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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Leo Laporte is lifecasting

April 22, 2008 – 2:36 pm

That’s right… all day long:

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Track shipments with Twitter

April 22, 2008 – 9:16 am

pb30 has an awesome thing. You can get updates from UPS, DHL, and FedEx on Twitter.

Here are the simple instructions, taken straight from pb30’s page:

Follow @trackthis - Since @trackthis uses direct messages, you must follow it so it can send direct messages to you. @trackthis will follow you back immediately so that you can send [...]

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The Flip is sick

April 19, 2008 – 10:54 am

Check out this 20-second clip that I took with the Flip Video. It’s an awesome little device:

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Revision3 roof party

April 17, 2008 – 7:05 pm

Last night, Rev3 threw a party on the roof of 605 Market St.
The newest host of Tekzilla was in attendance, but she said she was losing her voice.

Rev3’s CEO Jay Adelson was there too. He is probably saying in this picture, “Why is this guy always taking photos?”

For a minute, there was pizza too.

It was [...]

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Remembering our lost Hokie souls

April 16, 2008 – 3:58 pm

I remember it better than any day I’ve ever lived.
I woke up and I had this feeling that it was going to be a weird day. Blacksburg was windier than usual, and it was dark and dreary. I was doing a contract job up the street in Roanoke, and I went into work anyway after [...]

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Social data at its finest

April 15, 2008 – 5:20 pm

Today, Facebook launched a few new features including chat and something called Feedcrawler. But the most interesting release today is called Lexicon. Think of it as Google Trends but for social data.

One of the Facebook engineers working on the projects sent me the above query, but the possibilities are endless. This tool will be [...]

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