10 Chapters of my Startup Book: Free to all!

It's on Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/102177534078850027729/posts/JxuP7PVYSyi

What do you think about this serialized book being written on Google+?

Paul Simon: The Sound of Silence, 9-11, Ground Zero [VIDEO]

My new job in San Jose at Adobe

I'm pumped up!

Adobe offered me a 6-month contract (with possible hire or extension), and it was too good to refuse. I will be joining a team of veteran Adobe ColdFusion developers, and will get to work on the high-traffic downloads area of the site: get.adobe.com. I haven't worked on systems with so many millions of visitors per month before, so it will be a new challenge for me.

We may also work on some AIR-based apps and advanced javascript / jQuery stuff, so that should be fun, too!

I will move to San Jose in about a week, my family will stay in Austin for a while, and we'll decide later if they should move with me or not...

What does this mean for Refynr.com, my startup that _seems_ to be doing well, but isn't actually making money?

It runs pretty well as-is, but with some minor updates it should run better, even with only minimal time from me. I can't spend much time on it for a while, but may be able to spend more money on it. I don't know the future of Refynr yet; only time will tell... ;-)

What do you think of my latest move?

How to find your Twitter peeps on Google Plus

After a few days of creating Circles, I realized that while Google+ was doing a good job of finding people from my GMail contacts that I'd want to connect with, G+ had no idea who my Twitter Followers and Friends were; I searched high and low and couldn't find a tool to find Google+ contacts from my Twitter contacts. Yesterday, I gave up searching and wrote my own tool to do it for you.

You can use Export.ly for free to get a CSV file of your Twitter Friends or Followers, then simply upload them to this tool and you'll get a list of links to peoples' Google Profiles, which very often go to their G+ Profile pages. Follow the instructions carefully.

http://refynr.com/Find_Google_Plus_Accounts_via_Twitter_Contacts.cfm

Keep in mind it's an Alpha product, so there may be bugs, it's a bit slow, and errors are possible. Let me know what you think and how it works for you.