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Tyler Crowley’s BigBigNews videos

Mahalo Daily producer Tyler Crowley made some in the past that are hilarious:

Here is a link to the site »
He is the main guy behind the scenes at TechCrunch50 this year:

Gary Vaynerchuk’s keynote at New Media Expo

These are just quotes and notes. Enjoy:

If it’s not in your DNA, you are not gonna be able to do it. What you need to do is understand who you are and execute against it.
99% of the people on the world has no idea what Twitter is.
You need to be straight up authentic.
The camera or [...]

My Facebook wish list

Dear Facebook,
Before you launch your new redesign, consider the following improvements. They shouldn’t be hard to implement.

Events tab. Facebook’s event application is great if you have large groups becuase you can message all members.

Smaller app invite icons. Make the important icons (friend requests, event invites, photo tags) larger, and the developer app invites a lot [...]

Social data, get in my belly

Joesph Smarr from Plaxo reminds me a of a preacher, but not a boring one. Someone who is passionate about integrating the web into the real world a lot better. Below are some notes from his speech at Web 2.0 Expo.

News is better when it’s social, with Digg.
Bookmarks are more fun when they’re social, with [...]

Remembering our lost Hokie souls

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 [...]

Use Evernote with Skitch

I signed up for Evernote, but haven’t used it yet. When I heard that it integrated into Skitch, I was much more excited to try it: