As I have recently moved into downtown Bethesda, and my girlfriend Alex has moved into Dupont Circle, we find ourselves eating out at a restaurant more often than not (even though we both love to cook). We’re always up for trying new things, so we rarely visit a restaurant more than once. For that reason, we spend a lot of time on Yelp, looking for well-recommended restaurants that we think...
When evaluating an idea, and considering making a serious push for it, we’re always told to focus on validating the idea. Who says it’s solving a real-life need, and not just a solution in search of a problem? I looked everywhere for validation on my idea. Of course I felt it was needed, as did a select few entrepreneurs. But I received rejection from everywhere. VCs I met with said...
Watched a really interesting film on SnagFilms (a great startup, and JESS3 client!) this morning, regarding how America, since 2001, has been heading in the wrong direction. It definitely has a propaganda element to the film, but it raises a lot of very disturbing points, especially how some of the tactics, and exact terminology, used in the past 7 years compares to Nazi Germany.
Watch below:
A while back I had posted my thoughts on the future of television. Other people, such as Jeff Pulver, have also had this in their crosshairs. While others are entrenched in how we will watch TV, and where it’s coming from. I’m more interested in what we do while watching TV, particularly integrating the social element that we have when watching a show with other people. Looks like CBS...
BarcampDC2 was this past Saturday. It was an amazing day with a number of great sessions. Thanks to all the sponsors for making it possible, and CDIA for hosting. The volunteer organizers, primarily Justin, Shaun, Peter, and John, deserve an infinite amount of praise. The DC community has grown by leaps and bounds in the past year, and were it not for the efforts of people like you, we would not...
When I was in college, I ate a ton of chinese food (didn’t help my health, but I lost it all after graduation).
I collected all the fortunes I and my friends received, and years later, put it altogether.
Like so many things from my college experience, I never realized how amazing this was until years later. Rather than taking a “usual” internship at a government agency or consulting company for the summer, I instead chose to stay on campus for the summer, and in addition to a lot of relaxing, worked at two amazing labs at UMD. One was the Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication...
Just finishing up another great night over at the C-SPAN Debate Hub. One of the cool features in there is the Word Tree, a treemap display of the most popular words in the debate.
One thing stood out. McCain said “friends” 18 times. Obama? Zilch.
It’s clear who has my vote.
When I first made the jump from a big consulting company to a tiny creative agency, I was worried I would be spending most of my time doing small boring web projects. Yeah, right. As if I the C-SPAN Convention Hubs that I wrote on earlier weren’t successful enough, we at JESS3 teamed up with C-SPAN and New Media Strategies again to launch the Debate Hub. I served as lead developer. Not only...
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.