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Episode 72: Valentine’s Vegas Vortex

Sameera Kapila — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:10:03 +0000

This week, Andy is joined by Travis and Sam at Happy Cog Austin for Episode 72. Thanks Happy Cog!

Show Notes

1:05 HOUSE OF CARDS!
3:00 Spiceworks raises another round of $57m
3:15 Capital Factory + Floodgate + Silverton = $150,000
5:40 Austin #1 most romantic city by HuffPo
6:10 Austin in top 10 list for best towns for singles
7:00 SXSW dribbble meet-up announced! RSVP ASAP!

Events

Digital PM summit: Feb 22
FU Weekend: Feb 21–23
Texas Bitcoin Conf Mar 5–6

Right before the show. Photo by Alison Harshbarger of Happy Cog Austin

Editing by Michael Way. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes & dudettes!

Episode 71: Catchupisode with Andy and Travis

andy — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:09:36 +0000

In 2014, we’re recording every 2nd and 4th Friday. Last week was our second show but we flubbed the release of the January 17 recording so we rolled that content into last week’s episode.

Andy and Travis spend episode 71 recapping the happenings in Austin from the past couple months.

News:

Austin Startup Games – Heard that ~~Spanning~~ cleaned up. Andy was completely wrong … Sparefoot actually won the gold. Berate him via twitter.
Developer Evangelism – Keith Casey’s experience
Damon’s intro to the Austin startup scene
Austin reaching capacity for SXSW permits
Ben Brown’s Lunch Hack and LunchBot: http://eat.xoxco.com
Josh Baer says he’ll fund your consumer startup
Blackboard acquired MyEdu
Pingboard secures 1.5 million
Outbox closed its doors – Junk mail survives — new stealth pivot
WP Engine got 15 million - R/GA rebranded them
Why Scaling a Company is Harder than it Looks (Jason Cohen, @asmartbear) “scale causes rare events to become regular.”

Jobs:

Everyone is hiring. Let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll help connect you.

Upcoming Conferences and Events:

Hackentine’s Day – February 8
FinishUp Weekend – February 21-23
Digital PM summit – February 22

We’re already prepping for SXSW — what should we be paying attention to? Good parties, food, other events? Let us know.

Five-star ratings on iTunes will get shout outs on the next show!

Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!

Episode 70: Startup Weekend Recap

andy — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:20:12 +0000

In an effort to get one more show out the door before 2014, Dave and Andy recap Austin’s Startup Weekend that took place November 22-24 at Tech Ranch.

Show Notes

Austin Startup Weekend - 13 teams presented at the end of the event.
Potlucky
Phone Sting
LiveHits – 2nd runner up
At The Door – 2nd place – video demo
APIEngine – winner
IBM to hire 1,000 designers by 2018.

Want help connecting with Austin’s vibrant community? Tweet at us and tell us a bit about yourself.

Austin Startup Weekend logo by Ryan Weaver of Sputnik Creative.

Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!

Episode 69: Recap of Austin Startup Week

andy — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:08:36 +0000

This week, intern Michael Way recaps everything that went down at Austin Startup Week. He is joined by Andy, Sam, and new dad Dave!

Show Notes

3:27 Latest News: ATX Startup Crawl
9:17 Startup Crawl App
10:41 Some pictures from ATX Startup Crawl by Adam McCombs
11:38 Mass Relevance gets access to Facebooks API
11:50 Element Creative and SpaceCraft to Merge
11:50 Spacecraft
12:06 Dell goes private
12:18 Hurt & Harbuck have disbanded
18:00 WP Engine
20:13 Austin Startup Weekend November 22-24 at Tech Ranch
21:07 Boxer Inc raises a bunch of money
22:38 7 Promising Austin Startups from capital Factory’s Demo Day
22:38 Mr. Dad App
25:06 Capital Factory is expanding their investing
27:00 Austin Chamber of commerce started a “Startup “A” List”
30:22 Austin VS The World
30:45 Dave files a bug report on Github about the Government Shutdown, sparks awesomeness.
34:54 Dave’s post So I trolled The White House
39:22 Send us your job openings, Austin
40:05 Co-funder of Reddit is coming to austin
40:24 Maker’s Square Career Day on November 7th
41:15 Refresh San Marcos Meetup, November 5th at 7pm
41:26 Taecho Group
41:38 Texas State Communication Design Program
41:46 Texas State STAR Park
42:53 SXSW announces 2014 interactive lineup
43:30 Godaddy bought Media Temple, Brad Smith buys Virb back from Godaddy
44:30 Where do you get your Austin news? Let us know

Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!

Episode 68: Austin Startup Week with Josh Baer

andy — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:18:41 +0000

This week we have a covert chat with Josh Baer about the third annual Austin Startup Week. Listen to find out what his “God button” is and who his favorite Austin startups are.

Interview Notes

Intro to the Austin Startup Scene slides form the 9/16/13 event
Austin Startup Week Calendar
Austin Startup Week Crawl 2013 (Must RSVP)
TechStars is now in Austin
Nuve anti-theft start-up

Startup News

DreamIt Ventures (Austin applications due soon)

Austin vs The World

British Airways to fly directly to Austin in 2014

Job Openings

Dropbox is opening an office and hiring for a lot of positions.

Upcoming Meetups

Girl Develop It Austin’s Diving Deeper into HTML5 and CSS3

Upcoming Conferences

An Event Apart: Austin – September 30 – October 2

Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!

