Federal government fees are crippling music recommendation and streaming service Pandora to the point that it may have to shut down. This would be a major loss to the Internet as well anyone who likes music - basically everybody. Justin Dorfman offers some ideas on what we can do to save it. Please give his [...]
Today, just in time for WordCamp San Francisco 2008, Shiny New Toy is taking the wraps off a new website we’ve been working on: WP Screencasts. WP Screencasts is a compilation of instructional training videos for managing web content with the WordPress platform. If you are a current client of ours and we’ve built a [...]
Right on the heels of WordCamp is the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. Proceeds from this event - which looks like it will be very fun - will benefit 826 Valencia.
To play a little six degrees of WordPress separation…
The WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt benefits 826 Valencia
826 Valencia was founded by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers won the 2008 [...]
I don’t often write about the intimate happenings of my personal life here. My personal blog is the place to learn more about that. But every once and a while, something pretty special happens. On August 4,my second son, Jude, was born. Complete details are here.
Last night Robert Scoble published a rant - er, i mean blog post - titled “Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you.” The post and subsequent conversation taking place via the comments on the post and on Friendfeed are amazing. While the post zeroes in on Tech blogging, anyone interest in the blogging medium should give [...]
Really enjoyed this page created by Matthew Inman. Matthew does a nice job of summing up what’s been happening in the web industry with fun, to-the-point images. This one is my favorite…
Social Media Club is one of those organizations Holly and I have gained so much from. As a collective that loves using the web and being on the, Shiny New Toy believes that the web is a better place when every new person, company, and organization starts participating and communicating via the web and related [...]
When Holly and I decided to (re)join forces, fire up the factory, and unleash Shiny New Toy on the world, we rooted our principles on many of the same principles found in the open source software community and the emerging - make that exploding - world of social media communications. Like those two outstanding communities, [...]
Holly and I are pleased to able to support the wonderful Third Thursday series tonight by ustreaming Charlene Li’s discussion. You can tune it at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/3rdthursday . The broadcast will start at 6:30 PM PST.
Third Thursday is a wonderful discussion and networking event organized by Mike Manuel of Voce Communications and Jen McClure of New [...]
The story of Shiny New Toy actually starts with the U.S. space program. Holly and I worked together at NASA Ames Research Center from 2003 to 2007. We were a web operations, design, and development team creating web application for business processes and sharing information within the enterprise. During that time, we embraced the open [...]
