Following in Robert Scobles Footsteps
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Honestly, no one could be more surprised than I am about following in Robert Scobles footsteps. Back in August of last year I wrote a quick write up on how Robert got started in Social Media, blogging, and how he parlayed that into a viable career for himself. When Robert got started, blogs [...]
Building 43 what Wordpress plugins do they use
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Taking a quick look at Robert Scobles new project over at Building 43 to see how Rackspace and Robert are working together to talk about what they do and what the goals of Building 43 are going to be, didn’t find much about goals, but found a pot of gold in the web [...]
Microsoft Immigration Family Network
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If you are involved with a Microsoft employee, the Microsoft Immigration Family Network is a support site for people involved in Microsoft employees. So when your significant other is spending long nights and days at work, there is a place you can go to meet new people, and talk about issues you might [...]
Police trying to confiscate your camera is now no problem
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One of the things that as a photographer who takes something like 3000 to 4000 pictures a year, and has photographed buildings, police, emergency response reactions to fire, arrests and other stuff has been the police cracking down under the idea that photographing a building is against the law.
I have always worried [...]
Time spent on social networking doubles in the last year
How much of this is driven by the 9.2% unemployment rate is unknown, but Nielsen released a report this week called “Global Faces and Networked Places” which has some amazing statistics on how much time people are spending on social networking sites.
The winners are the new folks, sites like Twitter with a 3712 percent [...]
NY State embraces Social Networking
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In good news for today, NY State IT Department has issued a series of guidelines for State Agencies to use Web 2.0, new media and social collaborative tools. The downside is that there is going to have to be training, the upside to the Empire 2.0 strategy is that it could end up [...]
Customer Service done right thanks Apple Store
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I was at the Apple store yesterday picking up a new copy of Iwork and Ilife for my Apple notebook, and since I teach at CityU of Seattle, I wanted to use my educators 10% discount. Unfortunately, I do not have a school identity card, in lieu of not having a [...]
Status Update on my social networking project
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In the final stages of a social networking plan for my college, and gave the executive presentation on why we want to do this. Some interesting things happened during the briefing, but here is the briefing, story after the jump.
Social Media Plan for CityU of Seattle
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Eight reasons I love FriendFeed
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Many people have heard about FriendFeed as the latest hottest place to hang out online, but there are some very real reasons to <3 FriendFeed. From the conversations, to the users, to the meme’s of the day, FriendFeed is a great place to find conversation, people, and new stuff. But here is the [...]
Lunch 2 0 for Seattle
Seattle has its own Lunch 2.0 and a Happy Hour 2.0 to go along with it. The Lunch 2.0 program here in Seattle is run by Joshua Maher, who is using an idea that was originally launched in Silicon Valley. The idea behind the lunch is to meet and mingle, in a small group, over [...]
Seattle 2 0 awards a wild fun night
Last night the inaugural Seattle 2.0 awards last night and it ended up being a great night for everyone who attended. The event sold out, and there were easily 300 people there (all the tickets that they had), meaning it was a huge success for Marcello and Danielle, with a big round of thanks for [...]
Celebrating Seattle Startups tonight live event
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Tonight is one of the big gala events for Seattle Startups, the Seattle 2.0 awards. In a world where financing, VC, Angel Funding is hard to get, tonight is a watershed moment in Seattle as a startup community, tonight we celebrate those that have a great product, and are not only surviving, but [...]
Fizy Video Music
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Super easy, and fast, if you are looking for music, fizy might be the next big place you want to stop off and take a look at. What is also noticeable is that they already have a huge sponsor for their playlist, Coke. Not bad for a company that does nothing more than [...]
First ever interview with Curious Office
The cool part about what I do and working at CityU of Seattle is that I get to help solve a lot of problems for students, and help get students ready for the work force. Technology changes with breath taking speed at times, which can be problematic with education. Curious office though gave me an [...]
AWS in Education Grants
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One of the things I have been committed to in my Computer Science programming is putting cloud computing into each of the tracks we are teaching at CityU of Seattle. When I heard about the Amazon Web Services in Education grant program, I knew this was something I had to check out.
The [...]
