Seeing that it’s Worlds AIDS day, I wanted to mention the new social networking site from the UNAIDS Commission - AIDSspace.org. This is a new initiative to increase the level of communication between the siloed agencies and programs around the world working to battle this pandemic.
I also want to mention that I was part of the team working on this site. It was a huge effort requiring 100+ hour work weeks, but in the end it was well worth it. I’m able to look at the site and be proud, and hope that it makes at least a small difference in the world.
The site was “soft” launched last month in Geneva and is now being ramped up for a larger, formal launch. If you are in this field of work, sign up on the site and get in touch with others.
Update: 12/07 - I’m out of invites. Sorry, if you didn’t get one.
Somehow I stumbled into almost 40 invites. I’m going to give away 30 (have about 20 left).
For those that don’t know what this is, check out the Google Wave site for thrilling and exciting content. You can also watch the Developer Preview and shake your laptop in the air when it’s over.
Ok, the giveaway.. erm.. the Great Google Wave Invite Giveaway. The rules are:
- There are no rules.
Seriously. I don’t feel like making people jump through hoops, promote my site, promote my Twitter account, or any other degrading thing (but watch me contradict myself below).
- Winners must follow me on Twitter.
I’ll follow you back. This is necessary so we can DM account info.
- I’ll give a couple invites away each day.
Yeah, yeah. So I’m milking it a little, so what.
- The Golden Rule: Leave a comment.
You must use your real email address, this is where I’ll send the Wave invite. Your email will not be publicly displayed.
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I love Terminal.app. Especially with tabs. I spend most my day in it. I don’t want to make you read my ramblings, but the thing that almost drives me to jump out the window is consistently losing connections due to timeouts. I’m usually on three or four servers at a time and when I’m at home, every few minutes, timeout. BLAST! This doesn’t happen at all locations, usually on residential connections. I’ve dealt with it for years. Why?
Smack my head. I should have jumped out that window. This is so easy to fix:
- Open up your sshd config, usually in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- Uncomment “ClientAliveInterval” and add the number of seconds after. I went with 600.
Problem solved. Kind of makes me question how much misery I just accept because “That’s just the way it is”.
I’ve been keeping a secret. My friends, family, and stakeholders know, but I’ve been mum on the subject until now. The time is right, and the new team is firing on all cylinders, so I get to spill the beans.
PropertyMaps, a startup I co-founded four years ago and put more blood and sweat into than anything else, has been acquired. I spent a week in Austin, doing a full knowledge dump on the very capable team. I was immediately impressed by their level of understanding and how fast they picked up the code base (I won’t get too technical in this post).
The new CEO, Jeff Chambers, is the former US product director for HomeAway.com. He is a brilliant leader and has more and better ideas for the direction of PropertyMaps than I ever dreamed up. He has a very solid plan in place for the rest of this year and the year ahead. I can’t imagine a better person to run PM than Jeff.
As for me, I’ve taken a consulting role with the company so I can help move those plans forward (and I get to watch my baby grow up).
You can read more about the acquistion in the press release: PropertyMaps Has Been Acquired
Almost three years ago, I first heard of Twitter. I didn’t get it and quickly dismissed friends that pushed it on me. A waste of time. Idiots! All of them.
Fast forward two years and I finally signed up. Too many people sent the “I want to follow you, join Twitter” email so I just went with it, plus the previous years of subliminal brainwashing got me thinking this might be more than just a flash in the pan. A week later I was addicted and spent all my time learning the ins and outs; the bots, spam, DMs, follow limits, action limits, follow ratios, automation tools, the API, etc.
Twitter is much more than a network, it’s a protocol. A new way of communicating. A guilt-free way of communicating - not as synchronous as chat, but not as asynchronous as email - you can reply when you want to and you don’t have an inbox piling up. For me, that is perfect.
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image flickr/Pierre Beteille
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