Good article on Seeking Alpha by Dan Rayburn about Limelight Networks’ recent earnings call. They are growing but so is their debtlosses, which has been an issue since they went public last year. They have gotten some big wins recently with the Olympics and coming soon the NFL. Lots of speculation about their being bought by a major telco though.
I have been off and on with ScribeFire. Its been around for years and was called something else, now its ScribeFire. I am getting back to using it now cause I am working from too many computers to use Ecto effectively, and I am now posting to Ignite Phoenix as well so there are too many passwords to remember.
ScribeFire is pretty easy to setup, its a Firefox plugin and integrates nicely into the browser making it easy to add links and post in ‘Web of Conciousness’ style. Its got some basic keyboard commands - F8 brings up the half window that the app sits in. Command + B,I,U do all the regular actions, and for links use Command+M. It will automagically insert the link of the page that you are currently on.
I am meaning for this to cause me to become more active again with my blogging activity.
ipbig - Big Time
ippbj - Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
ipradiate - RadiatePhx: Why having a vital downtown matters
ipcoffee - Running A Successful Coffee Establishment
ipobg - O.B.G.I.T.R.
ipsilo - Do Social Networks merely help us build bigger silos?
ipshape - Get in Shape
ipstory - Storycasting
ipplay - Play with yourself (musically) and break through to the next level
ipjerk - Circ Jerk: Fear and Loathing in the Stacks
ipgreen - 10 Green Biz Ideas For PHX Entrepreneurs!
ipfire Firewalking - Myth or Mastery?
iplit - LIT 140: the public side of sharing a personal passion
ipoutside - Is living outside the United States right for you?
ipocd OCD - We Put the “Order” in Disorder
ippinhole - Pinhole Portrait Photography
Wow a nice piece in the NYT today about IgniteNYC and the reemergence of Tech parties. This is great timing with the release of the first Ignite Phoenix in just over a week. They capture the idea of the events really nicely:
Now, young Internet entrepreneurs, some holdouts from the old days and a few members of the city’s creative class (and underclass) are engaged in a new type of party, which mashes together Silicon Alley 1.0’s camaraderie and optimism, meetup.com’s spontaneity and informality, Burning Man’s home-brewed creativity, and a technology conference’s devotion to unveiling ideas. These days many of the ideas are about producing and delivering video content.
Exciting stuff all around!
Via Jmoriarty’s suggestion I went to the Tech-e Tuesday which was up till recently known as Tempe Tech Oasis, which is slightly confusing but we all know about name changes.
Anyway it was a good time. The main speaker was Ed Koeneman of Kinetic Muscles Inc. He went over the fun of starting up a Tech company in Arizona: grant writing, prototyping, and sales. They started off using a reseller but have since shifted to running that in house. They create devices that help people recover from strokes, which is a really good thing.
Everyone got 20 seconds to introduce themselves so I pitched Ignite Phoenix really quickly. There were at least 30 people there. It was at some bar that used to be a Pita place by the Tempe theater.
I was then able to circulate a bit and talk to a few people I thought would be good presenters for Ignite. The whole thing is put on by Herb Finkelstein of ASU’s R&D Services in the Engineering School. Oh and the next one is also on the same night as the first Ignite Phoenix. Doh!
You wouldn’t really be able to guess that Phoenix is the 16th largest city for tech jobs in the country if you were to read the traditional media here. In the 41 stories published to the Phoenix Biz Journals RSS feed this week 6 of them talk about tech in the valley.
Yet there is this story:
Tech jobs spur some growth in Phoenix area:
The Phoenix area's technology community has seen some growth after shedding jobs for most of the decade, according to a study by the American Electronics Association.
Where is the info about what companies are driving this growth? What are they doing? Who are they?
Of these 6 stories only one of them actually talks about a specific company: Unicorn Media which is a startup by some of the folks who did Limelight Networks.
Where is the story about Limelight’s current issues with patent Lawsuits with Akamai?
This is more and more reason for the grassroot/groundswell action that Refresh, Social Media Club, Tempe Nerds, Refactor, and Ignite Phoenix to name a few.
A close friend recently broke her elbow and I was able to practice my search capabilities for doctors. Now I discovered PubMed which appears to be a government database of health articles. I did a search at Hakia’s PubMed section for Elbow Fracture and got the following:
Fractures of the lateral column of the elbow involve radial head fractures or capitellum fractures. As the biomechanics of the elbow have become better understood, the importance of the radiocapitellar joint in stabilizing the elbow has been emphasized. Preservation of the radial head has gained importance. For nondisplaced radial head fractures, good results are generally obtained with a short period of immobilization followed by early range of motion. In managing displaced radial head fractures, improved techniques and more versatile instrumentation have helped make preservation more feasible. Excellent results can be achieved with ORIF. In cases in which ORIF is impossible, prosthetic replacement of the radial head is a sound alternative. Successful results have been obtained with arthroplasty, and with second-generation modular systems, the facility of performing this procedure should increase. Treatment of capitellar fractures has also benefited from improved fixation systems. If the fragment is large enough, reduction and fixation with small screws or Kirschner wires have had good success. Excision works well in patients with fragments that are too small or not amenable to fixation, especially if the other structures of the medial elbow and forearm axis are competent.
Apparently using Hakia fixes some issues with PubMed’s built in Search feature. Got all this via CenterNetworks.
Fractures of the elbows lateral column radial hea…[Hand Clin. 2002] - PubMed Result
Well that settles that debate, looks like wikipedia is the winner.
As much as the world might need something like this, one can see ardent Wikipedia supporters decrying Encyclopaedia Britannica’s move, since it attempts to make private what Wikipedia makes public (information ownership). If that’s the case, Britannica editors may have their hands full wading through bogus submissions.
Encyclopaedia Britannica To Follow Modified Wikipedia Model | Epicenter from Wired.com
I am being very immature today but this made me chuckle.
On a serious note this is a new situation to consider when using Cox Internet. I dont use bittorrent a lot but it is useful for a number of legitimate things.
Contentinople - Jeff Baumgartner - Report: Cox Blocks P2P Traffic
Interesting article on how Brands are entering Social Media but what caught my eye was this quote:
“Swisher…Swiffer. I wouldn’t put that on my [Facebook] profile,” said Tim Kendall, Facebook’s director of monetization.
Followed by these facts:
Don’t tell that to a dozen or Facebook groups devoted to Swiffer, although these groups are sparsely populated. “Ive Discovered The Joys of Swiffer and I Can’t Stop…” has 55 members. “I love my swiffer duster!!!” has five members who made this appeal: “Cleaning nerds that love there swiffers should join this group…because we f*ing rule!!”
It seems that even though you work for the fastest growing Social Media Network doesn’t mean you necessarily ‘get it’. Good read.
