I've played it before and it's just AWESOME! I would love to join you guys next time. Enjoy the game!

Mark and David, it was a great pleasure meeting you both! Let's keep in touch and I would definitely love to meet again.

The Cirque du Soleil was fabulous!! Those people have some serious skills and put up a quality show. Megan and I had a great time. David, your review was right on target and I was excited after hearing it.

Kaya, I hope to meet you at a future event. I hope you are feeling better now!

Enjoy the upcoming event and post some pictures. I totally forgot to take pictures the other day although I was carrying a camera :(...

Marty, I kindda noticed that I only answered part of your question .. .I will take the time to elaborate when I find time :)

Need to stay late at work tonight. But, I hope to see you next time!

Macbook - For years I had heard about Apple products being superior. I needed a lighter laptop compared to my monsterous Toshiba which really sucked!! So, I decided to give it a shot.... it was too expensive, so I thought for a few days .... finally, walked into the store and loved it ....bought it right then and there!

Do you have any specific questions? I don't think anyone should have to pay for SEO!

Thanks, looking forward to meeting you guys!

I'm driving down with my friend on Saturday morning (3/1) and back on Sunday afteroon. It would be nice to meet with you guys .... it's our first time to Portland - any suggestions for tourist attractions in the city?

Argh! I'm prolly gonna be there next weekend, but you guys might not have anything going on :|

This event brought a different perspective to marketting and I completely enjoyed it! Dominic was around after the event and gave me great tips for my business! Thanks!

Attended this event yesterday evening and I even missed the first half of Ignite Seattle for it (and it was worth it)!! This was a superb overview of writing a Business Plan. I enjoyed every minute of this workshop and would recommend anyone interested in creating the right business plan to not hesitate to attend! I feel so comfortable working on my plan today....Thanks Bryan!!

Aarg! I have a meeting at 10 on the east-side!!

Search Engines will not index Flash files (.SWF extensions). However, you load the SWF file through an HTML page!

This will get a bit technical, so I will try to give you an overview of what you can do.

On the HTML page loading the SWF file, you will need to create a section with HTML content in a DIV tag (with an id, eg: SEO-CONTENT). This HTML content is information you want search engines to index.

Next, when the page loads, you will execute a Javascipt, which will test if the browser has Javascript enabled and if the correct version of Flash is installed (which is almost always true or your flash page won't show on browsers). Now (here is the magic), you will create a reference to your SWF file, which will be dynamically loaded and it will replace the content in the DIV (identified as SEO-CONTENT).

In essence, you could have HTML and FLASH content load on your site (depending on the browser settings). But, that requires too much maintenance.

I talked to Adobe last month and they are considering SEO solutions in the upcoming flash versions.

Here is an interesting tool that will make your job easy as far as creating the SEO friendly HTML content. Go to http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/search/faq/ and download the SDK and use the swf2html tool to extract HTML content from your flash file.

Hope that helps!

Nick

Actually, Thursday would work better for me as I have my soccer game on Wednesday... I'd love to attend!!

Would you have space for just one more??

Great article!

I think #8 should be about finding the right partners (If needed). We tend to turn to friends first and I think that is not always the best approach.

Any thoughts?

Bernadette, why do people lose motivation?

I recruited 9 people to work on my startup (not simultaneously) up until Jan '08 (since I started back in Jan '07) and only 2 people have stuck with me (one for a year and the other is a newbie in the 2 week phase, but promising).

The one common thing amongst the others was that they wanted to TALK BIG, but when it came to getting things done, they were always procrastinating or not interested for various reasons.

Was it the day job, being married, family, other commitments, or the idea of having a company (until they had to do real work)?

Many got super-excited initially, but changed their minds (gave up) within 2-3 weeks!

It's hard to tell which category people will fall into... the ones that stuck were being proactive and productive from day 1!

What are your thoughts?

I had to take my friend to the ER for surgery today :(....hope to see you some other time!