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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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Madeleine Albright visits CNET

January 25, 2008 – 9:06 am

“I wish there were a book that would tell me what to do.” -Warren Harding
Madeleine Albright just published a new book, and she came to CNET to talk about it and the state of American politics. The following is my scratch notes from her talk. Sorry if it’s sloppy, I have never blogged this early [...]

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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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Track flights in real time with flightstatus.com

December 19, 2007 – 9:06 am

At the time of this posting, my Mom is 38,000 feet above Hoxie, KS. I know this because of flightstatus.com, and interactive website that shows flight data in real time. I first heard about it on Mahalo Daily, and then from eHub.

Here is some info about my Mom’s flight:

Equipment: Boeing 757 Passenger
Latitude: 39-19-12.0 N
Longitude: 100-13-12.0 [...]

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Highlights from WordCamp 2007

July 23, 2007 – 2:07 am

Unconferencing is one of the reasons I moved to San Francisco. They are free, geek-infested, and very enlightening. The open source software community is probably my favorite group of folks to hang out with here.
I spent my whole day at WordCamp 2007, hosted at the Swedish American Hall in downtown SF.

The event was [...]

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Easily follow your Facebook friends on Twitter.

July 19, 2007 – 2:22 am

I am always trying to move my friends over to use Twitter to update their status. I love Facebook’s status feature, but I don’t have time to log into Facebook 10 times a day.
I created a Twitter bot to syndicate my friend’s Facebook status RSS feed.
I also really like using Twitterrific, and I already [...]

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