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After the Deadline (AtD)

farrelley — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:59:16 +0000

Yesterday I had the great opportunity to here Raphael Mudge the creator of AtD present After the Deadline at DC PHP. Below is a recording of the talk. I hope to write some more about AtD after I play around with it more.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Open Post: Transparency Camp 2009

farrelley — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:07:00 +0000

I am off to Transparency Camp 2009 camp in a bit and will keep this post open for day while updating throughout the camp.

Talks I am attended:

Follow transparency camp with:

Our Widget Made TechCrunch!

farrelley — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:57:04 +0000

[We stole the cheezy headline from Zvi Band - Ok the Headline "Look Mom...I'm on TechCrunch" was an embarrassing move for Zvi so I'll change it! - "@skeevis that headline was one of my more embarrassing moves ever"

Our amazing yet simple McCain/Palin '08 widget made TechCrunch yesterday. Thanks to Justin [Clearspring Employee] for pointing that out. This is pretty amazing since we have had 13,763 [as of this writing] installs while the widget has only been on the net for 62 days. TechCrunch points out the view Vs. install ratio for Obama’s tax cut calculator and our simple McCain/Palin YouTube campaign video aggregator. Our views are far less [only 56,507 as of this writing] but our installs are far more.

It’s kind of amazing that this widget which took only 20 minutes to build, install and distribute has been installed so many times. I think it only testifies that Clearspring [I don't work there either] has such a superb platform for this. Every time I create a widget with the Clearspring framework it is so super simple and easy to go from having nothing to having the world. And the world it is. Congrats to Clearspring for reaching the status of #1 worldwide for its widget network [comScore Ranking].

So with that said, why not install our widget and help spread the word. There is only 4 more days left for our widget to make an impact. If that’s not your slice of bread then jump over to clearspring.com and try the widget creation yourself.

2nd Annual BarCampDC [Review]

farrelley — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:33:40 +0000

Wow it has been one week since the second annual BarCampDC. The camp was a total success and couldn’t have been done without our friends at CDIA who generously let us use their space! We also can’t forget all the great talks and discussions that were held and everyone you attended. We estimated that we had about 130 people who took part in talks from beer to creating iPhone applications. Each attendee got a shirt, food, and some great new knowledge! Even though we may have estimated a bit high on the pizza (always better to have more than not enough), we still had enough cash on hand to hold a amazing social hour (Open Bar) at McFadden’s. I personally would like to thank Justin, John, Peter and all the other organizers and volunteers and sponsors who pitched in. Such a great un-conference couldn’t of happened without you guys especially the sponsors. So…When is the next one? Justin has posted a poll on his website asking when the 3rd Annual BarCampDC should take place. Please go and vote! This will help us in planning a time frame for the next camp. Also suggestions and comments are always welcome. If you know something that we can do better please let use know! You can just drop those suggestions and ideas in the comments below.

Oh yea, I second what Justin has said.

All of this really shows how together we are in our goal of making the DC area one of the most kick ass technology and entrepreneurial centers on the East coast if not the country as a whole.

Here are some other reviews from around the intrawebs (Twitter, Flickr)

BarcampDC2 Was Awesome
BarCamp DC 2
Good Times at BarCampDC2
BarCampDC2: Bigger, Geekier, And More Food
Send me yours!

2nd Annual BarCampDC

farrelley — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:18:35 +0000

The second annual BarCampDC registration opens up tonight at 8pm. Don’t be late to sign up. More information on the event can be found at Justin’s blog or at the eventbrite registration page.

When: October 18th, 2008 Registration starts at 8:00am Conference starts at 9:00 AM
Where: Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University 1055 Thomas Jefferson St NW Washington, DC 20007

Blackberry Bold Coming to AT&T

farrelley — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:56:19 +0000

I was over at the AT&T store in the Reston Town Center on Saturday and was looking around at the BlackBerrys. I saw no advertisements yet for the BlackBerry Bold so I asked the salesman about it. He told me that the RIM salesman was just in talking to the store about it and that it should be hitting AT&T stores in a couple of days, maybe the beginning of the month. I however, will have to wait till it comes out at Verizon which should be a month or so after AT&T.

No Update Available!

farrelley — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:15:51 +0000

Looks like Firefox is not pushing Firefox 3 through the application updater! I just tried it today and it said no update was available. Imagine if they did how many more downloads they would have gotten.

podCampDC T-Minus 3 Days

farrelley — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:55:19 +0000

update: due to a capacity issue, the Friday night social meetup will be at the Capitol City Brewing Company on Capitol Hill, not downtown. (2 Massachusetts Avenue NE)

podCampDC is this weekend and I hope to be on twitter and writing some posts while I am there. I looked at the schedule for speakers and plan on attending the following;

10AM: New Media Marketing: How New Media Powers Business. Christopher Penn
11AM: Not sure yet. Any Suggestions?
1PM: Making Your Video Shareable – Justin Thorp
2PM: Social Media and New Journalism – Andy Carvin and Jim Long
3PM: Identity, Privacy, and Security: How are they different in social web environments?- Andrew Feinberg OR Power Your Personal Network with LinkedIn – Christopher Penn and Dan Williams

Things get started on Friday at Capitol City Brewing (Metro Center Metro Stop) Capitol City Brewing (Union Station Metro Stop) at 8PM. See you all soon!

PodCampDC

farrelley — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:47:49 +0000

I have signed up to attend PodcampDC on the weekend of April 18th. Anyone else going to go? It’s a free! You can sign up and at http://podcampdc.org/.

What is a PodCamp?
PodCamp is an international network of unconferences. ” This one is in Washington DC and takes place on April 18th – 20th.

DC Tech Events

farrelley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:58:04 +0000

Anyone have any good web sites for Washington, DC Tech events? I am looking to attend more events/talks like Refresh-DC. I am a PHP Developer that is interested in pretty much anything Web development/Software Development.

Thanks!