Bubba Murarka

From the Cedar Creek Treehouse website:
“we are redefining the concept of a treehouse resort”
Turns out there is a market to redefine!

Last week Microsoft’s JD Lewin (Evangelism) and Michele Johnson (Strategic & Emerging Business) sponsored our Halo 3 Fragfest at the Microsoft Home.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any links to the Microsoft Home but it is one kewl place!  They have converted a part of the Microsoft Silicon Valley’s Conference Center into a home (living room […]

Found this via Brad Feld’s blog and thought it was a great peek into google’s internal intranet tools.   Most big company folks I know say their intranets are a mess and unusable. I’ve seen a bunch of startups doing interesting stuff in this space.  However,  it seems like google has tried something different on their own.  I wonder […]

At Bfast on Sunday a few friends and I came up with a feature idea / request for facebook.  What if you could get a feed of friends’ status messages that contain specific words.  This is basically like twitter’s track feature.  Mike Vernal, who just joined facebook from MSFT, was at the table and thought it might already […]

I wonder if this article promoting placement of ads near “action spots” (e.g. links) is the right thing to do after reading Mr. Belshe’s latest material.  From a UX perspective, I certainly have accidentally clicked ads near comment fields & site navigation links way to often. 

Facebook’s approach to I18N, outsourcing to the userbase, seems to be going pretty darn well.  What is even better about it is that popular apps will also benefit & get I18N much easier than in other development platforms.  Sweet!

I was surprised when Apple announced there would be a 20 dollar upgrade fee to get the new sweetness on my iPhone.  I felt like this guy does.
But then I thought about it and started to wonder…
Perhaps this is a test to see market reaction and upgrade rate for charging across all portable Apple devices.  […]

Fred Wilson, Brad Feld & others just made an investment in Zynga, a social network game network with no destination site.  Fred outlines the thesis on the Union Square Venture Blog. 
It seems like folks are aligning to one of two beliefs for social network apps:

They are another distribution channel with low cost to build but […]

An old friend of mine and his partner just released a rich IM client that works with your facebook friends list.  It already got written up on Techcrunch and they’ve been making it better and better every hour since!  Check it out at www.social.im when you’ve got a chance! 

I’ve had a mixed experience with my Blackberry Curve (8300) over the past 6 months.  My favorite aspect of the Curve has been the battery life…I end up charging it about once every 3 days!  The keyboard is pretty darn good & the voice quality is legit.  However the browser sucks, the sync software sucks, and the […]