Category Archives: Tech

Basecamp Starting Over

Below is an interesting article about a very successful software companies starting over on their best selling product.  I’ve underlined a few comments that stirred a little something in me. Source: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201202/jason-fried/starting-over-get-real.html Starting Over Sometimes, the best way to improve something is to begin again from scratch. Even if it’s your top-selling product. By Jason [...]

EffectiveUI and 15 Million Elephants Help ‘Fight the Famine’

Below is a press release from EffectiveUI and 15 Million Elephants.   As many of you know I’m working for EffectiveUI.  I’m also friends with one of the founders of 15 Million Elephants (15ME).  15ME is a great new platform that is helping large charities raise money. EffectiveUI and 15 Million Elephants Help ‘Fight the [...]

A Googler Rant: Platform vs. Product

Oct 12 this rant from Steve Yegge (ex Amazon and current Googler was posted on Google plus).  Since no one actually uses Google plus I figured I would post to my blog and share via Facebook and Twitter. It’s definitely worth the read. Here’s the link to Steve Yegge’s entire essay/rant: https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX Here are a few [...]

TEDx Mile High Session I Highlights

A few highlights from the first session at Tedx Mile High. JeremyDuhon defined inspired citizens as individuals that not only have great ideas but act on them.  His plea: take one action. Sallyaranney asked us “how many of you have thought about your place in history?” The 77 yr old PaulPolak shared about how to [...]

Really Google? A Gmail Notifier…No Thanks

Really Google?  You want to alert us every time we get an email … are you trying to be Microsoft Outlook?  I’m sure thousands of time management gurus would agree this is an awful idea.  I pretty certain Randy Pausch as well as David Allen would frown upon this.  Read your email during scheduled times.  [...]

Testing android AP with orange chuck taylors

What better way to test the ap. …

Web optimization – Pingdom

This post is not as exciting as pictures of Campbell but it does highlight a pretty cool tool anyone can use to test the speed of a web page. Go to http://tools.pingdom.com How it works The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It [...]