From the monthly archives: February 2009
Case in Point: The Uganda Skateboard Union Reaching out to the youth of Uganda, especially in the young and thriving capital city of Kampala, requires innovative outside-the-box thinking. Rarely do I find an effort so outside-the-box as the Uganda Skateboard Union. When I found the website, read their story and viewed their pictures, my heart [...]
Being both a huge fan of Kiva and a web developer, I was thrilled to read that the popular microlending organization recently released a web developer API. This is great news across the board ranging from Kiva supporters who blog (yours truly) to Facebook users to Kiva groups who receive funds for their small businesses. [...]
I subscribe to a massive amount of RSS feeds in my Google Reader to keep me up-to-date with the Internet’s pulse. As many people can’t live without their morning coffee, I honestly don’t know what I would do without my daily dose of Google Reader. While it would take me eons to visit all of [...]
An encouraging video found over at Global Advances:
On a whim I decided it’s time to travel to a place that typical isn’t on my (growing) top 10 international list. So I’ve been planning for a short trip to Peru in June, which will cover Lima, Cusco and Machu Picchu, three absolutely stunning places. I’m thrilled about this trip for the chance to [...]
For those of you with an iPhone or iPod Touch (like myself), JosefScarantino.com is now available for easy viewing. I installed WPtouch by BraveNewCode, and from one developer to another, they definitely know what they’re doing. Check out my site on your iPhone and bookmark it for quick and easy viewing on the go.
With 2009 came several New Year’s resolutions, one of which involves giving to one of my favorite nonprofit ventures called Kiva. For those of you unaware, Kiva is an organization that involves microlending to the world’s working poor. Kiva makes it possible for you to easily invest into people behind worthy projects you believe in [...]
After about 6 months of no blogging and focusing my energies on my freelancing work, I’ve decided it is time to get back in the game. Over the past 2-3 weeks I’ve been working on creating online identities where I think they will be most useful to my career (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc). Some [...]
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