Pleasure and Pain

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More than 600 people attend boxee NYC meetup

March 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events

Last night I had the absolute pleasure of participating in a tremendously successful boxee NYC meetup at Webster Hall. According to venue staff, more than 600 people were in attendance. It’s a huge space and the entire downstairs was packed, with many people also up in the balcony. I was thrilled to see such a [...]

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I’m here at SXSW and I want to meet you!

March 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Career, Conferences, Pleasure

I’m here in Austin hanging out at SXSW until Wednesday, then going straight to Memphis for the IA Summit. Tomorrow, Saturday, March 14, at 3:30pm, I’ll be on a panel with Jeffrey Zeldman, Roger Black and Kristina Halvorson called “From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small.” I told you all about it in December. [...]

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Why the new Skittles website is ridiculous but I don’t actually care

March 3rd, 2009 · 10 Comments · Customer Experience, Social Networking, Twitter

Skittles is one of my favorite candies. I love opening up a fresh pack, finding one of each color and squishing them together to make a rainbow. It just makes me happy. I’ve been eating Skittles my whole life and I’ve been on a computer my whole life, and yet never in a million years [...]

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I’m Quoted in the New York Observer

December 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Articles

Out of the blue this weekend I received an e-mail from Gillian Reagan, a reporter for the New York Observer, asking if she could interview me for a story on profile pictures. She mentioned that she’s been following this little ol’ blog for a while (which was very exciting) and knows that I write a [...]

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Find me at Web 2.0 Expo NY this week

September 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Conferences

O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo is in New York this week at the Javits Center. This is the largest tech conference that NY has ever seen and those of us who live here are thrilled to finally get the attention that NY tech so greatly deserves. There are eight tracks for four days of sessions, everything [...]

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