I was there with Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, Phoenix, Bon Iver, Raphael Saadiq, Dr. Dog, Grizzly Bear, The Dead Weather, Passion Pit, Them Crooked Vultures, and countless others. You can see a full gallery here. Read more – ‘Austin City Limits Festival 2009’.
Where I compile some discussions and thoughts about location-based services like Yelp, Foursquare, and OpenTable and what their successful integration could mean for local businesses around the world. Read more – ‘The Digital Aqueducts’.
Thursday night I will be back in Austin for the first time since the very beginning of the month. After spending 4+ weeks in San Francisco and New York, here are the meals at the top of my Austin homecoming gorge list. Read more – ‘Austin Return: My First Meals’.
Admittedly this isn’t the most thrilling New Year’s Eve slideshow you’re ever going to see. You know — the kind with, like, people and stuff clearly happening in them. But for those of you who (a) want to get some feeling for the frenetic energy on Sixth Street and/or (b) couldn’t make it to the [...] Read more – ‘Slideshow: New Year’s Eve in Austin’.
I’ve always watched various bloggers keep these interesting logs of all the places they’ve been in a given year, feeling left out b/c my annual travel paths usually don’t take me through more than five or six cities. But as you may know, 2008 has been much more of a road warrior year for me, [...] Read more – ‘My 2008 Travelogue’.
Ever since I worked with the team building out mapping capabilities for Ballers Network, I’ve been wanting to dive back in and play around with various custom mapping solutions, from Google and Yahoo’s Maps APIs to the simpler Yelp mapping and Google MyMaps solutions. For my first experiment, I went ahead and created a map [...] Read more – ‘Fun with Maps: Austin Edition’.
