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Re: Where Are The Black Women in Tech?

tiffani — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:57:03 -0000

Yeah, community is ultra-important. For all the community-building we do elsewhere, this is one area where work is needed. I'm glad to say today, though, that Angela Benton over at Black Web 2.0 has put together what's going to be a brilliant incubator out in Silicon Valley this summer highlighting minority-led startups. I'm glad Pencil You In was able to be a part of that!

Re: XX Combinator

tiffani — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:35:43 -0000

I like this idea, but creating a program only for women who are 40 and over is, in my opinion as a 25 year old, just as bad as an incubator that either consciously or unconsciously excludes women. Why subdivide a group that's already poorly represented?

"Women who start businesses like to know what they’re doing, and be trained and experienced in it. That takes up our 20’s."

What about the women who are in their 20s and want to try their hand now? Ever heard of on-the-job training?

I'd get involved with something like this knowing that it was all-inclusive and allowed me to leverage my talents as somebody who can actually code. At 25, it'd be great to get involved with this to have someone with more experience in the world than me as a mentor even. Some of the women I have had mentor me during internships have been women in their 40s who don't write code at the moment, but were doing so at one point.

Re: Breaking News: I’m going to be a daddy blogger! cc: @LaToyaMsutton

tiffani — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:27:06 -0000

This is AWESOME, Wayne!! SOOOOO glad there will be a Baby Sutton. And why not have a Junior? Set up a real social media dynasty! This is reallly quite great news. Congratulations!

Re: The Apple iPhone 4 Pre-Order Debacle

tiffani — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:28:39 -0000

It's pretty ridiculous only because you would think that they ought to be used to this onslaught of orders every time Apple changes anything about the iPhone. You would think AT&T would be better suited to handle the traffic, but then again, my iPhone just dropped the call on my mom the other day--even with the full domino set of bars. I ended up being able to reserve one, but only by using the app which itself failed all morning until around 1:15ish.

Where is Verizon when you need them? :\

Re: Larry King asks Bill Gates: Are you jealous of Apple's success?

tiffani — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:16:40 -0000

Right now, Apple is outcompeting Microsoft, "insecure software" or not: http://www.businessweek.com...

You can always want better, but if time locks you in...

Re: #28DaysofDiversity: @GwenPeake of @Ford

tiffani — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:40:11 -0000

Right! I'm just really glad to see more people being brought out of the woodwork. All this sass and vitriol about who's done what for whom is absolutely pointless. If this is how black folks (I'm assuming Lacie is black) do on the web, then no wonder we're not creating the next Facebook or Google. I always say this and I'll say it again: slavery is over. We don't need to fight for massa's attention or approval. Let's stop tearing each other down. Seriously.

Better yet, go learn to code and create stuff. Google search for "how to program" --> http://bit.ly/cUSPgD

Re: TwellWishes Brings Virtual Goods to Twitter

tiffani — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:10:39 -0000

Thanks for this article as always! :)

Re: A Day at Y Combinator’s Startup School

tiffani — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:27:59 -0000

HA! I just don't know. Everything I know and love is on the East coast, so right now, I'd say no--for now ;) But, it definitely is tempting. :\

Re: Just in Case We Web Folks Weren’t Already Deemed Wacky Enough…

tiffani — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:16:08 -0000

I KNOWWWW that would be awesome to sit at work with. Then you'd have people just emailing you all the time as it sometimes should be. :P

Re: Google Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice

tiffani — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:18:49 -0000

I'm not sure when they'll let current users invite new users, but when they do, you're on my list! :)

Re: Google Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice

tiffani — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:17:20 -0000

Hmm...if I could, I would let you have it. Thing is, everything is tied together across all of Google's services under one username. I'm stuck with it for now! :\

Re: 20 Ideas for Social Entrepreneurs [Part 2]

tiffani — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:45 -0000

These posts have been awesome. Really glad to see someone thinking about how we can bring Africa into the loop after centuries of having people take so much out. Sure, there's political instability and such in some places, but that's no reason to not be thinking about how to wire up the rest of Africa. Awesome perspective. :)

Re: Google Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice

tiffani — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:25:50 -0000

Heyy, they're still not allowing users to invite other users. When they do, you're on my list. :)

Re: Malcolm Monday: Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?

tiffani — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:20:10 -0000

I've never seen this before, but that was awesome. Looks like I'll be watching all of these clips. Thanks for posting. :)

