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100 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
In this episode I talk with Joshua Mitchell and Kevin Emmons of MissPivot about their recent release of a new Interactive Book called Fire-Cupid. Fire Cupid is a collection of all the knowledge they teach people about dating, body language and the nuances of human expressions. You can find Fire Cupid in the iTunes AppStore and the Amazons App Store.
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Britney Wright
Corrona SDK
SXSW
KWIK
Visual Website Optimizer
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355 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
How does someone with almost no cash start a business that in less than 2 years serves companies in virtually every country?
Listen to DK New Media's founder Douglas Karr tell his story of jumping the corporate ship to create a new world digital agency.
Doug also shares his tales of: Working for the Newspaper industry, Building MarketingTechBlog.com, Writing Corporate Blogging for Dummies, and helping / motivating people to start their own business.
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362 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
How many of you know of Chatroulette? How many of you have used Chatroulette? How many of you STILL use Chatroulette? You want to know why? One word, penises. Grabachat is the solution. Grabachat is a face-to-face social networking site that connects people with similar interest, hobbies and experiences.
Learn how Grabachat is creating a chatroulette with purpose. Listen to CEO Zach Zuber talk about how Grabachat got started, how it's planning to grow and why removing anonymitty also stops...
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381 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Google Hosted jQuery.
Use Google's hosted version to save bandwidth and decrease page load.
Packer by Dean Edwards.
Take that huge ass Javascript file and compress it!
ProCSSor.
Make that ugly CSS beautiful.
JSON Formatter.
Makes JSON pretty.
YQL Console.
Build Yahoo Query Language for quick JSON or XML from mashup data.
PHP Snippets.
Bunch of useful PHP snippets.
Popuri.us.
Quickly see details, page rank, alexa, etc of any website.
Ad Assault.
Quickly find web sites...
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407 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
1994 Power Macintosh
Apple Cube Commercial 2000
Powermac vs. Intel
Then Apple went in Intel.
PowerBook - early 90's
Corporate Mac
The greatest commercial ever aired
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417 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Since 2003 I've been an avid consumer of television and movies over the internet. Over the years, consuming online video content on a Television has become much easier thanks to companies like Roku, Boxee and even Google. But with any new market, picking the best solution can be a bit confusing.
Boxee Box
I've been a big fan of Boxee for a long time and I used it exclusively on my MacMini as a dedicated media player for 2 years. So, when Boxee announced they were coming out with their own set ...
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418 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
In this episode of the 8iFY Podcast, I interview Yaw Aning the co-founder of Indianapolis startup PocketTales. PocketTales is an online social gaming platform for children - built around reading books. They got their start at the first StartupWeekend in Indianapolis, and had a chance to present at SXSW in 2010.
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August the founder of Yowza
Author Solutions
SproutBox
21 Century Fund
Shopsavvy
COPA Comliance
expected behavior
Ruby on Ra...
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426 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
This weeks podcast covers how the last 3 months of the 8iFY experiment have been. I started 8iFY to test different ideas in making money online, and to share those results with the readers / listeners. In this episode I talk about what has been working and what hasn't.
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Whore IT Up! The developers guide to shameless promotion.
MailChimp - one of the greatest email marketing platforms.
Building a Marketplace with Wordpress.
Zombie Blog...
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428 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Mobile, mobile, mobile is the new location, location, location. Your product / website needs to work on mobile devices. When I say work, I mean transform for the device the user is ... usering. Also, just having the full blown website scaled down on the tiny screen doesn't cut the mustard . Luckily, there are a bunch of great frameworks out there to make building a mobile experience rather easy - here's my take on the best ones for the job.
Titanium Mobile by Appcelerator
Works on: iOS, Androi...
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432 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Doug Rowe and I talk about a few of my favorite products and services in a pseudo-Oprah style, minus giving things away.
MacBook Pro, DropBox, Audible, My Daughter, Kim Crawford, Brewhouse, Roku, Netflix, Hulu, Dexter, Amazon Prime, GarageBand, GetClicky, Prycast and [shameless plug] JobExpose podcast.
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436 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
DocRaptor is a killer new web service that makes generating BEAUTIFUL PDFs as easy as writing HTML. The raptor also does Excel Documents, however for the purpose of this post I'm going to focus purely on the PDF side of things.
Many many years ago, I started a PDF Book Printing service called PrintFu and needed the ability to generate PDF invoices dynamically that could then be merged with the customers original PDF for the printer. While this was in 2003, I spent a retarded amount of tim...
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443 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Back when I was a kid, we had very limited access to technology and if you really wanted to do something great with a computer, you had to code it out yourself. Now that kids today have access to virtually anything they want to do - online, I have a feeling that there will be a massive shortage of true developers in the near future. This is why I continually push my kids to not only use technology, but really understand how it all works, this includes trying to get them to start developing.
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446 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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Today I spoke with Joshua Mitchell and Kevin Emmons the creators of new killer new startup in Indianapolis called Miss Pivot. Here's how MissPivot.com explains it:
Miss Pivot is dedicated to exposing the answers behind dating. We love researching what makes people tick and breaking down exactly what is happening when we meet others. By giving you the explanations behind our behaviors, you’re better off to respond with your own unique way. This keeps that individual ...
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449 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
I've been using Macs since 1984, some might even say that I'm an Apple fan boy. Call me what you will, I just simply love a good experience with technology. I've been through the good times and the bad (OS 9 anyone?), but I have to say - it looks like Apple has, once again, reinvented the way we'll interact with our computers.
Mac OS X Lion is the next version of Mac OS to be released in the summer of this year, and holy hell it looks amazing. They've incorporated many of the same UI patt...
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450 days ago
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Produced by Ryan Cox
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Talentopoly aims to be the private network where talented people go to share the best links. Plain and simple. Founder Jared Brown wanted to create a network that made his time finding quality stuff to read easier. The fact is that most developers, designers and IT professionals aren’t the most socially aware of the Internet space. They might have more websites designed than friends on Facebook, and lines of of code written than tweets on Twitter. And who are we kidding, the people b...
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