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Eggs 2.0

March 23, 2008 – 8:56 am

Great video by iJ:

My favorite eggy is the Twitter blue bird:

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Pownce stands for participation

March 3, 2008 – 8:29 pm

I was listening to Leo Laporte and John C. Dvorak argue about the difference between Pownce and Twitter. Guys, THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
Twitter simply asks, “What are you doing?”

Pownce doesn’t ask you any questions. Instead, it feels like a comfortable, social web app. Yea, it looks like Twitter, but you can choose different media types, [...]

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Greg Stein’s vodka tasting party

January 20, 2008 – 12:19 pm

Last night, Greg Stein hosted a vodka tasting party at his San Francisco loft. I would consider vodka to be my least favorite type of liquor, but I had never had good vodka. I think I have had Grey Goose once before.

When I asked Andrei what kind of vodka he brought, he blurted without hesitation, [...]

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Macworld 2008

January 19, 2008 – 11:48 am

Macworld is a big deal in the bay area. This past week, the streets of SOMA were packed every day.
One day 1, I attend visited with exhibit hall. I had to find Terry Chay:

His phone was dying, so Brian Caldwell let him borrow a solar-powered iPhone charger.

The big news was Apple’s thinnovation. Honestly, the MacBook [...]

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“January 1 TCP/IP” scam

January 1, 2008 – 11:20 am

When you visit google.com today, there is a new doodle:

When you click the link, it queries “January 1 tcp/ip“, which links to a Digg story about today being the 25th birthday of TCP/IP.
The funny thing is, under this story is a flurry of Adsense scams.

As soon as the doodle went up, people created content [...]

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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 [...]

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