Re: This Little Piggie Knocks

tiffani — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:28:45 -0000

Hahaha this is very cute. I would get a nice yellow one for my desk. :D

Re: Google Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice

tiffani — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:11 -0000

Thanks for reading! I'm impressed with Google Voice (obviously) because of the simple yet useful features it offers that somehow the phone companies don't. This is proof that sometimes the best ideas for how to improve something come out of leftfield. I think everybody will like it. If they let current users invite more people, I'll be sure to post some invites here. :)

Re: Google Gives Voice to the Masses with Google Voice

tiffani — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:18:27 -0000

You can get a number specific to your location or a number that's available anywhere basically except the 212 area code (I tried for one of those). I've got a 404 number through Google Voice, but my original numbers are 910 and 202 numbers.

Re: Conferences and Events I Want to Hit Up for 2010.

tiffani — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:49:55 -0000

Yeahh, I just definitely need to get out more. I'm done with school now, so there's very little excuse (besides $$$) to miss important events like these conferences. You can only do but so much from in front of a screen...

Re: Computer Science Gender Crisis

tiffani — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:46:11 -0000

The downtrend definitely has to do with exposure before school. Any women I've known who have successfully completed a computer science degree (i.e., didn't leave the program before they finished) all had some kind of exposure to computing before school and were actually interested in it. I knew of one woman who was doing great in her computer science program yet left the program after her first internship after deciding she just didn't want to be in front of a computer all day.

The biggest thing really is exposure--especially in those crucial years leading up to college. As the odd case, I spent more time IM'ing people in high school instead of calling them on the phone. Before high school, a family member let me tinker around on their computer until I whined and convinced my parents to buy one for our house. Exposure is absolutely necessary...and depending on the girl, structured or unstructured time with a computer is best. I always did better under the circumstances where I was just free to tinker with the computer and discover what else it may be good for besides chatting.

Along those lines, there has to be some way to get girls to see what a computer can actually be good for besides the typical stuff. Guys figure out (somehow) that if they at least take up programming, they'd be able to make their own games and whatever else they want. What is the female equivalent of that? :\

Re: Warren Buffett’s bio “The Snowball” and lessons for startups

tiffani — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:07:30 -0000

Have you ever read "The Four Steps to the Epiphany"? The author talks about doing what you've said, i.e., "...looking for a customer market, finding what their problem is, and only then making a solution to that problem..." It's a great book and I think it'd keep a lot of people from starting startups based on "white hot" ideas instead of things that people would actually get some real use from.

Re: Warren Buffett’s bio “The Snowball” and lessons for startups

tiffani — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:43:46 -0000

Really glad that somebody took a look at Warren Buffett from a startup entrepreneur's perspective. People always think of him as somebody who's far removed from the world of startups and iPhones, but like you've shown, I beg to differ. His shareholder reports are full of prescriptions on how to run a great company and it's something we all could definitely learn from. Glad to hear, too, that pursuing so-called "boring" ideas really isn't such a bad thing. I knew this anyway, but it'd be nice to see everybody else go and liven up the mundane. How many people want more RSS-enabled, AJAX'd-out, add-me-as-a-friend widgets? Funny how *that's* what's becoming boring...lol.

Re: Obama Sushi

tiffani — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:57:32 -0000

This is realllly great. I'd pay for that lol

Re: 50 Cent Takes Rap Beef Online

tiffani — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:01:19 -0000

Yeah, 50 Cent is doing well leveraging all this social media stuff, but I just think it's a little silly. Why use all these tools to assail a rapper nobody really pays that much attention to anyway (I mean, I liked "Push It to the Limit", but let's be serious...). If you're any good, people will gravitate to your stuff because they like your music, not because you put a video up on your Ning site insulting some rapper who occasionally puts out a hit lol. He couldn't beat Kanye, so he resorts to this. FAIL.

I personally am more of a fan of how Soulja Boy has used social media and everything. I'm not a fan of his music, but it's all a lesson in marketing. He's not off insulting anybody and trying to build a career off that. 50 Cent should call him.

Re: All the Pretty Faces…

tiffani — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:56:10 -0000

Oh wow! You're the guy that created Twitter Mosaic! I think it's pretty awesome. Thanks for that! :)

Re: alice wonder is a gypsy.

tiffani — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:56:26 -0000

Yuppp, she's absolutely awesome. That whole Daybreak album is just love. Can you sayyy...NetKnot? I bet you already know this, but she's HU people, too! YAYY lol