Things I Learned

I am a hacker, frisbeetarian, entrepreneur and all around very curious person.  I like writing stuff down mostly because it helps me remember and makes sure I learn something new every day.

Currently most of the blog will be focused on Startups and Web Development as that is what I’ve currently chosen to consume my life with.  I don’t like when blogs don’t list some qualifications or information about the author.  So after 12 months of hypocrisy I have finally filled it out!

Socialbrowse:

I am an engineer/entrepreneur currently working full time on my startup Socialbrowse.com. Socialbrowse aims to take social networks out of destination sites (Facebook, Myspace, etc) and put them into your browser, making every page and the entire web social.  Its a new kind of web browser that for the first time since Mosaic gives a new context to browsing the web.

We have received seed funding from Y Combinator and currently have our first version available on AMO.

Work History:

I interned for 2 years and worked full time for 4 months at IBM in Rochester Minnesota.  I worked on the team developing the processor for the Xbox 360 in what was pretty much the most awesome internship ever.  After that I worked with the team making a next gen processor.  My role was specifically in writing benchmark software to prove the awesome things we could do with graphics and gaming.  During my time there I got 10 patents pending, 9 of which I was the primary on.

Before my short 4 months as a full time employee at IBM ( I couldn’t leave the startup world ) I spent my summer in California starting a startup for which this domain was originally for.  ThingsILearned aspired to be wiki meets blogs meets social network.  An online community for knowledge sharing.  It was much like the now launched Google Knol but never got off the ground.

Education:

I have an undergraduate in Physics from Gustavus Adolphus College.  I also have undergraduates in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota as well as a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering also from the U of M.