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Archive for July, 2008
Apple iPhone 3G Review
31 Jul 2008If you read my original iPhone review, then you know that I was pretty impressed with Apple‘s first generation cell phone. My first impressions were nothing short of stellar. The original iPhone wasn’t perfect, and I pointed out a few flaws in the first iteration. Since that review, Apple has addressed some of the flaws [...]
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- Tags: 3g, apple, iphone, review
E3 2008 Roundup: Focus On The Positive!
In: video gaming
15 Jul 2008Ah yes, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). That conference that all console gamers look forward to. It has a history of providing us with insight into upcoming gaming titles, new features, and new hardware. Over time the conference has lost it’s glitter and mass appeal. Last year’s E3 had it’s moments, but overall, it wasn’t [...]
Streaming While Black
In: thoughts
10 Jul 2008Today, the blogosphere got a taste of what a lot of us black live streamers experience all too often: anonymous cowards. These individuals choose to hide behind their anonymity, and flood corresponding chat rooms with all kinds of racial slurs. Unfortunately, Louis Gray had to witness such an event: This afternoon, I caught a video [...]
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- Tags: racism, streaming, trolls
Kwippy Offers Stability First
In: geek
5 Jul 2008Twitter‘s architectural problems are well known. Many of us in the social networking scene have never been so focused on what’s under the hood of a particular service. While I do have a great deal of performance testing and tuning experience, I have never seen it pushed so hard in the social web. Not to [...]
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- Tags: Jaiku, Kwippy, Microblogging, plurk, Pownce, twitter
An Open Sourced Twitter Emerges: Identi.ca
In: geek
2 Jul 2008One of the conversations that stemmed from our “Twit-Out” a few months ago was, “Can we save Twitter with open-source?” My response was the following: I agree that Twitter could use some help, but I don’t know if opening the source is the main solution. I do believe, a healthy dose of stiff competition encourages [...]
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- Tags: friendfeed, Identi.ca, OpenMicroBlogging, rss, twitter
As a podcaster, I’m always looking for ways to enhance the experience for my listeners. The community not only wants to consume the content I produce, but many feel the need to contribute their thoughts and feedback. With the evolution of FriendFeed as the one stop shop for discussion surrounding the social web, it only [...]
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- Tags: friendfeed, podcast, Software, Utility
Feedly’s FriendFeed Aggregation [Do Want]
In: geek|web2.0
8 Jul 2008One thing Feedly has nailed, is aggregation of FriendFeed conversations surrounding a blog post. Feedly surfs the FriendFeed waves and finds all relevant conversations surrounding a particular post. This gives you a great summary of what the FriendFeed community is talking about regarding that post. It also allows you to easily contribute to the FriendFeed [...]