“Turkey Wrap” – Getting Crunk On Thanksgiving
For those of you in the U.S. Celebrating Thanksgiving today hope you have a great day with friends and family or whatever you plan to do.
Here is a little video I found last year that I always enjoy on this day. Adding a little crunk to your holiday celebrations. Enjoy!
Shared Items – November 22, 2008
- New Fanboys Trailer Looks Geektastic
WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/22
How Popular Is Your Twitter Profile?
Google Friend Connect Is Coming Soon
Brightkite's new killer feature is ... a wall?
(Weekly Recap) - Twitter Tools, SEO and FriendFeed.
How to Promote Your Blog on Twitter
Get Free Dr. Pepper Online (Courtesy of Axl Rose)
Open Beta of Google Friend Connect Coming Soon?
Entire NES stuffed into its cartridge kinda makes you cry
How a Tweet Lead to a Phone Call From Shaq
Shared Items – November 22, 2008
- New Fanboys Trailer Looks Geektastic
WordPress Plugin Releases for 11/22
How Popular Is Your Twitter Profile?
Google Friend Connect Is Coming Soon
Brightkite's new killer feature is ... a wall?
(Weekly Recap) - Twitter Tools, SEO and FriendFeed.
How to Promote Your Blog on Twitter
Get Free Dr. Pepper Online (Courtesy of Axl Rose)
Open Beta of Google Friend Connect Coming Soon?
Entire NES stuffed into its cartridge kinda makes you cry
How a Tweet Lead to a Phone Call From Shaq
Who Finds Me Most Interesting On FriendFeed [Take Two]
Last month I posted the list of those on FriendFeed that found me the most interesting. It has been about a month and figured I would post the new results. If you get a chance and do not follow one of the people listed check them out they are all great and that is not only because the follow me...hehe
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Shared Items – November 19, 2008
- Contxts : Cause Business Cards Are So Yesterday
Blog Your Google Shared Items
Celebrate, Zoolander style!
15 Tools for Your Twitter Toolbox
Poll: More Than Half Of Twitter Users Would Pay
Has Twitter Become the Kleenex of Microblogging?
TouchTerm Puts a Terminal Client on Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]
PC Magazine Goes Out Of Print
Things NOT To Voice Google
Cannabis Arrives to Twitter. Would You Want Your Children to Be Exposed?
Involve, Create, Discuss, Promote, Measure - the Social Media Campaign
Setup Firefox To Use Minimal Screen Estate
Bubble calendar
Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock!
Contxts : Cause Business Cards Are So Yesterday
As I have started going to more and more tech conferences I have watched everyone hand out their business cards with their contact information and I have to say some of them are really kool (i.e. moo cards) but I always thought wouldnt it be kool to have a way to send my information that would be on my card via my phone in real time? not have to purchase new cards all the time? know that that person is just not gonna toss my card and never see it again?
If you are thinking like me the Contxts is the service for you. With Contxts you use your phone to send your contact information straight from your phone to whoever you are conversing with or others can text to the service and get your contact information at anytime. Some of the benefits of Contxts would be....
- Exchange all of your professional information with a single text message
- Keep all of your professional contacts organized in one place
- It's eco-friendly (txt messages don't kill polar bears)
- Rid yourself of "old school" business cards
- Link with other professionals
How does contxts work? Well there are two ways you can use the service via sms text message
From your phone, you txt “send 3034759204” to 50500 (where 3034759204 is your recipients 10 digit number)
Your recipient will receive all of your contact information.
Your contact txts “username” to 50500 on their phone
You will receive a request confirmation (unless you have it turned off). Upon accepting, your contact will receive your information
To try out Contxts text 'jeffisageek' to 50500 and you will get my information.
Blog Your Google Shared Items
Do you use Google Reader? Do you like to share your items? Do You Blog? If you answered yes to all of these then you might be interested in the following WordPress plugin.
Shared Items Post allows you to create a blog post based on the settings you chose to your blog of choice to share with your readers.
