Anyone who is in the web design, print, or graphic design industries knows all about fonts. The rest of us usually don’t give them much thought, really. I know I hadn’t until attending last Thursday’s Refresh Fort Lauderdale. The discussion that night was web fonts and typography. Most of the…
Last week, I attended the SouthFloridaDomainers.com event, which was put on by the company Oversee.net. Most of the early innovation in domain name trading, development, and selling originated right here in South Florida. The founders of SFD, Mike Ward, Stu Maloff, and Brian Diener, are some local Domainers in South…
Martin Thorborg is one of those unusual success stories because he’s one of those businessmen who broke most of the rules and became a success. Martin is Danish and is a serial entrepreneur who’s now living in Delray Beach.His first venture was the Danish Internet Portal Jubii, which started in…
Five minutes looking at marketing information on the internet or attending any tech conference will tell you that the latest craze in “instant gurus” is to title yourself a “social media expert.” Anyone can do it. Just start using the term and vaguely talking about social networking sites like Twitter…
Talk to a meet-up organizer and he or she will tell you how hard it is to find suitable locations for events. Hotels always want money up-front — like dinners or rental fees. Bars and restaurants have a flat fee that must be paid to secure their private rooms.Apparently, it’s…
If you haven’t gotten an iPhone, registered your preferred web address, or otherwise secured your location on the internet, you might want to do so now. According to the European Commission in a recent survey of organizations, most have not upgraded to the new IPv6 internet protocols and are therefore…
If you haven’t seen the recent headlines, rocker Courtney Love is being sued for libel for something she said about someone on Twitter. She is the first official celebrity to get sued over something she tweeted. And you thought Courtney would never be in the record books.This isn’t the first…
A new startup in West Palm Beach is hoping to combine the more traditional public relations sector with the new media niche of women who blog. There are a lot of them, and they are likely more active than most of their male counterparts, some studies might suggest.Seeing the gap…
There’s something that’s been irking me for some time now. It’s the one reason I least enjoy most technological get-together events, even the purely local ones here in South Florida. The problem? It seems that most of these events aren’t about meeting people, finding out who’s around locally doing tech,…
One of the exciting things about living in a tech-centric area like South Florida amid the social media revolution happening online is how it connects locals. The internet is a global phenomenon connecting millions of people every minute, no matter their location on the planet. What’s really amazing is how…
Saturday night, the President of the World was in Boca Raton to give a speech on climate change at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Crowds lined up to buy tickets to listen to Al Gore speak or to protest, boo and hiss from outside during the event. I’ll be right up…
The other day I was driving past the Don Estridge school in Boca Raton on the way to a friend’s house when it occurred to me that the Sunshine State isn’t exactly neighborly. I don’t mean we’re a bunch of a-holes or anything, just that we don’t seem to talk…
This year, I attended the LaidOffCamp event in Miami. A truly tech event, it was started in a pretty ad-hoc way through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. It’s since grown into a truly worldwide event in which IT people of all shapes and skills come together to network,…
Or maybe porn drives the tech industry here. In either case, it’s an interesting consideration, since both industries are on the rise and both are huge sectors of employment in the orange juice capital of the world. Most of the actors who come to Florida don’t do it to get…
