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Robblehead Invasion

Today marks the first day of the In.Telligent conference . This is the 2nd conference put on by Telligent and this year we have had a significant turnout for both the business and development tracks. Rob Howard opened the day with a rousing Keynote that...

London & Intel

What do London and Intel have in common? Well I find myself in London during one of the largest announcements that Telligent has ever made. Today we officially announced that Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, has made a $20 million...

Telligent Named "Best Place to Work in DFW"

I mentioned previously that Telligent was one of the few companies selected as Best Place to Work in DFW by the Dallas Business Journal. Last week was the official luncheon and awards ceremony to find out exactly where we placed in our category and overall...

Community Server 2008 Logo Unveiled

One of the fun parts of my job is that I work closely with our Creative and Marketing teams in defining the direction of the various brands for our products. After a number of cycles the team has unveiled the new Community Server 2008 logo. I am very...

Telligent Voted One of the Best Places to Work

When I first heard the news that we were one of the winners of the “ Best Places to work in DFW ” (announced in the March 14th print edition) I did one of those cheesy jumps you would see in a very cliché movie. Person 1 gets great news/wins the game...

Telligent Graffiti CMS 1.0 Now Available!

Taking a moment away from GDC 2008, I wanted to announce that our latest product Telligent Graffiti CMS 1.0 is now available! You can download it here: http://get.graffiticms.com/ Graffiti is a lightweight, simple content publishing system you can use...

Viva Fiñata???

It seems as though the pranks here at Telligent never end. Granted I may have occassionally pulled a prank or two but I was not expecting what happened today. My team put together a lunch for the company on behalf of the sales & marketing departments...

Four Black Fins?

Happy Halloween to everyone... Oh wait that was a few days ago. Well the scariest thing of all happened in the office on Halloween. I walked into the office to be greeted by 3 well how should I put this.... me's. As is the case here at Telligent pranks...

Game of the Week - Guitar Hero III

The game I am playing the most this week is Guitar Hero III. The first day I had it I played through 23 out of the 42 songs on career mode. I would not recommend doing that again as my hand is still numb. I have to say that the Les Paul wireless guitar...

CSDC Live Blogging

This weekend was the first annual Community Server Developer Conference . With around 100 attendees from all over the world discussing development on the Community Server platform as well as sneak previews of upcoming Telligent products it comes as no...

Shutout

This post is short and sweet. For the past few years Rob , myself, Scott Dockendorf , and Kevin Cunningham have played the various Xbox 360 NHL 2Kx titles. (6, 7 and now 8). During this time Rob and I have teamed up against the duo of Kevin and Scott...

Halo 3 Blamed?

It appears the release of Halo 3 is being blamed for poor box office numbers in October. We all know about the $170 million in a day, $300 million in a week, 2.7 million people on Xbox live (that is 1/3 of all live members) and the fact that it was the...

Microsoft Marketing-Services?

Microsoft has a lofty goal. Within the next 4 to 10 years they look to have advertising account for 25% of Microsoft's business. Based on recent revenue that would be upwards of $12 billion dollars a year. That represents a couple billion more than Google...

MySpace.com and Community Server

Over the past year we have been working with the MySpace.com team to position Community Server as the engine to the MySpace.com forums . Recently the MySpace.com team launched the Community Server powered forums. From a scalability perspective this posed...

Tellicast - Halo 3 Launch Event

Recently I talked about the Halo 3 Pre-Launch Event at the Microsoft campus in Las Colinas. Me, Scott Dockendorf , Karthik Hariharan and Adonis Bitar (disguised as Jason Alexander ) attended the event. It was a great time and our resident film maker Adonis...

Game of the Week - Halo 3

If there was any doubt as to what the game of the week is for me this week it is Halo 3 . Last night Rob Howard , Deryl Dorsett, Elijah Hardin and I all joined forces to blast our way through 2/3 of the campaign mode. The best part of it was that we did...

Microsoft Dallas - Halo 3 Pre-Launch Event

Last night I was one of the lucky few to attend the Microsoft Dallas Halo 3 Pre-launch event. This was an invite only gathering to preview and play Halo 3 before the launch and to just have a good time fragging people left and right. The event started...

Wii Have Lift-off

Being the avid Xbox gamer and achievement points connoisseur that I am it may come as a surprise that we recently acquired a Wii . Granted it is for my son and I will not be giving up my Xbox anytime soon, but the direction Nintendo is going with the...

Tom-Foolery

The past few months we have talked about the pranks that have been played on various Telligenti from Cardboard Rob to Bobblehead Rob . Adonis Bitar , our resident film maker, has dedicated the latest Telligent tellicast to highlighting some of the pranks...

Game of the Week - Bioshock

Bioshock gets my "pick of the week" in terms of games I am currently playing. I am very impressed by the Unreal engine powering the game as the motion is smooth and the controls are tight for a console based FPS . I highly recommend picking it up. The...

Star Wars 30 Years Later

I was a young guy in 1977 and my very first movie in a theater was Star Wars episode IV . I have been hooked for the past 30 years. Of course I bought into the merchandise and had quite a collection back in the day. I was never a fanatic or superfanboy...

Fun on a Friday - Part 2... Meet Bobblehead Rob

A few months ago we introduced the world to " Cardboard Rob ". Today, we unveiled "Bobblehead Rob". In the ever escalating pranks on Rob Howard , CEO of Telligent Systems a.k.a. our fearless leader, I crafted a plan a few months ago to come up with the...

OXM... Really?

It all began when I started receiving random friend requests via Xbox Live. I was suddenly hit with a flood of new requests from people I didn't know. Then came the news that my gamertag TheBlackFin and blurb were included in the October #75 edition of...

EA Skate Demo is Live!!!

The long awaited skate demo is now live on Xbox Live. Be sure to download the demo and give it a try. As I have said before all I can say is WOW. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

The Halo 3 Marketing Machine

While flying to New York today I was reading an industry magazine and came across a Halo 3 cross-promotional ad that caught my attention. Outside of this ad featuring Halo 3 & 7-11 , the teams at Bungie and Microsoft are collaborating with a number...
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