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Best site of the day - Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:23:43 -0400

Best site of the day - Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML:

Thank you!

The Pitch - Sneak Peek Episode 104 The Pitch: popchips – AMC

Sun, 13 May 2012 02:39:58 -0400

The Pitch - Sneak Peek Episode 104 The Pitch: popchips – AMC:

My buddy Alex is on AMC! So cool!

SpreadPoetry.com / Send Poems By Phone (As Read By The Internet).

Thu, 10 May 2012 18:58:23 -0400

SpreadPoetry.com / Send Poems By Phone (As Read By The Internet).:

Brilliant hack by Brandon Diamond. I hope someone sends me a poem soon!

"So did Jeff Novich, a 32-year-old junk food lover whose culinary resume includes acting as a body..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:03:08 -0400

“So did Jeff Novich, a 32-year-old junk food lover whose culinary resume includes acting as a body double for TV chef Bobby Flay. Novich thought that the chocolate Cheetos tasted like Cookie Crisp cereal. But Shelasky, the magazine blogger, thought they could pass for doggie treats.”

- The Associated Press: Could “Grilled Meat” chips be popular in the US?

Look for me eating Oreos on the left in the video

“OMG you look just like Shakira, no no you’re...

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:08:15 -0400

“OMG you look just like Shakira, no no you’re Catherine Zeta… actually my name’s Marina” favorite song this week. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS | HOLLYWOOD (by Marinaandthediamonds)

Whoa! My friend Dan (and his flea market booth #dansparentshouse...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:05:00 -0400

Whoa! My friend Dan (and his flea market booth #dansparentshouse ) were filmed for The Anderson Cooper Show. It’s airing Wed (Apr 25) at 4pm on WPIX channel 11. He was the only vendor that Anderson talked to. Check out his website and go to Brooklyn Flea to visit his booth (it’s the best one there).

And if that weren’t enough, NBC did a shopping guide on Brooklyn Flea that is airing inside NYC taxis. Dan’s booth is featured throughout the 15 - 20 second mark.

Dan is one of my oldest friends and he’s one of the most creative guys I know. This press is much deserved!! Way to go Crafty Dan!

OMG, I’m at #inboxzero ! I normally have about 5-10...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:21:02 -0400

OMG, I’m at #inboxzero ! I normally have about 5-10 items at any time, but I wasn’t paying attention and just replying to emails and BAM… nothing left. I thought I had broken Gmail or my internet was down.

Two things I find amusing:

I will definitely get 10 emails by morning.
I love that Google isn’t happy that I have no more email to read. Instead of saying something like “Whoa, you’ve achieved inbox zero… You’re a champ. Shut me off and go to sleep now. Or reward yourself with non-computer activities”. It just says “waste more of your time on some nonsense being posted to Google+, where content goes to die.” Seriously Google?

All the teams that participated celebrated at a big Spotify/Coke...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:58:13 -0400

All the teams that participated celebrated at a big Spotify/Coke party with performances by Chiddy Bang and Savoir Adore. We celebrated just a little bit harder as the winners of the hackathon. Here are some fun photos:

Alex Tandy (part of the team) wrote a fantastic blog post chronicling the team’s progress from start to finish. Here’s a highlight:

4:00 a.m. Apparently Toby writes a MongoDB driver.

4:15 a.m. “Flags. I love flags.” -Me

4:20 a.m. “Mr. text-box-man, how is your text box coming?” -Me

4:28 a.m. “mur mur mur mur mur mur mur” -David

4:30 a.m.: var sleep = “I wish I was sleeping.”;

document.write(sleep);

There was a press conference last week with Coke and Spotify. Here are a few articles about that and what’s about to happen with our app. (Our team name is “London Calling”.) More links at the bottom.

New York Times:

Coke recently hosted a Spotify “hack day,” in which programmers huddled to develop music apps that would work on the music program. The winning app, called London Calling, will be introduced during the Olympic Games in London this summer, as part of the wave of marketing and promotion that Coke does during each Olympics. In recent years, that wave has often involved music.

Hypebot:

Spotify will help Coca-Cola look cool by injecting them into the conversation of music fans. In addition, the two partnered this past weekend to host a friendly competition between 6 different hack teams. The winner, named “London Calling,” will be an integral part of the public launch of this partnership.

Evolver.fm:

The first example will be the addition of the Spotify Play Button to Coca-Cola’s Facebook page — the most popular brand page on Facebook, according to Ek, with over 40 million fans. The idea sprang from a recent Spotify Hack Day in New York from the “London Calling” team.

