As some of you might know - I'm one of the coordinators for
SocialDevCamp East which is happening on May 10, 2008 in Baltimore. SocialDevCamp is about bringing the thought leaders in the Development community and Social Media community together to discuss the future of the SocialWeb.
We've thrown some potential topics out there:
* Mobile Application Development with iPhone & Android
* What are the implications of Geo-based web appli…
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Posted by Ann Bernard on April 16, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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We (Forum One) have been working with the CARMA.org (http://www.carma.org) project - a database of the world's power plant carbon emissions that is freely available to the public, researchers, academics, policy makers, and businesses - to help them build and market it's API. We just launched a few widgets that I thought the web dev community here might like to see - local firm doing fun stuff and all :-). Please check it out and help us spread the word. -
The Widgets: http://www.carma.org/widge…
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Posted by Kurt on April 16, 2008 at 11:22am —
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Here are this week’s featured jobs. To have yours considered for addition to our features add them to
our jobs list. For a list with links to the full job descriptions and to employer profiles visit
http://www.jobmatchbox.com today.
First off, we are looking for a web developer to re-design and develop a client site and integrate a content management system like Drupal or Joomla into it. Virtual is ok, but only fo…
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Posted by Robert Neel on April 13, 2008 at 7:15pm —
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Full details on a great day of service we can all be proud to participate in together can be found here:
http://www.istrategylabs.com/servathon-creative-tech-biz-helping-the-dc-community/
Please join the Creative + Tech + Biz team so we can all get together on the same project - a direct link to register is here: http://servathon2008.kintera.org/creativetechbiz
See you out there!
Peter
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Posted by Peter Corbett on April 2, 2008 at 2:40pm —
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We're looking to bring someone in for a short contract at
Strat@comm. I've got a few more details at
Ross Notes.
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Posted by rosskarchner on March 11, 2008 at 7:05pm —
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www.lotusloungedc.com
See you there!
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Posted by Peter Corbett on January 23, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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Come to the next Saturday Technology Training Sessions (STTS) in room 215 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G Street, NW, Washington DC, 20001, at 9th and G Street outside the 9th street exit of the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro.
These events are on the first and third Saturdays of the month from 1 to 4pm and are open to the public, and is broadcast and archived on Ustream under the username "seasonago".
This event is on Saturday, January 19
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Posted by James Patrick Timony on January 17, 2008 at 11:31pm —
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Hey all - Forum One's hosting another event at the National Press Club in our Web Executive Seminar Series.
Check out the details here http://www.forumone.com/content/calendar/detail/2682.It will be a great discussion about how your organization can best leverage Social Media and Social Network sites. Drop me a note if you are anyone else you know would be interested, and you'd like a friendly social network discount :-…
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Posted by Kurt on January 17, 2008 at 3:19pm —
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I'm curious if there's interest in a Scala learning/hacking session. Coming out of the Javapolis conference a couple weeks ago, there is more buzz around Scala's potential to be the right way to get modern/functional language features on the JVM. Even if it doesn't work out that way, we're supposed to learn one new language a year, and it wouldn't hurt to do it in January.
Any interest in doing this? If so, maybe I'll fwd to a wider audience (java users group?)
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Posted by Alex Eagle on January 7, 2008 at 9:47am —
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We're heading into campaign season, without much of a clue of how literate the candidates are about science and technology. This shouldn't be acceptable.
Please consider adding your name to the call for a science debate:
http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=2
Thanks!
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Posted by rosskarchner on December 28, 2007 at 9:52am —
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What started out last week as a possible lunch with a couple of us
turned into a really nice afternoon, by the power of a couple of
twitter meesages. We met up at Indique Heights in Chevy Chase and were
treated to good company and great food. It was really nice to meet in
person those little pictures from the Twitter window we see day in and
day out. Everyone is doing cool stuff and it was nice to take some time
out to sit and chat and get to know everyone a little better and see
what is going o…
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Posted by Jimmy on December 27, 2007 at 5:25pm —
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Techcrunch seems to have some serious love for the guys over at our local DC startup Mixx. I always seem to get me Mixx news right from them, which is very cool, at least they are getting some respectable love from the big guys.
