Robert Scoble wrote on his Blog yesterday about why he works at Rackspace.com. It’s a short piece and the main point is:

I’m very fortunate to work for a company that gives me a purpose and then gets out of my way. The purpose? Help startups. Period. Note that I, and my coworkers, Rocky, Rob, Michelle, help out everyone we can, even those who host on our competitors. If you watch my videos I’d guess that only a small portion are actually of entrepreneurs who host on Rackspace.

Why? Because we have a deeper purpose than to just help ourselves. It’s why I work at Rackspace.

To give it serious impact, he embeds this presentation from Dan Pink:

I find this fascinating and inspiring, you?

I am seriously excited to be announcing my first meetup: Shift Happens Meetup!

Alex (@galkinelli), my partner on Bubbalon.com and I decided that we wanted to get more involved in the dynamic conversations happening everyday between technologists, business owners, startup junkies, and everyone interested in the changes happening throughout global societies.

We have been going to lots of events, locally in montclair, and also in the super vibrant NYC tech scene, and wanted to try and create a new conversation focused specifically on change and the people living it.

We will have some great discussion about tech and the changes it causes, and than hear from 2 speakers, each with a unique perspective on their own.  Add in a little Q&A, some networking time and good wine and appetizers and you have the makings of a fun, informative and unique event.

If you can make it June 17th, 7:00pm at Bubbalon HQ at 109 Valley Road in Montclair, NJ, than please join us!

More info and RSVP here:  Meetup.com – Shift Happens Meetup

One of the coolest things to come out of the development of my startup Bubbalon.com is the object widgets. I’ve got a few on the blog at the moment, and you can see what they do. They allow people to share their feelings on any bubbalon.com object.

Here is an example:

Yeah, I am not writing this post from Tech Crunch Disrupt, boy what I would give to be there! Anyway, you can see that the widget shows you MY rating of Tech Crunch Disrupt, and than invites you, my reader to go ahead and rate it yourself.

We have another kind of widget, one that is not “user” focused, but shows ALL of the comments made on that object on Bubbalon. It looks like this:

Pretty straightforward right? Now, the cool thing about the widgets is that anyone can grab them from Bubbalon.com and embed them on their blog or website.

A couple possibilities:

• get feedback on your blog posts
• use a widget to show off your ratings of movies, books or anything
• put it in your store so people can see the ratings of your products

This is just getting started! It’s easy and fun to use the widgets, so give it a try if you’ve got a blog or a site where you want to display the ratings of objects.

More info on Bubbalon widgets.