Nice shout out for Sidewicki
in reference to:"September
26,
2009
socialmedian: I (Louis Gray) Don't Want To Hear About Distributed Conversations Any More | louisgray.com"
- socialmedian: I (Louis Gray) Don't Want To Hear About Distributed Conversations Any More | louisgray.com - The Real Steve Harlow (view on Google Sidewiki)
I feel this weblog is one of the best I read so I did a Sidewiki hope everyone enjoys this read-
in reference to:"About David Beach
About Beach
My name is David Beach. But people call me just “Beach”.
I write about my life and career and anything else that comes to mind.I co-founded 12seconds.tv
I work at Yahoo! as Senior Product Manager of Yahoo! TravelThere to here...
I was born in San Francisco, but mostly grew up in Santa Cruz, CA.
As a kid I started playing around with sound recording and media
manipulation using any recording device and noise-maker I could get my
hands on. I was a straight-up dork. Inspired by The Residents and Negativland, I found anyway I could to make weird sounds. I worked at the Boardwalk
in Santa Cruz for $2.80 an hour when I was thirteen and earned enough to
afford my
first Pentax portable VHS VCR and camera. This somehow began to funnel my dorkiness into a possible career.
I began to get into computers around this time as well. Text-based
Interactive Fiction games totally fascinated me and gave me an
understanding of how immersive the medium could be. I quickly tried to
find as many ways as possible to combine computing with audio and video
using a Commodore 64, then an Apple II. Let's face it, you could put text over video and add a rainbow swirl effect, but it was something. I soon discovered
Usenet and haven’t been offline since.
In 1989, I was accepted on scholarship to Brooks Institute of
Photography in Santa Barbara to study cinematography. But at the last
minute, I decided I was too punk rock and perhaps too afraid to go and founded an independent
record label called “Quagmire, The Label” instead.
The label lasted several years. We released many albums by A Western
Front, The Slowest Train in the World, Laughing Sam’s Dice, Baby, Elijah Craig, and others you never heard of. Besides running the business,
I designed all collateral, album covers, and promotional material, as
well as shot and directed music videos. Late in 1993 our national
distributor went bankrupt and locked up our inventory. We were left
with nothing but master tapes and artwork. At this point we decided we
were done with doing things the normal way. This led us to become the
first record label on the Internet, starting with a gohper site then on
the WWW. In 1994 we released the first album ever to be distributed
electronically. Then I hooked up with The Internet Underground Music
Archive (IUMA) to become their Art Director. This is where I met Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson, Jon Luini, Ian Rogers, and Ryan Melcher, among many other very talented and creative innovators.
Later in 1994 I co-founded Artists for Revolution through Technology
(ARTnet) and we developed the first online art museum called the
Internet Arts Museum for FREE (IAMfree). ARTnet was a not-for-profit
organization created to discover and distribute digital art for free.
Music, photography, literature, and interactive pieces were exhibited
at artnet.org/iamfree. ARTnet worked with the International Computer
Music Association and Jon Luini to produce the first live netcast using
Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
Tired of starving, in 1995 I co-founded LVL Interactive and designed
and built Egghead.com, then later that year, Cisco’s Internet Junction
which was their first venture in e-commerce and digital software
distribution. I became Chief Information Architect and then CCO of
I-Storm Studios specializing in e-commerce development and online
product marketing experiences. Our clients included Cisco, Disney, Sun,
HP, AIG, Netscape, Sony, Philips, Oracle, Sears, Egghead, Palm,
Computer Associates, E-Trade, DirecTV, Acer, beyond.com, Toshiba,
Digital Island, fatbrain.com, Bank of America, Broadvision, The Fox
Network, The Burning Man Project, Warner Bros. Records, Winamp, Grand
Royal Records, IUMA, Addicted to Noise, and others... I worked with
some of the greatest people back then. Steve Venuti, Chris Coluzzi, Cale Peeples, Ramon Colcer, Pat Goddard, Dave Brinda, Danny Vendrell, Stuart Mangrum, and Scott Beale, among many others.
I was once selected by NetGuide magazine as one of the 25 most
influential people online with Charles Schwab, Al Gore, and Susie on
Sex... so what does that tell you?
My design and product work has been featured in
several books and other magazines including Lynda Wienman's web design
series, 10 Secrets to Web Success, Designing Interactive Communities,
The Web After Hours, Wired, Time Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly.
I started at Yahoo! in 2001 a month after Terry Semel and the gang
came on board. It was during the first big round of layoffs and it felt a little strange.
While at Yahoo! I headed up social commerce application development,
process development, and did extensive work on the user experience of
search and the process of finding and comparing products.
I left Yahoo! in 2006 to join the social search start-up Wink
as Director of Product Management. There, I worked with a great team to
transform the site and technology to create the first people search
engine for online personas.
In July of 2007 I returned to Yahoo! to become the Senior Manager of Products for Yahoo! Brickhouse.
I'm passionate about my work and my life. Sometimes they get rather
enmeshed. My hobbies include the world of digital music distribution,
building kick-ass online communities, collecting music, photography,
and playing the Theremin
I live in Santa Cruz near the Mystery Spot with my wife Jane and my two children. I have a dog named Thurston and a cat named Daisy.
Someday I'd like to make documentary films.
Obligatory Introduction
I'm David Beach and this is my blog. I'm a Product Manager, Information Architect, and founder of 12seconds.tv. I'm also surviving lung cancer. This site is about my life online and some other junk... enjoy"
- David Beach's Blog: About David Beach (view on Google Sidewiki)
Great review of Twitter by Shel Israel
in reference to:"Getting past cluelessness: some tips on getting started on Twitter"
- MarshalSandler.com » Getting past cluelessness: some tips on getting started on Twitter (view on Google Sidewiki)
Excellent Article from the Folks a Edelman
in reference to:"I attended the Clinton Global Initiative for the past two days in New York City. It is the fifth year for the CGI, started by former President Clinton to unite business, government and civ"
- MarshalSandler.com » Clinton Global Initiative—Where Interests Align (view on Google Sidewiki)
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