Anyway, I headed over to the Mixx blog and was shocked to…
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Posted by Jimmy on December 21, 2007 at 8:52am —
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As some of you know, I maintain an RSS reader for all local tech, PR, and marketing blogs,
Tech on the Potomac. On the right hand side you will see a column listing all the blogs included in the reader. If yours is not listed please send a note to marshall @ prestovivace . biz and I will include your blog. Also, if you know of any blog that should be included, please send me the URL.
To be included a blog must be Potomac bas…
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Posted by Alice Marshall on December 19, 2007 at 12:21pm —
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I was checking out the latest technology news on Blogrunner and same this post from Bill Hartzer titled “Top 10 Blog Posts about Mixx for 2007“. It was a pretty cool review of the stories written about Mixx over the last year.
They have the Techcrunch post along with some others. I thought it w
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Posted by Jimmy on December 15, 2007 at 9:03pm —
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I was fortunate enough to have the time to hit Nick O'Neill's
Social Times
launch party. It was held in DC at MCCXXII. I had been following the
RSVP list on the eventbrite page, and trust me it was growing. And it
showed. There was a lot of people there and I was able to finally get
a chance to meet a lot of local DC techies that I had come to know from
twitter and the Justin Thorp's
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Posted by Jimmy on December 13, 2007 at 9:58pm —
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Many of you have seen a couple of my blog posts on the local startup
Mixx.
It is a new and very cool social bookmarking site that has been
recently featured on Techcrunch as a possible successor to Digg.
Well
now they need the local DC Tech communities help ! I was messaged by
Marc Benton last week about the Open Web Awards over at Mashable. Mixx
is featured in the Favorite Social News site. I think all of us here
who are trying to buil…
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Posted by Jimmy on December 9, 2007 at 12:09pm —
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Our very own DC area startup, Mixx from VA, has patnered with the LA Times according to this report from VentureBeat. Mixx will be used on the LA Times online site in much the same fashion Digg has been integrated into other newspaper
sites. The post also references the fact that teh LA Times has
invested an undisclosed amount into Mixx as well.
There…
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Posted by Jimmy on December 4, 2007 at 9:50pm —
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I'm not sure how often I'll update my blog here on The Network, so in the meantime here are some exciting *other* ways to stalk me!
I'm on:
Facebook,
last.fm,
twitter,
LinkedIn,
Delicious, blogging at
Ross N… Continue
Posted by rosskarchner on December 2, 2007 at 5:27pm —
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I find myself constantly trying to find the best way to keep track of this I need to do and appointments I may have, flight times, etc. I have an iPhone and have tried things like Ta-Da form 37Signals, and also the iPhone friendly Google Calendar. But none of those quite seemed to fit the bill.
I also have tried the famous analogue PDA pocket moleskin, but while straight forward, I never seem to follow up and it has not quite worked out either.
Enter iwantsandy.com. I think I was tipped off…
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Posted by Jimmy on November 30, 2007 at 9:47am —
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The other evening I was preparing for a business trip. As I usually do I head over to Itunes and see if anything catches my attention that I want to watch or listen to while on the plane. I went into the video
section and saw a couple I thought I may enjoy. The first was by the
gang over at nextNYers who produces a series of short videos
all about the up and coming startups out of the New York area…
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Posted by Jimmy on November 29, 2007 at 9:27am —
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Today I am experimenting with social networking. I coordinate training and networking in the community of people who use Adaptive Technology at the DC Public Library. Our next event is on Saturday December 1st, from 1pm to 5pm in room 215 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. The Saturday Technology Trainning Sessions are for users of Adaptive Technology like the JAWS screenreader and the Zoomtext magnifier and anyone else who is interested. Demos will include Leopard and Accessibility…
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Posted by James Patrick Timony on November 25, 2007 at 8:18am —
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Today was a bit of a slow news day, so this evening I decided to stop by Meetup.com to see if there was anything new going on in the area. I have been getting most of my event news from Facebook, DC Tech Events, and mo
re recently The DC Technology Network . I have been a member Meetup.com, but never really found that meetup group that quite fit the bil…
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Posted by Jimmy on November 24, 2007 at 9:30pm —
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I was so very happy to get up this am and check through my feeds this morning and came across this TechCrunch post titled
Digg Refugees May Be Heading To Mixx. I thought for a second and then it hit me. MIxx is a local…
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Posted by Jimmy on November 24, 2007 at 8:14am —
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I’m
a little very much perturbed about the state of
how people are so lazy when designing websites. Yes, I probably
shouldn’t talk because I haven’t walked a mile in their shoes, but I
have
used their products and I must say that it’s insulting to the average
user. First of all, why would you sell someone your product without
having any web experienced? You think just by creating a CMS, that
makes you a god amongst men? No, you need to
test your product before…
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Posted by Ken on November 16, 2007 at 9:04pm —
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Posted in a couple blogs this morning, I thought I would pass it on to all of you since it's relevant to every DC entrepeneur. I remember hearing Haroon from freewebs mention this at the UMD Startup Bootcamp a couple weeks ago, but now it's public. This is huge for the DC/east coast tech scene.
