The EpicTracker team has been hard at work on our upcoming release. In the past few months, we’ve been running a beta program and have added a ton of new features. These include very cool and helpful things like forwarding to Facebook and Twitter, searching of posts based on location or content, batch editing, including …
Yearly Archive
for: ‘2010’
EpicTracker
For the past year I’ve been working on EpicTracker at Archinoetics. EpicTracker is a system that allows explorers, eco-adventurers, field scientists, and anyone who travels to post geolocated content onto a map. EpicTracker goes beyond simple geolocation though as it is a fully customizable, turnkey solution for adventurers that lets them tell their story of …
Sea Stories
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by stories of the sea. I spent my childhood summers going to the beach in Long Beach, NY. My fifth grade teacher took us to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut where we slept aboard the Joseph Conrad and learned about whales and nautical navigation. I even …
He Did it Right
This Sunday, my grandfather, Robert Jacobson, passed away. He lived a good life. I am struck by the outpouring of love that people had for him, from the old friends that knew him since he was a teenager to of course my immediate family whose lives were shaped by my Grandpa Bob. Growing up, I …
“Team of Rivals”
If I had to say something bad about “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, it would be that it really hurts your toe when you drop the book. This 900+ page book (less if you don’t count the bibliography) is not for the casual Lincoln reader, but it …