Scott Beale

Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.

Laughing Squid Visits Rackspace

photo by Scott Beale After leaving SXSW, I went down to San Antonio to visit Rackspace, the data center where all of Laughing Squid’s servers…

Flickr

Yahoo Buys Flickr

Well, the rumors were true, Yahoo has in fact bought Flickr. Pretty amazing for a product that is not even out of beta yet. It…

SXSW 2005 Wrap-Up

photo by Scott Beale So long Austin, what an amazing event. I’ve been to my share of conferences and conventions, but SXSW Interactive tops the…

XFN Friendly Sticker

XFN Friendly

On Monday and Tuesday, I attended many great panels at SXSW, but two stand out in particular. Both moderated by Tantek Celik (Technorati), Monday’s panel…

Bloggies

Boing Boing

Boing Boing just won the “Best Group Weblog” and “Weblog of the Year” awards at SXSW’s Bloggies. Congratulations guys!

Dogster

The People Choose Dogster

Tonight at the SXSW Web Awards 2005 ceremony, San Francisco’s own canine nexus Dogster, won the People’s Choice Award. What’s Dogster you ask? We are…

How to Grow Online Community

How to Grow Online Community

One of the last SXSW panels on Sunday was “How to Grow Online Community”. Molly Wright Steenson moderated an excellent discussion on the challenges and…

Blogging without Borders

Blogging Without Borders

SXSW Interactive is in full swing and being blogged and Flickr’d in realtime. There were several great panels today, including “Blogging Without Borders: Bridging the…

Moon Tower Light

The Geeks Are Headed To Austin

The Moonlight Towers are plotting the vectors for the geeks who are working their way to Austin for SXSW Interactive. I’ll try to post semi-regular…