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Archive for May, 2008
links for 2008-05-27
May 27th
At OLPC’s Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. Wow! Dual touch screen!
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen was previously the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child. Notably Mary Lou invented the laptop’s sunlight-readable display
Free Online Video Converter No software to install. No ads to interrupt.
@timpatterson picked a digital camera, an inexpensive Fuji FinePix A205, and decided to get back to creating Quicktime VR panoramas for fun and he has a Google Map of all my QTVR locations in Austin!
links for 2008-05-26
May 26th
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It’s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and
One of the best ways to promote your website or business is to work together with others . . . twitter @doshdosh
Holy Cow! This is such a cool flickr visualization, a spinning globe that shows whatever tag you pick
links for 2008-05-25
May 25th
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@mdjensen ’s seo page. Michael is from St George Utah and is an entrepreneur and twitter tool maker. SoloSEO.com CityMarketer.com AppliedContent.com TweetBeep.com LiveTwitting.com for events like SXSW and TweetAnswers.com
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Strategy + Tactics – Dave Evans network of best-of-class partners helps define and implement new applications built around a socially-aware launch strategy that you can measure. twitter @evansdave
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really inspiring “about me” page @yesyes on twitter
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Austin blog with a great Austin linkroll
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This guy has some great ideas like an “Austin startup district and a wordpress fest in the park. And he walks to Will Wynn randomly.
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MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
my favorite twitterware apps
May 25th
Twhirl – Twhirl is a popular desktop client based on Adobe AIR so it requires the AIR download. You’ll find AIR useful for other apps also. Twhirl has a lot of cool features including multiple Twitter accounts, connect to Friendfeed, post image to Twitpic, post to Pownce and Jaiku simultaneously, and search using Tweetscan. I use it on my Windows Vista sidebar along with . . .
AlertThingy! provides a connection to twitter, friendfeed, flickr, tinyurl and allows cross commenting. It’s better than it sounds and is used as a twitter replacement by many who want to make more sense out of twitter and narrow down their focus on specific people and topics.
TwitterCal – This service allows you to post events from your Google calendar to your Twitter accounts.
Twitter Digest – This tool allows you to subscribe to a message stream from a Twitter user of a group of users on the web or through an atom feed.
Summize – A Twitter search engine, contender for the top app in this category.
Flaptor Twitter Search – A simple Twitter search engine which generates an rss feed. Also provides trends, comparisons.
del.icio.us twitter tags – what people are bookmarking about twitter lately
TopTweet – This site provides you updates from the top Twitter personalities.
Twitter100 – Allocates a box to each of the people you follow on a single page and displays their latest tweets.
Quotably – Shows Twitter user’s conversations in a threaded conversational style making it easier to follow.
Tweetburner – Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
TwitterLocal – This shows you all the tweets on a google map from your local area and generates an RSS Feed of tweets.
TweetCloud – Let’s you make a tagcloud from a twitter user, also indexes del.icio.us
Tweetpeek – You can create a group Twitter feed with Tweetpeek.
Twitku – Mashup of Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce public timelines. You can also post from its interface.
TwitterNotes – You can create notes on TwitterNotes using Twitter and tagging your notes.
links for 2008-05-22
May 22nd
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@roxannedarling Bare Feet Studios LLC is a small, curious, tech-savvy company based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, owned by Roxanne Darling and Shane Robinson. We participate in and advise on New Media and the Social Web to connect people and solve problems.
links for 2008-05-21
May 21st
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Boost your blog community by installing the DISQUS comment system Disqus makes your comments more interactive for readers and easier to manage for you — all while connecting your community with other blogs. “no one needs you” – Leo
Shey Smiths blog really rocks
May 20th
I stumbled across this blog on my friendfeed account a few days ago and it’s been a daily read ever since.
It’s http://sheysmith.com
Today he’s talking about tomorrow’s twit out and friendfeed and social networking. He’s doing an amazing job on this blog and it’s become a daily read.
And he turned me on to disqus!
Disqus was the topic on today’s net@nite with Amber and Leo and at first glance it’s something you don’t need, as Leo observed. But, on closer examination, it’s a great comment system for blogs that integrates video and ties comments in to social networks.    And best of all, it connects you to a community of blog commentors like Shey Smith.
links for 2008-05-20
May 20th
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some of the best free apps and online services on the net for web developers. great list. recommended. from Steven York’s blog about making money online, blogging, marketing, seo and web development
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Over 40 million devices connected worldwide for remote support, access & backup. cross platform remote access. recommended.
