(Again, I’ve discovered if I wait long enough, the world will write my blog posts for me.)
Matt over at 37Signals highlights the problem with most job ads - despite all the words, they don’t actually say anything, often asking for things that don’t exist (i.e. 10 years developing in Ruby on Rails).
In addition look […]
“Yugma looked (and sounded) really impressive until I tried using it” - Cameron Olthuis
Ouch.
First off, Steve - you didn’t tell me you were the President, I thought you were just advising them. Cool. Congrats.
Secondly, back before the name change, I played with Yugma and found their setup process to be far more straight-forward and […]
The first session in our UXP Skill Sharing Series will take place Thursday Sept. 21 at 7:00 pm in room 1-132 at the Carlson School of Management. Our featured speaker will be Larisa Warnke, Sr. User Experience Architect at Carlson Marketing, and the topic will be an overview of UXP process.
The Carlson School is located […]
MNteractive.com Lingr chat room is now open. I can’t guarantee attendance 24/7, but hey, I’ll leave it open. I’ve got some ideas on how this can be used in an interesting way. Stop by and say ‘hi’.
Karl over at Experience Curve is tracking the transformation of the advertising/design/marketing agency model via the powers of tagging (delicious, technorati, etc).
His call to action:
“Please send me any other links that you find related to the decline of mass media and the death/inevitable decline of the agency model. BTW I’m not saying that the agency […]
Most Help Wanted job descriptions are exceptionally awful. Justifiably so - if an organization is unable to find someone they like and that likes them within their own professional circles - well, that’s scary. Scary like writing a blog post to the vastness of the universe.
Here’s some actual copy from actual (I think) job postings. […]
Any adolescent boy who grew up in the pre-internet era has memories of sneaking that first peak at someone’s older brother’s stash of Playboy magazines. From that point on, talk of backyard cowboy adventures disappeared and our focus shifted gears to that exciting/hellish interaction with the opposite sex. Mixed in that were even more taboo […]
Would anyone care to comment on the latest attempt by our illustrious StarTribune business page to cover the local Internet startup scene?
I can hardly wait to hear….
regards,
Graeme
“Smart VCs from elsewhere are discovering Minnesota, and startups here are discovering ways to go find them, and I think that’s very encouraging. Okay, so our locally based VC funds keep going where they think the grass is greener…let em go” - Graeme Thickins
A half-decade ago I worked for a wifi startup, tablet pcs were all the rage, and the company was continually exploring “interesting” uses of both technologies. One of those explorations was the Aureole Restaurant at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
In hindsight, I imagine the project kickoff going something like this:
“What if we […]
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