One of my favorite things about integrating twitter into my life, thus far, has been how powerful the platform is for giving & getting recommendations of new habits, products, or hobbies, from a trusted network of friends & colleagues. And, there's a part of me that loves music. discovering it. listening to it. digesting it. feeling it. dancing to it. and, sharing it. I'm going to try an Read the article >>

About a year ago, I was given an once-in-a-decade career opportunity: Join Adam Sachs & Dan Osit to help start Ignighter.com, an online group dating website, at Techstars, the startup incubator program based in Boulder, CO. Techstars typically takes a small equity stake in your company in exchange for a small amount of seed money, a summer of office space, mentorship, and connections. While Read the article >>

First, I just want to say that my heart goes out to the people on this plane. Let us all pray that no one got hurt. That being said, I have just have a few observations on how the crash was broken to the world. - News of the crash broke on Twitter, several minutes before it was on CNN or MSNBC. - The guy who posted the first twitpic of this event, @jkrums, at http://twitpic.com/135xa has gone from Read the article >>

1. Thou shalt not tweet several times per minute. Goes without saying. It's just annoying. Spread them out. Use tweetlater. Whatever you need to do so you don't hijack half my feed. 2. Thou shalt not frequently tweet mundane information. Classic examples include "Eating dinner", and "Driving to the dentist". Do your followers a favor and don't tweet it unless you have something more interesting Read the article >>

Methinks its about time someone began keeping a list of all the twitter acronyms floating around. For simplicitys sake, I've neglected to track any acronyms that began on AIM, IRC, or other earlier internet services (ie: LOL, WTF, etc) FTW - For the Win. Origin: unknown FTL - Opposite of FTW. For the Loss. Origin: unknown FAVRD - Verb. To FAVRD a tweet, is to vote for it to appear Read the article >>

With 2008 now in the rear view mirror, there have been many predictions in my TweetDeck and my RSS readerthe about the upcoming year. Everything from predictions of the next big web-thing, to the next tech-breakthrough, to predictions that the economy will bounce back, or even worse, will collapse even more. While I could lay down some of my predictions for the upcoming year, I like to have a more Read the article >>

The startup I work for, Ignighter, was just nominated for a Mashable Open Web Award. Please take a second and vote Ignighter: From Mashable: Mashable is proud to announce that voting has begun in the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a unique opportunity for the most accomplished websites and services to receive international recognition for their achievements. During the nominations round, we received Read the article >>

For the last several weeks, I've had the blessing (or the curse) of being in charge of the development of an iPhone application for my startup. The development tools are based heavily on OSX development tools. Get to know Objective-C and Cocoa. If you, like myself, primarly program on the web with tools like PHP & Ruby on Rails, you will need to understand the nuances of ObjectiveC up-front. Read the article >>

This past Saturday night I had the great privilege to host a group date at the Noddinghead Brewpub in Philadelphia, PA. As some of friends & colleagues already know, I have been working as the Lead Developer for Ignighter.com for the past 6 months. Ignighter is an online 'group dating' service, aimed at young people who have just left college, moved to a big city, and having a tough time meeting Read the article >>

A handful of startups in the Boulder, CO area are looking to hire some talented developers. From the site: Boulder Needs More Kickass Developers Want a FREE trip to beautiful Boulder, Colorado? The Boulder tech scene is growing like crazy. Twenty of our top tech startups (you can see a few in the sidebar) have banded together to fly in one hundred top software developers, programmers and engineers Read the article >>