Phil Glockner

Phil has an IT Systems Admin background, with an emphasis on training. He lives near Austin, TX and has been a part of the tech community there for over 10 years. He started his blog, Scribkin, after attending SXSW Interactive 2008.

Posts by Phil Glockner

Tuesday, 12th May 2009

RJMetrics Aims to be Web Startup's Ace in the Hole

One of the great challenges of starting up a new business is being good at everything the business demands: Marketing, investor relations, inside sales, development, operations, IT, project management, the list goes on. Most startups don't get the luxury of being able to grow their staff quickly and must carefully choose who comes on-board. The…

Phil Glockner comments

Monday, 11th May 2009

Creately Combines Chart Smarts with Collaboration (200 Invites)

Last week I was able to catch up with Charanjit Singh (@charanjit on Twitter), one of the three co-founders of the start-up Cinergix, creators of the collaborative diagram creation platform called Creately. Charanjit, along with co-founders Nick Foster and Chandika Jayasundara, have spent the past eight months developing a unique and powerful…

Phil Glockner comments

Monday, 4th May 2009

Gritty Entrepreneurs

Give Your Twitter Page More Personality with Bubble Tweet

As far as we can tell, Kevin Sherman (BubbleGuru on Twitter) must have loved Pop-Up Video back in the 90's, because he has no less than five different video-in-a-bubble services that you can try out. His highest-profile service, Bubble Tweet, starts with a simple redirect URL that takes you to someone's Twitter page. Almost immediately, a small…

Phil Glockner comments

Saturday, 25th April 2009

The iGoogle Meme Generator

There are thousands of Google gadgets you can add to your iGoogle pages, from email checkers, games, even (wow, over 70) Twitter clients. The framework for these gadgets is flexible, allowing most of them to work not only in iGoogle but also on your PC using Google Desktop and in Gmail as a labs plugin. So when we write about a particular gadget…

Phil Glockner comments

Friday, 24th April 2009

Troys: One Twitter Script to Rule Them All

Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of great Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter (including us). What this says about Twitter's native functionality we aren't sure, but we know we've had upwards of 10 separate scripts installed and active at different times. All that is going to end, at least for the…

Social Phil Glockner comments

Thursday, 23rd April 2009

Google Labs Cooks Up Two IE Toolbars

When Google has an idea for a fun or useful project based on one of their established properties, they will often categorize that project under the heading of Google Labs. Google Labs have been created on everything from search, to Gmail, to Picasa. And today, a new Labs opens its doors: Google Toolbar Labs. Limited to the Internet…

Phil Glockner comments

WordPress.com Turns On Comment Reply-By-Email Support

WordPress, on their official blog, made a short announcement that Wordpress.com blog owners could now enable reply by email support for comments made to their blog. With a couple of simple configuration changes, blog owners can get the convenience of being able to directly reply to new comments via their preferred email address instead of through…

Phil Glockner comments

Wednesday, 22nd April 2009

Digg Demos Optimized Datastreams

Any good webmaster knows the cardinal rules of website optimization. Yahoo! wrote them all up years ago on its Developer Network site. And the more of these rules you can adhere to, the faster your site will load for your visitors. But, more and more often as sites turn to using asynchronous technologies like AJAX to make their sites more…

Phil Glockner comments

Tuesday, 21st April 2009

Product Reviews

3deep Makes Your Smartphone a Personal Assistant

As a technology news writer, you get pretty good at sizing up the potential of a new project or product pretty quickly. It is easy to get a little jaded, quickly cubby-holing something new just because it acts like something already out there. I admit to doing just that when I first visited the 3deep web site. Luckily, I was invited to talk with…

Phil Glockner comments

Monday, 20th April 2009

Healthline Launches Treatment Search Tool

Healthline, a leading provider of intelligent health information services, today announced two additions to its stable of medical search tools: TreatmentSearch, the first treatment search application for the web, and DocSearch, a recommendation tool for recommending specialists based semantic parsing of symptom or health condition information…

Phil Glockner comments

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next