http://www.unpossible.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:39:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Randy Salas ran a nice piece in the paper about iPhone applications made in Minnesota (PDF). Aaron Kardell pictured Good piece, good coverage for some good folks, and few quotes from me. http://www.unpossible.com/2010/02/08/startribune/ Last week was a good press-week. I had quotes in both the Wall Street Journal and the Business Journal. The Business Journal piece covered Minneapolis-based Digital River's contract to handle payment processing for the BlackBerry App Store. The Wall Street Journal piece (video) was about iPhone developers making a bundle ... http://www.unpossible.com/2009/05/11/wall-street-journal-business-journal/ This morning, I was on the Governor's weekly radio program "Good Morning, Minnesota." The Governor was attending a conference in Germany, so the interview was with the Gov's Director/Communications Brian McClung, and WCCO Sports Reporter and Anchor Mike Max. You can listen to the interview, which starts half-way through the ... http://www.unpossible.com/2009/02/06/governor%e2%80%99s-radio-program-interview-audio/ I'm one of the judges for Sierra Bravo's Overnight Website Challenge, a 24-hackfest/contest that pairs 12 non-profs with teams of 10 developers each to overhaul, revamp or completely restart the NPO's web presences. The other judges and I reviewed over 40 applications before choosing these 12: Access Press Athletes Committed to Educating ... http://www.unpossible.com/2009/02/05/overnight-web-challenge/ I gave a speech on Alternate Reality Games to the MIMA Summit last October, the video of which is now available: It's a fun topic and I'm quite pleased with the materials. Enjoy. http://www.unpossible.com/2009/01/29/arg-speech-video/ Kathy Grayson of the Business Journal interviewed me about Mobile Orchard a few weeks ago. The article came out in this week's issue. It's a great article and features some kind words from Damon Allison and Tom O’Neill. Read it here. Update: WCCO radio picked up the story ... http://www.unpossible.com/2008/12/01/business-journal-piece-on-mobile-orchard/ A bit more than a month ago I received an email from Mpls St. Paul Magazine asking for answers to a series of questions on "brains," "smarts" and the prospects for the future. I sat on the questions for a few days because I wanted to answer modulo my worries about ... http://www.unpossible.com/2008/10/24/optimism/ Byte Club just posted the 5 minute episode of their show that they filmed at RubyFringe. Includes a brief appearance by me. http://www.unpossible.com/2008/10/23/byte-club-rubyfringe/ By request, please find a PDF of the slides I used in my talk today the MIMA Summit on Alternate Reality Games here: http://www.unpossible.com/misc/MIMA-ARG.pdf When I speak I do very little in the way of "reading my slides," so these will probably only be useful to you if you attended and ... http://www.unpossible.com/2008/10/01/mima-arg-slides/ Got a nice blurb in the Business Journal today on social networking: They asked, "What is your favorite social networking site?" and "How has it benefited you professionally?" I answered: Favorite social network: Twitter. True to Twitter form, I'll explain why in less than 140 characters: Twitter is a fly ... http://www.unpossible.com/2008/09/26/business-journal-quote-re-twitter/