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JackTemplin (Jack Templin )
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I am a consultant specializing in online business and user experience strategy. I moved to Providence from New York City a couple of years ago. I grew up in Burlington, VT, studied economics and architecture undergrad, and then spent 2.5 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Solomon Islands. When I returned to the States, "Information Superhighway" was all the rage (I'm really dating myself here...) so I checked it out and caught the Internet bug. I did my graduate work at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and spent 10 years as a Internet strategy consultant in New York. It's good to be back in New England. I love Rhode Island and the community here. I believe we have serious potential to be hotbed of info-tech and digital media entrepreneurship and innovation. I co-founded Providence Geeks with Brian Jepson. More recently I have had the pleasure of working with the RIEDC on the RI Nexus initiative. I'd love to hear from you.
Recent Content
Title: Best Cities for Singles: Providence moves up 7 places in Forbes' ranking (Forum)
Submitted: September 6th, 2008 - 4:39pm
Title: Welcome back and back to school (Blog)
Submitted: September 4th, 2008 - 8:15am
Welcome back, everyone! The RI Nexus team is coming off our August blogging hiatus. We took the month to do a bunch of housecleaning and lay the groundwork for all sorts of good stuff - events, new site features, etc. - that we'll be rolling out in the coming days and weeks.
One theme you'll notice this year is a re-doubling of our efforts to help strengthen the ties between Rhode Island's info-tech and digital media (ITDM) industry and our huge population of college students.
We're big believers that one of Rhode Island's greatest assets is its enormous "student body." We have one of the country's highest per capita student populations. Moreover many of these students are concentrating on subjects of particular revelance to ITDM - computer science, graphic design, entrepreneurship. The more we can get them in the mix as interns, employees, entrepreneurs, the better.
So welcome back and stay tuned - it's going to be a good year.
Title: NYT Times article on ALCO - home of RI Nexus (Forum)
Submitted: July 30th, 2008 - 10:16am
Title: InQuest Technologies Announces Corporate Relocation to Rhode Island (News)
Submitted: July 29th, 2008 - 6:29am
Bolstered by support from RIEDC finance program, company poised to bring 50 jobs to Rhode Island
Full Story: InQuest Technologies Announces Corporate Relocation to Rhode Island Source: RIEDC, July 28th, 2008
Title: NYT: Providence among towns grads don't want to leave (Forum)
Submitted: July 28th, 2008 - 5:03pm
Title: RISD's John Maeda and Brown's Christopher Lydon join forces on new podcast (Blog)
Submitted: July 24th, 2008 - 3:52pm
Two of 2008's terrific new additions to the fair city of Providence - Christopher Lydon, of Radio Open Source, now a Fellow at Brown's Watson Institute, and John Maeda, formerly of MIT's Media Lab, now President of RISD - have teamed up to create an exciting new podcast, aptly named - LydonMaeda.com. But don't try to box in these big thinkers - from their "About" page:
This is a meandering informal venture between Christopher Lydon and John Maeda. It’s intent may seem nonsensical because it is. And where we might go will probably be where all open thoughts go … which are to you and perhaps they end there … or perhaps that is where it all begins.
The inaugural, and very interesting, first installment is here.
And note that the next Jogging with John (Business Edition) is tomorrow morning 6am (Friday), and that there is now a Ning network for the group.
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I will be. I read the "comic" on it earlier today.
Seems to be the real deal. I'm especially excited about each tab being treated as it's own system process.
It's available for download now:
http://www.google.com/chrome
Mitch is an artist-in-residence at AS220 for the month of August. This is cool opportunity to meet him. Here's the Wikipedia article on him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman
Cool, Craig, and awesome tagline - "Why should Massachusetts have all the fun?" :-)
So when are you thinking the first meeting should be?
If you all do create a RoR group, some of the rest of us will have to respond with a Django posse to keep you in check. Kinda like the Sharks and Jets. Kinda... ;-)
No kidding. And as you just pointed out to me, Stu, the link below makes 3 Times articles in a week. THis is getting ridiculous.
36 Hours in Providence, R.I.
Rhody on Rails graphic:
From an early RI Nexus blog post.
Allan was able to activate a couple of hours ago, and I finally successfully done so just now.
How about you and Doug, Anisa?