Have you ever wondered, how do you make badges on Foursquare? I have. I’ve got lots of ideas for badges. I had chance to catch up with the co-founder of Foursquare, Dennis Crowley, and ask him. PS, this was filmed at the Big Omaha conference, which was fantastic this year! If you can’t view the video above, here is a link to the video YouTube.

If you follow me on Twitter, you probably saw all my updates from the Big Omaha tech conference this weekend. There was a company that had a booth setup to display their capabilities of developing software for the Microsoft Surface computer. The Surface is essentially a big giant computer shaped like a table that is touchscreen controlled. It also has the capability to read/scan things that touch the surface as well (p.s. if you haven’t seen the MS parody video, you need to watch it).

I was pretty excited to see the Surface in action after reading the hype on tech blogs these past couple of months. It’s rumored to be over $10k. I had Jason from phenomblue.com walk me through how the program they developed for Big Omaha worked. Watch the video blog!

I attended Big Omaha- a conference that featured several speakers in the online space (e.g. Gary Vaynerchuk, Jason Fried and Ben Rattray), it was dedicated to bringing together others with like interests of that great-super-thingy called the Internetz!

I snapped a few photos at the conference and along my way Omaha, NE (it was my first time in Nebraska). Overall, I was pleasantly surprised with both the amount of tech in Omaha and the city itself during my visit. These photos are shot with my new 17-40mm Canon lens- which I’m in LOVE with.