Jure Cuhalev

Archive for the ‘everyday life’ Category

25 Sep, 2009

On Leaving Zemanta

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: everyday life

As you’ve probably heard, I’ve left my job as a community manager and UX expert at Zemanta. It has been an incredible ride these two years and I can say that I’m now fully sold at the idea of startup business lifestyle.
Last three months in San Francisco were a great finish of this adventure, giving [...]

My summer in San Francisco is now over  and it was a blast. Today I want to briefly comment on the events, meetups and other social events that social media and tech geeks organize over there.
Essentially we have a number of different style of events (from largest to smallest): conferences with expo floors, conferences, massive [...]

01 Sep, 2009

Hello, my name is …

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: everyday life|san francisco

Different city, different rules for vandalism (or self expression), this time using the classical “Hello, my name is..” stickers that are so very popular in the States, but you hardly see them in Europe. I love the way they’ve made effort to stay within the boundaries of the stickers.
Photo taken on a night bus in [...]

16 Jul, 2009

Tortoise

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: everyday life|happy|san francisco

Tortoise via last.fm

More great fun a few days ago when a failed coffee attempt turned into opportunity to go to a concert of a group called Tortoise. Powered with only Wikipedia infobox, I decided to give it a try and see how I like them. I liked them a lot and based on my latest [...]

Best tips for things you have to see in a foreign city are always given at 2 AM in the morning in another far away city, this one came from @emmapersky and @emp one rainy night in London, that there is a film theater in San Francisco that plays silent movies with live background music.

Image [...]