Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Online Favicon Maker

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

My brother Luke sent me a link to a cool online favicon maker he used to make a favicon for my new company, Izeni. It’s pretty easy to use, so I made one for my blog as well. (Yes, it’s that same ugly pic, just smaller). Anyway, it’s kind of fun. If I’d known it [...]

Izeni is Official

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Many of my readers will already know that Gabe and I have been busy launching a business for the last few months.
Well, we’ve finally got Izeni officially incorporated, and since we hope to launch our first product soon, we decided we’d better get something of a corporate website thrown together.
It’s really not much content-wise, but [...]

Places to Go, People to Meet

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I’m pleased with how much opportunity for personal development and professional networking there is in Utah. Yes, I do want to see it grow even more, but it’s nice have more good options than I could possibly attend.
Tonight for example, the Utah Tech Events and Utah Business Events calendars show four events in which I [...]

BYU Web Startup Group

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I just added the BYU Web Startup Group to my comprehensive list of Utah Tech Groups.
From their website:
The Web Startup group was founded to bring together people interested in creating new sites and services online. Group members include web developers (programmers and designers), marketing and business-minded individuals, creative idea people, and others with technology related [...]

Walled Gardens and Open Source

Monday, November 10th, 2008

I posted the other day about how universal wishlists are one of the ways the walls of traditional marketing are coming down. In a broader sense, this trend is going on all over the place: the walls of the walled gardens are coming down as big companies realize that customers don’t like to be corralled. [...]

Universal Wishlists: A Lesson in Open Marketing

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Universal Wishlist Review
I’m not a big shopper, especially when it comes to traditional brick-and-morter stores, but the internet marketer in me loves new features that make online shopping more pleasant. Such is Amazon’s new Universal Wishlist feature. (OK, it’s not that new, but it’s still awesome.)
I love Amazon’s Universal Wishlist because it allows me to [...]

Wanted: Firefox Plugin Dump and Reload

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

OS reinstallation would be much easier with a plugin that could dump your entire list of Firefox plugins and reload them later.
Does anybody know of a plugin like that?  I’ve used screenshots to remember which plugins I’d installed, then reinstalled them one at a time, but that’s a remarkably sucky way to go.
What do you [...]

Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Released

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The new Ubuntu is out. Download it here if you haven’t already.
For my non-technical readers:
Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux, an operating system that can replace Windows. Linux is open sourced, meaning you can look at the code and see how it works. It’s also free to download and includes a ton of world-class open-source [...]

Utah Mobile Developers First Meeting is Tonight

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Don’t forget about the inaugural meeting of Utah Mobile Developers Group tonight.  They’ll be discussing both iPhone and Android development and handing out some O’Reilly iPhone books.
I have a feeling that this group is going to be awesome. At least it will be for me; it’s right up the alley of what my new business [...]

Out of Nowhere

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

I thought it interesting that the Google 2001 index had only 671 search results for “Barack Obama“.
“Sarah Palin” had 0 results.
These old indexes are interesting, especially if you’re searching for old data. I hope we see more of them.