http://www.brandonpollet.com/ Personal Blog of Brandon Pollet en-us Mon, 7 Dec 2009 04:00:00 GMT Mon, 21 May 2012 00:33:37 PDT brandon@quicksavegames.com 5 http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/13?t=Change-of-Venue <p>Hey everyone. As you may notice I haven't updated this blog in quite a while. Most of my writing as of late has been over a Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:41:02 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/13?t=Change-of-Venue http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/12?t=Just-Say-No-To-Flash A special thanks to my friend David for putting this together for me. I need this on a t-shirt. Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:07:32 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/12?t=Just-Say-No-To-Flash http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/11?t=Redefined-Objectives <p>Here we are, only about 8 days away from my original deadline, and nowhere near a finished application. There are multiple Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:12:32 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/11?t=Redefined-Objectives http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/10?t=A-Slight-Detour <p>So, here I am in the middle of a month long sprint to finish a new application and what do I do? I jump ship for a couple d Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:02:26 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/10?t=A-Slight-Detour http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/9?t=Feature-Design <p>Day 2 of my public product development schedule is now behind me and I'm making good progress. My goal for this point was t Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:52:13 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/9?t=Feature-Design http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/8?t=Moving-the-Needle <p>Recently I've been in a sort of personal rut. Normally I'm very active in various projects, I'm very entrepreneurial and co Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:27:29 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/8?t=Moving-the-Needle http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/7?t=Embought-Charity-Donations-to-Child's-Play <p>My shopping search engine Embought has just sent off it's Charity Donations to <a href="http://www.childsplaycharity.org/in Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:10:16 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/7?t=Embought-Charity-Donations-to-Child's-Play http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/6?t=The-Boxee-Beta-and-Boxee-Box-take-Internet-TV-in-a-new-direction Last night the Boxee team unveiled the upcoming Boxee Beta release as well as the first ever Boxee Box. While the Boxee Box is Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:39:36 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/6?t=The-Boxee-Beta-and-Boxee-Box-take-Internet-TV-in-a-new-direction http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/5?t=An-Apple-Tablet...-Is-It-Finally-Going-To-Happen? I'm an avid blog reader, although not quite avid enough at writing them, and over the last few days nearly everywhere I've gon Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:06:44 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/5?t=An-Apple-Tablet...-Is-It-Finally-Going-To-Happen? http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/4?t=The-Stock-Market-Was-2.0-Long-Before-The-Web With all the talk about the economy lately I've spent much more time thinking about the stock market than I normally do. One d Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:03:17 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/4?t=The-Stock-Market-Was-2.0-Long-Before-The-Web http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/3?t=How-I-Wrote-a-Search-Engine-in-6-Weeks Embought is my first attempt at writing a search engine, and I really only started about 6 weeks ago. There is still a lot of Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:50:30 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/3?t=How-I-Wrote-a-Search-Engine-in-6-Weeks http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/2?t=Why-a-Yahoo-Microsoft-Merger-Will-Kill-Innovation-in-Search. In case you couldn't tell from the fact that I recently wrote my own <a href="http://www.embought.com">search engine</a>, I'm Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:48:09 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/2?t=Why-a-Yahoo-Microsoft-Merger-Will-Kill-Innovation-in-Search. http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/1?t=The-Truth-About-The-Lone-Founder <p> There has been a lot of talk online concerning the Single Founder Startup. Most of this talk is about how it doesn't work Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:37:49 UTC http://www.brandonpollet.com/blog/show/1?t=The-Truth-About-The-Lone-Founder