At this year's IA Summit (March 22-26, Las Vegas), I'm going to participate in an interesting panel discussion with several other IAs-turned-entrepreneurs. Christina Wodtke, Lou Rosenfeld, Lane Becker, Gene Smith, and I will each present a short case study about our experience starting our own companies. The panel will be led by the fabulous Victor Lombardi of MIG fame.

My presentation will cover some of my experience starting My Picturebook. The good, the bad, and the fugly...

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I've been working with a startup called "MediaMaster" for the last couple of years. We've designed and built a platform for storing and playing your "music in the cloud". A simple way to think of it (if you're a geek) is that we're building the "hotmail" of music with, of course, some web 2.0 flavor added to the mix. This is just the beginning of some cool things to come from MediaMaster.

The widget embedded above is pulling from my actual music collection and giving you a glimpse into the types of tunes I groove to while I work. Hmmm. Maybe this isn't such a good idea... heehee

We also created a slick little Flash-based player to manage and play your music (screenshot below). Go to www.mediamaster.com to sign up for an account.

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Practice. Expanding.

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If you're a visual UI designer who can think on many levels - from strategy to pixels - drop us a line...

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