Gambit is now Live

March 11th, 2009 14 Comments Noah

After 2 years of working at my startup (kickflip) we’ve released what we’ve been working on to the public, Gambit.

There are many stories of how my 2 partners and I got to this point, which I’ll share later. For now, Gambit is a payments engine for social games and communities.
For a more in-depth review [...]

New Viral Feature to Add to Your Site

November 12th, 2008 4 Comments Noah

I was browsing a presentation on Slideshare today when I noticed a link to “Post to Twitter.” You are all familiar with the normal sharing links of Facebook, Digg, Delicious, etc…I was curious if this was working and went to search.twitter.com, and checked the text they insert with the post, “Check out this SlideShare.” Surprisingly [...]

Free 2008 Berkeley >Play Conference Tickets

October 31st, 2008 17 Comments Noah

I was invited to moderate a panel about new technology on November 15th at the great Berkeley >Play Conference. A very cutting edge tech conference at my alma mater (yes, I’m officially old now) that will have: founder of Twitter, EVP of Zynga, CEO of Jaxtr and more…

So they are giving me 2 free tickets [...]

Green? Check out the Opportunity Green Conference

October 23rd, 2008 2 Comments Noah

One of the first people to buy a ticket to my original Community Next event was Karen and Mike. They enjoyed the event (I think) and then went off to create an impressive conference called Opportunity Green in Los Angeles. It’s all about green business sustainability and profitability. I was able to speak there last [...]

Why should you read Scratch Beginnings? Straight from the author…

October 20th, 2008 11 Comments

I asked this question to Adam Shepard who wrote Scratch Beginnings which is a great story of him starting from nothing (literally) in a town and what happens 6 months later…
Why should anyone read this book and what will they get out of it?
There are a couple of reasons to read this book…

First off, it’s [...]

Email Deliverability Hack: Adding mark as spam in your own email

September 11th, 2008 5 Comments Noah

With our new startup one of our BIGGEST challenges is getting email into inboxes, and we just started sending them:O If you’ve ever ran a website with more than 20 users, I am guessing you know my pain. I know Ted has written up some great tips on making your email work. So has Auren. [...]