Jordy Blog

If keyword search volumes were stocks, I’d be buying “Daylight Savings” right now. I’m pretty sure it’s just about to hit the J curve.

I’m not too sure how long I would keep it past Sunday though… :)
Did you know that Daily Savings Time was Benjamin Franklin’s idea? Here’s the essay where he introduced […]

Utah Job Market, Collaboration, Product Life Cycles, and More (Oh my!)
I had a great time at the Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast this morning. (I’ve actually been anxious to go for months, but just haven’t gotten around to it until today.) It was fun to mingle, see old acquaintances, talk about current tech issues, […]

TagJungle (still in private beta, but tentatively set to launch this week) was recently accepted into the Launch: Silicon Valley Venture Showcase, a huge biz & tech event that will go a long way toward attracting the eyeballs, users, and momentum it will need to succeed. There’s still a long way to go, but […]

In case you didn’t already notice in your blog dashboard, WordPress has released version 1.0 of its powerfull “Multi-User” platform. Go team!

Janet Meiners posted about an upcoming Wasach Online Marketing Association (WOMA) meeting with CJ (Commission Junction).  It sounds like WOMA does some really fun stuff, but for being all about internet marketing, I’m suprised that it has basically no internet presence at all.  Month after month I’ve been waiting for a WOMA website to appear, […]

Congrats to “Mr. E” and KFactor Technologies on the recent 5.0 release of their popular open-source flagship product, AgoraCart. AgoraCart is a secure e-commerce solution written in Perl and included in CPanel. This new version has a lot of new features and is going to get some massive distribution, but you don’t need to […]

Ian Roberson will present on Jamon, a text template engine for Java, tonight at the Utah Java User Group (UJUG).  The meeting starts at 6, but Ian’s presentation isn’t until 7.
Ian is one of my Overstock.com colleagues.  He’s very smart and real approachable.  If you’re in Utah and into Java, you should check this guy […]

I’ve been fascinated with Netflix ever since I did a giant research paper about the company for my senior project for business management.  Particularly fascinating to me were the technologies Netflix uses to estimate demand and the Netflix Recommendation Engine (Cinemax), which I have posted about previously.
Well now it looks like Netflix has placed a […]

BYU’s CEO club is hosting the final event for Student Entrepreneur of the Year this Friday. It should be cool, but I doubt I’ll be able to go because of the time.
Another upcoming event that should be cool (if you can afford to dish out some cash) is the Mountain West Capital Network’s UTAH […]

My friend Michael Choi of BOOMyeah started blogging recently.  Michael is a cool guy I met while doing some tech consulting.  I’ll be bookmarking him; I hope you’ll check him out too.