Tony Robbins, best I have seen.

I just found this video of Tony Robbins and it is probably the most amazing video of him I have seen. Very candid and real. Check it out.

Happy Birthday concrete5

So C5 is now about 1 year old. If you aren't sure what c5 is and you're a web developer, you really are missing out. c5 is one of the easiest to use Content Management Systems (CMS) I have ever seen. The back end is not too cluttered and key areas are easy to find, and the front end editing is so smooth. No more of this creating buckets of content in a back end business. Now you can edit your site while viewing the page it will actually appear on. And with a growing community of developers and designers c5 has a lot going for it. Here is a copy of a letter Franz (one of the c5 creators) sent out recently.

Happy birthday to us!

It was right around this time a year ago that we posted the first pre-release version of concrete5 alpha to sourceForge to see what people thought. Wow, what a year!

Since then we've reached over 250,000 people and had over 50,000 downloads. We've got an active forum of 5,000 developers and designers who are eagerly helping each other, last week I even had a VC fund cold call US for a change.

These are exciting economic times to be sure, but it looks like people still want to express themselves online and are looking for better ways to do so. Check out some of the media reviews we've been getting:

"...the PHP programming aspect is actually where Concrete5 really shines. The API is full-featured, robust and extremely easy to use."
eWeek

".. as more people generate richer content, entrepreneurs are recognizing the need for better systems to manage it."
sramana mitra - deal radar

"In practical use, C5 felt a lot like an easy-to-use website creator married with a full CMS platform on the back-end, making content and layout changes easy and quick, but allowing a lot of customization under the hood if required."
ReadWriteWeb

Are you in the Portland area? Join us to celebrate our 1 year of open source next Thursday for our local meetup at Hopworks brewery.

Thanks for the awesome year, we're looking forward to many more.
- Franz Maruna
CEO concrete5.org

So if you haven't checked them out yet, what are you waiting for? concrete5.org

Project Natal, boring ? Not at all.

I sure missed out not being at E3 this year. At least I have been keeping up with video coverage, and the things I see are amazing. Microsoft unveiled a whole new controller for the Xbox360 that will seldom ever be held in your hands. Instead it will sit on top of, or below, your television and watch you. Yes, it is a camera, but more. Check out this wicked video to see what I mean.



I am so incredibly stoked to see this. This technology will completely change the way people experience gaming.