tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:10:54 +0000Landing pagetechnologyTwitterJournalismKennedy Space CenterWi-Fi Protected AccessappleGeorgia Institute of TechnologyOrlando FloridaApplication programming interfaceProgrammingCreativityWebTelephone numberplanningDRMMailChimpBusiness modelTelecommunicationsServiceshardwareInteractive voice responseIPv6stimulusCopyrightWi-FientrepreneurSearch EnginesVideo GamesMailing listCable televisionmusicPassioncablelabstelevisionAdvanced Technology Development CenterBloggingPHPobamaWEPGoogle AnalyticsMagic KingdomDigital rights managementMeans of productionWalt Disney World ResortrevolutionBlogdistributionMediagooglehttp://blog.gleep.org/noreply@blogger.com (Andrew)Blogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-2883569165736739566Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:03:00 +00002010-01-07T22:20:37.862-05:00Mailing listProgrammingPHPMailChimpApplication programming interfaceImage via CrunchBase I've been managing a mailing list with MailChimp for a few months now and I'm tremendously impressed with it.  It's a powerful application that produces effective email campaigns and it has a huge array of features. I thought I'd write up some work I just did with their API this week to show you how to effectively manage your communication strategy. User Registration Sohttp://blog.gleep.org/2010/01/effectively-using-mailchimp-and-its-api.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-5943103406687438131Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:27:00 +00002009-12-20T14:27:25.899-05:00Search EnginesLanding pageGoogle AnalyticsImage via CrunchBase When I first constructed OtherNum we had a list of priorities about 1000 items deep (I'm sure you can relate...) and way down near the bottom was something like "Write some content for the About page".  I had a short blurb up there about Walter and I and Twilio but it was extremely terse.  I didn't think it mattered. But after we launched our public beta I was looking at ourhttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/12/where-they-go-and-why-they-leave.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-1125032267870694249Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:35:00 +00002009-11-16T23:35:44.811-05:00Business model@RedMaven just asked me a question related to my latest post on the OtherNumber Blog. @andrewwatson which would you say is more important in a busines: the team, product/service, business model, or the market? I answered him this: @RedMaven 1. team 2. model 3. market 4. product  But it's a great question so I wanted to write a more in depth answer to it. TEAM I've seen it written many times thathttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/11/what-matters-in-startup.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-5234703638354007805Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:25:00 +00002009-10-19T22:25:08.279-04:00 This message will get indexed, show up in search results in Yahoo, Bing etc... and be out there forever until I delete it. There isn't anything else I can do about it.http://blog.gleep.org/2009/10/more-google-voice-stupidity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-512043368414604749Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:32:00 +00002009-10-15T22:20:19.497-04:00Too Many Social Networks I have to confess something.  I have too many accounts on too many social networks.  They all pretty much do the same thing.  I post a link, a picture of something insane I saw or some text that describes what I'm doing at the moment.  I post it on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Ping.fm, Tumblr... I don't even remember half of them.  Oh, and FriendFeed.  See! It's insanehttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/10/too-lazy-to-ping.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-230463220843670597Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:20:00 +00002009-09-27T23:20:31.562-04:00I get asked sometimes what Twitter is.  I know, it's a little hard to imagine, but it happens.  Sometomes people know what it DOES but the big question is WHY do I use it? So what is Twitter to me? 1. Twitter is a marketplace of ideas On Twitter, ideas that resonate with people get passed around.  Ideas that don't, die a short painless death in the abyss of the 5,000 tweets / second public http://blog.gleep.org/2009/09/what-twitter-means-to-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-6860315577430643552Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:22:00 +00002009-09-03T23:26:31.832-04:00Georgia Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Technology Development CenterToday I filled out a simple form and applied for membership in the ATDC for OtherNum.  The new ATDC has about 100 member companies now, which is staggering considering over the course of its history it graduated 120 companies total.  The new model for the ATDC is really amazing.  There are several great articles about it from Stephen Fleming, Lance Weatherby on their own blogs, Peachbuzz and the http://blog.gleep.org/2009/09/othernum-applies-to-atdc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-9190206406245314669Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:07:00 +00002009-08-15T22:20:25.797-04:00I was just reading the 37signals "Signal vs. Noise" blog and they had a link to a great post by Kent Beck about the concept of the Minimum Viable Product. The idea is really interesting because it addresses the one limited resource that you can't really do anything about: time.I was thinking about that a lot when I first created the prototype of OtherNum. I was working on it all by myself and I http://blog.gleep.org/2009/08/approaching-minimum-viable-product.