The blog of Abraham Williams

Recently I presented a brand new presentation titled Please Feed the Unicorns at the @ apimeetup held at the @ Apigee office. The goal being to bring attention to various methods of building a better developer community around your API platform by empowering, incentivizing, and recognizing the community Unicorns. Please Feed the Unicorns from API Meetup on Vimeo . Please Feed the Unicorns View more presentations from Abraham Williams [<a href="http://storify.com/abraham/please-feed-the-unicorns" target="blank">View the story "Please Feed the Unicorns" on Storify]</a> Related articles Feb 23rd Open API Meetup: API Outlook for 2011 (apigee.com) Your API Sucks: Why Developers Hang Up and How to Stop That (apigee.com)

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I found this video from the final presentation of Digri at Seattle Startup Weekend while poking around the dark corners of my computer. http://digri.net http://seattle.startupweekend.org

An Eventr prototype was built at Chicago Startup Weekend but has since been taken down while I concentrate on other tasks. http://chicago.startupweekend.org

Recently I presented at Social App Workshop on Minimalism in Feature Implementation. I had a great time, saw some awesome projects, and met some inspiring people. Here is my presentation: Minimalism - Social App Workshop July 2010 - Abraham Williams from heroku on Vimeo . Be sure to check out the slides and a great video on keeping features simple yet powerful by Joel Spolsky . Check out the rest of the App Workshop videos including presentations from Twitter , Facebook , Apigee , Heroku , and Twilio . Twilio's presentation is especially good.

I just finished presenting Awesome Lists to the SproutBox selection committee. It was a great day with a total of 7 ideas pitched ranging from streaming bollywood movies, to construction worker safety, to banking. The final winner should announced within the next week. In the meantime check out the slides: And the video of the presentation:

Earlier in December I submitted Awesome Lists as a contender for SproutBox's quarterly startup choice. Low and behold we are a finalist so later this week I will be traveling to Bloomington, IN to compete with the other finalists. If chosen SproutBox will provide us with a development team, a marketing team, 6 months of office space, and much much more. Awesome Lists was also the 2nd place winner at the SocialDevCampHackathon in November. Here for you viewing pleasure is the SDCChiHack presentation video.