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Category Archives: Friends

Lake Merritt, Oakland, Ca.

Two of my good buddies from Virginia Tech scored internships in Northern California this summer, so I went to check out a potential place for them yesterday. I had only visited the East Bay a few times, and I was excited to check out a small borough of Oakland.

What a beautiful city. I was [...]

Track shipments with Twitter

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 [...]

Revision3 roof party

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 [...]

Twitterati Drinkup

Laughing Squid and RoboGames hosted their second Twitterati Drinkup at O’Neill’s Irish Pub last night.

The guy from RoboGames was letting us play with the Robo1. He can do flips and stand up if he falls down.

The venue was huge, and it turned out to be a really fun night. I hope they do this again [...]

Flickr Turns Four

Last night, Flickr had a birthday party at 111 Minna Gallery in SOMA

Badass MC and math enthusiast, Cal Henderson, was in attendance.

Thousands of user-submitted photos were printed and posted throughout Minna.

I have never seen this many cameras in one place in my entire life.

A Flickr group allowed users to submit only one photo to be [...]

Connected to every medium

The web allows us to keep in touch with our friends in so many ways today. When I log into Facebook, I am immediately greeted with a news feed of activity.

Users can update their status too. So whether you like it or not, you know what they are doing.

Twitter is only status:

A can also [...]