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Tony Stubblebine

Founder of CrowdVine Social Networks


Areas of Expertise:
  • social networks
  • conferences 2.0
  • web 2.0
  • ruby on rails
  • consulting
  • speaking

Biography

Tony Stubblebine is the founder and CEO of CrowdVine, a social software company specializing in social networking for conferences. He's also the author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference, former Engineering Director for Odeo.com and former Engineering Lead for O'Reilly Media.

He posts regular updates to his blog, StubbleBlog and regularly releases small websites such as I Heart Quotes, the Unix fortune program re-imagined for the web, and the Twitter Quotes Bot.

Articles

Blog

Tony's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.stubbleblog.com/

Tony also has an O'Reilly blog.

CrowdVine vs. Ning

August 29 2008

In response to Luke Gedeon’s point-by-point comparison of CrowdVine and Ning I put my own explanation of when and why CrowdVine comes up on top CrowdVine blog. I think it’s a good explanation of the state of the social network software market because the truth is that Ning and CrowdVine… read more

CrowdVine vs. Ning

August 29 2008

In response to Luke Gedeon’s point-by-point comparison of CrowdVine and Ning I put my own explanation of when and why CrowdVine comes up on top CrowdVine blog. I think it’s a good explanation of the state of the social network software market because the truth is that Ning and CrowdVine… read more

How Do You Use Twitter?

August 06 2008

The folks over at Twitter posted a video starring yours truly with a few other twitter users in support roles. Check it out: How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo. read more

How Do You Use Twitter?

August 06 2008

The folks over at Twitter posted a video starring yours truly with a few other twitter users in support roles. Check it out: How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo. read more

Urban Hike Roundup

June 25 2008

Sarah wrote up our Urban Hiking experience for the NY Times small business section. Turns out these Urban Hiking expeditions aren’t just grand adventures. They also help us keep in touch with our contacts. A lot of career advice about networking talks about how you have to spend time maintaining… read more

Urban Hike Roundup

June 25 2008

Sarah wrote up our Urban Hiking experience for the NY Times small business section. Turns out these Urban Hiking expeditions aren’t just grand adventures. They also help us keep in touch with our contacts. A lot of career advice about networking talks about how you have to spend time maintaining… read more

Lusting After Car Art

June 12 2008

My friend Tim’s company, Infectious.com, just launched. They do vinyl art stickers for your car. For now, the art is from a select group of graffiti artists but eventually anyone will be able to submit art. His original description of the company was tattoos for cars. They’re easy to apply, last… read more

Lusting After Car Art

June 12 2008

My friend Tim’s company, Infectious.com, just launched. They do vinyl art stickers for your car. For now, the art is from a select group of graffiti artists but eventually anyone will be able to submit art. His original description of the company was tattoos for cars. They’re easy to apply, last… read more

Two Good Things

May 16 2008

For the past year or so, Sarah and I have ended each day by telling each other two good things. For the bulk of the year, our format was for the two things to be things that happened during the day that had made us happy such as closing a… read more

Two Good Things

May 16 2008

For the past year or so, Sarah and I have ended each day by telling each other two good things. For the bulk of the year, our format was for the two things to be things that happened during the day that had made us happy such as closing a… read more

Deliberate Practice

May 08 2008

Sarah and I just got back from a talk at Haas about “deliberate practice” as it relates to excellence. The idea is that how good (or expert) you become at a skill has a lot more to do with how you go about doing your work than it has to… read more

Small Business Hacks

May 08 2008

Here are my notes from the small business hacks session at Web2Open. Don MacAskill, Jen Bekman, and Bryan Mason were the major guests. Don’t discount until completion. Bryan says that when they do pro-bono or non-profit work they don’t discount their work until the client has implemented their advice. I can relate… read more

Deliberate Practice

May 08 2008

Sarah and I just got back from a talk at Haas about “deliberate practice” as it relates to excellence. The idea is that how good (or expert) you become at a skill has a lot more to do with how you go about doing your work than it has to… read more

Small Business Hacks

May 08 2008

Here are my notes from the small business hacks session at Web2Open. Don MacAskill, Jen Bekman, and Bryan Mason were the major guests. Don’t discount until completion. Bryan says that when they do pro-bono or non-profit work they don’t discount their work until the client has implemented their advice. I can relate… read more

Great Sessions at Web2Open

April 01 2008

Web2Open is coming together with some sessions that I’m pretty psyched for. The Open is the free unconference side of Web 2.0 Expo. Like other unconferences you can show up the morning of and add your own session to the open grid. But we’re also doing some pre-planned content and… read more

Tony's O'Reilly Blog

What Do You Want From Your Ruby Gem Search Tool?

May 18 2006

I want to be able to read the documentation, that’s what. I can never make heads or tails of a module until I get past the title and summary and into the actual documentation. That’s where you learn that the ’simple to use framework for foo’ is only 5% completed or… read more
Tony Stubblebine

"Regular expressions have proven so popular that they have been incorporated into most if not all major programming languages and editors, and even at least one Web server. But each one implements regular expressions in its own way — which is reason enough for programmers to appreciate the latest edition of Regular Expression Pocket Reference by Tony Stubblebine."
--Michael J. Ross, Web Developer, Slashdot.org