Archive for the ‘Denver’ Category
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
So how did I go about deciding I wanted to make iPhone apps, getting acquired, and becoming an executive at an award-winning iPhone development company?
I went out drinking with Brent Simmons. Everything after that is kind of a blur.
About a year ago, I happened to be flying in to San ...
Posted in Business, Denver, Design, Personal, Social, Software |
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
News broke today that my company, Massively Overrated, has been acquired by Double Encore. This is nothing but good news; Jay and I still maintain creative control of internal projects, and now we get to shape applications for huge, international brands. They acquired us, but it feels more like we ...
Posted in Apple, Business, Denver |
Monday, February 15th, 2010
KeyGrinder ((iTunes link)) is now available on the App Store.
Alex King once told us that he wished someone would make an iPhone app based on the PwdHash project at Stanford to make it easier to use secure passwords on the iPhone. Rather than just rush something out, we decided to ...
Posted in Denver, Personal, Software |
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Looks to be an interesting talk from Kristofer Baxter and Jason Johnston. If you're in Denver and work with the web, this should be worth checking out.
Posted in Denver, Web |
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Brent Simmons on the iPad:
My concern, though, is that people may think that Mac apps should include every possible feature and preference. The reasoning would be like this: “It’s not an iPad or iPhone. It’s a computer. Therefore it’s for power users. Therefore it should be totally customizable and have ...
Posted in Apple, Denver |
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
It's a bit selfish and unfair, linking to a review of my own app. But when you design a game for a mobile phone, there's really no better compliment than this:
I sure thought it was right up mine when I first spotted it last night. The game’s description warned ...
Posted in Denver, Software |
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Generous move by Alex King. Meanwhile, Massively Overrated employees got coal.
Posted in Denver, Television |
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Danny Newman's annual Zombie Crawl here in Denver was a huge success this year. Over 4,000 zombies. That's a lot of fucking zombies. But it came at a price: the city is fining Danny over $1,000 for "graffiti" due to the (fake) blood left on the 16th Street Mall.
A call ...
Posted in Denver, Social |
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Macworld has a piece on the new Brightkite iPhone app. They talk a lot about the service updates in general, but say very nice things about the app specifically.
New, unobtrusive buttons on each post and photo allow you to pick whether only your friends can see it, or whether you ...
Posted in Denver, Social, Software |
Friday, August 21st, 2009
The Coathangr iPhone app is live on the App Store. If you're so excited that you need a direct iTunes link, Jay made it easy with a redirect from hangr.me/iphone.
Posted in Business, Denver, Social, Software |
Friday, August 14th, 2009
The 360|iDev keynote will be delivered by none other than the amazing Matt Drance. If you haven't registered for iDev, you should. With folks like Drance, Brent Simmons, and Mike Lee coming out, you know this is going to be one hell of a conference.
Posted in Apple, Denver, Social |
Friday, April 24th, 2009
John Wilker is back at it, and once again Coathangr will be sponsoring.
If you don't know, Ignite is a get-together with a bunch of local tech folks where the thought leaders and social media experts can get onstage for five minutes and use up to twenty slides to explain their ...
Posted in Denver, Design, Social, Software, Technology, Twitter, Web |
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Congratulations to my friend Alex King and his wife Heather on the birth of their daughter.
Posted in Denver, News |
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Brand New covers the Sci Fi to Syfy branding change:
But more importantly, the new logo and naming seems like an exercise in stripping away elements, leaving Syfy as an empty shell and removing any sense of mystery the original name conjured.
The word "if" appearing on the screen, with a gradual ...
Posted in Denver, Sci-Fi, Television |
Monday, March 16th, 2009
For any Denverers who missed South by Southwest, we're doing a fake conference locally called West by Midwest. The conference is fake, but the after-party is real. Register now and you get a real badge for the event. The party is being organized by myself, John Wilker, and Rachel Stephens.
Posted in Denver, Social |