Category Archives: Software

The New York Tech MeetUp- The March Edition

Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I know it is late.  I’ve had a humongously amazing, yet busy week. (and I don’t normally talk like that)  I feel so thankful that I am finally really starting to become less shy with people in the NY Tech Community.  Everyone I am meeting has been wonderful.  Y’all are great [...]
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Seesmic Look! Would it work for my Ex?

Image by David Berkowitz via Flickr So Loic Le Meur and Seesmic decided to release Look. And being Shana-licious, I stuck it on a netbook to test. As many people have commented, it is an extremely beautiful UI.  This doesn’t mean I am not going to nitpick at it.  The question is, Would I recommend this to my [...]
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CrowdSourcing Starting Up Part 3, Vague thoughts

Part three:  Note that for part three, this is very disorganized.  That’s mostly due to that like most fears and concerns, those sorts of lists are inherently disorganized.  I realize it is also on the long side.  Bear with that.  You plan out the next few years of your life on paper somewhere and see [...]
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Crowdsourcing Starting Up 2, the Ideas

Part Two, And A very Terrifying Part Two
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quicky product review

So i finally got off thewaitlist for a product I really wanted to test. As in desperately.  Not sure even why.  This stuff is turning into my new crack.  And I am a nice kid who never even had pot.  And only drank legally in moderation.
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The New York Tech Meetup RoundUp Take 2

Image by Esthr via Flickr September is Education Month.  Which is awesome because I am heading back to my last quarter of actual class this September if all goes well.  Scary times for all.
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Techstars Boulder 2009 Roundup: Next Big Sound, Take Comics pt1, Everlater, and Losing Facebook Connect Virginity

Image via CrunchBase So as usual, we’re overdue for a roundup.  Earlier, we heard about TechStars 2009.  There are already summaries of the products available, mainly at Techcrunch, and few at Fred Wilson’s.  But we like doing reviews here.  So we are.
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The Matryokshka Doll Principle

Image by Jeff Belmonte via Flickr The Matryoshka Doll Principle, Chinese Box Design, however you would call it. This principle will be a guiding force for the rest of your career.  It forces you into a quality product.  I see it all the time in products, particularly tech products that we all crave, as a technique [...]
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The New York Tech MeetUp, The Reviews

Image by katielips via Flickr I’m Overly Exhausted, and very distracted, so this is very late getting out, but I thought I should do a writeup of the New York Tech Meetup. (this was written over a 24 hour period, so excuse the time wierdness in advance.) It was an interesting experience.  Sitting in the room, you [...]
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Zemanta Part 2- It ain’t (exclusively) your fault- it’s emails.

Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr While others have already established that Zemanta is the essential blogging tool for adding yourself to the blog link cloud of awesomeness,  Zemanta for email is leaving me ehhhh and lost for the perfect use.
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