We have decided to stick around the Bay Area for a while longer. Our long-term plans still involve a out of state move but for now we are going to enjoy the beautiful California weather.
Mark Twain said something profund about plans and change of plans
Posted by inna on May 6, 2009
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Coolest thing at web20 so far
Posted by inna on April 1, 2009
Stopped by cause they had iPhone demo. Secret sauces allows non nerds to format websites for mobile devices.
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Moderating event with founders of WordPress and Craigslist
Posted by inna on March 30, 2009
This post feels a bit like deja vu of they professional blog… but here goes:
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Tomorrow in San Francisco I will be moderating an event with Craig Newmark and Matt Mullenweg.
Here is the event blog post and the official event writeup (its at the bottom of the page.)
Shout out to Amanda Noz from Blaze Solutions Group, and the AJC staff for the excellent work they are doing to put this event together.
Posted in business owner, grown-up stuff, high-tech toys, web2.ohhhhh | Tagged: craig, craigslist, matt, wordpress | Leave a Comment »
Wanna lease a spaceship?
Posted by inna on March 22, 2009
Saw this on my way through Texas. It’s for lease!! Little green aliens not included.
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Thank you Boxee, now I can give up cable
Posted by inna on January 30, 2009
Like much of America, we decided to better understand our wants vs. our needs.
- I do not want cable tv; but I need Top Chef, General Hospital, Closer, House, Desperate Housewives, HGTV… well you get the idea.
- I do not want to be a slave to programming, but need to watch my shows late at night when everyone else is asleep.
- I do not want to pay for 400 channels of “nothing to watch,” and I need to not waste my TV time watching reruns and “When good pets go bad.”
With Boxee I can watch almost any shows on the internet, in full screen on my computer or TV, and use its integrated menu to switch between iTunes, Hulu, ABC, etc. Right now its a sw download only, so having it work on a TV without Apple TV or another media box, requires some cables and hacking, but they will have a moderately priced box out soon (or you can have a geeky husband/wife who can hack something together.)
So good bye cable subscription, two cable box rental with DVR capacity and all those taxes and fees. Hello Boxee sw, Hulu programming and reasonably priced iTunes episodes/subscriptions. Even with the AppleTV box, we still come out ahead price wise.
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the role of the cheesey realtor will be played by me… wanna buy a wordpress house?
Posted by inna on January 18, 2009
Yes this post is all about cheese and over-the-top salesmanship, but I am enjoying a bottle of great wine and everyone is asleep so here goes.
This is a house where much of the latest releases of WordPress were built. The patio was made famous by WordPress Texas crew who grilled many a steaks as they were hacking out the code. So for all of you die hard wordpress fans, here is a chance to own a bit of WordPress memorabilia.
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Over the river and through the woods to Northern Virginia we go…
Posted by inna on January 13, 2009
Ryan and I have never followed convention, so when we decided to move to a bigger house our target area included all of th US, and we narrowed it down to the Northern Virginia/DC Area. We have put our house on the the market and will be moving east in the next 30 days. Joulina has agreed to come with us.
I am very sad to leave the bay area, my family and my friends. I will miss you terribly!
So stay tuned to see our east coast adventure. And if you are ever in the DC area, come and visit.
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My mother started a blog – and she did it all by herself!
Posted by inna on October 30, 2008
So my mother sends me an email asking to us to check out her cooking blog – she has 3 post now.
WHAT? My mother – started a blog? And she did not need my help!??!?!? (Disclaimer: Both of my parents are very competent engineers, but when I gave her an iPhone as a gift, she could not figure out how to place or receive calls for 4 days. My father has still not changed the music on the iPod I gave him several months ago, and his gift certificate to iTunes is gathering electronic dust in his inbox.) Now here is my mother, asking me if I like her writing style, her content and would I help her increase traffic? Web2.0 has gone mainstreet.
Posted in family life, when i was single, yum yum yum | Tagged: food blogs, parents, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
To professional infiniti and beyond!!!!!
Posted by inna on October 27, 2008
I have decided to follow the American tradition of risk, reward and small business. I have started a consulting company helping individuals and companies develop strong web identities, increase web presence awareness via blogging & social networks, and improve productivity using web2.0 tools and technologies. I am also learning all the practical ins & outs for hanging your own shingle. The toughest challenge was picking a name, and I choose Inna Boren Technologies, because that name googles my complete professional life. I have also set up a company blog and even had my professional gig/business development activity: check out my company blog for more detail.
I am excited to what this week will bring.
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Cry me a river
Posted by inna on September 24, 2008
I am feeling nostalgic and remembering when Worldcom was trading at 6 cents per share and had a market cap of $30 million. Many of my co-workers were getting margin calls on mortgage loans (your house was your collateral) of 6 figures at 9 am to be payable in cash by 2 pm the same day. Of course, there was my favorite - AMT: you lost everything but still got a bill from Uncle Sam on your non-existent earnings. I do not remember a bailout, or lengthy discussions on the hill about how to save the hi-tech industry.
As an industry we took our lumps, learned our lessons, retrenched and came roaring back with companies/products like google, facebook, ipod and wordpress (disclosure: that’s where diaper money comes from.) Read the rest of this entry »
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