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3/11/2007 · 1 min read

SXSW Notes

We’ve set up a notes blog where we’ve been collecting all of our notes from South by Southwest Interactive Conference. http://sxsw.techory.com Most of these posts are just disjointed note-taking from our sessions, but they’re probably more valuable online…

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3/11/2007 · 2 min read · 5 comments

The Mentos Mobile

We were in downtown Austin last night and sitting at the balcony of The Blind Pig. I stepped away for a moment and when I returned, I was informed that a Mentos car was parked on the street…

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3/8/2007 · 1 min read

Off to SXSW Interactive

Tomorrow I’m jumping on a plane to Austin, TX for South by Southwest Interactive Festival for work. I’ve wanted to attend this conference for several years, and I’m really excited to finally be able to make it. I…

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2/28/2007 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Interactive Weather.com Map

I have a love/hate relationship with Weather.com. On one hand, it’s easy to remember, and they usually have fairly accurate forecast information. On the other hand, they are LOADED with ads, and bury the information you’re looking for…

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2/22/2007 · 1 min read

King Nutter

Do you ever just think to yourself, “Man, I wish there were some site out them there Internets that I could see a collection of weird ebay auctions and videos recently removed from YouTube!” Your wish has come…

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2/15/2007 · 1 min read

Mentos Geyser Tube

The International Toy Fair in New York just ended yesterday. I’m sure there were a lot of cool toys at the fair, but one caught my eye for obvious reasons. A company called Steve Spangler Science released a…

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2/15/2007 · 1 min read

Copyright – Orphan Works Reform

I’ve been a fan of Lawrance Lessig for a while. He is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. He is a large proponent of Copyright regulation,…

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2/8/2007 · 3 min read · 4 comments

LibraryThing

As sort of a New Year’s resolution (which I rarely do), I decided I wanted to track all the books I read in 2007, and maybe longer. I thought to myself, “there’s got to be some sort of…

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2/6/2007 · 5 min read · 3 comments

Netflix Watch Now

This past fall, I finally made the jump to Netflix (yah, I know… what took so long?!?) after paying something like $6 for a new release at the local video store. I had eyed the service for a…

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2/1/2007 · 1 min read

I Love Music Video

Who doesn’t love a good YouTube lip-sync of a popular song?!? Well you can thank your lucky stars… there is now a way to find them by searching a particular artist! iLoveMusicVideo.net will give you a long list…

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1/30/2007 · 1 min read · 2 comments

2007 Bloggies

It’s time again this year to vote for your favorite blogs of 2007. The Bloggie Awards have opened up voting for this year’s awards in a number of categories. Time once again to get out your blogrolls. The…

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1/24/2007 · 1 min read

Plen, the Skating Robot

Those crazy Japanese and their cool robots. Plen is a little robot with only one real purpose… he skates. Whether on rollarskates or on a skateboard, Plen tears it up. Though he does have a hefty price tag…

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1/18/2007 · 3 min read

iPhone & AppleTV

I always seem to be on vacation when Apple does their big January announcement. And since that happened over a week ago, (and since the media goes crazy any time Apple releases something new) there’s isn’t much of…

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12/29/2006 · 2 min read

Google 2006 Zeitgeist

The Google year end Zeitgeist data is out once again this year. The year-end Zeitgeist is a list of the top searches in various categories on Google. Most year’s results are things I’ve at least heard of. This…

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