Bill Erickson
New Media Entrepreneur

Who am I?

I'm a designer, a photographer, a consultant, a college student, a skiier, a net native, a theatre fanboy, and an Australian (if living there for three years counts). Here's some articles about me.

I have a coworking space in Downtown Bryan called The Creative Space, where I'm working on Erickson Media Group, Activist Apparel, and a few other projects.

I'm also one of the founders of the BIL Conference, a free unconference run in conjunction with TED.

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You can also find me on flickr, twitter, facebook, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Natuba, Upcoming.org, and Netflix.

281.797.1276
bill@billerickson.net
and here's my resume

Archive for June, 2007

Finally using Feedburner

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

I don’t know why it took me so long to finally set this up, but I just did. If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, please re-subscribe using this feedburner url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BillErickson
And if you aren’t subscribed to my blog, please do
Thanks

iPhone v2 (Or, what the iPhone should have been)

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

(photo by lazybone cafe)
[Update:] In the comments, Chris pointed out that T-Mobile just announced something similar, a phone that switches over to wi-fi when it has a better connection (ny times article). I love it. But, right now they are only offering it with a basic flip phone. Once they get a Blackberry or iPhone [...]

Refresh BCS - Google

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

(more photos from me, or all photos of refreshbcs)
Tonight we had the biggest Refresh BCS ever. About 150 people came to Downtown Bryan to hear Noman Munif from Google discuss their different products. It was amazing to see so many people in Bryan/College Station interested in new technology. We’re definitely putting B/CS on the map.
We [...]

Re: The Facebook Problem

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I posted this as a comment on Brad Feld’s The Facebook Problem, but since Doug Williams is commenting on my comment, I thought I’d post it over here.
A change has happened at Facebook and not many have noticed it. As the VC’s and entrepreneurs have become more connected to facebook, the average user (a college [...]

Discussion of Patents

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Quick reminder, we’ll be having our monthly meetup tonight. Topic is Service Oriented Architecture: A Mashup Culture. As always, it’s free and open to anyone. Details here.
Also, today I had a chance to meet with Steve Bourque, owner of Bourque Data Systems

(more photos here)
Bourque Data Systems is the 37signals of the railroad industry. They have [...]

Kelly Williams

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

(more photos)
I got a chance to meet with Kelly Williams, Director of Milestone Venture Group, after he talked to a class this morning. His talk was much more interesting than most I’ve seen because he used Q&A throughout - as opposed to the more common hour-long lecture.
He’s working in private equity, but the way he [...]

Coursevote Updates

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

As some of you know, Facebook recently announced a major new development called Facebook Platforms - where 3rd party developers can build applications which run within Facebook itself. While I knew this was coming, after seeing it launched I realized I had to rebuild Coursevote to utilize this new functionality (we had about 3 developer [...]

OK, now I’m pissed

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

[Resolved:] Apple is now sending me a brand new Macbook Pro. I’m guess I’m lucky this happened right when they upgraded the whole line. I’m getting the 15″ with 2.2ghz processor, 2gb ram for free.
Somewhere between Apple, DHL and me, my powerbook got lost. It was meant to be delivered May 30, and after waiting [...]

June Refresh

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

(from photo shoot for 372 Media and Activist Apparel, more here)
Our next Refresh BCS is June 13, and it’s titled “Service Oriented Architecture: A Mashup Culture:”
Ben Floyd (Texas A&M) will be talking about the move to Service Oriented Architecture, and software as a service. Mashups are becoming very popular in high tech society today as [...]