The Return of RefreshBCS

September 22, 2008

Where: Murphy’s Law (upstairs) map When: October 1st 7PM (Happy Hour starting at 5) Speaker: Michelle Greer We’ve been quiet for a while but it’s time to get this show back on the road. We’ve got several months worth of great speakers lined up and we’re starting this thing off with a bang. Michelle Greer [...]

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Refresh April – Social Media Marketing

April 21, 2008

Have you put your iPhone in a blender lately? (Social Media Marketing – What it is, how it impacts us, and why it’s important.) Time: 7:00PM Date: Wednesday, April 23 Location: Rola’s Revolution in Bryan, TX All of us are well aware of the impact that social media networks such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and [...]

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RefreshBCS updates

April 11, 2008

Things have been crazy lately folks. With BarCampTX, SXSWi and an expansion of The Creative Space, we haven’t had time to give the deserved attention to RefreshBCS. But that’s about to change! We have two speakers lined up which will be formally announced when we find the space to host. If ANYONE has a presentation [...]

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RefreshBCS – February (Updated)

February 17, 2008

Date: Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Time: 7:00PMLocation: Caffe Capri (website) Kelsey Ruger, of PopLabs, will be presenting “Rewinding the Clock: reawakening your childhood creativity”. Here’s a brief run-down: Has your clock stopped? That’s a question we all ought to be asking ourselves – because sometimes the clock has stopped and we don’t know it. Most of [...]

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Refresh Austin’s SXSWi Party

February 7, 2008

Refresh Austin will be co-hosting a kickass party with Phizzpop at South by Southwest Interactive. This will be the major party on Monday evening (March 10th), so I highly recommend you add the event to your Upcoming calendar, and let your friends know so they can come join them for free drinks, cool technology and [...]

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Snapstream looking for Developer

February 4, 2008

Snapstream is a Houston-based startup that develop DVR Software. Their flagship product is BeyondTV. The founders weren’t able to make it out to BarCampTX, but heard great things about it and wanted me to pass along this job opportunity to our community. The position is as an “experienced software developer” but they’re also recruiting right [...]

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Great site I just stumbled across

January 28, 2008

Sorry to miss Happy Hour, but here’s all I wanted to say: http://producten.hema.nl/ There’s your New Years inspiration for a good look at flash and how it talks to the host browser by its javascript api. A little auto-scrolling happening and more! Cheers.

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Refresh – January Happy Hour

January 9, 2008

When: January 23rd, 7PM Where: Margarita Rocks Now that the holiday season is over and the Christmas lights are removed (or at least not on) we’re going to be getting into the swing of things again. This month we will be having a nice happy hour to ring in the new year. We hope to [...]

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BarCampTexas is coming!

January 9, 2008

What is a BarCamp? BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Did we mention BarCampTexas is free? BarCampTexas will be held at the FIBERTOWN campus [...]

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Notes on Ed Schipul’s talk at October’s RefreshBCS

November 27, 2007

Here are the notes taken at Ed Schipul’s talk. The URL to his actual slides are included in this document; I have URLs to all of the references he threw out during his talk (mostly books — I point to the Amazon entries for each).Notes on the Ed Schipul talk at RefreshBCS (MS Word format)

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