Archive for the 'Business' Category

Intern Song

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I wrote this brief little Byrd’s parody for my friend who’s doing a Summer internship in Texas.  Perhaps you’ll recognize the tune.
To every thing turn, intern.
This your season. (Turn, intern!)
There’s an intern for every purpose under heaven.
An intern to type, an intern to clean,
an intern for food, an intern for drinks,
an intern for calls, an […]

First Android Vids

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Android is looking pretty sweet.

Android Pacman looks good as well.

Arson, Rent Control, and the Perverse Incentives of Socialism

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Allan Young plugged my last post in a piece he wrote about the potential of arson as a scapegoat of housing-bubble hardships.
His post reminds me of a similar report of arson, this time related to government rent control.  In Thomas Sowell’s excellent book, Basic Economics - A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy, he explains that […]

Sweet Syndication - ConnectBlogs is Reborn

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

The aforementioned new version of ConnectBlogs.com rolled into production last night. It will be a process of ongoing improvement, but I’m really happy with what we have now. I think a lot of people will find it to be a valuable resource, and I personally hope it makes the Utah business and tech […]

ConnectBlogs (Version 2)

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I apologize that I haven’t posted in a while; I’ve been pretty busy with a number of things: my day job as website manager at Overstock, a lot of website contracting and consulting work in the evenings, my usual slew of volunteer projects, and most recently (and notably) setting up the new version of ConnectBlogs […]

Yepic Beta Launch

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Congrats to local Utah entrepreneur Richard Tripp and the folks from Yepic on their new beta release as featured in Digital IQ magazine. For those of you who haven’t heard of Yepic, its an online “content marketplace that enables bloggers and other users to buy and sell premium user-generated content”. It’s a cool Idea […]

Novell Sells Out

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

I really liked Matt Asay’s analysis of the Novell - Microsoft deal. If you’re into open source (especially in relation to business), it’s a must-read.

MarketingSherpa Purchased by MEC Labs

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

It looks like MarketingSherpa (a great company that sells internet marketing case studies, etc) was just purchased by MEC Labs (MarketingExperiments.com). The MarketingSherpa story (like most successes) is pretty inspiring. Anne Holland talks about it an email just sent out to readers:
“Back in March 2000, when I founded MarketingSherpa from my second bedroom […]

Fight Club - October 2006

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

The entrepreneur fight club dinner in SLC was fun tonight. The conversation was markedly more tame than last time I went (no midget-warriors this time), but it was still pretty darn fun. The atmosphere was relaxed; basically everyone sits around, eats, and talks about what their working on, etc. It’s good stuff. […]

CTO Breakfast: October 2006

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

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, […]