the Community Next conference this weekend at Stanford. If you are at the conference or in the Bay Area and would like to [...]

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Darfur Wall

December 8, 2006

There were a lot of good speakers and 5 minute presentations at last night’s Ignite Seattle, but one that stuck with me in particular was Jonah Burke’s Darfur Wall project.

From O’Reilly Radar:
Jonah Burke left Microsoft to found the The Darfur Wall with his father and brother a couple of weeks ago. If you’re not aware [...]

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Farecast price prediction guarantees

November 13, 2006

I was talking this weekend at MindCamp about products needing to be remarkable to make headway in a crowded market. Remarkable in the literal sense of the word, like Seth Godin’s Purple Cow.

Farecast, the flight price prediction engine, announced today that they are testing a new insurance product called Fare Guard. [...]

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Sneaking inside Apple

November 9, 2006

Photo by by OmegaStation.

Or at least their repair facility. Some clever person decided to write an Automator script to take pictures when the lid was opened next, which was deep into Apple’s repair facility.
I love the internet some days.
[via TUAW]

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Nerd-tastic!

October 16, 2006

A bit of digression-
Here are pix from a couple of events that I’ve gone to recently.
Woz

First, a couple of Friday’s ago, Steve Wozniak was interviewed on the UW campus by Robert Scoble (I say interviewed, but Scoble didn’t get a lot in edge wise). Woz is someone that I have always respected a [...]

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Back after these short messages….

September 27, 2006

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fall in Vancouver, photo by jmv.

Just got back from a trip up to Vancouver with the family, so sorry for the lack of posts. Man, couldn’t have picked a better time weather-wise, it was [...]

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Touch screen demo

August 16, 2006

Ok, that might be the worst headline ever, but sometimes you just gotta post. I mentioned the TEDTalks video feed a few weeks back, and I’ve seen quite a few really great presentations. If nothing else, most of these talks are worth taking notes on how they gave their presentation as much as [...]

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