Archive for the ‘Pittsburgh’ Category

Healthy Game Jam Marathon: A How-to Post-mortem

Friday, June 11th, 2010

First things first, this is not a guide about how to handle corpses. This is a guide about how to run a Health Games Challenge site based upon the lessons learned by the Pittsburgh IGDA chapter. It's called a post-mortem because that's what we call detailed case studies in our ...

Drink for the Cure: A History of Cancer

Friday, April 30th, 2010

So I'm hosting a charity party tomorrow night at the Firehouse Lounge & Embury from 7-10PM in support of Kim Reed's Race for the Cure, I hope you'll join us there. I'm not going to write about why you should support Kim's Race for the Cure or even how this event ...

Pittsburgh IGDA May News Update

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

So this email news update for our local International Game Developers Association chapter might be syndicated on our blog. I'm just testing to see if we can basically cut and paste our email without having to reformat anything. Looks like yes. Also, I've gotten lazy yet again about updating my ...

Play It Forward: Gaming the Pittsburgh Gift Economy

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

One reason I like attending conferences in Pittsburgh is that you never know who you'll accidentally run into. With a relatively small and tight-knit tech/startup/gaming/social-media/etc community, you often run into the same faces time and time again. Like Nick said during his panel with Luke and Lynsie yesterday, it's less ...

DevHouse Talk and ShowClix Launch Party Tonight

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

This sort of last-minute announcement is probably better suited for Twitter, but I still have 20 more days until my annual twitter post on the 30th. So hopefully this short blog post will be sufficient to get the masses all atwitter. At 7:30 PM, I'll be giving a short talk at ...

Dancetown Talks at ITPittsburgh Connector and Dorkbot

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Tonight, I'll be at ITPittsburgh's first Connector event at the Altar Bar at 6 PM, talking about Dancetown. I've enjoyed speaking there before as panelist for Jessica Lee's Entrepreneurial Thursdays. It's a nice venue in a fun location, so please stop by (and RSVP if you can). Next week, I'll be ...

Now posting once every leap year

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I've decided to change to a new blog posting schedule, once per leap year. It's slightly less often than my one twitter per year policy. But seriously, I won't be posting as frequently anymore. I've joined a new startup, Dancetown, as their new Director of Product Management, so I've been finding ...

Rebranding and Redesigns

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

This weekend, at the monthly board meeting of a local Asian-American association I serve on, we decided to finalize our integration with a similar, larger national organization. Besides the standard adoption of their bylaws and other miscellaneous paperwork, we also need to fully convert our rebranding from PAAYPA (Pittsburgh Asian-American Young ...

Catch Up

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

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Ain’t No Party Like A MyHome2.0 Block Party

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

So last Saturday, despite the bitter cold, I dropped by a MyHome2.0 Block Party that Jim and Lloyd invited me to. Above is a roughly edited video of the event (uploaded using YouTube's new Multi-Video Uploader, hooray for the increase from 100 mb to 1 gig!) and you can find ...