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I LOVE IE8 Beta2
This afternoon, my co-worker, Jeff, sent a link to IE8 Beta 2. I figured a Beta 2 is usually pretty stable so I decided to download to my desktop at work and I've been using it for the last ~3 hours and I'm a huge fan. I realize I sound like a g...
Midweek Skypeland news roundup
Expressivo text-to-speech reader plug-in for Skype. $49. Comes in female US-English, male and female Polish, and female Romanian. Kara DioGuardi, new American Idol judge Howard Greenfield interviewed me for ZDNet Asia on The Talkifica...
Calley Nye: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Calley Nye is a social media entrepreneur, a ...
Head First Ajax
Head First Ajax gives you an up-to-date perspective that lets you see exactly what you can do -- and has been done -- with Ajax. Using the unique and highly effective visual format that makes Head First titles popular, this book offers a big pictu...
Gordian Knot in my head: XMPP, RSS, Microblogging & Social Streams
I just installed a Jabber server on one of my servers and played with a php class for XMPP to interact with it. The goal is to have some kind of tool to "speak" with a NoseRub server. Features like Twitter's track for keywords come to my mind, but...
jauderho: @Adora I'm not a huge fan of Lightroom. Would have preferred to keep using RawShooter if it had not been bought out by Adobe.
jauderho: @Adora I'm not a huge fan of Lightroom. Would have preferred to keep using RawShooter if it had not been bought out by Adobe.
Refactoring SQL Applications
What can you do when database performance doesn't meet expectations? This book offers methods for refactoring (or changing) SQL code to improve performance without altering a database application's purpose -- and helps you do it on a shoestring bu...
Evgeny Gorbarsky: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Evgeny Gorbarsky is my counterpart at Skypecl...
Dimitry Korolkov: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Dimitry Korolkov works in marketing for Progr...
"Can we have this for the entire Internet?"
For those of you who think the comment-section moderation style around here is too lax, check out YouTube Comment Snob,...
Dmitrii: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Dmitrii is a psychology student at a Bulgaria...
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined?
I have to confess that one of the social networking tools I find most valuable is Goodreads. (It's a close second to Twitter, and way ahead of Facebook, Friendfeed, or Dopplr.) Unlike twitter, where I follow hundreds of people (possible because of...
The Google Alphabet, 2008 edition
Google has added Google Suggest to their homepage. When Google suggest first-launched Buster McLeod (AKA Erik Benson) checked the suggested term for each letter to create the Google Alphabet, 2004 edition. When Google News Suggest launched in 2006...
MP3s of DNC speeches?
David Morrison, via email: "I've been reading your site for a few years now, and couldn't think of anyone else to ask this question to. Are there any feeds or releases of the Democratic Convention speeches in just audio format. I'm traveling out...
jauderho: Debating going to Yosemite, Mono Lake and Bodie this weekend.
jauderho: Debating going to Yosemite, Mono Lake and Bodie this weekend.
New Sony PSP adds mic for Skype
The Sony PSP-3000 will come with a built-in microphone 15 October 2008, Sony announced this weekend. So you won't need to carry headphones to talk. Small improvement, but a barrier to Skype adoption for many users. From the news release: To...
Maren Hogan: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Maren K. Hogan is managing partner at HCI, Ca...
Ashim Roy: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Dr. Ashim Roy is India Country Head for Stoke...
Flickr's Burning Man Map Uses Open Street Map
Flickr is best known for its photo-sharing, but increasingly its most innovative work is coming from its geo-developers (Radar post). Yesterday they announced the addition of a street-level map of Black Rock City so that we can view geotagged Burn...
"Born Digital" by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
I am pleased to announce that John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives is out in the wild! This book grows out of the digital natives project at the Berkman Center (with which I am loosely a...
Twitter, the enterprise’s third space
When describing Twitter, I use a number of analogies. Most commonly, I think of Twitter as something like a slow-motion chatroom, or even a collection of away messages. I’ve got another one to add to this list: subject-only email. This new...
Anti-abortion protest at DNC
As we were going into the DNC this afternoon our path was blocked by a crowd of police, press and a handful of protestors and priests. #1: Roe v Wade survivor. #2: Protestors. #3: Arrests.
Lunch meeting with Alolita Sharma
Having lunch with my pal Alolita, di Discussing opensource.org content overhaul. Nice to have her energy on our side.
MeBeam: 16 person video chat, no download
Phweet demonstrates the power of talk without downloads. Phweet triggers voice conference calls through twitter. Now see MeBeam, multiparty video conferencing, all in-browser, triggered from Skype. Add mebeam to your Skype contacts list. sk...
Snackbyte: It's all personal
In preparing for my upcoming "Death of the Grand Gesture" talk at Web2Expo, I've been deep in my usual observational analysis of the dynamics impacting the social web meets "big bidness". I've also realized [thanks to Mar...
Howard Wolinsky: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Howard Wolinsky covered high tech and h...
This is a HAPPY convention
Just got a comment from Mark Dzmura saying that Fox and CNN are reporting that there is racial discord at the DNC, and I want to say that's absolutely not true. It's bright and sunny and hot in Denver and eveyrone here, including the Hillary peop...
