(jeff)isageek tv : talking about startup weekend KC
Talking about Startup Weekend Kansas City which is April 24th thru April 26th. Hope to see ya there!
What I Am Reading – January 29, 2009
- 404 Error Pages, One More Time
Where does it end? North Carolina considers its own ‘download tax’
Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009, 2010
Another Tool to Discover Your Followers
Is Adobe Overhyping AIR's Success?
Where’s the Google Phone Bump?
Synop.it: A Different Take on Cataloguing the Web
Twitter Followers: Quantity or Quality?
Blogger Infighting Played a Role, Says TechCrunch Founder
FULL of WIN #3 - Mona! [feedly]
Offline Gmail Buzz
Uh Oh. Now You Can Suggest Stories To Techmeme Via Twitter
Too Much Noise On Twitter? Filttr Will Tell You What’s Worth Reading
Yahoo Mail Chases Gmail with IM and SMS Features
Revision3: Traffic Up Huge, 2009 Revenues "Not The Disaster We Thought"
Geekvolution - A Home For The Geeks!
Geekvolution – A Home For The Geeks!
One of my buddies Ryan Flannagan has a new service coming out soon called Geekvolution which I have heard him call "a network for nerds".
I know his company is going down to SXSW to demo and soon it should be in private beta. So check out the little promo below and when I get some invites going I will let everyone know so you can check it out.
bacn.me : Making Your URL’s Yummy (And Tiny)
There is a new URL shortner out there on the interweb and it is called bacn.me which like any other service like it takes a long web address and shortens it to just a few characters.
Why would you use bacn.me over all the other services that do the same thing? well that is kind of obvious....the others don't have anything to do with bacon which will make anything better! hehe
Seriously though its a fun little way to shorten those long urls, they have a bookmarklet you can add to your browser for quick shortening, and a list with the top links that have been baconized (is that a word??).
Looking for more bacon coverage on the interwebs then check out Bacon Geek or maybe you want to add a slice of bacon to your blog? Then check out my post "Enhance Any Site By Adding Bacon". Enjoy!
What I Am Reading – January 27, 2009
- FriendFeed Emerges as Potential Competitor to Twitter and Facebook News Feeds
Unswamp Your Twitter Feed
Gmail Gets Offline Support, Finally
Sqworl: A Lightbox for Shared Links
Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?
Is it wrong to blog in your undies? Oh wait I’m not wearing any
Things I’ve learned by clicking “like” 15,301 times
Script Adds A Mentions Tab On Twitter
Location-based gaming
Happy sixth birthday WordPress!
Posting and Pulling Comments From FriendFeed
Disqus Enables FriendFeed Sync
Noovo: Tumblr on Steroids
GrandCentral 2.0, Almost Ready to Be Released
Tickets On Sale Now For Startup Weekend KC
The Power of WordPress and jQuery: 25+ Useful Plugins & Tutorials
Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers
Hulu to shock the world with Super Bowl ad
Twtapps: A Suite Of Five Simple And Unique Twitter Apps
Six Degrees of Robert Scoble
FriendFeed : Some Thoughts On The Service
If you have been following my blog or twitter for any amount of time then you know I have a love affair with the service FriendFeed and that I am always getting excited over a new feature or posting something up on the service which then turns around and puts it up on my other social services I use like twitter or facebook.
I know talking to others at meetups and such I find people who are interested in FriendFeed or think it is to much to follow so they are kinda on the fence when it comes to the service.
Recently two people I follow on the interweb and most likely you do as well have talked about why they use FriendFeed or even more why you should.
Thomas Hawk posted "10 Reasons Why You Should Sigh Up FriendFeed" which included the ease of signing up, better exposure for your work, as well as it lets you get rid of your RSS reader.
Robert Scoble also put his two cents in on the idea of how great FriendFeed is by posting "Things I've learned by clicking "like" 15,301 times" which included likes are searchable, meta data, and he is getting to know his followers more intimately.
For me these were two great posts that I can pull ideas from when talking about what I find interesting when it comes to FriendFeed and why it has become a HUGE part of my daily internet usage. So check those stories out and feel free to comment your thoughts on FriendFeed...what you like about it and what you dont like about it.
Script Adds A Mentions Tab On Twitter
My fellow friendfeeder Hao Chen has created a sweet script for those using greasemonkey that does two things on your twitter page:
one - it adds how many unread @replies messages you have.
two - addes a @mentions tab that when you click on it you get to see any twitter messages that include your username and not just the one's that start out with @<username> like in the @replies.
I must say its a nice little script to have to enhance the twitter website.
[script - twitter : show # of unread replies + adds mentions]
screenshot of the script in action
Tickets On Sale Now For Startup Weekend KC
The other day I blogged about Startup Weekend which will be coming to Kansas City April 24th thru the 26th and now I am happy to report that tickets are on sale for the event as we speak.
