May 2010
CU junior Zack Shapiro launches iPhone app company →
(via 59thirty) The Colorado Daily profiled me and my iPhone app company and startup, 59thirty. I talked to them about my new RTD app coming out this summer and the iPad app that’s almost done.
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WatchDaily Stack is a time management tool that’s part building blocks, part Jenga, and part egg timer. Definitely an interesting concept. Learn more about it here.
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“We’re turning the world around us into a videogame, using sites like...”
– Daniel Lyons of Newsweek Wow. Lyons is right. And this is terrifying. Buying Gas and Morality
I’ve taken the moral high ground for years and refused to buy gas from Exxon. Sure, the Exxon Vladez crashed more than seven months before I was born. That’s beside the point. Funny thing is, instead of buying from Exxon I bought from BP. (I didn’t do this, Louisiana, I swear.) Now I’m taking the high ground and refusing to buy from BP ever again. This oil spill has gone...
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Against Me! - Here Comes A Regular (The...
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A short note on iBooks
I’m disappointed with the iBookstore and the “tens of thousands” of books that Apple is currently offering. I realize that Amazon started as a books company before becoming the veritable (non-evil) Walmart of the Internet. I expected Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to have mostly everything I’m looking for. And they do. (For those interested, I’m reading mostly...
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Dealing with rejection in lightweight ways
I’ve been on the waiting list for the Founder Institute for weeks. A few days ago they made the final decisions for the Denver 2010 class and I strangely got a “Welcome” email from one of the mentors. I say strangely because I was still on the waiting list and I hadn’t yet gotten officially accepted into the program. I investigated, found out I was on the bubble and got...
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Goals for 2010
Reading this post from Andrew Hyde, I was inspired to make a list of goals for 2010. I have a few already, just haven’t written ‘em down or shared them with the world. Blog here more Get out there in the Boulder tech community Get my muscle-up (What the hell is a muscle-up? Video) Write more for the CU Independent Learn to Olympic lift Hike more Launch more iPhone apps Get...