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-7958405608298672328Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:35:00 +00002009-08-15T21:41:31.447-04:00I think he lost me at "Stay with me for a second here..."God i got. I'm sorry you missed my call this is Harold Erin, Because the dad free army I stay with me for a second. You're receiving this call, because at some point you about a red NIST attended one of our seminar as requested, the free book miracle. Monique from Brother John. I haven't seen your myself or maybe even see me on the rich http://blog.gleep.org/2009/08/funny-transcription-failure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-6262225572100622342Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:02:00 +00002009-08-14T23:06:03.946-04:00Image via CrunchBaseIt's so much more fun blogging from my Powerbook. Why? Because I have Zemanta installed on it. Zemanta is a great plugin that helps you include links to relevant images, tags and online articles about the subjects you're blogging about. I always find creative images to add to posts when I use this machine!Also, the best thing I've ever added to my blog was the Disqus systemhttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/08/zemanta-disqus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-1827761842002112223Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:53:00 +00002009-08-14T22:58:14.168-04:00I find it useful to keep my resume up-to-date after a milestone or achievement. If I don't update it immediately, I forget some of the salient details. In the past I left my resume alone for months, years and then when I needed it I had to go back in and fill in details but my memory was fuzzy.So, having just spoken at the CableLabs conference in Keystone this week, I just updated my resume http://blog.gleep.org/2009/08/updated-my-resume.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-8348082978500599547Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:49:00 +00002009-08-14T23:01:33.828-04:00Wi-FiWEPWi-Fi Protected AccessImage via WikipediaAfter reading Paul Stamatiou's review I already knew what to expect of GoGo Inflight WiFi on Delta with regards to security. I wasn't prepared to do anything that required me to authenticate without SSL due to the complete lack of wireless security. I had thought I would at least check on the news, check my email (SSL of course) and a few other things.What stopped me? $12.99http://blog.gleep.org/2009/08/gogo-nogo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-4397117035145474485Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:46:00 +00002009-08-14T22:59:34.616-04:00Image via WikipediaI'm finally home from CableLabs. It's really good to be home with the wife and kids. The conference was absolutely fantastic but it's always good to be home.The highlight of Day 2 for me was the panel discussion on OSS/BSS problems face by MSOs. I can't discuss it too much publicly (it was a closed forum) but I can say that it was great to hear my own sentiments on many http://blog.gleep.org/2009/08/cable-labs-wrapup.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-7912991750630930605Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:58:00 +00002009-08-14T23:00:22.429-04:00cablelabsIPv6Image via WikipediaSo today was my first day ever attending the CableLabs Summer Conference. There were over 1000 attendees there from the US, France, Holland, Japan and many other places. There were people from all kinds of MSOs, hardware and software vendors and even engineers from Apple and Google.Today I attended a session on IP TV where a panel of executives from Cox, Rogers, Comcast, Timehttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/08/cable-labs-day-1-wrap-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-3584214043897998202Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:27:00 +00002009-07-15T00:42:40.158-04:00Georgia Institute of TechnologyImage by Toni Travels via FlickrAndy Sweet and I headed over to the King building in Dunwoody because his brother Rob works there. We were walking in through the wrong door when we crossed the path of Duncan. Duncan is an 81 year old, former US Marine. He saw Andy's Georgia Tech polo shirt and his face lit up! He pulled us aside and told us that the thing that came to mind when he thought abouthttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/07/day-i-met-duncan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-3172572702423633150Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:17:00 +00002009-07-12T00:23:39.562-04:00I should be a asleep but allow me to brain dump here:I'm excited about Pub Sub Hubbub. I wish it was just PubSubHub but it doesn't matter. It's a cool technology!So here's what I'm thinking for possible uses so far:decouple systems that are using synchronous messages like web services and don't need toapp to app push notifications without sockets left open constantlyit's RSS without the POLLINGhttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/07/uses-for-pubsub-hubbub.