Tracking Twitter
Twitter’s new “track”:http://evhead.com/2007/09/twitter-track.asp feature is really remarkable. Back in March, I “asked”:http://twitter.com/rklau/statuses/7877141 (on Twitter, naturally):
So… if I wanted to monitor the twitter public timeline for mentions of “FeedBurner”, how would I go about doing that?
I ended up answering my own question, and it [...]
Randy Pausch
Not really sure that there are words that would do justice to Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”, given “at Carneige Mellon”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en recently. Randy’s “home page”:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/ has a number of links to recent media coverage, but here’s the short version: he’s 47 years old, a legend in computer science (particularly in video game design and virtual reality), [...]
Back on Twitter
Like “Dick”:http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/09/lessons_learned_obviously_its.html, I struggled to see the value in Twitter. In May, I declared that “it wasn’t doing it for me”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/05/16/twitter-v-facebook.php and I didn’t check it for months. But then Scott Karp “made a compelling case”:http://publishing2.com/2007/08/02/twitter-is-a-publication/ last month that there was more to Twitter… and I started “getting it”.
I’m not sure I’ve progressed much past [...]
Sonos + Rhapsody: Nirvana
Over a year ago, Fred Wilson “raved about Sonos”:http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/03/sonos_rocks.html, and I’ve been jealous pretty much ever since then. But his “music dialtone”:http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/01/david_kirkpatri.html post earlier this year sealed it for me: I needed one of these things.
For those that don’t know what it is, the Sonos is a multi-room music system. They are tiny-ish boxes that [...]
I’m not dead yet…
…but wow, I’d forgotten how painful moving is. Not painful in the “so sorry to see you go” way. No, the goodbyes have been sweet, and appreciated, and since we’re moving to the Bay Area, we’re already scheduling visitors - it’s not like we’re never seeing our friends again. No, it’s painful in the “what [...]
Plaxo - wow!
Like anyone who’s been on the net for more than a few years, I’d learned to loathe the “Plaxo”:http://www.plaxo.com/ e-mails that inevitably resulted when a colleague uploaded their Outlook contacts to Plaxo. The concept behind Plaxo was always wonderful: shift the burden of keeping your addressbook to the people in your addressbook; when their info [...]
Blackberry tips
Hard to imagine, but after 10 years of holding out, I’m now in possession of a Blackberry. I’ve owned three Treos, countless Palm Pilots before that, and my most recent phone was a Samsung D807 with the Gmail app installed for e-mail access. But the volume of e-mail here is on a scale that clearly [...]
Twitter v. Facebook
A couple months back, I “wrote”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/03/11/twitter.php about giving Twitter a look. In the past few months, I’ve found it’s never become part of my daily routine. It’s somewhat interesting to see what others are up to, but the signal-to-noise ratio is higher than I need. I tried using a stand-alone Twitter client (”Twitbox”:http://www.winextra.com/2007/03/30/twitbox-050-a-twitter-client/ for Windows) [...]
Greasemonkey extension - TinyURL for Gmail
“This”:http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-greasemonkey-user-script/instantly-shrink-links-with-gmail-tinyurl-260364.php is a neat little hack for Gmail: if you find yourself pasting in links in the message window that are unruly, you can highlight the URL, hit ctrl-shift-T and “Greasemonkey”:http://greasespot.net/ will auto-convert your URL into a “TinyURL”:http://www.tinyurl.com/. Neat. (If you have Greasemonkey installed, click “here”:http://bitterpill.org/gmail_tinyurl/gmail_tinyurl-0.4.user.js to install the script.)
I ran into a problem though: [...]
The future of distributed media
Had a great conversation with “Barry Parr”:http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/parr/ today, and one of the observations I shared was how much fun I’m having with Google Reader’s “share” function. For those that don’t know, Google Reader has a feature that lets you “share” any item in the reader. (See image to the right.)
I take the feed that Google [...]
