Archive for the ‘Social’ Category



Brightkite 2

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 ...

Coathangr on the iPhone

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.

Matt Drance to Keynote iDev

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.

Coathangr Rejected From the App Store

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Yours truly details why the Coathangr iPhone app was rejected: I want to be very clear about this: Apple was extremely polite and helpful.  They pointed us to the docs and gave us helpful examples of how to fix the problem, and offered up developer support if we had any problems with implementing the ...

Ignite Denver 3

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 ...

Free Calls with Google Voice and T-Mobile

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Devin Reams explains how to use Google Voice as a middle-man for calls.  I love stuff like this, even if it doesn't benefit me directly as an AT&T customer.

Slanket Contest

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Slanket and coathangr have teamed up to give away Slankets.  To enter the contest, simply invite people to coathangr.  If they sign up and post at least one photo, you have a shot at a free blanket with sleeves.  Do this as much as you want to increase your odds. Don't settle ...

Twitter Integration

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

coathangr now supports pushing your posts over to your Twitter account.  Everything-shared and photos-only are the key options, with the ability to decide whether your replies should be sent over, too.

West by Midwest

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.

• Seven Things

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

It was only a matter of time, I suppose.  St. Peter has called me out to join the Internet chain-letter phenomenon of posting seven facts about myself that may be of interest.  Here goes I was the frontman (singer/songwriter/guitarist) for a band.  We released an album which you can preview and ...

A Poor Man’s Email

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

From PCWorld, Eric Schmidt on Twitter: Schmidt praised Twitter as another way to communicate online, but he also called the service "a poor man's e-mail" and wondered whether it will remain a standalone service or become a feature of e-mail systems. Spoken like someone who has no idea what Twitter is or ...

Twitter Spam

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Rands says: Every couple of weeks, a meme stressing about “an increase in Twitter spam” wanders the Internet. Each time I see this meme appear, I turn away from my keyboard and bang my head against my desk three times. Twitter spam. Really? Are you even paying attention? I’ll say it again, ...

WordCamp Denver

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Alex King and his company, Crowd Favorite, are hosting WordCamp Denver (tickets available here).  While the focus will obviously be on WordPress and related concepts, the event also presents an amazing networking opportunity for bloggers, designers, and tech workers regardless of technology preference.  At $20, I couldn't justify not going. Plus, this ...

• Regarding RT

Friday, January 30th, 2009

As with most things, I blame Alex King.  His post about re-tweeting wasn't the first such condemnation of the practice, but it did inspire similar feelings in those close to him, culminating in today's launch of Retweeters Anonymous by Gordon Brander. From Alex's rant: You can get your favorites (or someone elses) in a JSON ...

coathangr

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

If Twitter is "what are you doing?", then coathangr is "what are you wearing?"  This service brought to you by myself and Jay Graves.  Still a work in progress, we've launched as an early pre-alpha beta (pralpheta).  Registration is open for now, but will be moving to an invite system ...