http://dcortesi.com Coding, Security, and maybe a little bit about Damon Cortesi Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:07:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Life. It's an interesting journey. And as my friend @JoeCascio mentioned today, "life is what happens while you're making plans." I've rarely been one to make plans. I prefer to live in the moment and enjoy life as it happens. Yes, I do make some plans but I try to ... http://dcortesi.com/2010/02/17/i-think-i-found-my-passion/ This is a picture of me, from 12 years ago, explaining to my Independent Studies Program advisor how my friend (Jasper Speicher) and I were going to build a robot that could automatically navigate it's environment using infrared sensors. And if we were lucky, even climb stairs. The brains of ... http://dcortesi.com/2010/02/03/this-is-why-i-love-twitter/ This is a continuation of a tweet. Even in the past 3 days, my reading habits have changed. Still sucking up massive amounts of information, just different types. There's an interesting transition I'm going through. I moved to Seattle over three years ago. One of the reasons I moved was the ... http://dcortesi.com/2010/01/27/the-seattle-startup-scene/ I've been working on this for a while, but figured I should announce it here. I'm starting a new company to continue my hobby of building Twitter tools. It's going to be a social media startup and we'll be building tools for social media professionals. We've already built one in a ... http://dcortesi.com/2010/01/27/announcing-a-new-seattle-startup-untitled-startup/ Well, I'm about 45 minutes late on this, but I did want to mention that two years ago on December 27, 2007, I released the first version of my Twitter Stats script. It was a hack. It scraped the twitter.com website. It was in perl. It exported into your clipboard. ... http://dcortesi.com/2009/12/28/tweetstats-two-years-ago/ I'd like to bring a little personality back to my blog. I've been plugging away on a lot of work these past several months, the evidence of which you can see in previous posts. But here's to more posts, even if shorter, about what I'm up to and the things ... http://dcortesi.com/2009/12/18/twelve-beers-of-christmas/ Dear Twitter, I urge you to please hire a CSO. A Chief Security Officer. Somebody to lead the charge and organize a security team around what is arguably one of the biggest things to happen to social media in the past 10 years. A security team to balance the risk ... http://dcortesi.com/2009/12/17/dear-twitter-please-hire-a-cso/ After posting on 2009 airline activity on Twitter, I got a couple requests that it'd be interesting to see activity from coffee brands on Twitter. (Did I mention that I live in Seattle, home of the illustrious @Starbucks? ;)) A few tweaks and 77 minutes later, I was able to put ... http://dcortesi.com/2009/10/12/twitter-trends-2009-coffee-activity/ I'm mildly amused at the response of Pepsi and the negative response to their "AMP UP Before you Score" iPhone app that objectifies women and parodies off the typical male approach to dating in the year 2009. Conversations flared on Twitter this weekend after the company launched their iPhone application. ... http://dcortesi.com/2009/10/12/pr-in-a-twitter-world/ This has certainly been an interesting year for little 'ol Twitter. Growth has exploded, celebrities have been joining in droves and Twitter continues to expand their feature set in an amazing effort to make those 140-character tidbits all the more valuable. Brands have also noticed the value in Twitter, listening ... http://dcortesi.com/2009/10/11/twitter-trends-2009-airline-activity/