Nov 03, 2009

java.blogs Recent Entries A few nights ago as I was playing on the wave, I learned how to embed video, MP3s, websites and many other very fun things that would make any self proclaimed geek super excited.Then, my dear friend, Fernando Fonseca @fjfonseca, invited me to wave with him where he taught me that I was doing it all the hard way. I found ou (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Mashable! Last month, we reported on a survey that found that 84% of social media programs don’t measure return on investment (ROI). The comments in that post indicated that a lot of individuals and businesses want to be able to measure the ROI of their social media strategies and campaigns, but they don’t know where to start.Compani (Read More)

Oct 24, 2009

VentureBeat (I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. You can watch it here live or update as we go. This is paraphrased.)Paul Buchheit, who created Gmail and co-founded FriendFeed before it was acquired by Facebook, is giving a talk entitled “They told me to wi (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

TechCrunch Startup 7 Degrees is launching PeopleMaps, a social business application that aims to give professionals direct visibility into how they are connected to any person or company. Basically, PeopleMaps sifts through educational, social and business information to determine personal and professional relationships between people (Read More)

Sep 17, 2009

Online Marketing Blog Several weeks ago, I revisited the 16 rules for social media optimization. Switching things up, today I thought it would be useful to approach this slightly differently and look at how to optimize time spent in social media.These tips aren’t necessarily just for brands or companies to follow, rather they may prove even mor (Read More)

Sep 06, 2009

Steve's shared items in Google Reader WordPress makes blogging simple. Posterous makes blogging easy. In my eyes, simple and easy are different. WordPress is great for many things. For example, I don’t see TechCrunch (Disclosure: I am an employee of TechCrunch) using Posterous to post news online. But I do see people using Posterous for those spur of the moment (Read More)

Aug 30, 2009

Nico's shared items in Google Reader Robert Scoble just finished a great blog post on why he thinks Twitter is worth much more than people give it credit for.  He cites its ease of use for businesses and open nature as an easy way for businesses to target customers.  He and I had a conversation about this on FriendFeed, and while I still feel Facebook has the (Read More)

Aug 30, 2009

TwitLinks OK, this summer I've been to a lot of different places. London. New York. Boulder. Seattle. Hollywood. Los Angeles. Indianapolis. San Antonio. In each place it's become obvious how much Twitter has taken over the world. In every city it seems like every business is drinking the Twitter koolaide.The experiences I'm having w (Read More)

Aug 30, 2009

The Future Buzz Social media comments are the new trackbacks.Enabled by a slew of tools, there is an increasing trend of bloggers aggregating comments about their content from around the web right on their blog.  In theory, this is a nice idea – bringing together bits of conversations in one spot – under the original content.I get what blo (Read More)

Aug 30, 2009

delicious.com/tag/photography   Photography is a wonderful hobby enjoyed by lots of people all over the world. It’s a very enjoyable passtime, but also a very technical one. There’s a bewildering range of cameras, lenses and accessories, and photographers also have to get to grips with computers and image editing software packages. It can ge (Read More)

Jason Matyas

I am a ten year military veteran turned technology entrepreneur that desires to leverage technology to help improve life through simplification and a return to the basics of life - God, family, church, and community.