I’m at the Glue Conference today.  The room is packed with a bunch of great folks, including a large contingent of locals (thanks guys – especially the BDNT crowd!)  So far we’ve heard from Josh Elman (Facebook) on “Gluing together the web via the Facebook Platform” and Aaron Fulkerson (Mindtouch) on “What is Web Oriented […]

Eric Norlin has a great post up this morning titled A conference is about community.  In it, he describes clearly the difference between a conference and a trade show, what makes a great conference, and what you’ll get at a great conference. Having been involved in Defrag since it was a germ of an idea […]

I’ve always loved computer games.  My Apple II screen had burn marks in it from Olympic Decathlon, Choplifter, Castle Wolfenstein, and Ultima.  Recently, I’ve become addicted to several of Zynga’s games online, especially Mafia Wars (I’m level 52 – friend me on Facebook and join my Mafia) and Scramble (I think I’m better than I […]

Anyone who has driven to DIA has seen the mysterious big blue horse.  Yes – it has special powers.  It has killed before (its creator – Luis Jimenez) and may kill again. I’ve just joined the I am afraid of the big blue horse at DIA Facebook group.  Here’s one of the best quotes from […]

As 2008 winds down, Amy and I are having a traditional New Year’s Eve filled with debauchery.  She’s eating a bowl of tomato soup with cheddar cheese and crackers in it; I filled up on appetizers at our friends’ house down the block where we hung out until the late hour of 8pm so we […]

Yummy – that’s a fun tongue twister.  It doesn’t quite mean “synchronizing data”, but it’s in the same family.  I don’t have a better phrase yet for “renormalizing denormalized data”, but there is probably a construct for it that someone reading this blog can tell me (or invent – here’s your choice to replace the […]

Two years ago if you had told me that I’d be playing Texas Hold’em Poker with my Facebook friends on cell phone and enjoying it I would have snickered.  Well – that’s what I’m doing right now (actually – I just took a break from this blog post to play a hand – of course […]

I love charts like the following – so many pretty colors and funny names. Matt Galligan, the co-founder of SocialThing (now part of AOL) is giving a talk on Social Networking: Using Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn at the ATLAS Institute (on the CU Boulder campus) on October 13th from 6pm to 8pm.  This event is […]

The gang from Lookery is in Boulder tonight and having a publisher meetup from 6:30pm to 9:00pm in the TechStars Bunker.  I’ve started using Lookery on Feld Thoughts and am starting to collect a different set of analytics about you, oh blog reader. Lookery is a user-targeting service and advertising network. They provide free analytics […]