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The reality is that Web 2.0 is finally catching up to blogging. The walled gardens of singular blogs are making way to social interaction across multiple platforms. @shey thanks to tim shey for the pointer to this on his blog
links for 2008-05-19
May 19th
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websites that help mail out your press releases
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most text to speech is awkward, this web app is really natural sounding and lets you make recordings, save them and embed them on your website. Really cool. Recommended
links for 2008-05-18
May 18th
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Battlestar Wiki, An encyclopedia of the Battlestar Galactica sagas. — 3,273 articles in English — Warning: Spoilers are to be expected. See our Spoiler Policy for details. Ridiculously detailed and thorough!
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You have come to the right place to learn about web site design, domain names, Internet marketing, custom programming and social media.
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Maximizing your work happiness should be the theme of your working life. Happiness creates success. When you stop putting in the hours and start extracting joy from work, you’ll be successful.
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ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. Have a Flickr account and a Facebook and AIM? Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your
links for 2008-05-17
May 17th
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@jenstar jennifer offers tips on SEO marketing and I’m trying to get her to return my follow on twitter
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free WordPress theme called “AdsPress“. The theme is ready to use with Google Adsense and the advertisement blocks are perfectly placed (tested & tried) for giving you the maximum revenue out of your websites.
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@solbassstevethe soundtrack to the day you wish you’d had, great background sound and pretty sure it’s podsafe
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@mseckington on twitter and her blog Melinda Seckington on gmail, twitter, flickr, facebook, youtube, del.icio.us, etc. etc. blog has great links and possibly a Battlestar Galactica fan like me
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twitter @ewanspence sybian blogs aggreggated on this site
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which Twitter clients are getting the most buzz on blogs. The result is a list of the most popular 3rd-party Twitter-apps according to the blogosphere. @steverubel
This is a guest post from Anton Johansson, a business developer at the Swedish startup Twi
links for 2008-05-16
May 16th
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free tutorials and collections from top universities and well-respected websites to train you in areas like web design, graphics and imaging, programming and coding, multimedia, connecting with your audience, and even learning freelancing and entrepreneur
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collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer
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In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple
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NETTUTS is a blog/tutorial site aimed at web designers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, a
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nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. – ptw
links for 2008-05-15
May 15th
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Crowdstatus is made up of twitter crowds, each crowd contains people and each twitter person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd.
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strategy, twitter addict, cms maven, conference hopper
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You will then need to login to your account find the persons friends you would like to communicate with right click on there profile and there should be an option stating “Grab this Users Friends†hit that and the plugin should start working.
links for 2008-05-09
May 9th
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My advice is to become a ‘maker’, become a ‘builder’ or if you can’t make or build find a partner who can. Build something, show it to customers, get some traction and then raise money.
links for 2008-05-08
May 8th
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visual search . . . what folks have been waiting for in search
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Hit the snooze button on your “verbose” Twitter friends.
links for 2008-05-06
May 6th
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Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.
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@pushmyfollow Michael Gaines @istarman – Joe Cascio @joec0914 – Eric Rice @spin – Christine Cavalier @purplecar – Sarah Vela @orchid8 – Ann Boccio @banannie7 podcast about twitter and socialnets … recommended
links for 2008-05-05
May 5th
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TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area.
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John Erik Metcalf is a 24 year old entrepreneur living in Austin. What is he interested in? social media, coworking, identity and reputation systems, social entrepreneurship, semantics, mobile communication, and much more. Cool dude. Worthwhile blog.
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Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
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best twitter search that I’ve seen so far.
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Pixel Currents. It’s a WordPress theme adapted for content management. The power of WordPress is how flexible it is. It can be used for projects from a simple blog to a full-fledged business site, even for e-commerce.
links for 2008-05-04
May 4th
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Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!
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the book I’m currently reading is titled “Flow”, thanks to my new super friend Tara Brown, who somehow knew exactly where my head was at and gave it to me to read just last week. It’s a really good sequel in many ways to David Allen’s Getting Things Done
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adds twitter friends en mass
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@heidimiller great podcasting site
links for 2008-05-02
May 2nd
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thoughts on Open Source software, Computer Science, and various bits from my life and the web.
let the good comments roll with diskus!
May 20th
Posted by austinblogger in podcast
Comments
I have to admit to being a comment poor blog. And I’m remiss in not putting akismet and disqus on here sooner. Tonight akisment gave 32,000 plus spam comments a beating. They’re gone. Room now for your comments and disqus should make things a lot more interesting.
I got turned on to the disqus comment system by Shey Smith on his most excellent blog, http://sheysmith.com and got really motivated to install it when I heard Leo Laporte and Amber Macarthur rolling in the aisles over this on their net@nite podcast broadcast live today. It helped push me more that Dave Winer, grandaddy of rss and blogs, is using this as well.
Disqus brings video comments, along with a community of commenters, better comment formatting, and much more. And the wordpress plugin install was as easy as could be.