Renaissance 2.0
Evan Williams spoke at TED and shared the history of Twitter and some of his experiences as the leader there and elsewhere. The most impressive thing about his talk was when he explained how the biggest business decisions he ever made were based on following his hunches and obeying his gut instincts. Even though most…
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Here’s a funny little video from SolarWinds that truly captures the typical day in an IT Manager’s life! Believe me, it is not far from the truth! It is truly uncanny how close it hits home! Note: Could find embed code so clicking the image will bring you to their site where you can watch…
GE is promoting their new Smart Grid Technology with a slick ad campaign. It starts with a very cool website. But for me, the most impressive part involves their Digital Hologram of Smart Grid technology (See video below). Trust me, it’s far more impressive in reality! You’ll have to see it to believe it. Go…
I ‘m loving Google Tasks more every day. It’s so handy being able to access your to do lists in so many different ways. You can get to it from your Gmail account, through its own popup window, via your mobile device (looks like an app on the iPhone), on your iGoogle homepage as a…
I love Firefox mostly because of the incredible amount of add-ons and extensions you can install to enhance your web surfing experience. The downside is that if you ever have to install Firefox on a new computer (as I do on a constant basis being in the IT industry) then you’ll have to painstakingly reinstall…
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Being able to collaborate in real-time online continues to get better but we’re still far from where we need to be in regards to features. here’s a rundown of the best ways we can work with others on documents at the same time. EtherPad offers real-time editing and collaboration of plain text documents.It includes a…
Here’s an amazing 7-minute video of David Merrill from this year’s TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) convention where he demonstrates Siftables. What are they? You’ll have to see it to believe it. In a nutshell, they could be the future of computers. They’re micro computers that interact and react to their environment. This technology obviously…
Chris Pirillo got fed up with waiting for Twitter or anyone else for that matter to come up with a way to thread twitter conservations or replies and decided to create Twickie with the help of a friend. Now you can get all of the responses to any of your tweets and then copy and…
Here’s a quick look at the sites that were in the mood for this Valentine’s Day according to their customized logo. Some felt it more than others as you will see. Google did the x and o thing. nothing too serious. Still, it acknowledged the lover’s holiday. Yahoo was a little more amorous thank Google…
There are a bunch of excellent sites now catering to the health and medical industry. Many of them include big players such as Microsoft and Google. We’re not just talking about the traditional WebMD type of service either. This new breed of health service has incorporated many of the cool and useful social media tools…