Technology

Focus on the Freelancer: #Boulder Startup Week

Posted by agouty on May 7, 2010 at 9:12 am

During the course of Boulder Startup Week, there have been several events focused on freelancers and sharing more about different projects everyone is into. Various developer meetups, and one specifically yesterday focused on side projects have left a major focus on freelancers and connecting the community of freelancers within Boulder.

A new monster called Google

Posted by agouty on March 2, 2010 at 12:28 pm

Each month I get delivery of the Search Engine News; an industry rag by Planet Ocean which goes over most everything a marketing professional would need to know about how the search engines are changing. While most monthly reads are mundane ones, recent developments around changes with regard to Caffeine, Local Search and Google Buzz [...]

How Apple botched the #iPad announcement

Posted by agouty on February 2, 2010 at 3:51 pm

When I found an Apple product in my pocket last year, I was pleasantly surprised on a lot of fronts. I felt like I belonged to a new community. Better yet, I had a fantastic new device, the least important function of which was to make phone calls. (Funny, that)

Microsoft Exchange in the cloud? I was skeptical too.

Posted by agouty on January 18, 2010 at 5:12 pm

I’ve never thought of Microsoft as an innovator in whatever market space they enter. That could simply be my groundling, mainstream view of the company, as it seems to be shared by the Googlites and iPhone bandits of the world, an ever growing group of what used to be 20-something ruffians.

A resistance to pop culure (I got an iPhone)

Posted by agouty on September 4, 2009 at 2:05 pm

For those of you who have known me over the past two years, you have likely seen me touting some form of a windows-based mobile smartphone with all its clever trickery, me at the helm snickering at blackberry and iPhone owners. No longer.