THE DREAM IN ACTION

Took a little bit of video while I was in SD last week. Didnt’ you think I wouldn’t share it?

Recently the concept of the online conversation has been very prevalent in my offline conversations. As I find new blogs or even news sites that I like the importance of the community around that site becomes relevant and is an asset (or liability) to the site. Whether I’m reading a local story at OnMilwaukee or [...]

  Many of you like using Friendfeed to aggregate your internet activities and share those activities with friends and followers on the web. Sweetcron (that a came across from Dave McClure’s FF) is very similar to Friendfeed in the sense that it will aggregate any web activity that you decide to share with your Sweetcron, [...]

Recently the startup incubator TechStars based in Boulder, CO graduated another class of promising startups. ActionsTalk has reached out to a few of the recently graduated companies for a few startup spotlights. We are already scheduling interviews with BuyPlayWin and ignighter.   Look for more great startup spotlights at ActionsTalk and let me know if [...]

You may know that the link above called ‘DAILY‘ is my Posterous blog that I use to share things that don’t fall under the categories of topics that I like to discuss on Ryan A Graves.com or are just quotes or media that I find interesting. Posterous is hands down the easiest way to share [...]

If you’re like me you constantly have a new ideas for web technologies. The point of most of these technologies is to just keep things simple and in order to keep things simple user interface is critical. Mozilla (who developed the Firefox browser) has just launched Ubiquity. Mozilla says that the goals of this new [...]

Recently I’ve become some what of an evangelist for “most” thing tech. I find value in the technologies that I use (that’s why I use them) and I try and share that value with the people around me. Blogs for example: My Dad was a journalism major and is a phenomenal writer and I’ve encouraged [...]

Recently the RSS updates on Ryan A Graves.com got really messed up, I apologize. Everything is back up and good to go. Also, you can now get this blog via email! In order to promote readership I’ve posted these buttons on the top of the sidebar to make is SUPER easy to sign-up for this [...]

I have to give some cred to Blake my co-founder of ActionsTalk. Blake recently wrote one of the best blog posts I’ve read in a while about how he’s handled the problem of “information overload” and efficient communication. As you know I am about tech for value’s sake not tech for tech’s sake and Blake [...]

My roommate Tad recently post this ad from EA Sports calling it great viral advertising.  I have to agree.

Adjix is a new company that acts just like TinyURL by shortening web site addresses making them perfect for Twitter. But, Adjix adds a little banner ad at the top of the site that you visit via their link. If you own the account that shortened the Adjix URL then you get a cut.  You [...]

I promise this is my last post about how nice it is to be home, but there is something about SD that I just don’t get anywhere else.  I had lunch today on the San Diego Bay at C Level with my mom and Molly and it couldn’t have been more enjoyable. The weather was [...]

I was at dinner last week with a group of up and coming, creative, start-up-ish people and one of them asked me, “do you work or do you just Twitter?” At first I went on the defensive and thought, well of course I work. I work 10+ hours a day and I do damn good [...]

Today, August 21st is my father, Eric Graves, 60th birthday. I’m lucky enough to be home in San Diego for the big day! Dad, Happy Birthday, I’m pumped to be able to spend some quality time at home with you and the fam. You’ve always said as a measure of your success that for 25 [...]

Personal branding is becoming a very hot topic on the internet. Also, personal avatars are becoming more and more popular with MyBlogLog, Gravatar, and other services where you face pops up all over the web. FACE YOUR MANGA is the latest trend that I’ve spotted with creating cartoon avatars. I recently spend 20 minutes or [...]