A Look At Google Wave
The big news coming out this past week was the announcement from Google of Google Wave.
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Learn
Google Wave can make you more productive even when you're having fun.
Take a sneak peek.Develop
Learn how to put waves in your site and build wave extensions with the Google Wave APIs.
Visit code.google.com/apis/wave.Build
Google Wave uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system.
Learn more at www.waveprotocol.org.
To get all the info on Google Wave check out the video below as the complete guide to Google Wave from Mashable
From Mashable
[A Complete Guide to Google Wave]
Zappn Launch Party Tonight
I will be attending the Zappn launch party tonight here in Kansas City in the Crossroads District. Looking forward to chatting it up with some friends and hearing the music of NOMATHMATICS. Should be good times. Look for pics, tweets, and maybe some video action tomorrow from me. If you will be there see ya in a bit...and if you want head over to Zappn as you can sign up for accounts now.
nomathmatics
I must say it is really kool to have an event like this in KC. Always hear about them on the coasts.
The Secret Underground World of Lego
Found this video on "The Lego Underground" as part of the Ignite series which sounds like a kool way to learn a lot in little amounts of time.
What is Ignite?
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. Since then 100s of 5 minute talks have been given across the world. There are thriving Ignite communities in Seattle, Portland, Paris, and NYC.
This community site is sponsored by O'Reilly.
So now that you know what ignite is lets check out the presentation about on of my favorite things LEGO!
To check out some other Ignite presentations check out the YouTube page.
Chatterous : Chat Room By IM, E-Mail, Or Phone
I recently added a chat room to my site for people who wanna come in and say hello, see who else is on the site and have a conversation, or whatever. I used the service Chatterous which is a new way to bring a chat to your site or blog.
Now what is kool about Chatterous is the ability to send and receive messages either via Instant Message, E-Mail, or even via your phone as SMS text messages! How kool is that?
What is Chatterous?
Chatterous is group chat combining the web, im, email and your phone.
Use your existing im, email and phone to chat
Once you create a group, you can chat with your friends through im, email or your phone. No need to use the website!
Your friends don't need to sign up
Your friends don't need to sign up to chat with you! They can reply right on their im, email or phone.
Help your friends reach each other
Once you've created a group for your friends, everyone in the group can reach each other whether they're on im, email or out and about on their phone.
No installation needed
You don't have to install any software! Just use your existing im client, email or phone!
So now I can be 300 miles away from a computer but still be active on my site in my chat room. And setup is a breeze. So come on in to my room say hello and see if this is something you might want to add as a service on your site or blog.
First Trailer for Star Wars Geek Drama ’77′
Movie has some potential and hey anything that has to do with geeks I am willing to give a try. 
from firstshowing.net
I'm not sure why everyone is so fascinated with making movies about Star Wars recently, but I don't mind, I'll see every last one, I'm a big Star Wars geek. I've actually heard of the movie 77 before, back when it was previously known as 5-25-77 - which, for those who don't know, is the exact day that A New Hope first came out. Unlike the movie Fanboys, this is more of a coming-of-age drama than a road trip comedy. There's also a lot of great movie references, as the story is about a wannabe filmmaker whose life changes the moment he sees Star Wars. Every true self-proclaimed geek should be watching this trailer right now.
FeedStats – Bringing You The Stats From FriendFeed
I recently wrote a blog post about a kool new service called What The Hashtag?!? by the gang at Microblink well they are at it again releasing the service call FeedStats which bring you all those stats that us geeks just love to get about the services we use.
Today we’d like to announce our second public project, FeedStats. FeedStats exists for the purpose of visualizing FriendFeed users’ data to see how they interact not only with the service, but with other users. It’s a quick way to find what services they’re using, when they post, and who interacts with their content the most.
With FeedStats you can get info like how much you or someone else is posting daily, what services you are using the most to post content, which day do you post the most, who are you most compatible with on FriendFeed, ect ect.
According to FeedStats I post an average of almost 67 times a day, I like Monday's to post and I use FriendFeed the most when it comes to services with Twitter not far behind.
This kind of service is not only a great way to see how you and others are using the service it also allows you to find others on FriendFeed that might have the same interests as you and worth a follow.
An example of a user page
Awesome Fan Made Green Lantern Trailer
A very kool trailer for what would be an awesome film about Hal Jordan as Green Lantern. Starring Nathan Fillion aka Captain Mal Reynolds from Firefly. Check out the trailer.....
Using FriendFeed As My Twitter Client
This past weekend I decided to make a change with how I interact with Twitter by setting up FriendFeed to be my client of choice to monitor, post, and reply on Twitter.
So far it has been pretty effective but there are a few holes at the moment like if someone is not a friend or imaginary friend of mine of Facebook I will not get their @ replies (using tweetbeep to catch any that fall in the cracks at this time) as well as the ability to have mobile posts automatically post to twitter (it can be done in settings but I dont want every message to go to twitter).
My main goal with going this route is to get as much of my online activity onto FriendFeed...I really enjoy the service and how it allows me to find out what is hot out there on the web, allows me to interact with a great community, and share all kinds of great content and such with my followers.