Episode 67: Breakfast tacos and Hyperloop

andy — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:39:27 +0000

We gathered the crew before the last Refresh to catch up on Austin’s latest happenings. Dave introduces a new segment, “Austin vs The World” and we fire another intern. Recorded live on August 13, 2013.

Shout out to our audio surgeon, Aaron Dowd for turning this one around quickly and saving us so much time. Check out his new podcast with Sean McCabe and drop him a line if you could use his skills AaronDowd.com

Startup News

Infochimps acquired by IT powerhouse CSC
TechStars kicked off in Austin with their first cohort. First event set for Monday, August 19. RSVP
Austin Startup Week is coming up October 7-11. New site by Taecho Group.
Supermechanical launches Range, a smart thermometer that plugs into your iPhone for precise monitoring.

Austin vs The World

Mike Fielden from Houston defends Houston, provides no evidence #trolololol.
Welch Avenue, a podcast about the startup scene in Des Moines, IA, builds a welcome page inspired by the Web Show.
Breakfast tacos, we have them. Favorites: Michael, Dave, Travis. What are yours?
According to Entrepreneur, Elon Musk’s new Hyperloop may be built in Texas first due to less regulation and cheaper costs.

Job Openings

Director of Finance at the Texas Tribune.
Product Manager/SCRUM Master at Four Kitchens.
Dropbox is opening an office and hiring for a lot of positions.

Upcoming Meetups

MakerSquare Career Day at Capital Factory - August 16 @ 5:30pm
Creative Mornings w/ Michael McDaniel – August 20 @ 9am

Upcoming Conferences

Digital Biz Summit - August 20
jQuery Conference: Austin - September 10 – 11
An Event Apart: Austin – September 30 – October 2

Music provided by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!

Episode 66: Refresh Austin [Live Recording]

andy — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:46:01 +0000

We finally got the whole team together at the Refresh Austin: Summer Party. Recorded live on July 30, 2013.

Dave announces his mayorship of Curaçao, Sam’s homeland, and sings the new national anthem.
The Gowalla exodus from Facebook to Dropbox
Torchy’s secret menu
Texas Tribune covers Wendy Davis’ HB1 Filibuster and compiles images
Louis Black calls out Texas with a great big “F*ck you!”
Upcoming Events:
- An Event Apart | September 30 – October 2 | register here
- jQuery Conference: Austin | September 10-11 | register here
- Girl Develop It: Austin
MakerSquare is Austin’s answer to The Starter League and General Assembly. We chat a bit about the program and the team behind it.
@beaktor is the guy to know for dim sum in Austin.
Austin in the News
We’re back on twitter! @ATXwebshow

Episode 65: Hackathons Galore

Dave Rupert — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:37:21 +0000

Travis, Sam, and Dave catch up on presidents and hackathons that have swept through town recently.

President Obama visits Capital Factory
Coca-Cola: Why Austin sits atop the next wave of startup hubs
Hackathons
ATX Web Show T-Shirts available from Cotton Bureau
Drupal Camp + Web Leadership next week
Photo courtesy of @owiber

Episode 64: with Sam Kapila

Dave Rupert — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:49:24 +0000

This week Travis sits down with Sam Kapila, teacher of Responsive Web Design and Typography at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. That’s just south of Austin for you out-of-towners. They talk about the modern web, new Adobe software, and a bunch more.

Show Notes

Texas State University
- Texas State Communication Design Program
Adobe
- Creative Cloud
About Sam Kapila
- samkapila.com
- Follow @samkap on Twitter

Episode 63: Catchupisode™

Dave Rupert — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:01:26 +0000

Another Catchupisode™. Reigning victorious over Houston, yet again, Travis and Dave kick off this show apologizing to a few other cities and then recap some of the conferences and big events that have rolled through town recently with a heavy focus on journalism.

Travis apologizes to Boston
Houston Web Show == Not a thing
TXJS Recap
Creative Mornings ATX Recap
Austin Kleon’s Talk
ISOJ
- Trei Burndrett (Vox @clockwerks)
- Michael Donohoe (qz.com @donohoe)
- Miranda Mulligan (Knight Lab/Boston Globe @jmm)
May Meetups
Artifact Conference http://artifactconf.com/

Future Shows:
- 4/30: Live recording at the Gingerman

Episode 62: The Fiber, we haz it.

Dave Rupert — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:22:37 +0000

This week Travis and Dave drink and do a live a show at the Ginger Man, Austin’s Tech Hub. Exciting news since the last episode, Kim Jong Un wants to nuke Austin and we get Google Fiber.

The News:

Kim Jong Un destroying Austin. #whyaustin on twitter.

Google Fiber
- http://www.statesman.com/news/business/its-official-austin-getting-super-fast-google-fibe/nXG3g/
- https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/

The State of Entreprenuership in Austin
- http://lucky7.io/post/the-state-of-tech-entrepreneurship-in-austin

Burning Out by Robert Banh
- http://robertbanh.com/

Week in Austin Ratings
- 10 Most Overrated Cities to Visit
- Houston more walkable???!?! Good luck with that. Seriously its humid as hell.

TX.JS
- http://texasjavascript.com
- http://artifactconf.com

Episode 61: ATX, blue collar web town

Dave Rupert — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:34:59 +0000

This week we discuss the recent Pando Daily article which critiques Austin’s “intensity” and vis á vis why we’ll never be successful as a startup town. We’re also joined by former webshow intern Michael Way from the Taecho Group.

