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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Seattle Tech Scene Update
I browsed around a bit today to get a better idea of what’s happening with technology companies in the Seattle area — and found some interesting stuff: Seattle Startup Blogs – this is where my browsing started. It’s a great selection of links to local Seattle tech blogs (make sure to thank Sampa for putting it together) ProgrammableWeb – I’ve read this blog before, but had no idea that John’s blog was based in Seattle Seattle 2.0 – a cool new blog started by Marcelo Calbucci, the founder of Sampa Marcelo has his own blog as well Seattle Tech Startups – this is not a blog, but a group of Seattle entrepreneurs. The next meeting … Continue reading
Are You a Master Java Developer??
My latest “Stumble” resulted in being sent to this Master list of Java interview questions – 115 questions. Obviously, I’m not a master java dev — the 10 or so questions I looked at meant little to nothing to me. If you know answers to the majority (or all) of these questions, please check out Zillow’s job openings — maybe we can find a place for you (Zillow has 16 openings currently).
How to Evangelize a Blog
Guy Kawasaki is the latest guest on PodTech’s Marketing Voices. Be sure to check it out if you are looking to improve your blog.
Technology Classifieds – Zeebits.com
This morning, I met with Cliff and Mark, two UW Bothell entrepreneurs working on Zeebits.com. The site is aiming to be an online classifieds destinations for anyone selling technology related items — used servers, an iPod, graphics cards, an external hard drive, etc. They certainly have lots of challenges ahead of them in the very competitive web 2.0 space, but anything is possible if you are passionate. We spoke quite extensively about social media and how a small business can use it to their advantage, since an obvious barrier that any web startup faces is attracting an audience (cheaply). I think one or both of them will be starting a blog this week to become … Continue reading
Steve Nash is the Best Player in the NBA
Yes, Nash is the best player in the NBA. Note I didn’t say “most talented.” I’m watching the Lakers-Suns game on ABC right now and Steve Nash is simply amazing. 15 assists at halftime. No question about it — if I had to pick 1 player to have on my team, it would be Nash. He gets the whole team involved and working together. Kobe is not a team player. Even Jordan never won anything until he finally realized he needs his teammates to win games. No one wants to stand around and watch one player take all the shots. I’ve played with self-centered ball-hogs who shoot every time down the court — it eventually … Continue reading
ONE.org – American Idol Challenge
I know this is a little late, but here’s an e-mail titled “This e-mail is not for you” that I received from ONE.org last night. It ends with a call to action to e-mail the letter to one friend, but I figure blogging it is better than sending an e-mail to one person – It’s for your friend. So far this week over 74,329 Americans have joined the fight against extreme poverty making us the fastest growing movement in America. Let’s keep it that way. To truly eradicate extreme poverty once and for all we need a strong and sizable block of Americans working to make poverty a priority. To this end, I am issuing … Continue reading
TV Networks Don’t Get it – Democratic Debate Not on TV?
Update: Sorry I wasn’t clued into this sooner, but I just found the video online at MSNBC – Click here if you want to watch it. The democratic debate was tonight — but it was not on broadcast television. Why not? I thought this was a great take on the situation from Jeff Jarvis’ post: A properly pissed off birdie forwarded me NBC News’ restrictions on tonight’s presidential debates, which are many and lead off with this: “internet use is not permitted.” I think that’s ridiculous and so I sought to find out why they would do this. I called Joe Alicastro, producer of the debate for MSNBC, who was on site. I asked him … Continue reading
