R.I.P. Etta James … your beautiful voice led Becca and I onto the dance floor for our first song…
Side note:
One sticky situation people often ignore when talking about “tightening up the borders” and deporting illegal immigrants back to their homelands… is the fact that while it’s certainly debatable (which is why everyone is talking about it), it’s not that easy.
Often times, there are many jobs in which people won’t do the work for the money… no matter the situation… Farm hands are critical to the success and output that is responsible for most of our diet, yet we’re willing to literally “bite the hands that feed us”…
It’s a difficult situation… for sure.
Source: giantrobotlasers
A round of applause for the new kid on the block…
Greyson James
1/7/2012 at 11:31am
7lbs 2oz 19.25” long
Iowa Nice
From 2011 to 2012
The last few years have been a roller coaster…
2011 was a blur… mostly focused on one thing.
Oh, and I joined a new startup, Simpli.fi.
Outside of that, I spent a lot of time with great friends, met a lot of new ones, built some stuff with my Makerbot, built some legos, moved, saw my little brother get married, started reading the A Song of Fire and Ice series, continued my relationship with my Little, and finished paying off my car.
And what’s in store for 2012?
Well… our baby’s due date was December 29th… but that day has past and it looks like we’ll be ringing in the new year with a new child! As of right now, that’s all I can focus on.
Resolutions for 2012?
Uhh being a good father? Making sure our child (check hazbaby.com) arrives healthy and stays healthy…
Keep focus on my career and hobbies as well. I have to stay grounded, but of course my priorities will shift and reorganize.
I plan on staying with startups (it’s addicting), keeping active in the startup community, learning more about languages and hardware, build more legos, read more books, and plan more interesting moments for my family…
Boring post, I know, but seriously… all I have been thinking about lately is scaling startups and having this baby!
Week 40 on Flickr.
On our Due Date!
Keep up to date via: http://www.hazbaby.com
Grace Hopper on Letterman
Not sure if Peter Jackson did the casting, but Martin Freeman is probably the most perfect choice for Bilbo Baggins after the original hobbits were cast for LOTR.
Content Sharing Services
I have been thinking a lot lately about content sharing services…
I have a picture I want to post with a short quip…
I pop out my iPhone, because it’s an awesome way to get engagement fast.
I open up Path 2.0, upload pic and add text. I click the “Share via Facebook” and “Share via Twitter” to ensure it broadcasts to my favorite content sharing services.
Now that’s all fine and dandy, it works for almost any content sharing app. Twitter and Facebook are large platforms with millions of integrations.
The problem is the picture. I get content sharing fatigue, because I also want Instagram, Flickr, and
Maybe, it’s up to Flickr and Instagram to open up for integration. Clearly it works for Path -> Twitter + Facebook … but why not the others? Instagram is huge, Flickr is huge.
The point: I think that there’s a careful balance between walled gardens and open APIs that allow for engagement with your service. For example, I can post to Facebook from Path, but Path obviously wants to keep users engaged with itself, instead of going to Facebook. And Path doesn’t want to be just an interface… or maybe it does?
I would wager that there will be a solution to this soon. Maybe in the form of a content aggregation spec… so that you can place content wherever and your services just show it like it’s part of the platform. We see this in one direction with Facebook… we see this in 1.5* directions with Twitter… we’ll see this become even larger eventually. Otherwise we’ll get “Content Sharing Fatigue”…
* Twitter hosts most content inline within it’s apps (web and mobile) and let’s it’s content out via clients, but doesn’t allow posting to other services within itself.
I'm a Ruby developer that loves to play with science, math, and gadgets. Previously, I was part of a startup called drop.io, acquired by Facebook. I live in Fort Worth, TX with my wife, 2 dogs, and baby boy. I'm a foodie, a gamer, and a self proclaimed scientist.