[example post from last night]
I thought this sounded like something I might be interested in so I loaded it up and now I will see how things go and whether I go ahead and keep it....but for now its a new feature here on the blog.
Its really easy to setup and here are some of the different setttings available to you:
* Post scheduling - by day, week or month, and time of day
* Post formatting - you have complete control over the layout of post from the plugin admin panel
* Post settings - set the author, category, and tags
Shared Items – November 18, 2008
Shared Items – November 18, 2008
- Text Message Embroidery
- Unreleased Jonathan Coulton album on a limited edition USB stick -- Creative Commons fundraiser
- How to Meet Geeks
- Stream Your Life with Microblogging
- There and Back Again: Top 10 Blogs to Explore
- Mobile Messaging Reaches Record-Breaking Numbers
- 10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7
- What Twitter Needs To Go Mainstream
- Boing Boing launches new gaming site Offworld
- Is YouTube the Next Google?
- Announcing LRC Weather!
- 20 Reasons Why You Cannot Ignore Social Media
- Custom Twitter backgrounds, only $100 unless you're popular
- Bloggers and Twitter might be niches, but they’re loud niches
- HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community
- 10 Easy Ways to Find Black Friday Deals Online
- Superman To Abandon Earth And Action In '09 [Superman]
- MLB to Silverlight: You’re Out!
- Javascript drum machine
- Barack Obama Forced to Kick BlackBerry Addiction [Email]
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November 17, 2008
November 18, 2008 - This isn't as crazy as it sounds, and it's not just kids doing it. In the past couple of days, I've had three different adults tell me that they researched 3 different things on YouTube: quitting smoking, tattoo removal, and yoga. That's stuff I would have googled. All 3 people are what I would call "mainstream" computer users, too.
November 17, 2008
November 16, 2008
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November 17, 2008
November 17, 2008 - DC Comics is really starting to worry me. James Robinson and Grant Morrison are both apparently ticked off; Final Crisis final issue being rewritten... maybe it really is time for Didio to go, especially if he's trotting out a story that's too damned similar to something from 1988... And WHY ON EARTH would you ever take Superman out of Action Comics?
November 17, 2008
November 17, 2008 - This is my new favorite thing EVER
November 17, 2008
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock!
I saw this on Big Bang Theory last night and one of my fellow kc bloggers/geek ax0n put this up as a post today as well. Figured why not share this great geeky way to solve disputes.
And from Sam Kass we have a diagram
New Watchmen Trailer
I am soooo geek'n out for this movie. cant wait till 3/6/09! Check out the new trailer.
Twitter Passes The 1 Billion Message Mark
Today while reading my rss feeds I discovered that Twitter has smashed through the 1 billion tweets mark. a fraction of those are due to me.
Definitely shows that in a short time how big of a role twitter is for all of us online daily. Just think as the service grows and becomes more mainstream how fast we will get to 10 billion? 1 trillion!
The E-Waste Nightmare
Saw this segment on 60 minutes Sunday about E-Waste and how our electronics that we dispose of in the proper way are getting sent over to china and destroying a city. Definitely an eye opener as to where our waste is going.
grabbed the video from a fellow local blogger Ramsey.
Two New SMCKC Places On The Interweb
Hey Everyone
I have added two new places on the web that those who are part of the Social Media Club in Kansas City or those interested in getting more information on events and such can visit.
First I created a Facebook group for all to join. Facebook is one of the biggest social networks out there right now so it just seems like a given to put something on there to keep in contact with each other as well as to find new social media types out there that my not know we even exist.
Second I created a Flickr group after we discussed setting on up to host all the pics of events we have had or for future events to share with all.
This is all for now....keep your eyes on your rss feeds as there are many projects in the works as well as some kool events coming up in the social media kc space.
Highlight Midwest – Evening Panel [Video]
Silicon Prairie News just put up a blog post with the video from the evening panel at the Kauffman Foundation for Highlight Midwest.
If you were unable to attend the event this is a great way to see some great presentations as well as some insight from a panel that was full of people from around the midwest.
