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Live Blogging with Google Wave

July 13, 2010

I’ve been live blogging conferences for a few years and I can say it is extremely rewarding and frustrating. The appreciation generated by your effort of sharing information from a live event is fantastic because a good conference live blog is useful to everyone, from conference organizers and participants to interested people elsewhere in the [...]

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WordCamp Fayetteville Wrap Up

June 2, 2010

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending my very first WordCamp. WordCamps are tech/blogging conferences focused around the WordPress publishing platform. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to attend but I couldn’t resist an invitation from my friend Cotton so I was off to let my geek flag fly at Wordcamp Fayetteville. To [...]

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WordCamp Fayetteville Liveblog

May 29, 2010

This weekend I have the pleasure to attend WordCamp Fayetteville. A wordcamp is a conference dedicated to the WordPress publishing platform. There are some great speakers and talks today and I’ll try to live blog my notes from the conference. For more info: Visit WordcampFayetteville.com Watch the live stream at WordCampFayetteville.com/live-video/ Follow the speakers on [...]

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Google Streetview gets a massive update.

December 14, 2008

The official Google blog announced that their Google Maps Streetview feature has just received a massive update. Their United States coverage has more than doubled. To get an idea of the scale of the coverage increase check out the before and after. I dig Streetview and I’m glad to see the coverage expanded. You can [...]

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My Yahoo! Pipes

December 10, 2008

I love RSS and I often use Yahoo! pipes to help filter and manage some of my feeds. Since I find these useful I thought I’d share a list of My Yahoo! Pipes. US-Cert Combined Pipe (RSS) – This pipe combines the US-Cert summary and alert feeds. SearchSecurity.com Combined Pipe (RSS) – This pipe combines [...]

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MyDropCard.com – Business Cards 2.0

July 23, 2008

I discovered a very handy service today via Thrilllist. It’s called DropCard and it provides a better method for sharing you contact info with someone you just met. For decades we’ve relied on the ubuiquitous business card to provide our essential contact details but often the cards are lost or we forget to have one [...]

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Toluu.com – OPML Sharing returns

May 29, 2008

Toluu.com – “Import, Share, Discover.” The function of the website is to create an RSS feed discovery community. A user will import their RSS feed subscriptions via OPML file to Toluu.com then the site will lead you to other users of similar interests and you can discover blogs from their subscription list. Although I’ve yet [...]

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