A Look At The Palm Pre
One of the mobile devices I am looking forward to checking out is the new phone from Palm called the Palm Pre which I think is due to be out in the next couple months from Sprint. I found this demo on the web showing off the abilities of the phone.
Looks pretty sweet and would love to get my hands on one so I could demonstrate to all my followers on twitter, friendfeed, facebook, brighkite, ect ect the list goes on and on so hey if someone at Sprint or Palm or somewhere else see's this and wants some free promo time with a geek who has thousands of followers you know where to find me...hehe hook me up!
Another quick note is there will be a preDevCamp here in kc shortly after the launch of the mobile device so keep an eye on the website if that is something that might interest you.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams At TED
Found this from my fellow Kansas City social media guru Zena Weist and thought I would share it with you all.
I for one always enjoy hearing from those that have started or are a part of some of the great services we all use daily.
Chad Vader Reenacts The Best Picture Nominees
I totally missed this one last week but it is too good not to share. I give you Chad Vader reenacting the films nominated for best picture this year in 3 min! Enjoy!
Monkeying Around With Twitter
During the day when at work I find myself jumping on the web version of twitter to see who has replied to me, what DM's I have or even just checking out my friend stream.
Recently I added a few greasemonkey scripts that allow me to add or enhance the functionality of the web site and thought I would share with you some of my favorites.
Show # of unread replies + adds mentions
A simple script that displays the number of unread @replies and adds a Mentions tab in the Twitter sidebar.
Enhance Twitter
Enhance twitter.com by adding a search box (with search suggestions) to search tweets or current events/happenings right from your twitter home page.
Nested Twitter Replies
Adds nested replies to every Twitter conversation thread.
Endless Tweets
Loads pages endlessly when scrolling on the Twitter timeline. Other features: remembers last read tweet, embedded location map, more dynamic interface, tab-completion of friend names and live updates with Growl notifications.
Userscripts.org is a great site to find scripts like these and many others that you can use to enhance to customize services all over the interwebz so check it out.
AMC “Best Picture Showcase” Recap
So this past Saturday I had the opportunity along with my buddy JJ aka vivid13 to be part of an awesome event called the "Best Picture Showcase" put on by AMC.
Basically the concept is all 5 movies nominated for best picture for this years Oscars shown in 1 day, add unlimited popcorn, tons of movie geeks and you have an awesome event on your hands.
I did a little recap video with some input from others who attended so check that out below:
As I mentioned in the video I had an awesome time at the event, AMC put on one heck of a movie marathon and I cannot wait until next year to do it all again!
For some extra coverage of the "Best Picture Showcase" check out all the tweets tagged #amcbps from all over the country, as well as my fellow kc geek shane with his blog post running down the showcase and movies as well as his flickr pics of the event.
So did you go to the event in your city? What was your experience? Maybe you didnt but you saw the movies...what was your favorite? Let me know.
Startup Schwag For February
It is always fun to come home after a day at work or a night on the town to find my monthly Startup Schwag package waiting for me.
I always get excited by what new shirt could be awaiting me!!! So Saturday I got home from the AMC Best Picture Showase to find I was the proud owner of.......
What is 12seconds
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Biggest Loser Competition
Today one of my co-workers asked if I was interested in joining up in a biggest loser comp with him and another one of our friends. I have been wanting to shed some more pounds so I was all over it.
Looks like we are gonna do a 2 month period starting today and not sure if we are gonna just do total pounds or percentages.
My starting weight as of today : 276 lbs.
I dont think I will update the blog everyday but if you dont already you can follow me on twitter or friendfeed and I should have daily updates.
Heading Out To The “Best Picture Showcase”
Well today is the day for the AMC "Best Picture Showcase". 13 plus hours of fun, unlimited popcorn and 5 movies nominated for best picture this year at the Oscars.
You can follow my day at the event on my twitter, brightkite, friendfeed, and facebook streams. Gotta love social media!
Let the fun begin now! (first stop Chick-Fil-A for breakfast)
What I Am Reading – February 19, 2009
- Keep Your WordPress Blog Fresh With Content From Twitter and FriendFeed
Wil Wheaton Brings Hope To Watchmen Fans
120 Twitter Mashups and Growing Fast
ReadWriteWeb Guide to the SXSW Web Awards Finalists
The Great Gig in the Sky: Using Flickr for Astronomy
Love : Daft Punk Style
Recapping the Three-Day Facebook Firestorm
ShareThis.com Aims to Become A Big Data Platform in the Next Web
On Twitter, $ Is the New #
New Facebook Terms Allows Confiscating Furniture [cartoon]
Queued: An Adobe AIR App for Netflix
ClikBall: A Slick New Way to Share Links, From the Creator of Userscripts.org
We’re SXSW Web Awards finalists
Google Goes HTML5: Demos Experimental Version of Gmail
Your Personal Brand is Equal to Your Google Results
Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee
Twitter Finally Integrates Its Real-Time Search Engine
The Confession Virus: Facebook’s “25 Things” Takes Over the System
25 Things You Might Hate About Facebook
Interested In “Watchmen” Early Screening Tickets?
Wil Wheaton Brings Hope To Watchmen Fans
I must say over the past few months I have wondered is Watchmen going to be a good movie? Will Hollywood just crap over it?
Well time will tell I guess how the movie is accepted or destroyed by the fans but one thing that gives me hope is Wil Wheaton's statement after seening a screening of the movie.
I have to say hearing this from Wil makes me feel a little better going into my viewing of the movie as I know he is a hardcore geek that likes a lot of the same things I do as well as he is someone who gives his opionion and doesnt sugar coat it or anything to make people happy.
I am soooo excited for the lights to go down and experience this film.
Kansas City fans dont forget to do the scavenger hunt over at scene stealers for a chance to win passes to an early screening of Watchmen as well! Drawing is next Friday.
Love : Daft Punk Style
I so wish I would have found this last week for VD but hey I thought it was too kool not to share and really you could use it anytime you are wanting to let that geek grrl in your life you really like her.
And lets be honest Daft Punk just makes everything better!
25 Things You Might Hate About Facebook
Are you on Facebook? Based on the stats recently stating there are like over 175 million users now I am guessing you probably are.
I grabbed this video created by Julian Smith where he talks about the 25 things he hates about facebook and thought I would share it with ya....what do you hate about Facebook? Guessing you probably have some that are in this video. I know I did! Enjoy
Interested In “Watchmen” Early Screening Tickets?
If you are in the Kansas City area, a Watchmen fan, and able to answer questions about the graphic novel then do I have a scavenger hunt for you!
Screen Stealers has put together a little scavenger hunt on their site for everyone to complete and those with the correct final answer will be put in a drawing to win a pass for 2 to the early screening of the movie on March 30th, 2009 (20 total winners) at the AMC Olathe 30. The drawing will be Friday Feb 27th and the winners will be contacted by email with instructions.
Good luck everyone and if I win some passes I will see ya there!! Is it the 27th yet? hehe
a little trailer action for ya. cant get enough of this!
Learn To Count Binary On Your Fingers
The gang over at NYC Resistor a hacker collective in NY put a video together on how you can count in binary using your very own digits (fingers).
Being a geek I always find stuff like this interesting. Enjoy!
What I Am Reading – February 18, 2009
- Nerds Show Us How to Count Binary on Our Fingers
Facebook Terms of Service Change Rapidly Turns Into a PR Nightmare
Update on Terms
Did Hulu Just Pull The Plug On Its Deal With TV.com?
Don’t be fooled: Facebook TOS still evil
TweetDeck: You Autocomplete Me (And User Names as Well)
Facebook Launches Facebook Bill of Rights, Reverts to Previous Terms of Use
Yumbunny: Crowd-Sourced Matchmaking With Hilarious Results
Super Mario - Lego Style
5 Gmail Labs Apps Worth Enabling
The 10 Commandments of Facebook Connect
FoxTab makes Firefox tab switching prettier, if not more convenient
New X-Men Origins: Wolverine TV Spots
(jeff)isageek.net tv : “Best Picture Showcase”
What I Am Reading - February 17, 2009
Best Picture Showcase
Super Mario – Lego Style
What could make Super Mario even better then it is now? Well add LEGO of course!
