http://facollective.com Because Air is free Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:45:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First of all, to our readers, we apologize about the lack of posts.  As anyone knows that plays in the 2.0 space, sometimes technology is its own worst enemy.  With that being said, we have been diligently working with our partners, customers, and prospects in defining what Free Air Collective ... http://facollective.com/2009/08/31/being-the-best/ Free Air Collective started with a concept, Travel and Gather.  It was a concept that I had been working on for a couple of years.  I had met with potential investors, venture capital groups, and the final answer was: build a prototype.  It was not until I read Guy Kawasaki's ... http://facollective.com/2009/07/06/triv140-working-remotely-as-a-team/ We're closing in on our second day after launching Trivia on Twitter and it's be a ton of fun watching this grow. We've had some issues, which I am sure people are aware of - specifically the LeaderBoard and people not getting credit for their answers. I wanted to take ... http://facollective.com/2009/06/19/trivia-on-twitter-post-2-days/ Free Air Collective would like to announce a new company formed in partnership with Stage 2 Consulting.  The company, Triv140, utilizes this little thing called Twitter, and makes a game out of it.  Answer questions and win prizes... Simple as that.  The smartest, brightest and of course fastest will win ... http://facollective.com/2009/06/17/trivia-on-twitter-triv140-goes-live/ Like most development shops, we use Git for source code management and campfire for internal communications with our team. We have a lot of projects going on, so it is important for us all to be aware of what the other is working on and doing. We've been using a post-commit ... http://facollective.com/2009/06/13/git-hooks/ I was awoken the other morning at 4am to the sound of rushing water. As I searched the house for the source, I found the sound coming from inside the laundry room wall opposite the garage. As I ventured into the garage, I found a flooded area as water poured ... http://facollective.com/2009/06/08/an-involuntary-experiment-in-time-constraints/ I recently read an article in Wired Magazine that I found ironic.  Why ironic? The article, The Burden of Twitter by Steven Levy, talked about the guilt associated with not using your social sites enough.  The reasons are obvious, social sites are addicting as you get to peer into others lives, ... http://facollective.com/2009/06/02/the-burden-of-social-media/ No matter how hard we try to look at something objectively, our bias' soon take over. Whether it's food, art, cars or real estate, our preferences ultimately prevail when making decisions in the consumer space. When we are making a purchase you would think we would turn to objective facts ... http://facollective.com/2009/06/01/stand-bias/ Often times when you think about rapid development you think about what frameworks you are using to make the development process fast. While frameworks help a great deal, it doesn't stop there when you need to push out products quickly - especially prototypes. At FACollective we primarily use Ruby on Rails ... http://facollective.com/2009/05/28/10-ways-to-rapid-development/ Ah.. remember the good ol' days when you as a company could just sit back and fire out TV ad, after newspaper ad, after magazine ad, after radio ad and people would come? When you told people who they were, what they liked and what they were going to buy? ... http://facollective.com/2009/05/26/rethink-communication-flow/