Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Or I really should say, our day in the sun -- meaning our whole team at DoApp (my new gig). What a bunch of great guys, and I tip my hat to every one of 'em! Especially our illustrious founder, Joe ("Google guy") Sriver, and our crack team of talented...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
I'm kinda pissed at Apple. (And I guess at AT&T, too -- but then I'm always pissed at them.) I mean, being a longtime Apple customer and a loyal iPhone user and all, not to speak of being an AT&T wireless customer since the beginning of time (I have the...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
It's about time somebody else started doing this -- providing a way for tech startups to get themselves listed on a database. RWW just launched ReadWriteWeb Companies (tricky name), and did it the smart way: by using a platform already available (TradeVibes), instead of trying to code their own. TechCrunch...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Well, not Jack himself, but my local buddy (and San Diego transplant) Jim Perry, a fellow Surfrider Foundation member. He was lucky enough to catch Jack's concert on June 22 at River's Edge over in Wisconsin, and said it was awesome. Sigh, I was too busy. But his email inspired...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Seth Levine is a VC in Boulder, CO, a partner with Foundry Group. I kinda know Seth, through his connections to the Twin Cities (he's a graduate of Macalester in St. Paul), though we've never actually met. We've emailed quite a bit about goings-on here in Minnesota, after having just...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
A question keeps popping up for me: is "micro" blogging (as in Twittering) affecting "macro" blogging (as in what you're looking at here)? I say it definitely is slowing down the frequency of regular blogging, because people are just spending so much time on Twitter -- well, the rabid early...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
I've known Steve Larsen for a long time -- ten years at least -- and, wow, it seems a lot longer in Internet time. Steve is one of those people you feel you've always known. He's one of the guys I respect most in the entire technology industry -- a...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
I blogged about a big event here in Minneapolis last night, featuring four of our larger hometown brands (well, three, plus one pretty big direct-marketer you may have also heard of). The topic was social media, and you can tell it was hot by this shot I grabbed with my...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Apparently so, based on two recent studies. In the first, I'm once again honored to be included in a ranking by the Technobabble 2.0 blog, which is written by Jonny Bentwood, an analyst relations guru at Edelman PR in the UK. His latest ranking is called the Top Analyst Twitters...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The third annual Minnebar unconference, Minnesota's own Barcamp event, definitely was the place to be for the local Internet developer/entrepreneur community yesterday. (That was an understatement.) The t-shirt we all got, below, says it all. More than 430 stormed the Coffman Union at the University of Minnesota, record attendance for...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
I don't post music videos on this blog...often. Okay, never. But, gee whiz, a guy's gotta take a break once in a while. Or your brain just gets fried. It's late, and I just read something online where the guy says the Beatles are so great. That's the second time this has popped up outta the blue on me lately -- Brad Feld just up and said that on Twitter a week or so ago. And I don't make it a habit...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The program for our annual Minnesota Barcamp -- Minnebar -- was just released late yesterday. The event is being held Saturday, May 10, at the Coffman Union on the U of MN campus. Here's a look at where things are so far, and note that it's subject to change. Don't...
Education Futures (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Graeme Thickins reminds us that the Minnebar barcamp is coming up on Saturday, May 10! As noted a couple months ago, barcamps are open access, user-generated conferences. Aside from all the great discussion and networking to be had, MinneBar includes free breakfast, lunch, afternoon appetizers, evening drinks, and a commemorative t-shirt. The list of [...]
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Minnebar is Saturday, May 10! MInnesota's all-day annual Barcamp event is not to be missed. New venue this year (bigger and better): the gloriously redone Coffman Union at the U of MN (cool place if you haven't checked it out yet). To sign up, just go the event site (a...
Tech-Surf-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Current TV sent me this one, called "Pipeline Posse," earlier in the week. You talk about your gnarly... As I said when I Twittered this link a couple days ago: if you think surfers are crazy, this will definitely prove your point. [And if you missed that tweet, you can...
