December 2008
9 posts
Community spirit in social networks
‘Tis the season for reflection on 2008 coming to a close and looking forward to 2009. On this blog, I’ve talked about a bunch of Internet tools (web 2.0, social media) that I’ve found useful or that save time. I recently wrote a post about Twitter, discussing how outside of the 5-6M people using it, that people are mostly either unaware or misinformed about Twitter. Web 2.0...
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Now that I’m feeling pretty comfortable with Twitter, I noticed that there were conversations going between Twitter and FriendFeed. FriendFeed is an aggregator service which I’d looked at briefly over the summer, but didn’t have anyone to watch, so didn’t pursue it more. The link above is a good summary of the service. It seems a bit more complex than Twitter. I added a...
Holiday Greetings '08
Found this nice card application from a coworker. Click the play button for the slideshow w/ music.
Make a Smilebox slideshow
I’ve been reading blog posts of gadgets and charity ideas. For me it’s a quiet holiday season. We’re going to the Happiest Place on Earth next month, so we’ve limited the gifts (at least for the adults). The only things that I asked for were a...
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Why isn't video communication everywhere?
In the late 90s, I worked for Lucent Technologies (which got the Bell Labs when they split from AT&T). They had this great video of how the future of communications would be - full video phone calls around the globe from your home, office or car. The first Picturephone was created in the 70s and by the late 90s, cell phones were becoming ubiquitous, so it seemed like we shouldn’t be...
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FCoE (and me) on YouTube
In addition to the whitepaper that I wrote on Fibre Channel over Ethernet, our marketing group asked me to create this whiteboard video. We have a channel on YouTube where these videos get posted. YouTube has been pretty amazing - no longer just a place where silly videos get posted, businesses are using it and it’s the #2 search engine on the web! YouTube is starting to see competition,...
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Twitter has a marketing issue
Over the last year I’ve been tinkering in the Web 2.0 space and it seems to me that there is still a big gap between those who are understanding and using the technologies and those that don’t. I started this blog to help discuss a lot of the tools and I think I’ve fallen into one of the classic blunders - no, not starting a land war in Asia, but it’s not about the tools -...