More good news for east coast tech start-ups: Ex-AOL CTO John McKinley, Julius Genachowski (ex-IAC), and Sean Greene of Away.com have formed… Continue
Posted by Zvi Band on November 15, 2007 at 9:08am —
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It's going to expire soon-- anyone want it?
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Posted by rosskarchner on November 10, 2007 at 11:05am —
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What is a Web Manager? Probably also known as an eMarketing Manager,
Interactive Marketing Manager, or perhaps anything else that makes it
seem Internet savvy, this client-based position is rather open-ended,
in my opinion. First of all, in the beginning days of the Internet, it
would seem that a web manager would be responsible for simply
maintaining the website, whether through straight edits to the HTML
pages or eventually through a Content Management System. Now it just
seems that it’s that…
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Posted by Ken on November 6, 2007 at 11:19am —
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Hey guys, i've enabled the use of open social gadgets for the DC Tech Network. There is now the gadgets tab in the navigation. You can put the gadgets in your profile... for example, see the chuck norris gadget in mine. (http://dctechnology.ning.com/profile/justinthorp)
We can also put them on the network home page... we'd just have to make something that's relevant to the whole group.
I'm going to start developing some gadgets... look forward to seeing what you all make too.
- justin
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Posted by Justin Thorp on November 6, 2007 at 10:39am —
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Posted by rosskarchner on November 4, 2007 at 11:29pm —
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I have a feeling that most people on this network blog. And, given the creativity and intelligence I've seen in this community at events, I have little doubt that these are high quality blogs. But, short of word of mouth and hunting through profiles, it's hard to know about all of them.
To simplify the situation and help us all get to know one another better, I've setup a Planet Aggregator at
http://planetdc.org. Currently it contains a smattering of bl…
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Posted by Matt Bowen on November 4, 2007 at 10:17pm —
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Michael Arrington move over... our very own
Greg Gershman has started a new blog,
DC Tech Beat, which will cover the DC Startup scene. It's awesome. You all should subscribe to it.
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Posted by Justin Thorp on November 2, 2007 at 10:45am —
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Hi everyone, the startup I work for just recently launched
Mixx, a social news-sharing site that let's you share stories, photos, or videos with friends. The design was carefully crafted by our friends at
nclud, and my role was taking the beautiful design and hooking it up to the Rails application.
I'd like to invite everyone to check out the site and let us know what you think (good and bad). If you sign up, add me as a f…
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Posted by Jason Garber on October 28, 2007 at 2:00pm —
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If you're looking for something to do tonight, come out to Copynight DC at Brickskellers. I think the topic of discussion is the future of online music.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/296872/
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Posted by Justin Thorp on October 23, 2007 at 9:38am —
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You can now get a print version of Cameron Moll's book "Mobile Web Design."
http://www.lulu.com/content/1281648
It's only $19, which is a real deal. I just got my copy in the mail today.
Whether you like it or not, the Mobile Web is going to become part of your life. You need read this book so that you're up to speed.
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Posted by Justin Thorp on October 17, 2007 at 11:36pm —
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A little while back, I was at The Web Manager's Roundtable when a gentlemen from the World Bank informed the crowd that he had built an online buzz monitoring tool that was open to the public for installation. A similar tool is provided by
www.buzzlogic.com for about $1000 per month for a year contact.
