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Sunshine: Banned in Boston

by Adam Pieniazek on July 3, 2009

in Boston

Sunshine: Banned in Boston

You heard it here first, Mother Nature has issued an official decree banning all forms of sunshine in the City of Boston. The ruling just came down the wire. Farmers, solar panel owners, and really all Bostonians, even the super-pale “we burn to a crisp in five minutes” majority, are outraged at the new natural [...]

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As the title says, tonight I’ll be appearing as a guest on the Pokin’ Holes podcast brought to you by the DART Boston group. In essence, DART Boston is an organization founded to help young entrepreneurs in the City of Boston connect with and learn from each other. Tonight’s podcast episode should be up on [...]

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Boston #BikeUp This Sunday

by Adam Pieniazek on June 24, 2009

in Boston

Sick of all the rain that’s been falling in Boston lately? Well, this Sunday afternoon, June 28th is being forecast as rain-free or at least rain-lite so it’ll be a perfect time to get on your bike and pedal about!
To that end, come join Aaron Cohen (@UnlikelyWords), Josh Gans (@SportsFan4), and myself (@AdamPieniazek) at Boston’s [...]

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Tweetdeck on the iPhone

by Adam Pieniazek on June 17, 2009

in Technology

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Yesterday, Tweetdeck released an update to its desktop AIR Twitter application and also released a free iPhone version of Tweetdeck. After playing around with the iPhone Tweetdeck, it’s giving Tweetie a serious run for my most used iPhone Twitter app. The new desktop release of Tweetdeck comes with a sync feature (as well as multiple [...]

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Boston Guest Post Roundup

June 15, 2009

The past week or two I’ve written a few guest posts for two other Boston blogs that I’ll share with you here.
Why I Bike
Shane from Boston Biker approached me about writing a guest post for his awesome blog about bicycling in Boston. I was glad to accept as Boston and bicycling are two of my [...]

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My Facebook Vanity URL / Username

June 13, 2009

As you may have heard, facebook allowed users to pick a username starting at 12:01 AM today. I logged in and tried to get myself a vanity URL ending with “adamp”, but alas it was already gone. I settled on facebook.com/adampieniazek, which at least matches 95% of my other social network usernames.
I also grabbed a [...]

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Three Cool Products from Mass Innovation #3

June 11, 2009

Last night I attended Mass Innovation #3. It took a few minutes for us to find the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, where the event was held. The directions read a little bit like a treasure map:
in the mill building right next to the river, look for the Museum under the smokestack
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Mass Innovation Tonight | #roofup #bostweetup wrap-ups

June 10, 2009

Last week I wrote about three networking events going down in Boston last week and this week. Well, there’s one more to add to the list and it’s a great one. Mass Innovation Nights, founded and organized by the super awesome Bobbie Carlton [@bobbiec], is an event in Waltham, MA where local technology companies can [...]

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Guess whose the Author of the Day on Scribnia?

June 9, 2009

Today your favorite Boston blogger is being featured as the Author of the Day on Scribnia! What’s that? I’m not your favorite blogger from Boston? It’s actually Josh Gans, Stuart Foster, Adam Gaffin, the Whalehead King, [insert name of other Boston bloggers here]?
Well, I’m cool with that. We’ve got a ton of great writers and [...]

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Dot Day 2009

June 8, 2009
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The 2009 Dorchester Day Parade was one of the better ones in recent memory. The sun shined the whole day with temperatures rising above 80 degrees. It was a gorgeous day for the onlookers, but probably a tad too hot for all the parade marchers. Keep in mind, the Dot Day parade starts in Lower [...]

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