Kansas City Presentation
Des Moines Presentation
Omaha Presentation
Evening Panel (Part 1)
Evening Panel (Part 2)
Carl Schramm At Highlight Midwest
Silicon Prairie News recently posted the video and a story about Carl Schramm President and chief executive officer of the Kauffman Foundation and his appearance at Highlight Midwest in October.
Barack Obama’s Speech From Last Night
Found a video of the speech Barack Did last night and wanted to throw it up on my blog. I thought this was a great speech and a great moment in the history of the United States.
I plan to watch this a couple times 
Is Obama President Yet? Two Sites Help You Answer That Question
Leave it to the net to get right to the hard hitting questions and today the big question is.... Is Obama President Yet? Well if you don't want to sit through hours of coverage or wait for your dial up to let you know visit one of these 2 sites and they will answer that question right away.
isobamapresident and isobamapresidentyet
Interesting that at this moment one says no, not yet and the other says almost
Walk The Vote
Decided since my voting location was so close that I would walk to do my civic duty. Not only did I get to vote for the next president but I got to get a little exercise and help myself as well as my country.
He is the little video I took along the way.....
Dont forget to vote...you still have time. Help make our country a better place.
Fanboys Trailer
I so cannot wait for this movie to come out. looks like it is gonna be funny stuff for all us geeks
AMC Preview of “Fork And Screen”
Last week I got a great opportunity to check out AMC Theatres new attraction called "Fork and Screen" which steps up what you would normally consider a night at the movies.
It not only adds a menu to your visit to your next feature film but also adds some extra features like reclining chairs, swivel tables, eye candy while walking the halls, and a full bar to enjoy during your stay.
I must say AMC has done an awesome job enhancing the movie watching experience while not really adding a lot of extra expense. The new non suite theaters are actually the same price as a normal ticket and you get an upgraded experience from what we have been use to over the years and for just 10 bucks more you get the really kool theater with the 2 person cinema suite for the ultimate in relaxation.
I took a few videos while I was there and thought I would share them with ya......
First is as you enter the "Fork and Screen" experience (you must be at least 18 or have an adult with you to enter)
Next we have a preview of the AMC Cinema Suites with the really kool chairs....
If you get a chance to check out the services go for it....Allison and I had a great time and we wanted to thank AMC for getting the chance to check it out.
Social Media Club KC Breakfast – This Friday
Its that time kids when all us social media types get together for breakfast. This month we are gonna meet at the First Watch in Olathe (11/7).
If you get a chance please join us as we always love new faces and if you been to one before come back as we would love to chat some more. It is open to anyone so don't feel like you are not welcome.
Think we are gonna start meeting around 7:30 and will be hanging out for the morning so if you cant make it early then come by a little later.
See everyone there!
Highlight Midwest Presentation: Swindlr
Swindlr is a new social networking type service that centers around events. The tagline is "It's not who you are. It's what you do."
In my ongoing series I was able to us my flip camera to catch their presentation at Highlight Midwest. The presenter was Chase Hawkins of Swindlr.
Microblink : News From The Microblogging World
I sat in on a presentation last week called "Microblogging, Macro Impact" by Mike Templeton which one talked about microblogging and its rise on the web and Mike also talked about his site who he runs with another guy I met in Rob Jensen called Microblink.
Since Highlight Midwest I grabbed the rss feed and have been following some of the stories they have put up on the site and if you are like me and are always looking for sites to keep up with what is new and fresh on the web today when it comes to twitter and other microblogging services this would be one to keep your eyes on.
It was great meeting the guys and Mike had a great presentation. If you get a chance drop on over to the site and check it out...maybe tweet about it as well (hehe).
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Backtype : Tracking Comments On The Interweb
I recently started using a new service called Backtype who's tagline is "Find, follow, and share comments on the web."
It is pretty much an easy service to use with an easy premise....sign up, go make comments on the web, find comments on the web, and of course share them with your friends. No software to install and any scripts or widgets. Thats it!
jumping to the site you can add friends to follow, search for comments based on keywords, or setup the service to work with your twitter account.
Visit my Backtype Page [add me a follower and I will add ya back]