Where is Nathan??

I haven’t posted pictures for a while, so click on this lovely shot of the the upper west side and be taken to my severely underused picasa to see the rest of the album. We’ve been in Harlem for a week now, and I think it’s working out very well. We are in an almost perfect spot as far as transportation (the 2,3, 4, 5, 6, MTA North, and A, B, C, D  lines are all within about a 15 minute walk). Elizabeth and I both take the 2 which is 2 minutes from our front door. Our only complaint is that the dryer in our building is kind of crap.

Work is going ok, Elizabeth is getting settled in her classroom and I’m still doing volunteer time at Klickable. I’ve been trying to focus on building employable coding skills, but I’ve done several things from building cold call lists to re-cutting tutorial videos in final cut pro.

Ok, it’s Saturday and I’m a little brain dead because I was hanging out at a friend’s house last night eating pizza and playing Rock Band 2 until 3am. So I’m going to go take a nap. Enjoy some pictures.

Real quick before I go to bed, some of you may have heard that Elizabeth and I were looking at an apartment on the upper east side. Well forget that, it didn’t work out. We found another one, it’s in historic Harlem a stone’s throw from Bill Clinton’s office and a few blocks from the Apollo theatre. 53 West 127th Street, for those of you who want to google it.

I still don’t have a job, per se. But for the past week I’ve been “interning” at the Klickable office. I thought this would be an incredible opportunity to get my foot back into coding.  I’ve wanted to jump back over the fence from tech back to coding, but wasn’t really sure how to go about it until the guys (and gals) at the Klickable office asked me if I wanted to come in and do some extensive testing.  So I’ve been trying my hardest to break the Klickable staging website before the new features go live (hopefully next week!).  So I’m no longer sitting at home not doing anything, it’s progress.

I’m going to sleep now, I’ll try and post pictures soon.

I’ve been in New York City for 40 days. I’ve applied for 40 jobs. I don’t have one yet.

But there’s good news! Elizabeth got a job teaching at a daycare and today was her first day. And there’s more, we have an apartment and we’re set to move in on August 16th. It’s an alcove studio on the upper east side in a sweet neighborhood.  So things are coming together.

Most days I’ve been staying home and posting my resume or emailing cover letters, but today I got to do some beta testing on a very cool piece of software. It’s called Klickable. It’s basically hyperlinking video. You’re watching a video online, you wonder who that person is. You click him and it tells you. You wonder what kind of phone he using. You click the phone and you’re given a link to a place you can buy it. You like the shirt he’s wearing. Click it an find out what it is. Once I saw it, I was like “this makes so much sense, why didn’t somebody think of this sooner”.

You can immediately see the implications for marketing in a product like this, but Klickable is talking about a bigger picture. They described a Wikipedia like phenomenon where anyone could add Klickable elements to videos.  Do you recognize who that person is? Tag them. Do you know some trivia about a random object in a video? Tag it.

I can’t think of a single video application that wouldn’t be made better with this idea. Think of the possibilities for home video, training video, product placement in online television, product guides, how to videos.  I think it’s going to be huge.

I know that’s not much of an update for not saying anything in a month, but hopefully I’ll have more to talk about in the coming week and I should have pictures to post after we move into our new place.