From what I have heard they are capping the attendance at 75 and with such a kool idea and the buzz going around about this you know those are gonna go fast!
What I Am Reading – January 26, 2009
- Facebook Promoting “People You May Know” More
Nerd merit badges
The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web
Wow. ChaCha Is Raising Another $30 Million
Does Google Friend Connect have a point?
Is Twitter Killing Blogs and Blogging?
TinyURL Being Used to Bypass Safe Browsing Filters in Firefox, Chrome
Twitter Has Done News. Now It’s Doing Global Charity Events
FriendFeed Hits Nearly One Million Visitors; Grew Tenfold In The Past Six Months
Creating Value (hopefully) with FriendFeed
Google’s Detailed Response to FeedBurner Criticism
How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes
Skyworks' iPhone Games Decrease My Need for Dave & Busters
Why did CNN’s web site dominate inauguration coverage? Facebook Connect?
Finding Interesting FriendFeed Users
The Community Is What Makes Social Networks Different
The New Twhirl (preview release) for Team Seesmic-Twhirl
Spiral16 Highlights the SMCKC Meetup
Introducing The ReTweetability Metric
5 Delicious Scripts for your Delicious Bookmarks Page
My New Geek Schwag!!!
Just ordered this shirt to add to my collection. Check it out at ThinkGeek.
If there is anyone else out there that would like for me to show off their schwag at the local meetups and tweetups hit me up and I can promote you stuff!
What I Am Reading – January 23, 2009
- Is An RSS Feed Important Anymore?
Facebook: Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun of MySpace
I’m tweeting this t-shirt - $16
I’m tweeting this t-shirt - $16
10 Reasons Why You Should Sign Up for FriendFeed [feedly]
Why Do We Use FeedBurner and What Alternatives Are Available for Feed Management?
Welcome You Fine Google Notebook Users
New, Improved Bit.ly Plugin Adds More Functionality to Twitter
FriendFeed Helping Twitter?
FeedBurner is too broken for its biggest fan
15 High Quality Free Premium WordPress 2.7 Themes
Friendfeed is the Next Great Blogging Platform, Here's Why...
How To Migrate Your Feedburner Account To Your Google Account
SMCKC Meetup A HUGE Success!
SmugMug FTW
8 Useful Twitter Tools For 2009 On Your Desktop, Web Browser, & iPhone
Lifestreaming Gets Thorough With thisMoment
SMCKC Meetup Tonight - Streaming Live Online
Watch videos right in Gmail chat
Every Time I Try To Embrace Twitter, They Push Us Away
SMCKC Meetup A HUGE Success!
Last night there was food, there was beer, and most of all there was a huge crowd. Nicholson Kovac was the location and the audience was hovering around 90 or so.
Social Media Club KC put on a meetup for those in the community who are interested in all types of social media and the social web.
I got the chance to be on a panel that discussed using twitter to help your business and what was kool about it was in social media fashion the panel pretty much grew to the whole room. Social media at its finest!
The crew from the Life In The Tubes Video Podcast were there with their cameras so once that video makes it's way on the interweb you can bet I will be sharing it with everyone.
Are you interested in learning about social media? Do you use it now and want to find like minded people to discuss your thoughts and ideas? Well then we invite you to come to our events some time. We have an events page on our site keeping you upto date on what is going on and they are open to all in the public.
Upcoming Events
1/24 Pool Hall meetup in Lenexa
1/27 Lawrence tweetup
I have to say over the last few months we have seen incredible growth in attendance and participation and with some more great events coming up in the Kansas City area like Startup Weekend and in the midwest with Big Omaha we are really seeing the region grow and make its presence felt in tech/social media arena. It is exciting times and I am glad to be a part of getting things going.
Hope to see you all soon!
SMCKC Meetup Tonight – Streaming Live Online
If you follow my blog or my twitter stream you know tonight is the big SMCKC meetup here in Kansas City and yours truly will be on a panel talking about twitter.
Now if you are in the KC area you can jump over to our site and get the details on the event but if you are unable to attend or you are outside of the area we will be streaming the event live online. Streaming should start around 6pm-ish central or 7pm eastern.
I created a page with the ustream feed embedded so jump over there and catch the event.
I think we are up to around 70 attending with an additional 15 or so maybe coming so look forward to meeting some new people as well as seeing you all online.
[note : during the panel if you have a question feel free to send us a message with the hashtag #smckc and we will see your question in the stream.]
What I Am Reading – January 21, 2009
- Guest Post- Is Twitter the Future
How to View the Facebook Live Feed in Your Firefox Sidebar
Twitter traffic increases 10-fold in a year
Since Google Acquired FeedBurner Everthing is Fuc0ed
Obama's whitehouse.gov nukes 2400-line Bush robots.txt file
Twitter's slow suicide — will an API cap strangle the service?
So What's Up With FeedBurner Now?
Is Twitter Strangling its Famous API?
Top FriendFeed Tips for Twitter Users
What is RT (retweeting)?
FriendFeed on iPhone: Comparing the Options
Bring Your Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Hotmail Friends to socialmedian!
CCCKC Underground Lab Walkthrough
Facebook Competes With Twitter to Become the Online Conversation Platform
Twitter Limits Potential App Growth - How This Hurts Our Users
Bring Your Twitter Friends To FriendFeed
Startup Weekend Coming To Kansas City
Big news in the Kansas City area as I have learned that we will be having a Startup Weekend here April 24th thru the 26th. Now I have never had the chance to go to a Startup Weekend but sounds like something kool to check out.
What is Startup Weekend?
Startup Weekend is an intense event bringing brilliant tech minds together to create companies, projects and great tech communities!
What is the weekend like?
The weekend is fun, mentally simulating and always profitable (2 of those are true)! It starts Friday at 6pm and finishes up Sunday at 6pm, the hours in between are up to the community. Startup Weekend gets everyone in the same room, sometimes clothes and always feeds. What is next is really up to the people that show up, it is your drive and passion that will lead the weekend.
What is the agenda?
Have you ever worked at a startup? Startup Weekends don’t really have agendas, just general times when the building is open for everyone to meet and work. If you are an agenda driven person, Startup Weekend might not be for you. You make the agenda based on the people, ideas and mood.
Sound like something you are interested in? For the KC event you can check out the blog, the twitter feed and if you tweet about the event make sure you use the hash tag #kcsw.
Right now the details are getting ironed out but keep your eye out on the blogs or twitter for any new updates as they become available.
Bring Your Twitter Friends To FriendFeed
FriendFeed added a kool new option that allows you to bring your Twitter friends over to your FriendFeed stream with a few simple clicks.
The friend importer for twitter basically takes your twitter user name (no password needed) finds who out there is also on FriendFeed and lets you add all those users to a current list or create a new one. Once you have done that you are ready to follow those new friends feeds.
Pretty simple but also a great way to add to your FriendFeed addiction hehe
Side Note - I added 629 new people to my FriendFeed using the importer so pretty sweet!!
What I Am Reading – January 20, 2009
- Find and subscribe to your Twitter friends on FriendFeed
Could Sundance Do for Qik What SXSW Did for Twitter?
Mindblowing Numbers From the Obama Inauguration
9 Ways Twitter Can Help in the Real World
Twitter Overtakes Digg In Traffic
If You Haven’t Moved to WordPress 2.7 Yet
7 Most Useful Gmail Labs Features
5 Twitter improvements we're still waiting for
If You Commit a Felony, Don't Google It or You'll Go to Jail [Google]
Tweetups, Meetups, And More! Oh My! - Join The Fun
20 Great Free WordPress 2.7 Themes
10 essential tips for successful social media launch
Roll Your Own Google: Customize Your Search Results With 'Preferred Sites'
Skydeck Puts Your Cell Phone Online
What On TV Tonight? WordPress Of Course!!!
Google Drive Rumors Flare Up Again
4 Things Twitter Could Learn From Jaiku
FriendDeck: A FriendFeed Search Tool
SMCKC Breakfast (1/9/09) - Discussion
Daily Mugshot - A Fun Little Service
Tweetups, Meetups, And More! Oh My! – Join The Fun
This week I have a couple of events I will be attending here in the KC area and would love to meet some fellow twitter users, readers of my blog, new peeps in general.
First we have the SMCKC meetup thursday night at Nicholson Kovac where the topic of discussion will be using twitter/social media with business and yours truly will be on the panel to discuss this topic...now I know you are saying I really don't have any experience in that area but hey I do have experience with twitter and using for my own personal branding as (jeff)isageek as well as you first need to understand twitter/social media tools in order to use them for your business needs so I think I will fit in nicely there. Should be a good time and a great discussion.
Second we have the tweetup/meetup/calling all geeks for the pool hall tweetup at Side Pockets in Lenexa Saturday night. This is just a come and hang out, meet some fellow social media/twitter/blogger/brightkite ect ect. types.
Both events should be a blast and if you get a chance drop on by. Hope to see you all there!
What On TV Tonight? WordPress Of Course!!!
WordPress recently announced WordPress.tv your visual portal to all that is WordPress from How To videos all the way to Wordcamp coverage.