Spotify Announces Global Partnership with Coca-Cola (socialtimes.com)
Spotify Details New Global Partnership With Coca-Cola (techcrunch.com)
Spotify Details New Global Partnership With Coca-Cola (digixav.com)
Coke taps Spotify for partnership (variety.com)
Spotify inks deal with Coca Cola: Do you care? (digitaltrends.com)
Coca-Cola, Spotify Partnership: Staying Hip, With Global Reach (abcnews.go.com)
Spotify partners with Coca-Cola and begins work on joint applications (pocket-lint.com)
Spotify Partners with Coca-Cola; iPad App on the Way! (webpronews.com)
Spotify signs a marketing deal with Coca-Cola (buzzom.com)
Spotify and Coca-Cola cut huge deal for ads, app, and Spotify expansion worldwide (theverge.com)
Coca-Cola teams up with Spotify (bizjournals.com)
Spotify and Coca-Cola Announce Promotional Partnership (thedailycity.com)

Coca-Cola - Press Center - Press Kits - Spotify and Coca-Cola Partnership

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:49:08 -0400

Coca-Cola - Press Center - Press Kits - Spotify and Coca-Cola Partnership:

I am LOVING the fact that my mug is the thumbnail for the Spotify/Coke hackathon video! Haha!

Some photos from our “Techie Potluck”. Maddy was...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:08:59 -0400

the SAUCE BOSS!! (just need bacon)

fibonacci fruit

throw/catch veggies

cupcake array

guac

airbn boozing it up

the pinz

Some photos from our “Techie Potluck”. Maddy was the Sauce Boss (from #epicmealtime ). I should have taken a few more pictures of people rather than food. Ah well.

Patient Communicator takes Audience Choice award at the last NJ...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:38:02 -0400

Patient Communicator takes Audience Choice award at the last NJ Tech Meetup #sweet (via Three Impressive Healthcare Startups Pitch at April NJ Tech Meetup)

I gave a 5 minute version of the original demo day pitch. It was perhaps a little rushed and still went 30 sec over, but I got the message and vision across and it seemed to resonate.

Another winning hack! This time it was a super secret,...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:41:00 -0400

Another winning hack! This time it was a super secret, invite-only, Spotify/Coke hackathon. Last weekend 6 hand-picked teams (many from Startup Bus) came together and built some cool music apps that combined: music, location, coke, spotify, facebook, and friends. It was an interesting challenge that set the event apart from all other hackathons I’ve participated in, which had no rules and often just large themes.

Our team was code-named London Calling: Andrew, Aaron, David, Alex, Toby, and me.

This is a huge opportunity for us as we’ll be continuing to work with Coke on building out the app.

Business Model Innovation • Blueprint Health inaugural class of start-ups reinforce business model lessons

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:08:57 -0400

Business Model Innovation • Blueprint Health inaugural class of start-ups reinforce business model lessons:

Nice shout out about Blueprint Health Demo Day!

This is the video from the “Reinvent Local”...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:09:20 -0400

This is the video from the “Reinvent Local” hackathon that Amex sponsored. Look out for me and Pinz and some Poorsquare love! (and wow my hair is long…)

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:27:46 -0400

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas:

Love this part - (thanks Jean for the heads up today):

One of my tricks for generating startup ideas is to imagine the ways in which we’ll seem backward to future generations. And I’m pretty sure that to people 50 or 100 years in the future, it will seem barbaric that people in our era waited till they had symptoms to be diagnosed with conditions like heart disease and cancer.

How Record Skype Calls

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:16:44 -0400

How Record Skype Calls:

Ever want to easily record a phone call on Skype to MP3 and not deal with nonsense? This does it for free and works perfectly. Nice!

You Hurt the Ones You Love: A Facebook Rant « Zoe Fraade-Blanar

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:14:53 -0500

You Hurt the Ones You Love: A Facebook Rant « Zoe Fraade-Blanar:

Keep up the awesome ranting Zoe! I really love this kind of critical feedback and your colorful explanations. Most interesting/entertaining read all day! (To be fair, I was in jury duty this morning…. but still.) I’d think FB would be amazing at these things but you are clearly the expert and they are clearly screwing things up for you guys. Maybe if we all post this to FB in those external comment threads they’ll listen? Hmm?

What do I love more than this cheeseball Jury duty video?

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:30:40 -0500

The fact that while I’m sitting here, at jury duty, waiting for my name to be called, I just used their wifi to download the cheesy video they showed us at 9am, unzip it, and upload it to youtube so I can share it with y’all! This is from 1997 and looks like my TV magazine class at Journalism school made it. My favorite part is the screaming guy at the beginning.

Here at jury duty, the guy running things said at the beginning to not leave our stuff unattended because it can get stolen… because all these rooms in the courthouse are totally open to the public. So that got me thinking: can 111 Centre street be the next hip and fresh co-working space?

It’s centrally located. Totally quiet (really, it’s freakishly quiet). They have free, fast wifi with no password. There’s a separate “work” room with desks that have power strips and ethernet cables. Cell reception is great in the hallway. You could definitely have meetings here. It’s pretty empty because who the heck wants to come to this place unless ordered to do so.

The only downside for jurors is you might be called. Other than that, I think this’ll be our next work space when Blueprint Health finishes their lease.

Expand Your Networking Horizons Through SMS with Cnvrge

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:23:20 -0500

Expand Your Networking Horizons Through SMS with Cnvrge:

Sweet! Just made the Twilio Blog! Thanks @jonmarkgo

Doctor-Patient Communication in the Cloud - The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:35:14 -0500

Doctor-Patient Communication in the Cloud - The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site:

We just got some great press about Patient Communicator and Blueprint Health!