Gaming, Technology, Social Media, and Fun
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3 May 2009T-Mobile was gracious enough to supply me with a G1 review unit. I’ve been playing with it for about a week now and I’ve seen and learned quite a bit. A lot of people are curious about how it compares to the iPhone’s experience. It’s a hard question to answer directly, so [...]
In: apple
17 Mar 2009Today, I watched the Apple Live Event concerning the iPhone 3.0 software. Many things were discussed at the event as you can read online, but here are my reactions as I watched today:
Apple covered 3 out of 4 of my “must haves” list. That’s pretty good. The only thing they didn’t mention [...]
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12 Feb 2009TweetDeck launched a new minor revision today and given all the hype it had yesterday, I was little skeptical. After watching the detailed video on what the new features are, I was most impressed by the little changes than I was the major ones. Here is a video showing my 3 favorite new [...]
In: geek
9 Dec 2008Here are embeds of the same source video on Facebook and Youtube. You be the judge on which you prefer:
Facebook:
Youtube:
I’ve noticed the Youtube embed looks better in full screen than the Facebook embed. It looks like the Facebook embed is not even HD! Does Facebook allow HD embeds? It sure doesn’t [...]
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4 Oct 2008Most of you know, I do a video podcast/blog at bwana.tv. I often get complimented on the quality of the videos that I publish. These videos have a great look and do not have large file sizes. While I credit some of the high quality video to my camera (Canon Powershot TX1), [...]
Video blogging has been atop of my interests lately and while I haven’t found my video micro-blogging solution yet, I am experimenting with various video commenting solutions for my Wordpress blog. I installed Viddler’s wordpress plugin which allows video comments. It was easy to install and worked like a charm.
Today, Seesmic has announced [...]
Just launched an anime channel on Justin.tv where I'll occasionally broadcast some stuff - http://bit.ly/dyex4u 1 hr ago

Youtube Comments: Necessary, But Add No Value
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26 Jan 2009Youtube comments have a bad reputation. It is a well deserved rep, that cause many to ignore or even install custom software to avoid. It’s a playground for trolls, racists, and people who are mean spirited and want to get a rise out of content providers. In the midst of the [...]