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Please take a moment and read this message from the Grameen foundation, a cause I strongly support:

Last year, we kicked off a global campaign in hopes that our supporters who believe in the power of microfinance will help us share its importance with their networks.

On the 27th of each month, we ask our supporters to [...]

When the iPhone came out it was amazingly great and obviously stupid at the same time.  No cut and paste? No changeable battery?  No slot for expansion cards?

Now the iPad will have a similar growth curve.  The software that is initially shipping with it suffers from being 1.0.  And Apple 1.0 versions suffer further from [...]

At our first Ignite Cincinnati I talked about my journey from bread-machine pizza dough neophyte to confused yeast chemistry padawan to mastery of the simplest way you can possibly manage to get great bread and pizza on the table.

I can only show you the path, you must walk the path…

Others with more time [...]

At this point we have almost 200 people ticketed, not a bad start for Ignite in Cincinnati! 

We have a lot of creative, investment, cultural and tech events in the city, but none that try to combine all these crowds and get some drinks in them.  Your mission tonight: Have fun and get some creative [...]

Many of the cool ideas that have been brought everyday use by the computer industry over the last several decades were first contemplated at Xerox Parc. In particular many of the ideas that led directly to the Mac. One of the visions at Parc involved computing devices existing in three formats; tabs, pads and [...]

Aaron Patzer was in Cincinnati to speak to the GCVA earlier this year, and since then he sold his startup Mint for $170m. I thought his presentation to GCVA was excellent and he gives a nice outline of his real life experiences with costs at various stages here:

Juice Pitcher Aaron Patzer

Everyone seems to have noticed over the past few months just how twisted some of the decisions Apple is making are.  They chose a faulty carrier for the US market so they could line their pockets with kickbacks on the monthly fees, they rejected the Google Voice app, the Apple legal team seems to want [...]

I made the switch to using gmail through a web browser exclusively almost five years ago, and I’ve never looked back.  For a brief period of time I was forced to use Outlook for calendaring only at a company that was still tied to Exchange, and I resented it every time I had to open [...]

If your web site makes use of any of the more popular javascript libraries, including jQuery, that are used for AJAX operations you may be able to benefit from a new free service. 

This new service from Microsoft makes use of their thousands of geographically distributed servers.  By pointing to their servers instead of yours [...]

Elizabeth Edwards and Noel Gauthier did a live interview on Cincinnati’s channel 9.  Noel was at the In One Weekend event a couple weeks ago and I really enjoyed his being there.  Elizabeth is the driving force between IOW and Cincinnati Innovates.  If Noel wins you’ll know why .

Live WCPO interview for Cincinnati Innovates