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-8543032153252599158Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:16:00 +00002009-07-01T01:20:08.887-04:00So I'm working on a simple app to get my feet wet with Google App Engine and it seems fairly powerful and straightforward... but I keep running into odd problems.Part of the problem is I have very little Python experience. It could be that the errors I'm seeing would make sense to me if I had more Python Chops.Anyway, here's a synopsis of the issue:So I have this webapp Handler defined:class http://blog.gleep.org/2009/07/google-apps-newbie-problem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-225198058803010642Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:46:00 +00002009-06-30T21:57:44.037-04:00I've been playing a little Mafia Wars lately on Facebook and on the iPod. Zynga classifies both versions as "Social Games" but I don't think the iPod version is social at all.First of all, it's not integrated with the Facebook version at all. You can't easily recruit new members to your mob except to send emails to people in the address book on your iPod. It's not integrated with Twitter http://blog.gleep.org/2009/06/mafia-wars-is-social-game.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-7851056594664610033Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:32:00 +00002009-06-15T12:44:38.151-04:00Saw this link via @courtenaybird and had too much to say about it to fit in a tweet...http://gawker.com/5288759/flickr-founder-calls-nuked-user-a-dickButterfield doesn't work for Yahoo of Flickr anymore. This isn't a "PR" or "messaging" problem for those companies. It's a "PR" problem for him personally if at all...Also, I don't really think he's too far off base with his assessment. This userhttp://blog.gleep.org/2009/06/saw-this-link-via-courtenaybird-and-had.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-1342611013600395951Mon, 25 May 2009 15:59:00 +00002009-05-25T12:13:20.226-04:00Telephone numberTelecommunicationsInteractive voice responseServicesImage via CrunchBaseI launched the very first version of a new project today! I'm very excited about it even though it's in the very early stages!The project is called OtherNum and the idea came from a tweet by @amdev about having to provide a phone number as part of an email campaign. His problem: his startup didn't have a "phone" and he didn't want to provide his cell.So I created OtherNum http://blog.gleep.org/2009/05/launching-othernum-phone-number-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-8689732054823000801Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:54:00 +00002009-05-13T11:10:26.459-04:00Cable televisionImage via WikipediaMuch has been made of the changing entertainment habits of people in the age of the internet, but most of it focused on the effect of internet distribution on the people who create the content and the people who program it. I've been thinking a lot lately of the effect it's going to have on the companies that provide the last leg of the journey to the consumer: The Cable http://blog.gleep.org/2009/04/future-of-cable-television.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-3777777233182951664Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:32:00 +00002009-04-18T23:58:49.784-04:00Video GamesentrepreneurPassionCreativityImage of Miles TilmannI went to college with some great people and I enjoyed the experience immensely. I'm proud of the groups I belonged to and the friends I made - especially two friends who are really doing well while doing what they love to do!Miles Tilmann and Rich Grillotti have been working together on PixelJam Games now for a number of years and their games just keep getting better and http://blog.gleep.org/2009/04/im-proud-of-pixeljam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-9090881159197591522Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:45:00 +00002009-04-12T00:01:16.492-04:00BloggingBlogImage via WikipediaI have had this idea on my basecamp todo list that I called "Everybody Writes / Nobody Reads" for a while now. The idea is that there are 100,000+ new blogs started every day (I don't know the exact number) with people writing about anything and everything. The internet makes it possible for anyone to publish their opinions / research with little or no cost to themselves. http://blog.gleep.org/2009/04/everybody-writes-nobody-reads.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-3578462022071400880Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:56:00 +00002009-04-11T22:32:32.989-04:00Walt Disney World ResortMagic KingdomKennedy Space CenterOrlando FloridaWow. What a long week that was! I took my wife, my three kids and my Mom to Orlando for a week to go to Walt Disney World.We stayed at the Nickelodeon Hotel which is just down the street. It's very family / kid oriented and it was a lot of fun. They have 2 GIANT pools and huge slides. The kids had a blast.Ironically, the TV in our room didn't work very well. I say Ironically because it's http://blog.gleep.org/2009/04/vacation-over-life-goes-normal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874426346754498518.post-6026127575448664153Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:19:00 +00002009-02-28T15:55:43.525-05:00Means of productionDRMDigital rights managementCopyrightImage via WikipediaTyrannyWe are moving from a world with large, centralized, tyrannical power brokers that decide who can access what content, what they can do with it and even what you can say about it. They erect barriers to prevent competition and assert control over the world. They use things like digital rights management and lobbying congress to extend copyrights another 50 http://blog.gleep.org/2009/02/open-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Andrew)