Pando Daily: Will the Austin startup ecosystem ever live up to its promise?
Austin Gunter: What’s the difference between Austin and San Francisco?
Economist: Let’s all be Texas
#RWD at TX State
Classes and conferences
- Young Coders One of the instructors is Barbara Shaurette (@bshaurette) — she runs @PyLadiesATX
- HTML5 Roadshow
- April 15th TX.JS
- May 13-15 Artifact Conf
Texas Monthly’s new BBQ Editor @BBQsnob

Episode 60: The 1st Annual Post-SXSW Awards

Dave Rupert — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:01:42 +0000

Back with a groggy post-SXSW episode. We spend this episode recounting the best of SXSW 2013 from our limited, but professional, perspective.

TX Drought Jokes!
- TexasTribune.org Reservoir Tracker
1st Annual Post-SXSW Awards Ceremony!
- Non-badged Awards
  - Lots of awesome social events
  - ATX Startup Crawl
    - Best hallway party: Odoro
    - Best ownership of a whole building floor: Mass Relevance
    - Best boozes: Black Locust/Home Depot Innovation Labs
    - Best food: Spanning (via hearsay)
    - Best overall startup: Outbox
    - ATX Startup Craw App
  - Best kickoff lunch party: Refresh Austin Kickoff Lunch
  - Best crashed party: Twilio + StartupBus
  - Best opening night party: MS/Gamesalad
  - Best Saturday party: Dribbble
  - Best Sunday party: OpenWebSXSW
  - Best Trailer Food
  - Theme of all of the best parties: kept it low key, away from all the craziness
  - Partying like it was 1997
- Badged Awards
  - Best in Tracks: “Responsive Track”
  - Best panel: #WYSIWYS
- Best venue: Ginger Man — Rainy St and Easy Tiger were distracting people and keeping them away, so it stayed pretty relaxed every night.

Episode 59: Post-FUWeekend/Pre-SXSW with Andy Keil

Dave Rupert — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:41:09 +0000

This week we’re joined again by Andy Keil to catch up on what got finished at the successful FinishUp Weekend. We also mentally prepare for the SXSW behemoth.

People who finished:

Colin Young (Polymathic) – Zipper Snapper
John Kestner (Supermechanical) – Productivity Quantifier
Brandon Weiss (Anti-pattern) + Andre Jurgensen (Handsome) – Arrival.io
Jason Weaver (Happy Cog) - FlexNav Jquery plugin for responsive menus
Alex Mangini (Thesis Theme) – LifeNotion.co
Thomas Frank (CollegeInfoGeek) – iPhone app (taught himself w/ Treehouse collab)
Josh Long (Treehouse/Execute) – Jenius Book
Becky Murphy (I’d Rather Be Short/Chipper Things) – Book cover + This Must Be The Fan
Bushra Mahmood (XOXCO) – Brass & Bark for Pete Bolema
Marc Mapes (Tech Ranch) – FoTacts
Jeff Finley (Go Media) – WMCFest Site + 2 songs
John T Meyer (Lemon.ly) – Where The Hell Is Wall Drug?
Scott Johns (Lemon.ly) – Thankstagram
Ben Brown (XOXCO/Packa.gr) – Blog post about utilizing “Your Back Catalog“
Travis Swicegood (Texas Tribune)
Mohammed Gaber + team (United) – Connect5
Gabe Ragland (ImgFave) – Redesign
Josh Matz (SpringBox) – Discovery tool (built in 2 days)
Lucy Hewett (photographer) – Tiffany Tucker: Fatshopaholic.com video
Patrick Lu (RGB.io) – RGB.IO = Portfolio site connected to Flickr
Keith Casey (Twilio) – Google Voice Replacement

Episode 58: Meat Security with Ben Brown

Dave Rupert — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:09:28 +0000

In Control Conference
- Environment for Humans
Ben Brown
- Web Dev and Product Designer
- Founder of XOXCO
- Deep Leap
  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kunpve8-h-U
- Consumating.com
- Make Pixel Art http://makepixelart.com/
- Breakpoints https://github.com/xoxco/breakpoints
- Aware.js https://github.com/xoxco/awarejs
- Your Back Catalog: http://notes.xoxco.com/post/44067502454/your-back-catalog
- Packa.gr http://xoxco.com/packagr/
BBQ Drama!!
- @sparkycollier @jsm_meat @louiemuellerbbq We can discuss peace once John first returns $250k missing from this company. Where is it, John?
  
  — Louie Mueller BBQ (@LouieMuellerBBQ) February 24, 2013
- Meat Security
Austin Dribbble SXSW Meetup
@SXSWpartyzzzzz: https://twitter.com/SXSWpartyzzzzz
SXSW #homeroom

Episode 57: Purple Margarita Challenge with Joe McCann

Dave Rupert — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:37:01 +0000

Travis sits down with Joe McCann, who is currently Mobile Architect at Bazaarvoice and on the board at The Node Firm.

Austin JS
Open Web SXSW
- What’s the start of all of these epic parties?
  - Reconstvct.com
  - StayIdle.com
Purple Margarita Challenge?
- Baby A’s

Episode 56: Live at the Omni Bar

Dave Rupert — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:36:22 +0000

Recorded live at the Omni Bar before Refresh Austin. We were joined by Gene Crawford and Giovanni DiFeterici of the South Carolina based Unmatched Style. There were in town to speak at Refresh Austin and scope out the local scene. We were also joined by Keith Casey of Twilio who is a key player in the Austin meetup scene.

