About Phil Glockner

Phil has an IT Systems Admin background, with an emphasis on training. He lives near Austin, TX and has been a part of the tech community there for over 10 years. He started his blog, Scribkin, after attending SXSW Interactive 2008.
Recent Articles by Phil Glockner

One of the great challenges of starting up a new business is being good at everything the business demands: Marketing, investor relations, inside sales, development, operations, IT, project management, the list goes on. Most startups don't get the luxury of being able to grow their staff quickly and must carefully choose who comes on-board. The...

Last week I was able to catch up with Charanjit Singh (@charanjit on Twitter), one of the three co-founders of the start-up Cinergix, creators of the collaborative diagram creation platform called Creately. Charanjit, along with co-founders Nick Foster and Chandika Jayasundara, have spent the past eight months developing a unique and powerful tool for creating...

As far as we can tell, Kevin Sherman (BubbleGuru on Twitter) must have loved Pop-Up Video back in the 90's, because he has no less than five different video-in-a-bubble services that you can try out. His highest-profile service, Bubble Tweet, starts with a simple redirect URL that takes you to someone's Twitter page. Almost immediately,...

There are thousands of Google gadgets you can add to your iGoogle pages, from email checkers, games, even (wow, over 70) Twitter clients. The framework for these gadgets is flexible, allowing most of them to work not only in iGoogle but also on your PC using Google Desktop and in Gmail as a labs plugin....

Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of great Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter (including us). What this says about Twitter's native functionality we aren't sure, but we know we've had upwards of 10 separate scripts installed and active at different times. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/troys_one_twitter_script_to_rule_them_all.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww';...
Phil Glockner Story Archive
- Google Labs Cooks Up Two IE Toolbars April 23, 2009 10:13 PM
- WordPress.com Turns On Comment Reply-By-Email Support April 23, 2009 2:15 PM
- Digg Demos Optimized Datastreams April 22, 2009 2:15 PM
- 3deep Makes Your Smartphone a Personal Assistant April 21, 2009 8:00 PM
- Healthline Launches Treatment Search Tool April 20, 2009 9:34 PM
- Tweeting Picnik Photos Now Simple with Twitgoo April 20, 2009 6:56 PM
- Feedly Mini Learns How to Search April 17, 2009 5:10 PM
- Howcast Hosts 5th Summit of the Americas (Updated) April 16, 2009 6:00 PM
- Google Gets Mini-Sitelinks April 16, 2009 2:50 PM
- Netvibes Labs Opens Its Doors April 15, 2009 10:50 PM
- Ads Come to Twitter (Updated) April 15, 2009 5:33 PM
- Smule Completes the Band with Leaf Trombone April 15, 2009 5:00 PM
- Report: Men Spend More Time Online, Put Up With More Ads April 14, 2009 10:10 PM
- Concrete Releases Open-Source CMS to General Availability April 14, 2009 5:30 PM
- eBay Lays Groundwork for Skype IPO in 2010 April 14, 2009 2:27 PM
- Qik Makes Choppy Live Announcement: Qik Roam April 13, 2009 8:15 PM
- Fox News Says Facebook Will Ruin Your Grades April 13, 2009 6:30 PM
- Wikipedians to Vote on Site-Wide Creative Commons April 13, 2009 3:38 PM
- Shyftr Intros New Filtered Feed Service April 10, 2009 2:57 PM
- Yelp To Let Businesses Talk Back April 9, 2009 10:34 PM
- Kevin Rose: New Digg Search Destroys the Old Stuff April 9, 2009 5:32 PM
- Report: Google Analytics May Go Dark for Thousands of Sites (Updated) April 8, 2009 7:30 PM
- WatchMojo Hits Milestone: 50 Million Streamed Videos April 8, 2009 6:30 PM
- Backtype Connect Plugs in to WordPress April 8, 2009 1:30 PM
- Gmail Mobile Gets Performance Tweaks, New Look April 7, 2009 8:25 PM
- PostRank Debuts Discovery Engine - Find The Best Blogs on Any Topic April 7, 2009 5:40 PM
- Yahoo Releases Messenger iPhone App April 7, 2009 2:00 PM
- OrSiSo Wins Award, Still Confusing April 6, 2009 9:48 PM
- Goodmail Announces Embedded Video Email Platform April 6, 2009 3:00 PM
- 7 Top Twitter Topic Trackers April 4, 2009 4:16 PM
- Google Trends vs Market Reports: Which is More Accurate, Faster? April 3, 2009 2:00 PM
- Amazon Rents Out MapReduce Power with EC2, S3 and Hadoop April 2, 2009 11:00 AM
- Glue Gets Stickier With Conversations and Recommendations April 2, 2009 9:00 AM
- Dimdim Version 5: Speed, Security and Widgets April 2, 2009 5:00 AM
- Yahoo! Rolls Out New Mobile Web Campaign April 1, 2009 6:27 PM
- Evernote for iPhone 2.0: Now More Finger-Friendly April 1, 2009 10:25 AM
- Sprout Adds Social Platform Support March 31, 2009 6:11 PM
- Tinker Builds Microblog Communities Around Topics March 31, 2009 1:43 PM
- Skype for iPhone: It's Real and It's Spectacular March 30, 2009 10:30 PM
- Microsoft Announces End of the Road for Encarta March 30, 2009 5:16 PM
- Setster: Let Your Clients Pick Their Own Appointment Times March 30, 2009 2:37 PM
- Flickr Co-founder Unveils Her New Startup: Hunch March 27, 2009 2:22 PM
- AOL: People Like It Now More Than Ever March 26, 2009 3:50 PM
- Open Source Textbook Maker Flat World Gets Funded March 26, 2009 1:07 PM
- Google Docs Inserts Drawings March 25, 2009 8:06 PM
- Get Schooled By SXSW in 140 Characters or Less March 25, 2009 5:31 PM
- Justin.tv Makes Global Video Site Top 5 March 25, 2009 3:15 PM
- Twitter Topics Show Up in Google Search Results March 24, 2009 8:00 PM
- Holy Cow, The White House Has a Digg Clone March 24, 2009 4:58 PM
- TextFlow Gets Online Collaboration Tools March 24, 2009 2:45 PM
- Skimmer Brings a Sleek New Look to Social Browsing March 24, 2009 11:26 AM
- MixTape.me is a Brilliant Musical Mashup March 23, 2009 10:49 PM
- StoryTlr Adds a New Dimension to Lifestreaming with Pages March 23, 2009 3:52 PM
- Federated Media, Twitter and Microsoft Launch ExecTweets March 23, 2009 12:45 PM
- Your Government Needs You: Re-design Congress Online March 20, 2009 4:00 PM
- Gendai Games Launches GameSalad Beta March 19, 2009 8:07 PM
- CBS Leverages Silverlight for YouTube NCAA March Madness Site March 19, 2009 4:14 PM
- Google Labs Brings Photo and Video Previews to Gmail March 19, 2009 2:00 PM
- Snipt.org Extends Service with API, AIR Application March 18, 2009 10:00 PM
- OtherInbox: Organize Your Non-Critical Email For Free March 18, 2009 3:25 PM
- SXSW Panel: Beyond Aggregation March 17, 2009 4:57 PM
- Alltop Gets Personal With MyAlltop March 17, 2009 10:35 AM
- SXSW Liveblog - Cloud Computing: Defending the Undefineable March 17, 2009 8:51 AM
- Cruxlux Reveals Related Web Content March 14, 2009 7:30 PM
- GooseGrade Brings Citizen Editing to WordPress Blogs March 12, 2009 4:23 PM
- Veritocracy Moves Out of Beta March 12, 2009 2:20 PM
- Facebook Starts Deploying Revamped Home Page March 11, 2009 9:45 PM
- Media Cloud Leverages Calais to Track News Trends March 11, 2009 5:05 PM
- DropPlay: Listen to YouTube Music with Your Facebook Friends March 11, 2009 12:45 PM
- Nanocrowd Has a New Take on Movie Recommendations March 10, 2009 9:00 PM
- Hitwise: Visits to Gmail Surpass YouTube March 10, 2009 6:30 PM
- Use Topify to Manage Your Twitter Life with Email March 10, 2009 5:30 PM
- FoxIt PDF Reader Security Patches Now Available March 9, 2009 6:40 PM
- The Mozilla Labs 2009 Design Challenge: SxSW Edition March 9, 2009 4:42 PM
- Bargain Conference Calling Comes to TimeBridge March 9, 2009 1:45 PM
- BackTweets Searches What Twitter Can't: Short URLs March 6, 2009 3:30 PM
- Ohpan: The New Stuff is Always To The Right March 5, 2009 10:00 PM
- Hirewall Takes the Hiring Process Online March 5, 2009 8:10 PM
- Lijit Delivers Single Sign-In for Multiple Accounts March 5, 2009 5:20 PM
- Get Your Music On With Fresh Hot Radio March 5, 2009 2:04 PM
- Twimailer Enhances Twitter Follow Notifications March 4, 2009 7:03 PM
- Ffffoundtape Painfully Helps Organize Online MP3s March 4, 2009 5:30 PM
- Track Your Creative Commons Works in the Wild With FairShare March 4, 2009 12:21 AM
- Shrink and Enhance Shared Links with BurnURL March 3, 2009 8:00 PM
- Mashup Magic: TwitterThoughts March 3, 2009 6:30 PM
- Nokia Upgrades its Development Platform, Qt March 3, 2009 2:50 PM
- Flickr Adds Video and HD to Free Accounts March 2, 2009 8:30 PM
- YouTube Music Announces Symphony Orchestra Finalists March 2, 2009 7:00 PM
- TweetMeme Finds a Revenue Stream March 2, 2009 1:15 PM
- Share RSS Feeds via AIR with ShareFire March 1, 2009 10:20 PM