Unfortunately for Youtilize and fortunately for us, my girlfriend and I are in the process of relocating to a new city.

Last Friday we flew 2200+ miles away from home to San Francisco, CA. Last few days have been filled with an exhausting apartment hunt, a few trips to a dealership, meeting and catching up with old but good friends and exploring our new city.

Because of this, all online projects have been currently put on hold. If all goes well, we should have a place in a couple of days and will finally get back to a stress-free life (right…)

So please excuse the abrupt slowdown and expect a recovery in the coming days/weeks. I miss blogging, but being in the middle of it all in San Francisco should be a great source of ideas and inspirations.

First and foremost, welcome to Youtilize, a brand new blog available to you via the wonderful ‘intertubes’.

Youtilize will focus primarily on all things relating to the web including web technologies, design, development, entrepreneurship and services. The internet is an exciting place, I think we all agree on that. It’s still growing and will never stop (thanks Al Gore!) and this blog is designed to guide you through your endless exploration of this thing we call the Web.

This blog runs on a custom content management system built from ground up in Ruby on Rails as a learning project, so expect some bugs. If you do find them, please send the author a notice.

About the author

The author of this blog is a young college graduate and currently holds a degree in Finance. His name is Dimitry and he is currently in the process of relocating to the popular tech city, San Francisco. In just over a month, he will kick off his career at one of the web’s leading technology firms, Yahoo! Inc. While there, Dimitry will engage in creative web development, an area in which he specializes and in which he hopes to continually excel.

He is accompanied on this great journey by his wonderful girlfriend Mandy who absolutely loves animals and works as a Veterinary Technician.

Having received a degree in Finance, he is now trying to learn as much about the technology world as possible. In the future, Dimitry hopes to incorporate all of his skills, knowledge and abilities to become a founder of a successful startup.

Ok, enough of this 3rd person stuff!

Hopes of this blog

Blogging took the world by the storm. I simply want to be a part of that experience. Blogging can support an individual financially or it can create a much needed buzz for a startup company. Because of all of this and much more, it intrigued me to the point of creating my own professional blog. Having had a personal blog for a couple of years, I now want to be a little more serious and tap into a specific niche.

The hope of this blog is not to make money. I want to create an environment in which I can expand my network of friends and acquaintances. After all, best benefit of blogging is social networking and I want that benefit.

Influences

While I find inspiration everywhere, there have been a key number of people that have influenced me to create this blog.

Paul Stamatiou is a personal friend of mine who writes great articles, has a good feel for great technologies and loves cars, err, fast cars. In just over year, Paul has been able to build up his blog to an amazing 4500+ subscribers and 769 posts. Not only that, through his blog he was able to make some great connections, including scoring an internship with Yahoo!.

Noah Kagan is an entrepreneur with a great sense of humor. What could be better? Noah writes interesting, funny and insightful entrepreneurial posts. He is currently working on a startup called Mint, which aims to help you manage your finances. Oh, he’s also currently homeless.

Bryan Veloso has been an ‘online’ friend for a long time and I finally had a pleasure of meeting him in person in late-June, 2006. Bryan is an amazing designer and it’s been a pleasure seeing him grow and expand his skill-set over the years.

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