Unmatched Style
- Period Three
- Artifact Conference
Keith Casey
- http://caseysoftware.com/
- @CaseySoftware
Meetups
- Austin Python
- Austin PHP
- Austin JavaScript
Conferences
- Product Camp Austin
Hackathons
- hacks/hackers hackathon
- FU Weekend
- Civic Hackday
SXSW
- Open Web Party
- ATX Dribbble Party

Episode 55: FUWeekend with Andy Keil

Dave Rupert — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:36:32 +0000

This week we’re joined by Andy Keil talking about Finish Up Weekend, a weekend devoted executing and finishing up that side project. We also recap the completely sold out HTML5.tx Conference held here in Austin, TX.

Handsome
HTML5.tx
- Backbone is awesome!
- Socket.io
- Lots of offline
- Lots of HTML5 goodies
- New APIs on Sunday with @pamelafox
Finish Up Weekend Feb 22-24, 2013
- http://fuweekend.com/
- @fuweekend
- Josh Long @joshlong
- Execute Book
Contact
- andy@handsome.is
- @alwaysunday

Episode 54: Happy Cogging with Greg Storey

Dave Rupert — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:00:14 +0000

Excited to have Greg Story, President of Happy Cog, on the show. Happy Cog is one of the world’s premier web design firms and they have established an outfit here in Austin, Texas. We chat with Greg about the history of Airbag, Happy Cog, and what were the eventual factors that lead to the big move to Austin.

Happy Cog
Follow Greg Storey on Twitter @BrilliantCrank
@ATXDribbble (Meetup)

Episode 53: We’re Back (25th Edition)

Dave Rupert — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:37:36 +0000

We’re back for the 25th time! Another unintended hiatus has sparked the need to do another show where we discuss the past 2 months as well as various upcoming events and conferences around town.

Startup news!
- Mass Relevance finally got downtown!
- Black Locus sold!
- Union Metrics ??
Firefox OS
- Mozilla team was in town
- Awesome looking stuff
- New phones announced today (no pricing)
Meetup News
- Refresh is doing two meetups a month
  - Capitol Factory is awesome, harder to socialize
  - Monthly #beersummit to socialize only
  - https://twitter.com/kimloop/status/293864490246758400
- Rails Girls ATX
- pyLadies
- New Learning Python meetup
- Shit is crowded
Conferences
- HTML5.tx in in two weekends
  - Tickets still available
  - Stupid cheap
  - It’s in Austin!
- Data Day Texas
  - http://datadaytexas.com/
  - Tickets are cheaper until Feb 5th

SXSW is on the horizon…
- Parties already starting to RSVP

Episode 52: #HOTBBQDRAMA

Dave Rupert — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 01:33:20 +0000

On Today’s show we get into the heart of the Austin BBQ Scene which in-part is mostly responsible for fueling the Austin economy. We also discuss the first 7 startups that pitched on state at Capital Factory Demo Day 2012.

Episode 51: Whale Management

Dave Rupert — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:56:59 +0000

Travis and Dave talk about a myriad of topics ranging from the Zynga mass-firing, covering a handful of startups from the Capital Factory Demo Day 2012 that got a mention in Venture Beat, to a quick Week-in-Tech conversation.

Episode 50: Joshua Baer on Startup Week & Capital Factory

Dave Rupert — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:04:00 +0000

We sat down with Austin tech titan Joshua Baer to talk about: ATX Startup Week, Demo Day 2012, We Are Austin Tech, Other Inbox, and the startup and social hub that is Capital Factory. On this milestone 50th episode we couldn’t ask for a better guest. Josh does an amazing job keeping our web community vibrant.

Joshua Baer (@joshuabaer)

Music provided by Good field

Episode 49: Mijingo feat. Ryan Irelan

Dave Rupert — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:09:00 +0000

We’re joined by Ryan Irelan, developer at Happy Cog and founder of Mijingo, the web’s best resource for designers or developers looking to learn something new. We talk about the recent Drupal Day Austin CMS Shootout as well as a Freaky Friday... Read the Rest »

Episode 48: The Taecho Group

Dave Rupert — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:14:59 +0000

We sat down to better-know the talented Central Texas web design agency, the Taecho Group. After their work one the Circuit of the Americas (Austin F1) site, these experts in eCommerce and responsive web design are currently in the process of... Read the Rest »

Episode 47: Wizards, Cap Metro, To-Do Apps

Dave Rupert — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:00:15 +0000

Travis and Dave get together to talk about everything from breaking a curses using a local wizard to Cap Metro transit politics to our hatred of To-Do list apps. Web related, we discuss: the upcoming ATX Startup Week, Responsive Web Design,... Read the Rest »

Episode 46: An Event Apart Recap with Elyse Holladay

Dave Rupert — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:31:24 +0000

We sat down with Austin designer Elyse Holladay to get a short recap of An Event Apart, the world’s premier web conference, that recently rolled through town.

Episode 45: Calendar Conflicts!

Dave Rupert — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:56:22 +0000

This week Dave, Travis, and new co-pilot Ryan Joy sit down to talk about local news and events. We announce the new ATX Directory now live on the website and discuss the trials and tribulations of meetup event planning.

Episode 44: Ruby lightning!

Dave Rupert — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:11:47 +0000

Travis and Dave sit down to catch up on this past weeks’ events, most notably the lightning talks held at Austin on Rails.

