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  • Tom Friedman on Meet the Press

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    Tom Friedman, author of The World Is Flat and From Beirut to Jerusalem, was on Meet the Press promoting his new book and gave a great and inspirational interview. Posting here because it’s definitely worth watching. “100,000 people in 100,000 garages” – great line.

  • Look Mom, I’m on TechCrunch!

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    JESS3 has been working on a not-so-secret project for C-SPAN in the past few weeks. TechCrunch, the best tech blog out there, just reported on it. C-SPAN is still ironing out some last issues, but IT’S ALIVE! Read it. A very big moment! Much more to come about it later.

  • Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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    There have been many studies and articles about the changes in the human mind due to the Internet. The Atlantic has a particularly powerful one. Even as I was reading it, I constantly found myself switching around to email, twitter, facebook, google reader, etc. I’ve been noticing for a while that, since graduating from college…

  • FireRift – What I’ve Been Waiting For

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    Being a web designer and developer, the CMS I choose for a client is a huge issue. I wrote a little bit about it before. However, sometimes you just can’t find a CMS that will work for that particular project, and, barring changing the architecture of the site to fit in the mold, you’re left…

  • AppInADay Round 1: FriendCompare

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    Stemming out of an heated conversation about who knows what, an idea was born. Jesse and I decided to hold off client projects for one day (just one, calm down!) and set out to build an entire Facebook application from scratch. We had tossed around different ideas in the week before, but by the time…

  • Tweet Tweet! StartupTweet is open!

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    Late last week Sam Huleatt approached me to tell me about a side project he was working on, in addition to his company and main product. I, while working for JESS3, volunteered to help out, and whipped up a logo for him. Sam launched it today. StartupTweet is an open forum for people to make…

  • FailCamp – Missed It!

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    Learning from other people’s mistakes is a heck of a lot better than learning from your own. Continuing the *Camp franchise, a group of entrepreneurs with failures under their belt held an unconference in Philadelphia to focus on their failures. It was last weekend. Sad I missed it! Check out FailCamp. Hope they post their…

  • BarcampDC2

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    BarcampDC2 is coming up in September/October – are you ready? We’re just wrapping up a planning meeting for BarcampDC2, here at Murky Coffee. We are looking for sponsors and such, and soon opening it up to people to register. If you have an idea or are interested in sponsoring, check out the wiki here! BarcampDC…

  • My Mom is on Flickr

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    I’ve started working with my mother to post a bunch of her artwork (20+ years of it) on Flickr! At a wedding – the cake was designed to match the artwork!

  • Ideas We’d Like to Fund

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    Straight up, Paul Graham has a page up on YCombinator’s site about ideas they would like to fund. In light of all the recent Facebook and Social Media frenzy, which, to me, has very little impact outside of it’s self-engineered ecosystem, I’ve been thinking about ideas that that solve issues that really matter. Look no…