In early November, Jen and I took a long train ride adventure from Washington, D.C. to sunny Savannah, Georgia to speak about our entrepreneurship endeavors at the first annual Geekend 2009 event. The event was pulled together by the lovely team of Jake & Miriam Hodesh of New Moon of Savannah. With one of our old AOL pals also speaking and helping to pull the event together, we were extremely excited to be a part of the festivities.

We made an absolute geekend of it, enjoying our trip down, meeting lots of folks and speaking on Saturday in a session titled “I’m My Own Boss. Now What?” In the session, both Jen and I shared our different perspectives on starting your own business. I shared some insight on how to balance a full-time job at AOL while getting my dreams started on the side, pulling from my experiences with TECH cocktail, Somewhat Frank and Shiny Heart Ventures. Jen shared her experience of leaving a full-time job to develop a focused, day-to-day routine as a full-time entrepreneur. We shared stories and anecdotes of what we’ve learned so far in our various ventures, which includes Thankfulfor.com. Here’s an edited video clip from Geekend 2009, highlighting some of our talk – it’s about 10 minutes taken from an hour long session.

"Open" by Flickr user ChipGriffin

Great news – today we opened up the first version of Thankfulfor and we invite you all to come in and get your Thanks going!

When you get there, just click the Sign Up button or sign in with your Twitter account. By default, all your posts are public, so visit your settings page if you want to make your posts private. Once you are in, it’s pretty simple – just post what you are thankful for!  We suggest posting 3-5 things each day. Stick with it and pay attention to how you are feeling. Seriously, writing down or expressing gratitude on a regular basis is key to happiness and well being. Try it out for yourself! By the way, this is our beta release, so there are many more features coming down the pipeline – we’d also love your feedback and suggestions.

Today we are most thankful for the Interwebs, Bill our developer, Tia our designer and of course, all of YOU, our very first Thankfulfor friends and supporters. And if you like what you find, we’d be delighted and most thankful if you’d share it with your friends far and wide.

Grazie, Merci, Mahalo, Danke, Arigato, Xie Xie, Thank you!