Archive for May, 2009

Mountain View Mayor Pays Ribbit a Visit

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | located in Visit Ribbit | No Comments »

Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga (’MAK’) pictured here with Ribbit’s Ted Griggs and Crick Waters.

Tags: mayor, mountain view, office visit, Ribbit

Ribbit HQ gets Londonized

Monday, May 11th, 2009 | located in Inside Ribbit | 2 Comments »

We had a nice visit from Stuart King (BT London office) who camped out in our office for two weeks, working closely with the engineering team and probably learning more about Silicon Valley culture than he cared too. Ha.

I was interested in how the Valley differs from London and how he was spending his time, as rumor is…we let him leave the office on the weekends…I know, I can’t believe we let it happen either.

Lovely to meet you Stuart! Don’t be a stranger!

Tags: BT, office culture, office visit, Ribbit

Algonquin College Meet Ribbit. Ribbit meet Algonquin College.

Friday, May 8th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Public Speaking | No Comments »

While strolling the halls at FITC, I caught up with Steve Griffith who is a Professor in the Multimedia Department at Algonquin College (in Ottawa) and was pleasantly surprised to hear he showcased the Ribbit API to his students this past semester.

It was lovely to hear the words “Ribbit API” and “blew my students away” in the same sentence.

Another professor, John Willman, who works in the same department as Steve was there with us, and I think there is now a little competition going between them to see who can come up with the most creative way to show off this technology when school reconvenes in the Fall. I can’t wait to see what they do and just ask that there be no blood shed in the process.

I will say the highlight of my Algonquin lovefest was meeting Dan Morton (sorry Steve and John) who was one of Steve’s students this past semester. Dan’s enthusiasm around the Ribbit API was awesome and really makes me want to reach out to more universities and colleges to see how we can help shape future courses as we have a real sweet spot in the multimedia world. Big ups to Dan as well for participating in our little video montage. You rock buddy.