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Mobile MeshWalk: latest barcamp hybrid a Twitter on steroids

March 19th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 5 comments
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It wouldn't work in Ottawa's March weather and slush-soaked streets - but on Tuesday, March 20th San Francisco is bound to be pleasant for the first ever Mobile MeshWalk. This latest variant to "tech unconferences" was created by Shannon Clark. The events kicks off at lunch. Then the group breaks into three smaller clans and ...

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transmedia releases Glide Synch for Mac

March 19th, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments

This past week transmedia announced a Mac application named "Glide Synch" that will let you upload your photos, music, videos, documents, iCal calendars, Mac Address Book contacts, and Safari, Camino and Firefox bookmarks to transmedia's Glide server. Glide is still beta software and it feels like it, there are features that just don't work on Safari ...

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WonderCafe: Social Media for the Soul

March 18th, 2007 Jobe Roberts 3 comments

If you're at all like me and don't mind getting religious advice from a squirrel then check out WonderCafe.ca It's a site that was put together for the United Church of Canada (I'm unaffiliated). The discussion groups cover a range of topics from parenting, relationships, health & aging, religion and faith, popular culture, global issues, ...

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Ficlets: One million monkeys on social media

March 17th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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OK - So AOL has gotten cool - released its first ever RUBY app- Ficlet! It lets you start a story, and others can either write a prequel or sequel to it. The only problem with Ficlet... errrrr. is Ficlet. Well... see for yourself - one of the top stories ...

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ColourLovers: Has Social Media gone mad?

March 16th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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Direct from beautiful Lake Oswego, Oregon comes a social networking site based on people's love of color (or colour...) Ok - so I like blue. Do I really want to hang out with other people who like blue. So I'm picky - it's got to be Pantone Blue 289... errr... One interesting aspect of the site ...

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Wacky Patent of the day: The Bikini-Mobility Mashup

March 15th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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"sorry, I have to take this call - it's my bikini calling..." There's no shortage of imagination in the mobility industry. Last December, George Marmaropoulos filed a patent application for a "Uv radiation detection and warning apparatus and method." If you're a die-hard tanner, your phone will alert you to changes in UV radition levels based ...

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CTIA: What is Wireless to You? What is Wireless to Howie Mandel??

March 15th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Coming up March 27-29 in Orlando is one of the largest wireless conferences - CTIA Wireless 2007, produced by the International Association for Wireless Telecommunications (CTIA) - an organization that is still struggling with acronyms! When I used to attend this conference, it was very techie oriented - the big question was always "when's 3G". This ...

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Edgar Allan PoE: The Tale of the VoIP Jack

March 15th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 3 comments
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With IEEE 802.3-2005 - Power Over Ethernet (PoE) - a standard Cat 5 cable is able to deliver 48 volts DC at about 13 watts. So where are all the cool gadgets envisionned when the standard was developed? It seems the low power limits the capabilities of the device: there's only a few stand-alone IP ...

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Great FireWall of China blocks 60% of our blogroll!

March 14th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 8 comments
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SM friend Peter Krug sent us this nifty little site that bounces your url to their server in China to see if you're being censored or blocked. I'm glad to say that SensoryMetrics is still OK - but a big chunk of our favorite blogs are not... Out of our current 16 sites listed, these ...

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