What the internet is for
Via Making Light commenter Michael Turyn, who spotted it linked from SF Signal: "My Little Pony" figures dressed up as...
Blackberry: The Smartphone for Wilderness Survival
Several years ago, while skiing at Whistler, a member of our party broke her leg in the most remote (but still in-bounds) glacier (Blackcomb Glacier) with only one route in and out. Having cell phone access resulted in having the ski patrol on the...
Issue with SSL and Firefox 3 on Identoo.com solved
Until today, I used a SSL certificate from CAcert.org. They are free and do their job: protecting user input on some pages like login and the settings. But with Firefox 3, a nasty screen was shown, because Firefox no longer (?) supported these ce...
VoIP Blocking Explained
Dan York, Director of Emerging Communication Technology at Voxeo, but also on the Board of the Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) has written two excellent pieces in another of his blogs, Voice of VoIPSA, discussing the blocking of VoIP call...
Skype stops selling flat-rate all-Taiwan and all-Asia plans in Taiwan
Taiwan probably has the highest per-capita Skype adoption of any country. Politicians pose for Skype photo-ops. Their top portal drives Skype traffic. They invent the most stylish of USB and PC-free Skype phones. So I was surprised w...
Fons Tuinstra: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me". You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Fons Tuinstra is a journalist, Internet...
3 and Skype to interchange minutes, unify calling experience
In Olga Kharif's VoIP Goes Mobile in today's BusinessWeek [emphasis mine]: Skype, the eBay (EBAY)-owned service used by more than 338 million people to make free PC-to-PC calls, later this year plans to release a new product called "Skype for ...
Dean McGuire Jr: What Skype means to me
On the occasion of Skype's fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me". You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Dean McGuire Jr. lives in Bangkok. It'...
Improving Highschool Science Education
As I read this fascinating NYTimes piece on a Florida teacher covering evolution, I was reminded of an interesting email exchange I had recently with Kevin Padian, a UC Berkeley professor in the Dept of Integrative Biology, and curator of the UC M...
jauderho: @paultoo How about a way to search previously liked/commented on FF? For example, search for house on http://bit.ly/3yxJQG
jauderho: @paultoo How about a way to search previously liked/commented on FF? For example, search for house on http://bit.ly/3yxJQG
jauderho: @lanehartwell I did a CA - NV - UT - CO - NM - TX - OK - IL - MI trip back in 2005. Ping if you want more ideas. http://bit.ly/19A2nc
jauderho: @lanehartwell I did a CA - NV - UT - CO - NM - TX - OK - IL - MI trip back in 2005. Ping if you want more ideas. http://bit.ly/19A2nc
jauderho: Impatiently waiting for Photoshelter to approve more pictures. http://bit.ly/1IozNx
jauderho: Impatiently waiting for Photoshelter to approve more pictures. http://bit.ly/1IozNx
jauderho: @lanehartwell If you get a chance, check out Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway. See http://bit.ly/22wLBT and http://bit.ly/4iUdSF. I'm envious of trip.
jauderho: @lanehartwell If you get a chance, check out Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway. See http://bit.ly/22wLBT and http://bit.ly/4iUdSF. I'm envious of trip.
Crazy Creek Chair
The Crazy Creek Chair is a small, light, easily portable, camp chair. It keeps your butt dry when you're sitting...
jauderho: @purp Wow. That's a crazy link. http://bit.ly/qCqWf
jauderho: @purp Wow. That's a crazy link. http://bit.ly/qCqWf
jauderho: @adora If you shoot RAW, I prefer to fix white balance later in Lightroom rather than carry a WB card. One less thing to carry. =)
jauderho: @adora If you shoot RAW, I prefer to fix white balance later in Lightroom rather than carry a WB card. One less thing to carry. =)
Dionysus and the Amethyst Initiative
Across the United States, dozens of higher education leaders have signed on to the Amethyst Initiative. It's a fascinating approach. The signers aren't committing to a stance, but rather asking American society to begin an informed and unimpeded d...
jauderho: Canon releases the 50D. http://bit.ly/rKR6e Now if the 5D replacement will just show up.
jauderho: Canon releases the 50D. http://bit.ly/rKR6e Now if the 5D replacement will just show up.
Watch the Democratic National Convention in HD via Silverlight
I was really impressed with Michelle Obama's speech this evening and am looking forward to the rest of the week's speeches and a convention watch party at Spitfire in Belltown on Thursday evening when Sen. Barack Obama is expected to accept the pa...
Revolution of Me: Chapter 2: Business 2.0 - Continued
As I posted earlier, I am going to be posting my book outline in parts to my blog to get feedback and Ideas - please feel free to chime in! Except from “Revolution of Me” - A book outline by Chris Saad OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYERS & COMPANIES ...
Evening pictures
I walked through a door I shouldn't have and all of a sudden I'm walking around among all these famous politiicans and news people. Only got a good picture of John Kerry, and a movie of Sean Hannity and a movie of John Kerry. I also uploaded a mov...
