August 2009
1 post
Seems i forgot all about this twitter profile. For those who care you can find me under A2K. That is my main account.
April 2009
1 post
Is it just me, or do other people get excited at the chance to reuse a chick-fil-a soda cup?
January 2009
11 posts
8:00 PM - 6:30 AM. My sleep debt has been paid. Now its time to work up another one. Happy Tuesday to all
Wife’s out for the afternoon. That means It’s just daddy and the twins. 1st order of biz, nap. 2nd, a little shopping spree. .
can’t decide. 15in Macbook Pro , or wait until the 17in ships? The 17 looks bad-ass. I just worry about it’s extra girth.
I have to wonder if car dealers are aware of the economic state of affairs. No wonder the industry needs “bailout” money.
Trying to power through a mass email update I need to send out to my contacts re our new company name/info. Not sure if I can make it. I …
ed ass! Being sick blows
Testing out a piece of our upcoming fb app. Simple, but solid. Should be kick ass when we start feeding it some api data
Bed at 4am. Shot gun in hand at 5 am trying to find out why the alarm triggered. So much for sleeping! Fortunately, was a false alarm.
Just finished the designs for our (soon to be released) fb app. Now, it’s bed time. Cheers kids!
I mean, who doesn’t drink Redbull at 1:30 am? Man I have some issues.
I need a new ride. Although I am having trouble deciding. Choices: Porsche CayenneS, Range Rover or VW Touareg. What would u choose?
September 2008
3 posts
Just finished tailgating at the Ravens game. The CEO of Herdez made frink one too many shots of tequilla. Eeek
Updates, Updates and More Updates
Greetings friends. It’s been a while since we have updated the revurblog. Here’s what’s been happening over the past 30 days:
HaCkEd
According to Slicehost (our current server company) it appeared that our servers had been hacked and were being used for DOS attacks. (DOS attacks for those who don’t know are essentially when a group of computers attack another network in...
Yelp's most important key to profitability starts... →
This is a repost from my original back in July. Still worth checking out.
This is excellent news for my project. One thing i hope to do differently than Yelp is enable the local businesses to engage their critics (and fans) rather than alienating those voices. In my opinion, this approach creates a much healthier relationiship for all involved and, at the same time, enables a business to grow from...
August 2008
1 post
How To Demo Your Startup →
Interestng post from calacanis’s email forum. I have some tips of my own, as well as some disagreements with Jason’s thinking. Once i have some time i’ll sharet them with all of you
July 2008
14 posts
Updates...
Things seem to be back on track this week. And hopefully with some luck and agile development our member revurblogs template should be fully functional. This is a critical piece to the urban revurb puzzle since most of the sites functions revolve around the content added to a members revurblog. (for thosee who are curious what a revurblog is, i’ll be adding a definition on it sometime in...
Back in the studio. Feeling much better. Time to start cranking out some designs
This Entitlement of Free Needs to Go Away →
excellent article coming from Mashable. Sadly, this is exactly the reason why a lot of companies with great potential end up failing. I often wonder just how many people (myself included) would have a social stable filled with myspace, facebook, plaxo, linkedin, friendfeed and twitter accounts if they had to shell out 10 bucks a month for each? My guess would be…not many.
Off to the races with location based services
bijan:
Today the iPhone App Store opened for business. The App store is fan-fucking-tastic. Very fast, easy to naviate and rich apps.
Here are some of the initial apps I downloaded:
-Twitterific -Yelp -Weatherbug
When I launched each app, everyone of them asked me if they can use my location data. And they all worked remarkably well.
When I updated twitter with twitterific my profile...
Sloooooooow week
It’s been aslow week here for urban revurb. Our lead developer is in SF and i have been fighting a random case of pink eye.Times like these really chap my ass. I hate the feeling of no progress. Oh well. It is what it is.
Hopefully we’ll have some good news to report next week.
cheers,
Alex
Well, it appears that today has been a day of playing tech catch-up. Guess its a nec evil when building a start up
Should be working, but been sucked in reading posts from fred wilson and charlie o’donnell abt web groups.
Tweaking some brand elements.
“The court’s order grants Viacom’s request and erroneously ignores the...”
– Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users - EFF - July 2nd
The EFF is correct here. The court is wrong.
(via bijan)
agreed 100%. There is absolutely NO reason why Viacom needs this much information. And regardless of what Via says, i don’t believe that they will be able to...
Back in the studio checking out Sergio’s latest css updates for the dashboard. I’m digg’n them.
First boat ride of the season. Felt good to be back in the saddle.
Grabbing bagels 4 the fam @ sams in catonsville. Surprsingly, iphones google maps paid off. Wondering if that should concern me
A Day Off for 3/4 of the team
It’s officially the 4th of July (Happy B-Day Lady Liberty) and today the majority of the team will be taking the day to do some other things unrelated to urban development. For me, it will be a chance to recharge a bit, hang with my wife and twins and hopefully stick my boat in the water. I only hope the other guys will take the day to pause a bit and do the things they enjoy the most.
As...
Introducing....
The urban develoment tumblog. Stay tuned.