May 2010
CU junior Zack Shapiro launches iPhone app company →
(via 59thirty) The Colorado Daily profiled me and my iPhone app company and startup, 59thirty. I talked to them about my new RTD app coming out this summer and the iPad app that’s almost done.
May 31st
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May 25th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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WatchWatch
iPad. Meet velcro. A match made in Heaven.
May 23rd
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“We’re turning the world around us into a videogame, using sites like...”
– Daniel Lyons of Newsweek Wow. Lyons is right. And this is terrifying.
May 12th
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Buying Gas and Morality
I’ve taken the moral high ground for years and refused to buy gas from Exxon. Sure, the Exxon Vladez crashed more than seven months before I was born. That’s beside the point. Funny thing is, instead of buying from Exxon I bought from BP. (I didn’t do this, Louisiana, I swear.) Now I’m taking the high ground and refusing to buy from BP ever again. This oil spill has gone...
May 12th
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ListenAgainst Me! - Here Comes A Regular (The...
May 10th
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A short note on iBooks
I’m disappointed with the iBookstore and the “tens of thousands” of books that Apple is currently offering. I realize that Amazon started as a books company before becoming the veritable (non-evil) Walmart of the Internet. I expected Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to have mostly everything I’m looking for. And they do. (For those interested, I’m reading mostly...
May 8th
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May 6th
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Dealing with rejection in lightweight ways
I’ve been on the waiting list for the Founder Institute for weeks. A few days ago they made the final decisions for the Denver 2010 class and I strangely got a “Welcome” email from one of the mentors. I say strangely because I was still on the waiting list and I hadn’t yet gotten officially accepted into the program. I investigated, found out I was on the bubble and got...
May 3rd
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Goals for 2010
Reading this post from Andrew Hyde, I was inspired to make a list of goals for 2010. I have a few already, just haven’t written ‘em down or shared them with the world. Blog here more Get out there in the Boulder tech community Get my muscle-up (What the hell is a muscle-up? Video) Write more for the CU Independent Learn to Olympic lift Hike more Launch more iPhone apps Get...
May 2nd
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May 1st
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