Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
Last time it was Yahoo swallowing Flickr, now my YouTube & Google accounts have been linked to the collective.
Um, ok. Now what? What exactly just happened? Don’t worry, they’ve simply merged the member databases and now you can probably share information between the sites. Oh, and by the way your gMail contacts can see [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
What a difference 73 years of technology makes! Some UX improvements: Twitter is now free, location-independent, and messages can be viewed longer than two hours!
via: Modern Mechanix
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
1. Choose a target that everyone loves to hate: for example Canadian duopoly / cableCo / wirelessCo Rogers.
2. Choose a cause that everyone lusts for: for example the Canadian launch of Apple’s iPhone.
3. Put them together: for example, Rogers has the most expensive plan on the planet for the iPhone.
4. Choose [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
There’s something magical and ethereal about Matt Harding’s quest to “dance badly” in all of the planet’s corners. You may have seen the original video from 2006, in March a second installment was released. the premise is simple… Matt dances, carefree, badly, in wonderful offbeat locales: Korea’s DMZ, Antarctica, Galapagos, Yemen… [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
The interweb has done it again! A video ad for US-based department store JC Penney is working viral magic. It’s winning praise from ad agencies and You Tube fans. It even won an award at the Cannes Advertising Award last week. It even has the potential to transform JC Penney’s boring [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Our friends at iotum released their latest product yesterday amid a lot of positive industry buzz, and Hollywood-style excitement. Calliflower extends the functionality of iotum’s Free Conference Calling service on Facebook. FCC has been used by 200,000 people.
Calliflower is a web-based conference service that features an engaging easy to use interface [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
If you happen to be bored in France this week, you might want to attend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s board meeting.
BTW - ICANN is the organization that “runs” the internet.
A few proposed changes could significantly change our beloved cloud. First, ICANN is looking at ways to [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
TagClouds were born out of Social Bookmaking - trying to represent relative content popularity… Here’s a tool that let’s you visualize the complexity of your world, as you define it. It’s Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg! This is terrific for spicing up a Powerpoint presentation!
BTW - no offense to anyone / anything I [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Registering at a new social net site can be frustrating when your well-known tag/ID/handle/nick is already taken. “hey, someone else has Mitch69???” DANG!
Even offline, the issue of nicks can be contentious! In Wichita Kansas, C-Thug is a very sought-after nickname!
Sgt. Lem Moore said in a police briefing this afternoon that [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
It’s really hard finding time-wasting activities on the interweb, isn’t? Well, the UK’s orangest telco - Orange - is hosting an internet balloon race… Our humble dolphin named SensDol is trainin’ & carb’n up. The race starts in only 6 days (June 22nd). To make your balloon travel faster, you need [...]
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