iZoca

Towards the end of 07, I started flirting with a thing called iZoca.

Jeff first introduced me to his idea in November, but it took a month or so for me to admit that I was infatuated with the plan. My involvement became official in December, but just a nights and weekend capacity while I paid the bills with my existing contract day job work.

That all changes today! I'm now making a full-time run at this iZoca thing, and I'm convinced that we are building something great. Our team is small, but very motivated and all very excited about what we are doing. Our board is incredible, and I am humbled to be involved with such a great group of people.

There isn't much I can say about what we are building just yet, but stay tuned. Give us a visit at www.izoca.com to learn more, and if you feel compelled you can register for some beta info and we will inform you when it becomes available later this summer.

From a technology standpoint, here is a list of things important to us:
Ruby - oh, how I love Ruby
microformats
OpenID
iCal
semantically meaningful markup
valid xhtml/html
unobtrusive JavaScript

And some of the tools, utilities, frameworks, etc. getting us there:
Ruby on Rails
MySql
HAML
JQuery
git (this is new on our list, and I didn't believe the hype until I tried it
myself; now its an important part of the list)
Capistrano
VIM
Firefox Developer tools, Firefox Firebug
espresso

cool stuff. cool people. cool approach. cool ideas. long days. longer nights. start-up
lifestyle. Wow...these are definitely some exciting times!