Just jumping around on the new .tv site I am really liking what I am seeing...this will be a great resource for those looking to start with wordpress, those having issues with a certain part of the blogging software, or those looking to check out the wordcamp stuff.
From the WordPress.tv crew
Our goal with WordPress.tv is simple:
To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations.
I must say this is a great job by all. enjoy everyone.
Daily Mugshot – A Fun Little Service
There are those services out there that really help you be productive like gmail or remember the milk, services that help you keep up with all your friends and the latest stuff like twitter and friendfeed, and then there are those services that are just fun.
Daily Mugshot is one of those fun little services (at least I think so). Basically all you do is post a picture of yourself every day and then as you add more and more pics you can share your mugshow which is all your shots combined almost like an old school flip book.
You can of course add friends to follow to check their daily shots as well as you can either email, use a webcam, or take your pics with your mobile device.
Like I said its not a service that is gonna change your life or help you be productive....its just fun! Check out my mugshow below (after 8 days using the service).
If you are using the service make sure to add me as a friend and I will add you back.
[added note] I almost forgot to add you can setup Daily Mugshot so that it posts a twitter message for you each time you load a new mugshot alerting your friends to check it out.
What I Am Reading – January 19, 2009
- Add a Twitter Ribbon Ad to Your Website to Boost Followers
YouTube begins adding download links on select videos
Who Finds Me Most Interesting On FriendFeed (Jan 2009)
WordPress.tv
FriendDeck is to FriendFeed what TweetDeck is to Twitter
Dismantling the Storm Worm botnet
Upcoming Gmail Features: Contact Deduplicator, Better Video Chat
Jaiku Founder: “We’re Not Dying, We’re Morphing”
Top Sites That Every BitTorrent User Should Know About
Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys?
Weekend Project: Host Your Own Web Services
Your Complete Guide to Celebrating Inauguration Day
Twitter and FriendFeed spring cleaning comes early
RSSFWD Announces Shutdown Via Twitter
In Depth: 10 really cool Google Chrome hacks
7 Ways to Be Worth Following on Twitter
13 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can’t
The Dangers of Telling a User Switching to Linux That “Linux Is Just like Windows”
2 Great Apps For Cleaning Your Twitter Contact List
How many AAAAAs in Khaaaaaaaan?
Who Finds Me Most Interesting On FriendFeed (Jan 2009)
Its that time again where I share with everyone who based on my FriendFeed stats finds me the most interesting. I do this for those who follow me on the interweb to help them maybe find some kool new people to check out either on FriendFeed or somewhere else on the interweb.
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(jeff)isa-balloon!
One of my fellow kc tweeters and balloon lady Stacey (@balloonlady) from The Oh Wow Ballon Boutique here in Kansas City took my twitter avatar and created me as a balloon figure!!! How kool is that.
If you are here in the KC area you can check her out at :
4126 Pennsylvania Ave
Suite #6
Kansas City, MO 64111
816.401.1465
[her blog]
Star Wars Retold (By Someone Who Never Saw The Whole Thing)
Oh this is classic!!! I was cracking up! Make sure you check this as I am pretty sure you have never heard the story of Star Wars told like this.
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
What I Am Reading – January 15, 2009
- browserwars.png (PNG Image, 1011×1221 pixels)
Cooliris and Seesmic Streamline Video Blogging
Tad’s Jan 2009 Digital Lifestyle Part 2
If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network
Making Moderation Easier
How To Change Your Twitter Name Without Losing Followers
Identi.ca Gets Funding to Make Open-source Twitter Variant
Google Video Uploads, Jaiku, Dodgeball All Closed; Is GrandCentral Next?
New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺
WIth Google Killing Products, Is Reader Next?
Enhance Any Site By Adding Bacon!
growing up star wars
Chicks Who Click #cwc09
Interview with Elements: A New Kind of Twitter?
5 Reasons to Care About Your Online Presence, and 3 to Forget About It
Google Maps Gets a Public Transit Layer [Google]
A Night of Social Media - Jan 22nd (Kansas City)
Tweetbacks, Copyright and Scraping
10 Great Implementations of Facebook Connect
friendsOfDave on Twitter
Enhance Any Site By Adding Bacon!
Do you have a site that you are wanting to improve? Maybe want to make your favorite online service even better? Well with bacolicio.us you can do just that by adding a strip of BACON to any site, blog, or service.
bacolicio.us was created by Chris and Nick and basically what the service does is slaps a slice of bacon onto the page of your choice. Pretty easy stuff...and they even have a bookmarklet to make the process easy.
For an example page you can see my site bacon-ized by clicking here http://bacolicio.us/http://www.jeffisageek.net
[check out the bacolicio.us blog]
There is even a greasemonkey script to add a slice of bacon to every site you go to...now that is awesome! haha
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