I found this neat Ruby on Rails web app called Invent a Story. So I started a story with the word(s) National Enquirer. Basically you are given a few words to choose from and asked to write a sentence with it. Then other people are invited to add to the “story”. Here is my sentence. [...]
I had a good time at Startup Weekend Chapel Hill. It was exhausting but a worthwhile experience. Here’s one lesson that I learned.
Find Data then Write an Web Application For It
When we brainstorm ideas for creating web applications we think about what you can do to data. Like how to present it, manipulate it, rearrange [...]
Check out these Five Aspects of Effective Networks from Marty Kearns.
Social Ties
Common Story
Dense Communication Grid
Shared Resources
Clarity of Purpose
Marty fleshes out the 5 here.
How do I learn about this stuff? Fortunately I’m married to one of the foremost experts in this field, Ruby Sinreich. She’s a network centric advocacy innovator. I owe her a lot. Ruby [...]
Ed Cone has a great article on CIO Insight called Social Networks at Work Promise Bottom-Line Results. Its really got me thinking about the adoption of social network software by companies of all sizes.
Interesting synergy that I found this. I’m consulting companies about social software right now plus I’m checking out Microsoft’s Sharepoint. Wachovia is [...]
Plaxo is releasing software behind its Pulse service. Basically, by using Microformats XFN info Pulse will aggregate your various online contacts. So if you have accounts at gmail, msn, yahoo, flickr, twitter, facebook, etc. you can consolidate it to understand how they connect with each other and create new connections. The cool part is the [...]
I just purchased my dream machine. A MacBook Pro, 15.4″ wide matte LCD, 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 150GB HD. Plus I got a Microsoft bluetooth mouse that works on the mac very well. My old ibook is still around but happily resting.
One of the best parts is running Windows and Mac OS [...]
Ubuntu and Debian Linux both have EXE files you can download to your Windows computer to install Linux quickly and easily. It appears that this install creates an image file and doesn’t attempt to repartition your hard drive. It also allows you to dual boot your operating system. VERY good news for beginners. If this [...]
Ubuntu Studio aims to be a multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment.
Free multimedia tools that are hight end is a big deal. Hat tip to Ryan Irelan.
ARRRRGH! I’m conflicted. Gregarius, the open source web based RSS feed reader you install on your own blog, has served me well. But I’m at the point were its just too slow. Plus it doesn’t act well on a PC using Firefox. For example: Some feeds I try to mark as read and they don’t [...]
If you read blogs and are on the web you might have heard… Firefox 2.0 is out! Its an open source web browser for PC, Mac, and Unix/Linux that is free.
I wasn’t so excited until I tried it with Windows. It has built in SPELL CHECK! This is huge for me. I write blog posts [...]
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