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Vote for Leah D’Emilio

May 23, 2008 – 5:49 am

Jason Calacanis impresses me more everyday. I have been following along his new Mahalo Vlog Idol, a contest to find a replacement for Mahalo Daily.
When I saw Leah D’Emillio, I had a feeling inside that she would be the best one for the job. Even after watching all of the contestants do their own Mahalo [...]

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Comparing social platforms

April 23, 2008 – 7:33 am

Comparing Social Platforms

Dave Morin, Facebook
Allen Hurff, MySpace
Jessica Alter, Bebo
Patrock Chanezon, Google (Open Social)
David Recordon
Justin Smith, Inside Facebook

Dave: Making changes to the Facebook profile. It’s a core part of the user’s identity. Throughout the last year with the launch of the Platform, we have had many points of integration.
These new changes are focused on the actions [...]

By me | Also posted in Community, Conferences, Facebook, Google, Internet, MySpace, Notes, Social, Web 2.0 | Tagged | Comments (0)

The Truth According to Wikipedia

April 8, 2008 – 10:52 am

Media is changing so much.

By me | Also posted in Information, Internet, Opinions, Publishing, Society, Truth, Video, Web 2.0, Wikipedia, YouTube | Tagged | Comments (0)

Midwest Teen Sex Show

February 3, 2008 – 10:00 am

I was checking out Violet Blue’s sex column in the Chronicle, and I came upon her link to a new podcast called Midwest Teen Sex Show.

I watched the most recent episode, and then I found myself going through their archives. Their sense of humor is right up my alley, and I will look forward to [...]

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geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability and Performance

January 27, 2008 – 12:23 pm

Terry Chay is very good at gathering important people together, so when I heard about the lineup for a PHP-flavored geekSessions, I knew tychay had something to do with it.

As always, The Forbin Group and SF Beta hosted the event at the beautiful City Club atop 255 Sansome. Cindy was a great hostess.

geekSessions 1.3’s panel [...]

By me | Also posted in Coding, Computing, Ethics, Events, Facebook, Flickr, Geek, International, Learning, PHP, Programming, SF, Standards, Talk, Unicode, Video, Yahoo!, geekSessions, terry chay | Comments (2)

Take the New York Times quiz every day.

December 8, 2007 – 1:52 pm

If you want to keep up with the world’s news while you are browsing on Facebook, try the NY Times Quiz.

It’s challenging, and only takes a few minutes. They have five multiple-choice questions that are mostly international.
I have to admit that I have another tab open searching Google News. Most of the time, my guesses [...]

By me | Also posted in Community, Facebook, Friends, Fun, Geek, Google, Internet, Journalism, Knowledge, Links, Media, New Media, New York Times, News, Old Media, Participation, Politics, Publishing, Quiz, Social Media, World | Comments (0)
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