Check out the following 3 videos that are the LEGO version of levels 1,2, and 3 of the game. Enjoy and as always geek out!
level 1
level 2
level 3
(jeff)isageek.net tv : “Best Picture Showcase”
* 5 Nominated Films * Free Large Popcorn * Unlimited Refills *
* Collectible Pass * All In One Day *
What I Am Reading – February 17, 2009
- Google Buying Twitter? Not a Bad Idea
Facebook Responds to Concerns Over Terms of Service
The Trilogy Meter
Magnolia Founder Discusses Site Outage and Data Loss
TinyChat - Disposable Chatrooms for the Twitter Generation
Word of advice: get your blog content off Facebook ASAP
Black Out Your Twitter Photo: NZ Copyright Law Protest Goes Viral
Medpedia’s Health Platform Could Be Just What The Doctor Ordered
On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information
Whedon's Dollhouse Bombs On TV, But A Hit On iTunes, Hulu
Top 8 Web 2.0 Security Threats
Mark Zuckerberg is answering the wrong question, and we fell for it again
Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
Charges Against The Pirate Bay Partly Dropped
Tech Layoffs Surge to 300,000
Do You Twitter Before, During, Or After Sex?
Need A Quick Chat Room? Try TinyChat
Did George Lucas Rape Our Childhood?
What I Am Reading - February 15, 2009
Do You Twitter Before, During, Or After Sex?
Geek Entertainment TV recently polled some twitter users (you might recognize some) at twestivalSF about their habbits when it comes to tweeting including do you tweet before, during, or after sex? burning questions we all want to know (all though burning during sex is not good...hehe).
So for the answer to that question and some others check out the video below.
So what was your first tweet?
Need A Quick Chat Room? Try TinyChat
These days everyone uses services like tinyurl, bit.ly, bacn.me ect ect. to shorten their url's to make things easier, cleaner, and quicker.
Today I discovered a service that takes the idea of making your url's smaller and brings it to the chat game called TinyChat.
TinyChat basically in minutes gives you a chat room, a tiny url to give out to others and soon will allow you to have your twitter or facebook credentials available for those who enter your room.
I am going to create a chat room now just to test it out so as read this blog post today stop by and if the room is still active we can chat with each other.
Overall looks like a kool idea for getting a chat room up and running quickly and then (in the near future) allows you to use other social media services to let others know who you are and were they can find ya.
Very Nice!
[come check out my TinyChat Room]
** note ** One thing that would be nice is the ability to pop the room out of the browser to make it it's own window.
So what are your thoughts on TinyChat? Do you use a similar service?
What I Am Reading – February 15, 2009
- Make Your Site More Social With Google Friend Connect’s Social Bar
Apple Wants To Make Jailbreaking Worthy Of Jail Time, $2500 Fine
Fail Whale: How an image went from e-card to Twitter icon.
The Death of Web 2.0 is somewhat exaggerated
Five Things Twitter Should Do with $35M
Facebook, Turner Teaming Up Again for Live Integrations During NBA All Star Game, Obama’s Address
How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar
We Are Playing With Our Wii
Your News Page is the New Newsroom
Love is all you need
Have You Tried Google Reader Browse
Breaking: Facebook Surpasses 175 Million Users, Growing By 480,000 Users a Day
8 Ways To Enhance Your Instant Messenger
Twickie Lets You Post All Your Twitter Replies to Your Blog
I'm Not Using Brightkite, and It Has Zero to Do With Privacy, Security
R.I.P. Elevator Music (1934–2009)
Favicon Generator Imports and Edits Icons for Your Site [Image Editing]
FriendFeed as a Productivity Tool
Happy Valentine’s Day from GeekDad
Top 10 Sites Parents Don't Want Kids To See
We Are Playing With Our Wii
This was a funny skit from SNL last night involving the Nintendo Wii.
