@damon Fortunately, I brought my Flip Ultra and I captured 60 minutes of pure Gary for your viewing pleasure. Keeping with the tradition of WineLibrary TV, these videos are unedited.
InnovationCamp #1 is two weeks from today! Being a first, there will inevitably be loose ends, chaos, and some pesky problems on the day. Without risk, though, there is no reward… @juliegomoll
Drew: Austin is the perfect community, and GSD&M Idea City is an awesome space for Innovation Camp. Julie and I share a GenX/Boomer fascination with the creative energy that is out there among designers young and old. June 28 @juliegomoll
Future Jets Owner Gary Vaynerchuk Brings Thunder to Austin "I’ve been tracking Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV ever since the day that Dan Benjamin told me about the sale of Corkd to this sorta zany character with a wine show on the web." - Damon Clin
@timpatterson picked a digital camera, an inexpensive Fuji FinePix A205, and decided to get back to creating Quicktime VR panoramas for fun and he has a Google Map of all my QTVR locations in Austin!
free WordPress theme called “AdsPress“. The theme is ready to use with Google Adsense and the advertisement blocks are perfectly placed (tested & tried) for giving you the maximum revenue out of your websites.
SXSW was awesome. Nowhere else in the entire field of geek can you plug in so easily. There are so many conversations, so many connections. It just feels good to be there. Hummel asked for a transcript of the conference, so here goes…
The situation in Burma has been getting out of control. People are dying as they fight for peace. Some of the monks have been beaten, arrested, and killed.
Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group! Our goal is to help each other, make new friends, pass along referrals, and learn new and interesting things about Drupal that will ensure our web sites are what we want them to be. Be sure to introduce yourself t
SXSW extravaganza in Austin has been an application king maker for the last two years at least; Google's Dodgeball blew up there in 2006 and Twitter went from elite-chic to massively popular there in 2007. Who's it going to be in 2008?
SXSW Interactive 2008 starts next week (March 7-11) and the majority of the geek world that I know will be there. SXSW Interactive runs concurrent with SXSW Film and is followed by SXSW Music. This will be the fourth year I’ve attended the conference. H
Unfortunately, I see one big problem: does anyone else get a little intimidated seeing that there are as many as 16 things going on at the same time in many of these time blocks?
Brian Rodgers is no City Hall mover and shaker. But he has nonetheless shaken things up with his crusade to stop the tax subsidies that Austin granted to the high-end Domain shopping center in 2003.
extraordinary woman raised about $15 million of which $3.5 million was from angels or what I would call boutique VC firms (i.e. a group of angels under one investment roof). Keep in mind that was all before the bubble burst back in 2001.
Have you ever just wanted to sit in a small room with a few likeminded professionals and get some tough questions answered? Ever wanted the right ammunition to tackle the tough web application security issues on your plate? Welcome to The Austin Project.
What started as a grass-roots movement has become one of the hottest new things in programming technology, generating the same level of passion among its adherents as Linux, another outsider technology that moved into the mainstream.
For January, the GeekAustin Happy Hour moves downtown to the exceptional J Blacks. Some of you may remember that PhizzPop was hosted here last month. Well, Whurley and LinearB liked JBlacks so much that we decided to host the next few GA happy hours there
Like whales and dolphins, humans can take a breath and descend beneath the surface of the waves to experience the surreal silence and beauty of any aquatic environment.
Tanya Streeter, born January 10, 1973 in Grand Cayman, is a world champion free-diver, who made her first important breakthrough in 1998 when she bettered Deborah Andollo's Women's No Limits diving record by 10 feet, achieving a total depth of 370 feet (1
four Austin wireless companies were able to attend and showcase themselves at the CTIA press event, ShowStoppers, at a 70% cost savings. Digby (aka 30 Second Software), edioma, Media Excel, and BrainMedia.
This is a list of shows for the Austin area. It is by no means meant to be the Austin showlist, merely a showlist. It will not be limited solely to my tastes, but I will try my best to keep it within certain boundaries.
HelioVolt’s FASST™ technology produces high-performance solar thin-film with pioneering time and materials efficiencies. 10 to 100 times faster than current processes. 100 times thinner than traditional silicon.
Powered by $77 million in new investment, startup Heliovolt, based in Austin, TX, will build a factory next year for mass-producing a new type of solar cell that could, in much of the United States, make solar electricity as cheap as electricity from the
Coté talks with Paul Terry Walhus about running IT for Austin's Hotel San Jose and Jo's coffee house. We go over the setup between different locations and then check out the data center.
Austin's young population (75% are under 45) fuels a white-hot entertainment industry. The South by Southwest festival draws thousands of media professionals to the "live-music capital of the world" (1,580 bands! 70 venues!)
Austin was ranked today as one of the five "Startup Hubs" in the US by Fast Company magazine. Click here for the entire list of "Fast Cities," and here to read why those chose Austin.
Austin, Texas web design service vendors that have requested a listing on Marketingtool.com. Actual Austin, Texas listings appear in the search results at right.
Jo’s next door neighbor is the San Jose Hotel. Today, Jen Braafladt, departing Bar Manager, brought by a bag full of pictures and spread them out on the hotel lobby table.
Peter Townsend and other video clips at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas. technorati dev-wiki microformats hReview hCard hCalendar XOXO GMPG XFN 1.1 XMDP webdesign
Maker Faire and Make Magazine team will be holding Maker Faire Auditions in Austin at the Austin Children’s Museum on Sunday, July 15th, 2007 ... The Faire itself is Oct 20 and 21 at the Travis County Fairgrounds
folks that hang out at Jo's Coffee on South Congress in Austin, Texas. Quite a variety of friendly folks, easy to strike up conversations. And the coffees good too.
or 17 years, Blaw, has been papering Austin with announcements. In a wired city where people glued to laptops cram coffeehouses, Blaw is the conduit to the old way of communication; that is, the printed word see http://motorblade.com
First, let me get to the nitty gritty for those who are here for the plugin and not my experiences. Today I’m pleased to announce that in a joint effort with Todoist.com, a Quicksilver module is available for download.
We’re here to help match up local Austin web ninjas with new projects and jobs as well as provide a resource for those looking for web developers and hosting companies.
One of the best-loved twitterers, Paul Terry Walhus, a gray-haired blogger from Austin, Tex., has 9,177 friends and 1,851 followers, according to the tracking site Twitterholic.
We’re bringin’ it back folks…this time with a little different sound. We’re pleased to present the Son’s of Peaches featuring: Frank Meyer Marvin Dykhuis Richard Bowden Karen (Peaches)
Omar Gallaga, Statesman blogger/writer and Rodolfo Gonzalez, photographer, caught up with me on South Congress last week and outed me as a twitter user in a story on twitter. Here I am posing for a picture above at Jo’s Coffee. He calls me “amiable
What's Paul Terry Walhus Twittering about today? The information technology manager for Jo's Hot Coffee and the Hotel San Jose is "walking around testing various wifi locations on S Congress, Austin L:78704," last we checked. Before that, he was "at hom
A New York Times article mentions me. One of the best-loved twitterers, Paul Terry Walhus, a gray-haired blogger from Austin, Tex., has 9,177 friends and 1,851 followers, according to the tracking site Twitterholic.
It's "for the semi-educated, shut-ins...a lower end evil medium that debases even the poverty-stricken people who watch it." Really, Bruce? So, um, I'm not allowed to watch 30 Rock, The Office, or Arrested Development? Everything has to be a supersaturate
Come hang out at the coolest day party on south congress. We’ll have beer, coffee, food, and local vendors with lots of cool stuff from records to screen printed tee shirts.
Weekly podcast interviews of Austinites famous and infamous, known and unknown, with the sole intent to convince my good friend Galia, an Israeli woman living way out in California, to move and live with us here in Austin, Texas
It’s Friday morning at Jo’s and there are a couple of dozen folks enjoying the chill air. Tom’s, with the green bandana, is sweeping up aound the place and extolling the virtues of the new espresso machine, the La Marzocco. We’ll have the scoop
“Any given day is a funky parade at Jo's Hot Coffee on South Congress Avenue. Its location at the foot of the "SoCo strip" and its layout — open shed seating, walkup-window, tables — make Jo's perfect for marathon people watching. It's one of th
Jo’s Coffee Slide show is a self running application which will give you a tour of the some of the best coffee blogs and coffee sites on the net. When you go to the site, click “run slideshow” and it will start running. Relax and enjoy, it might hel
And you can register to win a free 2007 sxsw interactive pass and attend this major blog/media fest in March. Rodney Gibbs, from Amaze Entertainment, will give a presentation along with other gaming industry wonks.
SXSW, Austin Community College (ACC), and the Digital Media Council present “Get into the Game”, an industry seminar and mixer on Thursday, February 22 from 7–9 pm at Jo’s Coffee, 242 West Second Street Austin, Texas.
SXSW, Austin Community College (ACC), and the Digital Media Council present “Get into the Game”, an industry seminar and mixer on Thursday, February 22 from 7–9 pm at Jo’s Coffee, 242 West Second Street Austin, Texas.