Monthly Archives: November 2009

WTO, 10 years later

I got my first taste and only taste of tear gas ten years ago today. I was an 18 year old college freshman at the University of Washington. It was a typical November day in Seattle, about 50 degrees and drizzling. Around 10 in the morning I was walking to my calculus class through red [...]
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The Muppets do “Bohemian Rhapsody”

This makes me so happy. The muppets and rock ‘n roll will save us all.
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Retweets 2.0 (aka, Your Tweets, retweeted) (Please RT this)

This week I’ve been happily exploring the new retweet feature on Twitter.com. I can’t wait for this same functionality to spread to my favorite twitter clients. It’s accomplishing a better user experience for many reasons. The integrity of the original tweet is saved (if you want to add comments, just send your own tweet) You can easily [...]
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Crowd-Sourced Virtual Reality

Last Month when I was in New York, my wife Andrea and I took a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. I had my Canon Rebel xti and was snapping a bunch of photographs. About halfway through the walk, I realized just how many cameras were on the bridge at that time. Everyone had a camera, [...]
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My Social media thoughts, November.

Just wanted to give my $.02 on where we are with Social Media at the beginning of November, 2009. About six months ago, I was pretty excited about two trends in social media; location based social networks and video. The 3gs iPhone had just arrived, this meant two things to me: Video on the best smartphone had [...]
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