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Ignite Boulder was a blast!

Andrew Hyde, one of my speakers at Ignite Denver, organized Boulders first Ignite last night. It was a great event! The presentations, were freaking awesome, with some hilarious, and outright, DAMN! thrown in. Micah Baldwin‘s “managing personal brand” was great! and Michael‘s presentation was just plain funny and even a bit enlightening. Ignite Boulder was [...]

More browsers than I can count

So sure, Google gave Mac users the finger with Crown, fine! Google, you be that way! I’ve been playing with a few browsers, and wanted to offer my thoughts. Minefield is a Mac optimized Firefox. Not to be confused with Mozilla’s own alpha app Minefield (supposed to be faster than chrome). It’s basically Firefox, but [...]

Obama Rally in Denver; 100,000 in the park

Juan and Grace joined me in Civic Center Park yesterday for the Barack Obama rally.

I wasn’t sure I wanted to go, but when Juan pinged me to ask if I was going, I figured why not. I walked down to 16th st and took the mall ride to Civic Center park.

Apple App store vs. Android Marketplace

Stumbled across this blog post, talking about the first 24 hours of each app outlet. I found this chart particularly interesting. mainly the places where there’s a large difference; lifestyle for example. I’m not sure exactly what falls into that category (there’s a small break down below), but apparently the android crowd is much more [...]

O’Reilly first victim of the economy?

iPhoneLive might be the first event to fall victim of our troubled economy. They announced that the first iPhone Developer conference, has been postponed. We’re sorry to announce that we’ve made the difficult business decision to postpone the O’Reilly iPhoneLive conference, which was to take place November 18 in San Jose. We are grateful for [...]

Please Fix the iPhone

This is awesome. It’s the iPhone version of that Adobe site where everyone posts their gripes about Adobe’s products. I can’t for the life of me remember the URL!!! I posted one about not being able to click a phone number in a calendar entry. I hate that! I have a lot of conference calls, [...]

The American CTO. Not the Technology Czar?

saw this on techcrunch. Business week is talking about soon to be President Obama’s plan to create a cabinet level post of CTO, and who the front runners are for the job.

The top names according to BW are:

Brightkite connects your iPhone with… everyone

I’ve been on the Brightkite iPhone app beta for a while now, and I gotta say it’s a damn cool app. Adam Flater introduced me to brightkite…. sheesh, a while ago. Since then I’ve met the team a few times and really enjoyed talking to them. It’s finally available in the App Store. I’d paste [...]

New and improved johnwilker.com

After tapping one of my good friends for some of his mad SQL skills, as well as dusting off more of mine than I intended to, I’ve now successfully moved johnwilker.com over to a hosted wordpress blog site. Same Domain, same feed (assuming you’re using the feedburner feed, sorry Sim, but you can use this [...]

I’m internet famous!!

ok well Kinda! The Brightkite iPhone app demo that made the rounds yesterday, boom tadow, I’m in it! :) Techcrunch has a great write up. Brightkite for the iPhone from Brightkite on Vimeo. Brightkite’s iPhone app, currently in private-ish (limited to 100 by Apple), is a truly great app, I can’t say more about it, [...]

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