How is this done you ask? It is pretty easy really just create groups of your FriendFeed friends like for mine I have one for the guys of my favorite podcast the ffundercats, local twitter users, and one for the gang on the social geeks podcast. Once I have them in a group I create a saved search pulling only their twitter posts and getting rid of the rest. With that you now have a twitter stream to your liking! If you are interested in trying something like this out let me know and I can help you set it up.
I now have FriendFeed as my news stream, my podcast stream, my twitter stream, and pretty much my finger on the pulse of the web and even the world. Pretty kool huh?
Monday I posted to FriendFeed that I was making the switch to FriendFeed as my Twitter client and a pretty good discussion opened up so I wanted to share it with you to check out and even get your thoughts and input....so if you are on FriendFeed give us your 2 cents on the subject.
Trailer For The 2009 Reboot of “V”
So growing up in the 80's one of my favorite mini series was "V" and "V: The Final Battle". Now fast forward to 2009 and ABC is bringing back the story with a reboot that from the trailer looks like it is gonna be pretty sweet.
You might recognize Morena Baccarin from Firefly who plays the leader of the Visitors (not sure if her name is Diana like in the original series)
geek blog Once Upon A Geek had some extra footage from the new series as well that you can check out below.
At The Movies With The Geek : Terminator Salvation
So Allison and I checked out the most recent Terminator movie and both of us came away enjoying the film but myself I feel when it comes to the summer flicks so far Star Trek is still king....Allison on the other hand has a stance of "apples to oranges" when it comes to comparing.
We felt there were a lot of the parts in the movie that had a feel of other films like the machines that go around capturing humans felt and even almost sounded like the ones from War of the Worlds as well as how the humans would stop the terminator machines was very matrix like.
A few thoughts
- I liked Christian Bale as John Conner
- Some great action and explosions
- Common is the man! He wears sunglasses in a battle at night!
- Glad they did a future story instead of a terminator comes back to the present
- A familiar face shows up (got a good cheer from the audience)
Anyways over all I would say it was an enjoyable film but as stated earlier Star Trek is still king of the summer movie season (at least for now).
check out the trailer here
FriendFeed – Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Found this great song related to friendfeed to the tune of the Cheers theme song. Cant believe I missed this the first time and just found it. Enjoy!
Listen to Thousands Of DJ Sets With Play.FM
Found a kool new service called Play.fm today that lets you listen to more than 12.000 DJ sets, radio shows and live recordings can be listened to for free and on-demand.
PLAY.FM is the most comprehensive audio database for DJ and club culture on the internet. More than 12.000 DJ sets, live recordings and radio sessions can be streamed free of charge and on-demand.
Has some nice features that let you embed performances in your blog or website as well as putting them onto facebook and other social networking sites. They also provide widgets to share your favorite sets with your friends and the world.
- More than 12.000 DJ sets, radio shows and live recordings can be listened to for free and on-demand
- DJs, labels, booking agencies, clubs and event promoters from 140 different countries upload their recordings
- Listeners help build tracklists with a tracklist building tool developed by PLAY.FM
- In the Meta-Shop prices and qualities of tracks can be compared across different shops
- Founded in 2004 by Georg Hitzenberger, based in Vienna/Austria.
Check out the video below for a little rundown on the features of the service:
Getting Started on www.play.fm from PLAY.FM on Vimeo.
I Hit The Bacon Jackpot Today!
So I got a little goodie package in the mail today from the gang over at bacn.com and bacn.me and it was nothing like I was expecting!! Now first off if you are not familiar with the two sites bacn.com is a site which you might figure out is all about bacon! They have stuff you can buy, a blog, recipes, ect ect. and then bacn.me is a url shortener service which takes your long web addresses and makes them tiny with a hint of bacon and hey anything with bacon added is always better.
I am always talking about bacon on twitter, facebook, friendfeed, smckc events and using the hash tag #bacon to spread the joy...so the guys over at bacn.com wanted to say thanks and said they were gonna shoot me over some stuff.
So today I go to the post office to pick up the package and right when i see it I am like oh there are some goodies in there!!! And boy was I right. I had a sticker and business card from bacn.com as well as a tshirt from them.
Now the next part was the part I was not expecting at ALL!! They actually sent me some BACON!!! And some great varieties at that. I got the following flavors :
- Sun Dried Tomato Bacon
- Uncured Apple Cinnamon Bacon
- Chipotle Southwestern Smoked Bacon
- Pepper Slab Portions
Now how kool is that!! So of course I had to grab the flip video and take a little video action of all the goodies so check that out below.
I just wanted to say thanks again to everyone at bacn.com and bacn.me you guys have a great site and a great url shortener service. Now time to cook up some bacon!
What The Hashtag? – The 411 On Hashtags
The gang over at Microblink have a kool new service called What The Hashtag which I guess would be best described as a "user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter".
Do you get those twitter messages and wonder hmm what the hashtag #smckc or #dwgmf means? sometimes the tags are pretty obvious what they are for but then you have some that you have no clue. Thats where What The Hashtag can help you out.
