Monthly Archives: June 2008
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
After having a conversation with one of my favorite clients, Joe Fermano, he pointed me to the following video.
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Plurk: Do we need another microblog?
Twitter has been suffering major reliability problems. Perhaps the service was never engineered to handle the number of users and “tweets” and third-party clients. While it may have cute error messages, the Twitter crowd has started exploring other options. Enter Plurk. I have to say, the experience of Plurk is quite good. I really enjoy [...]
Just Write Something
Use one of your spare clicks to write some stream of consciousness over at WriteSomething.net. Basically, your message is added to this ongoing collaborative stream. From the about page… “… I sit here thinking about what it means to be a part of something like this – an endless, senseless, interactive book – and i [...]
Tip for forwarding jokes
If you are someone who likes to forward jokes around, you need to be respectful of everyone’s email addresses. Don’t throw all of those addresses in the TO: or CC: field. Use the BCC: field so that others don’t see the full list of emails. So the next time that you are about to email [...]
What's the 411, Google?
In an effort to bring goodness and sunshine to the entire world, Google has its own version of the traditional 411 information service. But, in the Google spirit, it is free. From any phone, simply dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411). It is all voice activated and the couple of samples that I tried worked perfectly. Here is [...]
Social Media in Plain English
Another great video from Lee and Sachi Lefever: Social Media in Plain English You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video What I like about this video is that it is very much an overview of social media, rather than a focus on one particular technology. That might be its weakness [...]
Basecamp for Project Management