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What I’m watching

Monday, December 7, 2009

Instead of sending my friends links and suggestions that they watch this kind of content, I’m taking Leo Laporte up on the opportunity to embed his content here on this site. TWIT (This Week in Tech) is frequently interesting and almost always informative. I enjoy watching it even if some of my more [...]

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Vimeo

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

I have just created a free basic subscription at Vimeo. Running the HD video there through my HDTV is stunningly spectacular. Even it you never upload a video there, it is worth creating an account just to be able to save your favorites from this fount of creativity and beautiful imagery. Here’s [...]

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Echo now enabled

Friday, August 7, 2009

When you comment on one of my blog posts, if you should ever do so, you’ll note that Echo is now enabled on this site. This video interview by Robert Scoble of Khris Loux the co-founder of JS-Kit will explain what Echo is and how it works.

It might be worth making a comment [...]

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Delicious as can be

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

This animated explanation, sans narrative, of how the website formerly known as del.icio.us morphed into delicious.com, its current incarnation, shows the evolution of one UI into another and illustrates some ways to use the newly-evolved interface to a catchy little tune to boot.
The video is worth watching for the entertainment value alone although [...]

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A follow up on Twitter setup

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

You may remember that I wondered a couple of days ago whether you were permitted to and if so, how you might go about setting up more than one Twitter account.  The answer, as I read the service agreement, is that it is permitted primarily because it is not expressly prohibited.  My reason for wanting [...]

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Integration – Flock

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

If you search back through this blog or check the categories listing in the sidebar for the word “Flock,” you’ll find lots of references.  That’s because I began beta testing it (almost alpha testing it) several years ago.  There were many things I liked about it back then that are still present in the latest [...]

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Twittering away one’s time

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Twitter isn’t new. However I am new to Twitter, having only signed up since my return to Knoxville from Las Vegas, NM, in May. The video that follows gives a good overview of what it is and an explanation of how to begin using it.

How one uses this microblogging tool is [...]

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Evernote – in more depth

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

This episode of Robert Scoble’s Fastcompany explains in more detail what Evernote is and what it is capable of doing. It runs about 28 minutes and some of the best stuff is in the second half. If you can spare the time to watch this discussion, thinking of your own situation as I [...]

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Evernote

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

I’ve been using Evernote for about six or seven months now. I find it to be incredibly useful!
The video above is one of many available at this link. This is one sweet application and after my early experiences with it, I decided a day or so ago to go ahead and [...]

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