Does anyone here have a linux server they can install this thing on:
http://buzz… Continue
Posted by Peter Corbett on October 17, 2007 at 8:55pm —
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I'm helping to put together an all-day web conference in Reston on November 1st. We've got some great speakers coming in from all over to cover 3 tracks of content, and a solid line-up of sponsors and attendees. There's one panel I'm especially looking forward to.
You can use the promo code "viget" to save $100 on tickets…
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Posted by Brian Wynne Williams on October 14, 2007 at 10:17pm —
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Just found out about this from a friend, thought I would pass it on to anyone else interested. UMD is hosting a startup bootcamp this coming friday.
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Posted by Zvi Band on October 14, 2007 at 6:15pm —
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Thanks to Peter Corbett there is video from Facebook Dev Garage DC. It's available on UStream.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/WVwpWxKXViG2uygxK.z.eA
For those of you where at the event, what did you think of it?
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Posted by Justin Thorp on October 10, 2007 at 11:30pm —
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Jason Garber just posted the details of the next Refresh DC. Are you going?
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REFRESH DC NEWS AND UPDATES
http://refresh-dc.org/
WEB BUILDING: ALL IT TAKES IS PASSION
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Everyone has ideas, but do you have the follow thru to take an
idea and make it into a successful website? Alex Giron
(http://www.cssbeauty.com/) from nclud…
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Posted by Justin Thorp on October 9, 2007 at 10:42am —
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Site Point is making their Ruby on Rails book available for free via pdf for the next 60 days
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/freebook.php
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Posted by Justin Thorp on October 4, 2007 at 9:49am —
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Noticed this this morning, thought you all might want to take a look... Washington Post now has a local blog directory.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/local-blog-directory/createblog/via
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Posted by Zvi Band on October 4, 2007 at 8:06am —
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I spend enough time in the DC area that people think I live there. Even though I don't, I figure it would be good to know what's going on, so I joined the DC Technology Network.
Though, if it were up to Martin and Jason, I'd be looking for an apartment down there...
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Posted by Patrick Haney on October 3, 2007 at 1:59pm —
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Qloud is a local Web 2.0 start up. We're funded by some of the areas leading Internet investors and are looking to re-invent the consumer on-line music experience. We've begun with our initial release of
our Facebook app. We are looking for two new employees, a
Director of Operations and a
Director of Product Development.
For the Director of Ops we are l…
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Posted by Toby Murdock on October 3, 2007 at 7:06am —
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I've posted a graphic outlining "The Interactive Universe" as I see it. If you'd be interested to look/comment i'd love your feedback: http://www.istrategylabs.com/interactive-universe-map/
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Posted by Peter Corbett on October 2, 2007 at 11:21am —
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I have a friend who has launched www.cutcaster.com based in NYC (not sure if you'd have to relocate).
They are looking for a great PHP developer who is interested in a salary + equity stake in the company.
Please email me if you're interested, and i'll connect you to them.
Peter
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Posted by Peter Corbett on October 2, 2007 at 10:44am —
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I am working with FaceBook to help organize a Developer Garage in DC on October 10.
let me know if you want to be part of it
here is the invite http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4944851737
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Posted by jessesaves on September 30, 2007 at 3:12pm —
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Intresting article about the time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people and how it can ruin an otherwise good design. Has happened to me more than I can remember.
Have a look...enjoy the charts.
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Posted by Stan Wilson on September 28, 2007 at 11:27am —
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Follow DC Techies... check this out and let me know what you think of it! (I ripped this
post out of my blog)
I first wrote about this here and here. But now, it’s done.
Metro Times - Get DC Metr…
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Posted by Zvi Band on September 26, 2007 at 10:33pm —
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Are you going to CopyNight DC?
Check out - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/267495
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
6:20 PM
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Posted by Justin Thorp on September 25, 2007 at 9:22am —
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In the past, I have used Google exclusively for searches, but recently I have begun to think I may be too dependent on Google search. Many days I perform 50 - 100 searches a day to find things or solve problems. Google search has a strong influence on the way I see the Web and how I search for new information.
I started trying out different search engines, such as ask.com and yahoo. The sites that frequently appeared in the results using Google were not there, and new sites appeared tha…
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Posted by Tom Gullo on September 21, 2007 at 12:11pm —
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So on the heals of last night's great widget event, I came across a
story this morning about newspaper adoption of widgets in the
International Herald Tribune - check it out.
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Posted by RyanMM on September 21, 2007 at 9:28am —
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My first post will be a simple one. I'll start off with sharing my favorite site of the day:
http://www.stripemania.com/If the javascript weren't enough, it produces really pretty colors and images. What more can you ask for???
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Posted by eddiewelker on September 18, 2007 at 6:06pm —
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Full post here: http://www.istrategylabs.com/
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Posted by Peter Corbett on September 14, 2007 at 3:32pm —
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Javascript is fun with jQuery. There are some great tutorials on the web demonstrating how to use jQuery. One thing that struck me recently was how popular this javascript library has become. It was only released 18 months ago, and yet check out this list of current users:
http://docs.jquery.com/Sites_Using_jQuery
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Posted by Tom Gullo on September 14, 2007 at 2:13pm —
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Hey DC smart people,
The company I'm working at, Positive Energy, is hiring engineers among other things. Positive Energy is a fast-growing, venture-funded startup working with electric and gas utilities as well as state governments to reduce residential electric and gas consumption and combat global warming. We're located in Arlington, 2 blocks from the Courthouse Metro. The code is Java, yeah, but nice clean and modern Spring. We do some RoR work too, and will have some web design com…
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Posted by Alex Eagle on September 14, 2007 at 12:14pm —
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Had fun at the nclud happy hour? If so, then you should come out to
the NextDC September happy hour. It's going to be Thursday, September 27th at 6:00pm at the Science Club in Midtown (1136 19th Street
NW Washington
DC 20036).
If you have any questions ping
Moses McCall.
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Posted by Justin Thorp on September 10, 2007 at 8:31pm —
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Refresh DC is still two weeks off. Are you looking for something fun to do in the mean time?
Come to the Washington DC Web Standards Meetup. It's a gathering of Web developers who talk about developing Web sites according to W3C Web standards.
We're meeting on Thursday September 13th at 7:15pm at
Murk… Continue
Posted by Justin Thorp on September 8, 2007 at 3:43pm —
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So I made a big splash in the securities world the other day as I bought some Yahoo Stock.
WOOP - DEEE - DOO !
I'm not a high-roller as some of you assume, I only bought what I could afford, which was a whopping 4 shares at $23.15 a pop! Hey man, there's a huge upside to YHOO that I just don't have the time to go into in this post; however, if these jokers start trading anywhere past 3 figures then that's a nice piece of change for a brother.
We'll see where the s…
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Posted by Avery Smith on September 6, 2007 at 10:05am —
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If you haven't heard, Jason Garber has just announced the details of the next
Refresh DC (http://refresh-dc.org/) meeting:
When:
Thursday, September 20, 2007
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where:
The Motley Fool
2000 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Web Widgets: What, Why, and How
What the heck are web widgets? More importantly, why do some work while others fall flat? Will Meyer from Cl…
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Posted by Justin Thorp on September 4, 2007 at 9:38pm —
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The guys at nclud are throwing a BarCamp DC after after party. You should come. Here's the announcement...
"It's a beer drinking, rant raving extravaganza – and we are putting up
the first $250 in drinks. So come early, because we drink fast! We'll
be there, so stop by, Thursday, August 30th at 5:30ish for happy hour
in DC at Old Dominion Brew House at the Convention Center. Lets keep
the fun and excitement going from BarCampDC and continue the ranting
and raving from the after party. "…
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Posted by Justin Thorp on August 28, 2007 at 8:56am —
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Thank you for coming to our social network. It's a way that we can all stay in touch with whats going on in DC as far as the Web and technology.
I hope you enjoy this site and contribute to its success.
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Posted by Justin Thorp on August 26, 2007 at 12:01pm —
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What Do You Think is the Future of the Web and Social Media?
Looking for Environmentally Focused Mashup Builders
Adaptive Technology User Group - Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Jan 19th, 1pm - 4pm
DC Tweetup - Finally Meeting Those Faces
Local tech blogs
DC Startup Launchbox
How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve