Renaissance 2.0
I just discovered that hashtags have been dead since July 10, 2008 and hardly anyone even noticed it. I accidentally stumbled across the corpse when I tried to visit some of the recent hot hashtags that many people on twitter have been meticulously using such as #Gnomedex and #DNC08. At first, I thought they were…
I had the pleasure (or displeasure) of reviewing a new startup called SocialU on mashable.com in a post called Social Networking Air App SocialU wants to be your everything. On paper it looked like a great idea but once you installed it and started using it things went south in a hurry. My piece was…
By now, everyone should know about Hashtags on Twitter. You create a hashtag by using a pound (#) sign along with the keyword of choice (i.e. #iphone) and that message will become a part of the iphone hashtag page. Here’s the main screen that’s displayed: The exciting part that many people don’t know about is…
In my latest piece for Mashable called “20 Plus tools and resources for Inventors” I covered the best sites for fledgling Edisons. I always enjoy writing for Mashable but this one was extra special to me because I actually use these tools. I love tinkering and coming up with new inventions or toying with ideas…
If you ever forget your password for logging into your local computer then you are out of luck. Sometimes you can remember the backdoor administrator login account but most of the time you won’t be so fortunate. Well, thanks to ophcrack you can now discover all of the login accounts and passwords for that computer….
I was asked to guest post again by Sarah Lacy on her blog, this time about the Y Combinator and their Demo Day for summer 2008. She knew that I liked what they did because of this tweet last week. So off I went to cover the semi-annual event and produced a post called “American…
Twitly is a yet another Twitter group service that tries to fill the gaping hole that Twitter refuses to address. Because of this missing important feature to our twitter experience, many of us are relegated to using hashtags which was covered on here previously. The good news is that several services besides Twitly are trying…
If you’re an avid Google docs user as I am, then you’ll get to the point where you will want to be able to export all of your docs to your local computer. If nothing else as a backup. Unfortunately, there isn’t a built-in easy way to do this. However, there is a way to…
Sometimes you just need to capture a thought in your head or else it’ll be gone forever. There are many ways to record these ideas or brainstorms, but none of them truly take full advantage of the social media and social networking benefits available today. Sure, there are many good mindmapping tools online but none…
While everyone is excited about the new 3G iphone (as I am), I feel compelled to complain about the exclusive distribution deal that Apple and AT&T have in place for this beautiful little gadget! I don’t like exclusive deals like this and hope that more of us complain about it so that it doesn’t become…
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