What I Am Reading – February 14, 2009
- Doing comments first on Twitter with Twickie
I'm Not Using Brightkite, and It Has Zero to Do With Privacy, Security
Edit Google Spreadsheets on Your Mobile Phone
Media Friday: Twitter Science Theater 3000
Tasty: A New Delicious iPhone App
Get Your Facebook in Your Gmail with Xoopit's Updated Plugin
Transformers 2 full trailer leaked online
Twitter squeeks by again. “Don’t Click” was good POC
Twitter Don't Click Exploit
Twitter Now Worth $230 Million, According to Investors
Discover Some Sunken Treasure - Wil Wheaton Puts Out a New Book
Goodbye Old Friend
Battlestar Office-ica [sci fi mashups]
Flock Says Forget the Lingerie and Chocolate; Instead Download Flock!
Adobe re-launches AIR application directory
Feedly Mini Updated: Now with More Twitter and FriendFeed Interaction [feedly]
Onehub Makes FTP Simple, Straightforward, and Sexy
Google Raises The Social Bar With New Friend Connect Feature
Tweetmeme Adds Leaderboard, Tag Clouds to Tweet Links Tracker
Ubiquity Command-Line Tool Headed for Firefox–Try it Now
WatchFriends : Watchmen Meets SuperFriends
What happens when you mix one of my favorite cartoons as a kid with one of the great comics of all time and an upcoming blockbuster movie?
You get WatchFriends of course! Thought this was pretty kool and as always a lot geeky! Enjoy.
Goodbye Old Friend :(
Sad news from the (jeff)isageek compound known as the "Fortress of Solitude". This morning I went out to my car to find someone had found my car unlocked and stole my iPod.
I will miss you old friend.
(iPod)isageek - Dec 2005 to Feb 2009
If you would like to contribute to my get Jeff a new iPod fund please feel free to contribute...or if you are just a fan of my blog, tweets, podcasting, or my geek fu skills feel free to leave a tip as well. hehe
Battlestar Office-ica [sci fi mashups]
Found a couple of mashups recently that I thought I would share with everyone...first we have a mashup of The Office and Battlestar Galactica and the second is Star Trek meets The Love Boat! Good stuff for sure. Enjoy!
Who Finds Me Interesting On FriendFeed – Feb 2009 Edition
Every month I like to highlight those who find me the most interesting on FriendFeed to share with others who is finding my stuff the most interesting and therefore if you find me interesting you might find these people interesting as well. Just my little way of giving back.
What I Am Reading – February 11, 2009
- Is Twitter Testing Ajax Updates?
8-Bit + UFC = UFC Punch Out Awesomeness!
New Feedly combines Google Reader, friendfeed, Twitter in great way for social network addicts
And Twitter Goes Down Again
binary bubbles!
Wednesday Geeky Pics: Geek Love
Why We Don't Write About Twitter Every Day
Linux loses to Windows in Firefox benchmarks
Feedly Mini Updated: Now with More Twitter and FriendFeed Interaction
Build a BoxeeBox and Wean Yourself From Cable
Sirius Radio Now Looks Like an Outer Space WebVan
Passwords: Most People Do It Wrong
Chi.mp Goes 2.0: Adds Blogs, Photos, and Themes [feedly]
Why Facebook’s Future Is Mobile
Trackle: A Winner Among Alert Services [feedly]
Twestival.fm: Live Aid for Twitter
30-Minute Brand Building for Twitter
What Programming Language Should I Learn?
Now Where Was I? Gmail Labs Adds Location to Signatures
Join Team Twitter For The AHA Heart Walk
8-Bit + UFC = UFC Punch Out Awesomeness!
Two of my favorite things are all things 8-bit and UFC so when I saw this little video it was pure win!
You take Georges St-Pierre vs. Jay Hieron and put it to Mike Tyson's Punch Out and you have something good to watch. Love all the sounds...is there a way we could get all fights rebroadcast like this? Enjoy!
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