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My profile of WhyGoSolo is up on StartRocket. After blindly registering for the service I thought I should actually do the research and find out what it was all about.

So after yesterday’s hiccup, I’m going back to the service I know nothing about: WhyGoSolo. Let’s take a look.
I sign in, and add some stuff to my profile:

Pretty standard profile stuff. Now let’s take a look around at the different features/sections.
Features

1. Community Listings

Community listings are just what they sound like- categorized [...]

Today I heard of a new site called WhyGoSolo. Rather than doing the regular research, I decided to dive right in just for the hell of it. What does that mean? I literally have no idea what WhyGoSolo is, why it exists, and what I’m signing up for. Let’s see what happens as I go [...]

Google has now released a chatback badge, allowing blog visitors to chat with site owners. If you use gmail, you simply go to this page, and code is generated for you. You can choose whether to include your status message. Looks like this:

My article “The Inevitable Transience of Cool” is now on Media Bullseye. It’s not as pretentious as it sounds.

 Okay, so I’m curious. Where do you find the stuff that you love? More importantly, I’d like to know where you go to find the stuff you’re going to love?
"Huh?" you ask.
Here’s that I mean: When you’re looking for something new, where do you go to find it? If you’re looking for a new movie [...]

At my day job (at matchmine), we’re working on creating a better way to help people find the stuff they like. Sure, it’s infinitely more complicated than that, but I think that’s  a pretty good single sentence description. Because of that, I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to understand the problems involved in [...]

I love startups. I write about them. I work at one. As a blogger as well as a guy on the inside, I’ve come to understand how important it can be to get coverage in blogs. In covering startups, I’ve come up with a short list of tips that can make it much easier for [...]

This weekend was a strange one for me, as I’ve been haunted by my reaction to a gum commercial. Seriously.
The commercial in question was for chewing gum that comes in a cup. If we are to believe the commercial, since the advent of the automobile, people have struggled with a problem. That problem is: there [...]

Never write a review of a product or an app when you’re steaming, red-hot angry.
- I’m just assuming someone has said that.

It’s beta, so I know that I shouldn’t complain. Anyone that is trying to do actual work using a beta application should know better. But in my excitement, I thought: Hey, why [...]