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Interview with Brad Feld, Technology Venture Capitalist

August 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News and Information, Tech Fun

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Brad Feld on the Rally Cafe. Brad is one of the managing directors of the venture capital group The Foundry Group. In this interview he discusses tons of topics ranging from the common mistakes startups make when approaching VC’s to what he see’s as “hot” in technology today [...]

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How to Use Tweetdeck: The Ultimate Twitter Client

February 9th, 2009 · 70 Comments · Social Media, Tech Fun, Twitter

One of the first questions I usually get about Twitter is “How do you follow 21,000+ people effectively?”. And my answer is “TweetDeck!”. There are lots of great Twitter clients out there, but the one I use and probably couldn’t live without is TweetDeck. TweetDeck is an Adobe Air-based application that runs on any platform [...]

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New Mac Ads Skewer Vista

October 23rd, 2008 · 10 Comments · Marketing and Branding, Tech Fun

Earlier this month, I was relatively unimpressed with Microsoft’s new ad campaign I’m a PC. I thought it lacked originality and really was just trying to play catch up with Apple. It seemed like an attempt to candy coat the issues Microsoft is having with Vista by using clever advertising. Apparently, the folks at Apple [...]

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Google Maps ExtJS Wind Energy Demo/National Geographic Tornado VE Map

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Tech Fun

New on our DTS Code Dojo: Created as a demonstration integrating Google Maps and the ExtJS Javascript framework, the Wind Energy Explorer is a site for viewing our nation’s wind energy capacity. The initial functionality is focused on loading state polygons into the map via GeoJSON. When the user clicks on a state, the rendering [...]

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