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CLIMATE TECH CONSUMPTION, WEEK OF MAY 6

May 8, 2024 at 1:13 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

These are the materials I read/listened/watched this (and previous) week(s) to
get a better understanding of the climate tech ecosystem and opportunities:
Volts podcast re: movie/TV’s climate change representation, new EPA power plant
standards, and the energy transition’s 5 supervillains and 5 superhereos
Everybody in the Pool podcast re: tracking progress toward net zero by […]

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CLIMATE TECH CONSUMPTION, WEEK OF APRIL 22

April 27, 2024 at 2:06 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

These are the materials I read/listened/watched this (and previous) week(s) to
get a better understanding of the climate tech ecosystem and opportunities: Not
the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable
Planet book (finished!) Volts podcast re: transferrable tax credits, EPA carbon
reduction, and distributed energy resources […]

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CLIMATE TECH CONSUMPTION, WEEK OF APRIL 1

April 5, 2024 at 10:46 am · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

These are the materials I read/listened/watched this (and previous) week(s) to
get a better understanding of the climate tech ecosystem and opportunities: Not
the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable
Planet book (25% through) Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy
Future book Speed & […]

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EXPLORING GREEN TECH THROUGH CLIMATE VINE

April 5, 2024 at 10:24 am · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog, Press Releases

(Mountain View) — After twelve years at Google (ranging from small business
services to unifying consumer identity experiences and privacy consents to
aligning the product design toolchain), Micah Laaker announced his career
transition to explore climate tech through the Climate Vine fellowship cohort.
“Coming from families that were focused on sustainable living on family farms
[…]

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LAAKER INDUCTED INTO HALLOWED HALLS OF VIKINGS OF DISTINCTION

May 15, 2015 at 11:12 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Press Releases

(Omaha, NE) — Micah Laaker was today inducted into Omaha North High Magnet
School’s annual Vikings of Distinction alumni honorees. A 1993 graduate of the
technology magnet school in Omaha, Laaker was one of seven to be honored as part
of 2015’s event. Established in 1983 to honor past graduates who have “achieved
outstanding success […]

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LAAKER JOINS NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES

May 3, 2015 at 3:22 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Press Releases

(Kearney, NE) — As part of today’s annual meeting, the Nebraska State Historical
Society Foundation welcomed Micah Laaker to its Board of Trustees. The Nebraska
State Historical Society Foundation, a 501(C3) not-for-profit corporation,
secures funding for the Nebraska State Historical Society from individuals and
organizations, across the state and beyond, who value Nebraska’s unique heritage
[…]

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GRAPHICLY 2011 RECAP

January 8, 2012 at 9:00 am · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Portfolio

Ed. Note: This is a repost of the summary shared on the Graphicly Blog. When I
joined Graphicly a little over a year ago, we had two primary audiences:
customers (those of you who buy, read, and discuss comics), and publishers
(those of you who create comics). Each of these are familiar with a subset […]

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MOVING HEALTHCARE TO THE MASSES

December 29, 2011 at 9:31 am · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

Several weeks back, NPR ran a story dubbed “Wal-Mart Plans Ambitious Expansion
Into Medical Care,” outlining how Wal-Mart planned to open medical clinics
throughout its chain of stores. The story was later updated to suggest Wal-Mart
did not indeed have such machinations. However, the idea has some interesting
points worth considering, especially if you replace […]

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SHOPDECK UPDATE

November 29, 2011 at 5:38 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

Last year, I announced Shopdeck, an email receipt-filtering app I’d demo’d with
Zach Graves at iPadDevCamp. My gut told me there was something valuable in a
product like this, but after several chats with possible investors, it didn’t
appear I would be able to raise enough to develop the idea for a competitive
run. Graphicly […]

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OPTIMIZING YOUR SITE FOR GOOGLE+

July 29, 2011 at 7:23 am · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

When Google rolled out Google+ a couple weeks ago, being the fanboy that I am
(according to others), I quickly set up my profile. And then, being the
self-promoter that I am (according to myself), I began trying to optimize my
site content for sharing within the service. Having spent time earlier this year
on […]

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TURNING YOUR HOME INTO A CONNECTED HOME GALLERY

June 12, 2011 at 2:42 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

I recently signed up for TurningArt, a ‘Netflix for fine art,’ if you will.
(Basic premise: subscribe to get new artwork of your choosing via a queue every
3 months in a provided frame, and each artwork ‘rental’ earns you credits to
purchase any of the pieces at a discount.) Great concept, and I was […]

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LAAKER LEAVES YAHOO! TO JOIN SOCIAL COMICS STARTUP GRAPHICLY

February 25, 2011 at 4:33 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Press Releases

(Mountain View) — After six awesome years at Yahoo!, Micah Laaker today
announced his transition to lead product experience at Graphicly, a
multi-platform social comics and entertainment experience working to bridge
comics, characters, and conversations. Since joining Graphicly, Laaker has led
the charge begin incorporating its first wave of social features in the
product’s Web […]

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HUNGARIAN PIZZA

August 15, 2010 at 11:10 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

Last year I was contacted by Ivan Szekely of the OSA Archivum (Open Society
Archives at Central European University) about translating into Hungarian the
ACLU Pizza Surveillance short film I designed several years ago. Their effort
was to “present privacy and informational self-determination as a value in the
information society.” After linking him up with […]

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ANALYSIS OF (AND APIS FOR) WE RULE AND WE FARM ACTIONS

August 2, 2010 at 12:03 am · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

For anyone who hasn’t had the pleasure to rock either of ngmoco:)’s great
iPhone/iPad game titles, We Rule and We Farm, this post will make little sense.
If, however, you are a fan of the “Farmville in medieval times” and the
“Farmville in, well, Farmville times” game titles that are all the rage with the
[…]

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THE CASE FOR ADDING (VISIBLE) ACTIVITY STREAM ANALYTICS

July 24, 2010 at 4:44 pm · By Micah Laaker · Filed under Blog

Activity streams (whether Facebook’s news feed, Twitter’s tweet stream, Yahoo!’s
Updates, LinkedIn’s network activity, MySpace’s Stream or those using the
activitystrea.ms format) are all the rage around the Web now. In each instance,
users publish directly (via entering your comment into a Sharing dialog box) or
indirectly (by the system generating content based on an […]

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