Episode 43: S03E02

Dave Rupert — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:00:55 +0000

Once again, Travis and Dave meet at the Ginger Man to discuss recent happenings around town from TX.JS, a first class Javascript conference that happens right on our very own doorstep. The rest of the show is dedicated to fact-checking, mental health,... Read the Rest »

Episode 42: The Reboot

Dave Rupert — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:06:28 +0000

Live from The Ginger Man, the tech hub of Austin, Dave and new co-host Travis Swicegood (from Episode 28) reboot the brand new ATX Web Show. We catch up on all the action that’s happened in the 6 month hiatus including: the death of Gowalla, RailsConf in Austin, Kids Code Camp, the rebirth of the brand new Capital Factory.

Episode 41: Brooklyn Beta

Dave Rupert — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:05:13 +0000

Happy to be celebrating 2 YEARS of the ATX Web Show! On this anniversary episode, we hear from Zach Meyer of Four Kitchens about Drupal Camp Austin 2011 and spend some time talking about a recent company trip to Brooklyn Beta – an inspirational conference that took place in New York.

Adobe Kills Flash (via WIRED)
Waterproof Fujitsu Tablet (via The Verge)
CSS Regions
Evernote Grand Opening Party
Sneak Peek: The 5th Austin Dribbble Meetup will feature some limited edition prizes from the Dribbble HQ.

DrupalCamp Austin

Brooklyn Beta

BrooklynBeta

Episode 40: HTML5 & Friends

Dave Rupert — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:59:36 +0000

On this week’s episode I sat down with Christopher Schmitt and Kyle Simpson, co-authors of the new HTML5 Cookbook from O’Reilly Publishing. We spend time digging into the book and exploring some of the innards of HTML5.

Episode 39: Pivot!

Dave Rupert — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:31:47 +0000

In this week’s episode we catch up with some in-house news and surprising pivots. We discuss: FitVids – a jQuery plugin for fluid width responsive video embeds, Trent’s article on “Unitasking” to GTD, Facebook poll results for Gowalla’s decision to ditch... Read the Rest »

Episode 38: Stocking is the New Planking

Dave Rupert — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:04:11 +0000

Stocking, the act of replicating a stock photo and posting it to the internet, is gathering momentum in agencies across the world. We sit down with the Dennis Van Huffel and Jamie Graham, the folks behind the meme “Stocking is the New Planking” and gain insight into what it’s like to start a meme that ends up landing on sites like Gawker and becoming apart of the internet culture.

Episode 37: Hourschool

Dave Rupert — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:56:57 +0000

This week we sit down with Ruby Ku and Alex Pappas of Hourschool, a social app that helps you find and create informal classes. The company was born out of their time as the inaugural class of the Austin Center for Design. We talk about learning the art of interaction design at AC4D as well as the process of building a company that provides a social platform for people to share knowledge.

Episode 36: Forecast

Dave Rupert — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:03:26 +0000

We sat down with René Pinnell of Hurricane Party to talk about their new app, Forecast – an app that allows you to share where you’re going to be with future checkins on Foursquare. In addition to learning about Forecast, we hear about Hurricane Party’s experience at Capital Factory, and Austin-based venture accelerator.

Episode 35: The 10K Apart

Dave Rupert — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:00:05 +0000

Do you have the chops to make an app in under 10K? In this episode we talk about the brand new 10K Apart: Responsive Edition being put on by MIX Online and An Event Apart. We also cover our month-long haitus,... Read the Rest »

Episode 34: Tweet Library with Manton

Dave Rupert — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 02:00:35 +0000

Today we sit down with Manton Reece, creator of Tweet Library and the Tweetmarks API. We sit down to talk about his apps, developing on the Twitter API, iOS and Mac development and the big question: “Why would you ever price your app at $9.99?” Also of note, Manton co-hosts a Mac/iOS podcast called Core Intuition, so the audio quality of this episode actually goes up!

Episode 33: Method & Craft

Dave Rupert — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:32:58 +0000

On today’s show we’re joined by none other than Phil Coffman of Method & Craft to get a behind the scenes look at the site that gets behind the scenes. #meta. We get to know Phil as he joins us for the whole show while we discuss some local news – including the recently proposed Startup District. So don’t miss it.

Episode 32: The Austin Survey

Dave Rupert — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:53:56 +0000

The results are in! 100 people responded to the question “How much would it cost to leave Austin?” In this episode we crunch the numbers with our amateur statistician skills. Be sure to check the web show blog post with charts and graphs from the survey. Finally we take some time to discuss the beauty of the recent Austin Beerworks launch.

Episode 31: The Gowalla Design Team

Dave Rupert — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:16:28 +0000

This week’s episode is sure to be a milestone for the ATX Web Show. We invade the Gowalla Headquarters and sit down with the Gowalla Design Team: Keegan Jones, Tim Van Damme, Drew Yeaton, and Adam Michela; to talk about everything... Read the Rest »

Episode 30: TXJS with Alex Sexton

Dave Rupert — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:00:55 +0000

Alex Sexton stops by to talk about the upcoming yayQuery-organized TXJS – a quality-curated JavaScript conference right in our own backyard. We also probe Alex’s mind about the top trends/things to pay attention to in the rapidly advancing JS community. Gowalla hacker/developer Richard Schneeman also stops by the show to tell us about his summer Ruby on Rails class (that’s free for students!). Thanks for listening!

Episode 29: Responsive Web Design

Dave Rupert — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:00:12 +0000

On today’s show we recap the fun had at the first-ever Austin Dribbble Meetup. It was a grand ol’ time. We also dig into the relatively new web trend, “Responsive Web Design”. We’ll talk about what it is, our changing thoughts on it, the results of our definitive facebook poll, as well as explain our in-house approach and tips and tricks we’ve learned along the way.

Episode 28: Two New Groups in Town

Dave Rupert — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:19:28 +0000

Back this week with a little mini-sode feature two brand new groups in town. First up is Mattt Thompson from Austin.RB to talk about the brand new ruby group in town. If you’ve listened to the show for any period of time you’ve probably heard about the good work he does. Then we’re joined by Travis Swicegood to talk about his new group Austin NoSQL.

Episode 27: Post-SXSW Aftermath

Dave Rupert — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:19:44 +0000

SXSW 2011 has come and gone, ravaged our town and our livers in the process. Trent, Reagan and Dave join together to discuss highlights and lowlights of SXSW; from the poorly-scheduled panels, to the wonderful parties, and Brand® Oversaturation™. Has SXSW gotten too big for its britches? What could they do better?

Episode 26: Back to School, Part 1

Dave Rupert — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:47:15 +0000

We’re back with another episode! Amidst extreme Texas winter weather we gather to bring you some of the local web news, as well as mini-interviews with Garann Means of Austin All-Girl Hack Nite and Joe McCann of Austin Javascript. As we get back into the swing of things, we also discuss some of our favorite happenings on the internet as of late. It’s just like homeroom.

Episode 25: Are You Watching This?!

Dave Rupert — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:00:36 +0000

In this episode we sit down with Mark Phillip of AreYouWatchingThis.com. Simply put: “RUWT” is a notification system to let you know when a game in the sport of your choice is getting good. It’s available on a wide variety of platforms including but not limited to: iOS, Palm, Android, Firefox, and Google Chrome. It lets you know when to switch the channel. We also chat about GoogleTV and the future of TV.

Episode 24: The WPEngine Launch Party

Dave Rupert — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:28 +0000

The ATX Web Show was invited by GeekAustin & Company to do some man-on-the-scene coverage of the Official WPEngine Launch Party held on November 3rd. It was a high class event and a great opportunity to talk to a lot of different people here in the Austin community all out to support WPEngine. So tune in as we talk to Jason, Aaron, Cullen of WPEngine as well as Lynn Bender of GeekAustin and many more.

Episode 23: All things Drupal with Four Kitchens

Dave Rupert — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:15:50 +0000

This week we speak with Four Kitchens, a local web design and development shop specializing in large websites built on Drupal. We talk about Drupal as a CMS, committing back to open source, and the Austin Drupal Community. We’re also joined by Christopher Schmitt of Environments for Humans talking about their upcoming jQuery Summit featuring some big names in Javascript and local talent to boot.

Episode 22: WordPress Austin with Pat Ramsey

Dave Rupert — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:00:46 +0000

On this episode of the ATX Web Show, Reagan and Dave catch up on some announcements, some events, and our football team. We also sit down with Pat Ramsey to hear about WordPress Austin, the growing local WordPress community.

Episode 21: Unintentional Hiatus

Dave Rupert — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:07:41 +0000

Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife! We’re back after about a month of unexpected inactivity. We’re climbing in your windows and catching you people up on what’s happened over last month or so including: Capital Factory’s Demo Day 2010, IE9′s Lost World’s Fair and a lot of other stuff.

Episode 20: The 20th Episode

Dave Rupert — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:00:14 +0000

We’ve hit another milestone and we’re back with a brand new theme song! We talk about Gowalla Highlights, the new Apple Products, and listen to some messages from our phone number 409-BEEF-CAR.

Episode 19: Featured on TechCrunch with @paravelinc

Dave Rupert — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:09:34 +0000

This week is a bit of a Potpourri episode and we’re joined once again by Trent and Reagan from Paravel! We discuss a wide variety of topics including but not limited to: The Many Faces Of… The Goonies (with iPad Game), Dave and Brian Hoff made Rebbbounds (a Dribbble API Tracking Blog) in 24 hours and 6 days later it was featured (as a link) on TechCrunch. We also discuss The 6 Commandments of Gowalla in King James English, the City of Austin Web Portal redesign, Alamo Rolling Roadshow posters, The Incident, and Paul Irish’s HTML5 Boilerplate. As you can tell, there’s quite a bit to talk about so we hope you enjoy.

Episode 18: Big Data with @infochimps

Dave Rupert — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:18:15 +0000

This week we feature the Infochimps who are one of the largest and most agile data suppliers in the world but located right here in Austin, TX. I sat down with Dhruv Bansal, Flip Kromer, and Jospeh Kelly and got the inside scoop on The Infochimps API, their huge collection of data sets and how they handle huge such massive amounts of information. To round off the interview we chat about the pros and cons of having a startup here in Austin. From our breakfast tacos to our tech community, there really are so many great resources here in town.

Episode 17: Indie Apps with @coffeeshopped

Dave Rupert — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:54:02 +0000

We’re back with another vacation minisode. This time it’s with local Indie Web/iPhone App developer, Chadwick Wood who runs Coffeeshopped, a small one man dev shop. Chadwick balances the line between full time freelance contractor and self-app-generating developer entrepreneur. He’s already got a handful of really cool apps to his credit: an augmented reality geolocation game, a time-tracking app for freelancers, and a couple experimental iPhone games that are math based awesomeness.

Episode 16: CSS with @teleject and @zomigi

Dave Rupert — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:58:37 +0000

Today we’ve got a mini-episode, or “minisode” if you will, with Christopher Schmitt (@teleject) and Zoe Gillenwater (@zomigi) who are both authors of books on CSS. Christopher is helping host CSS Summit on July 28th, 2010, an online conference based here in Austin, with an impressive lineup of speakers, including Zoe herself. A really great episode with what I found to be a really nice impromptu discussion on CSS3 performance. Have a listen and buy their books!

Episode 15: ch@tter with @adonoho

Dave Rupert — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:07:51 +0000

In this episode I’m rejoined by the guys from Paravel and we attempt to settle epic disputes with good old fashioned Page Speed Grudge Maches! Which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek? Tune in to find out. I also sat down with Andrew Donoho to talk about his new iPad app ch@tter, a new, effective way to monitor your tweet stream.

Episode 14: Cafe Bedouins with @Damon

Dave Rupert — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:58:18 +0000

This week I joined a special Cafe Bedouins event at Cospace and sat down with Damon Clinkscales. Damon has played a huge role in the web development community by helping start the monthly Austin on Rails ruby user group as well as a roaming weekly coffee shop hack night called Cafe Bedouins. We talked about his work, his side projects and his idea blog.

Episode 13: Beers with Joe McCann

Dave Rupert — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:00:42 +0000

This week we caught up with Joe McCann over a few beers at Frank to talk about a wide array of things including his work with frog design, trends he is seeing on the web, javascript, rapid prototyping and the future of web deployment.

Big thanks to the fine folks at Frank and Pearl Beer.

Episode 12: We Rebranded!

Dave Rupert — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:17:24 +0000

We're back with a brand new episode and a brand new brand! Feast your eyes on our new logo! This handiwork was done by none-other than co-host Reagan Ray. Speaking of Reagan, he and Trent join Dave this week and we discuss a "potluck" of things going on around the web including but not limited to: Our Reactionary Web Community, Webkit Bits, Rdio, Pulse RSS Reader App, The Upcoming Refresh Meeting, Gowalla, Facebook, Spiceworks, Refresh Austin and the upcoming TXJS Conference taking place right here in Austin.

Episode 11: Webucation with Glenda Sims

Dave Rupert — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:33:59 +0000

On this week’s show I sat down with Glenda Sims to talk about Web Education, or “webucation” as I call it. Right here in Austin we have some of the people who are literally writing The Book on Web Standards. Glenda also works with an organization called Knowbility who promote and improve the availability of accessible information technology.

Episode 10: “We Told You So” with @Getify

Dave Rupert — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:15:54 +0000

We made it to Episode 10! Kyle Simpson, @getify, joins the show again to herald a very important message “We told you so!”. You may recall back in Episode 4 Kyle joined us to talk about the rumors that Google is going to start rewarding Page Speed on their search ranking. Well, it finally happened: Google added Page Speed to Page Rankings.

Episode 9: Environments for Humans

Dave Rupert — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:32:55 +0000

This week we’re joined by local author Christopher Schmitt who has written more than a handful of books on CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and more. Christopher is now involved with a company called Environments for Humans who hosts a wide array of One Day Online Educational Summits that are singularly focused on one aspect of web design. We talk about that and his work on the Web Standards Project (WaSP), specifically the Interact Web Curriculum program that is helping provide much needed updates to “webucation” curriculum.

Episode 8: Cheap Tweet & Tweet Reach

Dave Rupert — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:45:41 +0000

Exciting show this week! I caught up with Hayes and Jennifer Davis of Appozite, creators of Cheap Tweet and Tweet Reach. They have a suite of amazing products that if you’re not using now, you should probably check it out… even if its to soothe your own vain ambitions (like I do). And with CheapTweet, they can score you amazing deals. Looking for a new laptop? Check Cheap Tweet first!

Episode 7: SXSW Recap

Dave Rupert — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:43:46 +0000

We’re back after an extended hiatus. You know the drill… pre-SXSW then post-SXSW… ugh… But here we are with another 40 minutes of quality banter. This show is dedicated to the memories we made at SXSW. The panels, the “bromances”, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We had a really good time and are looking forward to next year. We also can’t forget to say “THANKYOU!” to Weighshift for their Sitby.Us app.

Episode 6: Is Google Evil Yet?

Dave Rupert — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:03:02 +0000

Google is creating products that are very similar to products. Steamrolling the competition. We're obviously big fans of Google products but if you take a step back, its something to think about so we included it in the show. We also talk about an article from Trent Walton called "Divided Attention" that reinforces the mindset that when a customer are using your product, they're probably not just using your product and your product is competing against a variety of other things. And finally we bring back #TrendingTopics! Tune in.

Episode 5: jQuery, yayQuery, and @SlexAxton!

Dave Rupert — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:10:41 +0000

A brand new jQuery is upon us and luckily we have one of the hosts of the popular yayQuery podcast in our midst. Alex Sexton joins the show to talk with us about the Future Webby Award Winning yayQuery podcast and then bring us all up to speed on the new changes that are happening to the jQuery core.

Meanwhile Trent and Dave catch up and talk about chairs, Dribbble, and a little bit about Austin on Rails. And of course, we couldn’t release this episode this week without talking about the Big Announcement from Apple about the (unfortunately named) the iPad and what it might mean for the future of web development.

We finish the show off with the greatest phone number known to man! TUNE IN TO FIND OUT!

jQuery links from the show

The New jQuery API – jQuery revamped their site and the API docs. It now features an extremely usable livesearch function.
jQuery.org- The parent organization for all the jQuery technologies like jQuery, jQueryUI, Sizzle, and QUnit
14 Days of jQuery – Site announcing the new jQuery and 14 articles about it.
jQueryUI 1.8rc1 – Release Candidate of the new jQueryUI.
Speed Increase Graph – You gotta see this graph of jQuery 1.4 Speed Increases!

Episode 4: Google’s “Make the Web Faster” with @getify

Dave Rupert — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:11:42 +0000

This is an exciting episode that will no doubt enhance your life. Joining me on the show today is Kyle Simpson AKA @getify. He’s local Austin talent and he’s passionate about Web Performance which makes him a perfect candidate to talk about Google’s world changing campaign to “Make the Web Faster”. Tune in and get tips on how you can begin tuning up your sites for better web performance.

Kyle’s Projects

LABjs: http://labjs.com
getiblog (my blog): http://blog.getify.com
To Static It!: http://2static.it

Optimization Tools

Make the Web Faster: http://code.google.com/speed/
Google Webmaster Tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Velocity Conference: http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2010
Sprite Me!: http://spriteme.org/

Correction to Podcast: Steve Stedman’s Calendar is actually http://austin.geeknite.INFO. INFO. INFO. INFO. (thx @damon)

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Episode 3: The Year 2010 & Alex Jones

Dave Rupert — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:49:33 +0000

After an unintended hiatus, we’re back! In this episode we’re talking about The Year 2010 and all the treasures it promises. We start the year talking “don’t miss” items from the latter part of 2009. If you missed it, be sure to check out the wonderful end-of-year gifts 24 Ways and PHP Advent. As well, Trent also tries to improve Michael Rice’s oatmeal.

We have our first special guest! Alex Jones (@BaldMan) joins the show to talk about RefreshAustin and his side project Kick Spark. Be sure to make it to the next Refresh meeting where the topic is “weLost™: A Case Study/Discussion of a Hybrid iPhone/Web/REST App”.

We then go on to question whether or not Twitter Awards are something that should even exist.

Items of note:

Ignite Austin is happening Wednesday, January 13
Developer Day is coming to ATX. Find out more at http://developer-day.com. Registration is now OPEN.
Steve Stedman (@stedman) created a great calendar for Geek Events around town that you can find at http://austin.geeknite.info
Check out Kenny Meyers’ (@kennymeyers) micro-project Move The Web Forward, which is a great resource for finding good articles about new trends and technologies.

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002: Mice, Critique, and RefreshAustin

Dave Rupert — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:53:20 +0000

Finally! This week’s episode is robust and crammed pack with heart wrenching inspiration!

We start off talking about Trent’s New Mouse. His blog has tips and tricks to put the magic into your Magic Mouse.
We learn difficult lessons about critiquing fellow designers from Tom Watson‘s article “Unfounded Anger“. You should also check out his website Simple Desktops for awesome wallpapers.
We talk about Tuesday Night’s RefreshAustin. We’re big fans of what Refresh does. At the meeting Mark Phillip of RUWT? made making Firefox extensions look easy.
We pause to imagine Michael Rice of Episode 001 Bonus Content fame stealing our lunch money.
And of course, we take a stab at #TrendingTopics. This time we are shocked & awed by the “Here and Now of the Internet”. And we make some Follow Friday recommendations!

So what are you waiting for!? Subscribe in iTunes and get to listening!

As always, if you would like to be on the ATX Web Show, please contact us and we’ll schedule a segment ASAP.

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001 Bonus Content: Jeff Foxworthy

Dave Rupert — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:51:52 +0000

In this, our first Post-Episode “Bonus Content”, Michael Rice (@mwilliamrice), who helps write for Austin Town Hall has graciously lent us his Jeff Foxworthy impression for a spectacular rendition of Trent Walton’s Zombie Designers post. Dave also does a pitiful Ira Glass impersonation.

After that we talk about the upcoming Fun Fun Fun Fest and Mike tells us about the bands that he’s looking forward to seeing the most.

Then we critique ~~Danzig~~ Danny Devito for being a little top heavy. It’s only 6 minutes long! Listen!

001: Zombies & CNN

Dave Rupert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:38:19 +0000

It’s the first official episode of The ATX Web Show! And we’ve got a little bit of a Halloween Theme (because its the day before). In this episode I’m joined by Trent Walton and we discuss the following topics:

A little about how this the ATX Web Show came to be and what we’re doing here.
The new CNN.com redesign by Huge, Inc
Zombie Designers
And we reveal our first recurring segment “#Twitter #Trending #Topics”

Also, if you have an idea or want to be featured on the show, drop us a line.

Update: Trent gives a review of his new Magic Mouse over at his blog.

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000: Testing out iChat

Dave Rupert — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:48:17 +0000

Here’s a sneak peek at all the crazy antics that you can expect from the ATX Web Show! [insert slide whistle sound effect here]. Trent and I tested out iChat’s record feature today and as you can see, I was having trouble finding where it saved the file. Protip: Turns out, it saves it AFTER you close out the conversation. You can learn a lot from a dummy.

We also discuss Oatmeal.