Blogs

Introduction

Cruzio is revamping our award-winning website, cruzio.com and we're requesting proposals from local web designers and design teams to manage this project. It's been several years since we last overhauled cruzio.com, and we're excited to collaborate with our thriving tech community on the next step in our site's evolution.

Cruzio requires a

 Chris Guillebeau presented his new book 'The $100 Startup' on Monday, January 21st with over 175 people in Cruzio's coworking space, Cruzioworks. Chris discussed the focus of his new book briefly but a majority of his time was spent as "Q&AA" which stands for Questions and Attempted Answers. Chris took questions from everything regarding his thoughts on

Cruzio is a service company and we must be open on most holidays. We thank our staff for supporting our members, and we try to honor and celebrate Martin Luther King day, even though we are at the office.

Here is an email from a Cruzio manager to the Cruzio Tech Support staff on an MLK day several years ago :

"From brittany Mon Jan 15 11:49:07 2001

Hi

The City of Santa Cruz and Code for America, a national nonprofit that uses talented web professionals to improve government services, are proud to announce the public launch of OpenCounter,  an online small business permitting system.

Designed and developed throughout 2012, OpenCounter reduces the confusion of starting a business by creating an online

 Cruzio's Industy — telecommunications — keeps changing and our valiant staff works hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every year, we adopt new technology and even invent new ways of doing business. 2012 was a busy year for us, culminating in a being named Business of the Year from the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce (a huge honor!)Here's a look back at we've

The Coldwater Classic is one of the World's premier surf events, and this year Cruzio Internet is providing a premier high-speed Internet connection to live stream video of the competition for the first time.

"Watching surf contests being shown live over the Internet from Huntington Beach earlier this year really raised our competitive hackles," says

Inside Scoop: Ice Cream and Conversation with the Santa Cruz City Council Candidates

Santa Cruz NEXT, Cruzio Internet, Civinomics, and Santa Cruz Geeks are joining forces to hold a ice cream social with the Santa Cruz City Council candidates. 

Come mix and mingle with the candidates over drinks and ice cream on Wednesday, September 19th from 6 to 9 pm

Santa Cruz has always been known as a beach community, an oasis where Bay Area citizens can escape into the sunny bliss of rolling surf and beautiful redwoods. However, in recent months, Santa Cruz is making waves in another way, following Kansas City, Chattanooga and Lafayette in creating a hyper-connected "Gig City."

But where other cities have relied on

Wonderful party/showcase last week when hundreds of people came to celebrate local business at the Think Local First mixer at Cruzioworks in downtown Santa Cruz.

Buying locally puts a much higher percentage of your dollars back into your own community where it can be used to foster a safer, cleaner, better environment in which to live in and raise

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

6-9pm

877 Cedar Street

Free and open to the public

 

 

There's a reason we're calling our new Internet service "Velocity."

First, though, we've got to give a disclaimer. Velocity speeds vary widely depending on your location and the quality of your lines. In Santa Cruz County, where our geography is mountainous and there are many rural areas, we know there are a lot of places where speeds would be only a small

Brand new opening -- will be a window!

The Sentinel building used to be a long, uninterrupted wall of 10" thick concrete down most of a block of Cedar Street. It had an element of Willy Wonka's factory: what's going on inside? You could see the newspaper's presses through the far window, but other than that all was dark.

When Cruzio, Ecology Action and Joe

Congratulations to Hope Services for collecting 3455 lbs of e-waste!

Thank you to all who donated their e-waste to Hope Services on July 23! Not only did you help safely recycle your retired electronics, but the waste will be turned into valuable dollars for our important local non-profit, Hope Services. Hope Services' mission is to provide employment

Adam Markowitz, veteran software engineer, founded Aire Software in 2009. Besides his daily dose of software development, Adam loves martial arts—specifically Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo and Traditional Okinawan Karate. He also performs and teaches flamenco guitar. 

1. What is your favorite aspect of coworking? 

The social networking associated with

We know email is an important part of your day and how frustrating it can be when it's unavailable.

If you've been affected by Cruzio's email outages this week, our apologies. To bring our email back online as quickly as possible—and avoid any further outages—we've moved our email over to a different server. This will allow folks to send and receive email

Cruzioworks hosted a New Tech Meetup session, attended by many of Santa Cruz's geekiest citizens. The Meetup, headed by David Britton, always has interesting presentations and is a great way to meet other local technologists and see what's going on in town. If you haven't already, join at their website  -- it's easy and free of charge. 

The speakers:

Shane

Cruzio hosted local dignitaries May 31st to help us celebrate the lighting of Cruzio's new fiber Internet at our downtown headquarters. We were lucky enough to even have the day proclaimed "Fiber Internet Day" in the City of Santa Cruz.

Cruzio CEO, Peggy Dolgenos, talks about Cruzio's fiber Internet plans

Patch.com's Brad Kava snaps a picture of Peggy