What information can I get
Some of the information you can get on a hashtag using the service is a description, related hash tags, external links related to the tag, stats, top contributors, and even the stream itself which you can then track on twitter search or pull the rss feed.
Great Tools
Not only is the site itself great to use but they also have some great tools to enhance the use of ther service including.....
TwitterBot
One of the coolest ways to interact with WTH?! is to use our bot service. In short, it's a two-way communication channel that allows you to ask us what a hashtag stands for. We'll send you back a short description plus a link back to the page we're hosting for it.
GreaseMonkey Script
If you're using Twitter's web interface in combination with the Firefox web browser, this user script is a must. Our GreaseMonkey script looks over the page you're looking at and finds all the hashtags on that page. Once it finds a tag, it replaces that hashtag with a link to its page here.
Our script doesn't stop at looking at what people are tweeting about - it will also find hashtags in a user's name, location, and bio fields and link those out as well. No other script developers (that we know of) are taking hashtag linking this far!
Firefox Search Bar
A quick way to search the web when using Firefox is through the search bar. If you want to add a search engine for WTH?!, simply pull down the list of websites and you'll see the option to add WTHashtag?! near the bottom. We've even set it up so it'll suggest things to you as you type.
Firefox Keyword Search
The fastest way to search a specific site using Firefox is through a keyword search. If you really like WTHashtag?!, right click in the search bar in the left navigation box and select "Add a Keyword for this Search". In the following dialog, enter "What the Hashtag" and "wth" in the two fields.
Twittjr : A 20-year-old IBM PCjr Into A Dedicated Twitter Machine
I saw this little project and thought there is no way I cannot blog about it. This is what being geeky is all about. I give you Twittjr......
Twittjr is a system that allows an IBM PCjr to search the public timeline on Twitter. In case you weren't aware, Twitter is a social micro-blogging service introduced in 2006 and has over five million active users. The IBM PCjr is a personal computer introduced in 1984 and has a 4.77MHz processor, 128KB of RAM, and uses 360KB floppy disks for storage.
For more information including how it works and how you to can have your very own old skool twitter machine check out the blog post by creator Alex Grant
WANT!
Big Omaha – The Recap
I didnt get a chance to head to Big Omaha this past weekend like I wanted to but one great thing about the internet is there are always resources out there to check out a bit of the action like the Big Omaha site as well as the blog
Here locally in KC Whitney Mathews from Spiral 16 put together a kool recap video.
BIG Omaha 2009 from Whitney Mathews on Vimeo.
readwriteweb also had some coverage of the conference including some videos. [Big Omaha : The little conference that could]
Other Big Omaha resources
Shane Adams - Big Omaha
The Social Lites - Overheard in Omaha
flickr pics tagged with 'bigomaha'
Silicon Prairie News recap
Twitter And FriendFeed Down At The Same Time!!!
Ok at this moment I am unable to access twitter or friendfeed!!! How is one suppose to live like this! Hope they come back soon.
So that brings up the question both are down...what do you do now?
At The Movies With The Geek : “Star Trek”
So Allison and I went to check out the new trek movie which brings us the story of the beginnings of the USS Enterprise, Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, ect ect.
Now I dont want to give anything away to ruin your experience of the movie but wanted to throw a little video up giving our thoughts and our initial reaction after watching the film.
So there you have it...we both loved the movie and I look forward to seeing it again for sure. I thought the characters were spot on with the personalities and famous quotes from the original series. I really hope we get to see more films with this crew and I would give the movie 5 out of 5 tribbles. check it out and get ready to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Ideas And Angles Bringing Us White Board Wednesday
Tomorrow Kansas City social media specialists Ideas and Angles are going to host the very first "White Board Wednesday". Check below for details and a little idea what they are looking for with the event.
I+A is excited to announce the first “White Board Wednesday” session. A normal meeting for us involved a lot of forming ideas and working through them on our trusty white board. We are always working to find new ways to connect with people and solve problems so why not take it live to the people?
[Ideas and Angles Ustream Channel]
Sounds like an awesome event in the making and looking forward to checking it out tomorrow afternoon. Hope to see you there and look forward to all the input and discussion.
Using Saved Searches To Optimize Your FriendFeed Experience
Are you a new user to FriendFeed? Maybe been using it for awhile? Real time feed have your eyes spinning as it flys by on the screen? Well have you checked out saved searches to help you manage your stream?
Saved searches allow you to customize by user, subject, likes, comments, service, ect and really make FriendFeed work for you and bring the information you are looking for. Some of the searches I have (once called filters) are ones looking for posts just about bacon, hot friendfeed discussions, or up and coming posts and the list goes on and on.
One great reference to use is the FF Saved Searches Group on FriendFeed which will keep you upto date with any new ones out there to grab as well as great discussion on how to maybe tweak that search you have.
Check that out and if you have any questions or wanna talk searches feel free to comment or shoot me a message sometime.
Happy Star Wars Day!!
May the 4th be with you! Thats right May 4th is Star Wars day due to its close sounding of "May The Force Be With You". Hey what can I saw we are all a bunch of geeks
Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you! on 12seconds.tv
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