This was the best view!
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The Importance Of People Versus Technology
People are where it's at. Technology is just a vehicle.
Today is April 1st. Typically people see today as the start of Spring. A time to renew. A time to access our plan for the year, and make some course corrections.
PodCampSLC 2009 just wrapped up a few days ago. Having the opportunity to meet people I have only interacted with through technology was awesome. I think it is vitally important for people to meet face to face. You can't hide behind a screen. Venture out. Meet up. There are so many things going on out there, you might even discover some new friends.
Things are sort of back to normal. I don't think I'll take on such a huge project again with as little help as I did. The community is bigger than that, and the community deserves to be more involved.
Check out the PodCampSLC website for updates on this past camp and to stay current with upcoming events.
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Today is April 1st. Typically people see today as the start of Spring. A time to renew. A time to access our plan for the year, and make some course corrections.
PodCampSLC 2009 just wrapped up a few days ago. Having the opportunity to meet people I have only interacted with through technology was awesome. I think it is vitally important for people to meet face to face. You can't hide behind a screen. Venture out. Meet up. There are so many things going on out there, you might even discover some new friends.
Things are sort of back to normal. I don't think I'll take on such a huge project again with as little help as I did. The community is bigger than that, and the community deserves to be more involved.
Check out the PodCampSLC website for updates on this past camp and to stay current with upcoming events.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Google Offers Mobile Friend Finder With Latitude Service (But Not For The iPhone)
Google pushed out a new product today called Google Latitude. It basically lets you find friends in geographical locations via Google Maps. This is pretty cool. Loopt has been doing this for a while, and so have others. I'm not really sure I see the value in this, other than its a great way to stalk your friends. If I really wanted to know where someone was, I would just ask them.
The interesting part is it wasn't released for the iPhone. It does work on the Android of course, Blackberry and Windows Mobile. But with GPS and mapping so tightly integrated into the iPhone, I'm really surprised this was left out of the initial release. I hardly ever used mapping on my Windows Mobile device.
Is Google targeting a service like BrightKite.com, where I can check in at a specific location, or upload photos and give it a geo tag? I can see better uses for this service than just seeing who around me. I would also like to be able to update my social network too, like FriendFeed or Twitter, with a link to my latest location.
I'm not sure if this was intentional or chance, but the map on the Latitude home page was in my general area. Weird, huh? Stalking at its best.
[image title="Google Latitude" size="full" id="1051" align="none" linkto="full" ]
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The interesting part is it wasn't released for the iPhone. It does work on the Android of course, Blackberry and Windows Mobile. But with GPS and mapping so tightly integrated into the iPhone, I'm really surprised this was left out of the initial release. I hardly ever used mapping on my Windows Mobile device.
Is Google targeting a service like BrightKite.com, where I can check in at a specific location, or upload photos and give it a geo tag? I can see better uses for this service than just seeing who around me. I would also like to be able to update my social network too, like FriendFeed or Twitter, with a link to my latest location.
I'm not sure if this was intentional or chance, but the map on the Latitude home page was in my general area. Weird, huh? Stalking at its best.
[image title="Google Latitude" size="full" id="1051" align="none" linkto="full" ]
Monday, February 2, 2009
Google Finally Puts Tasks On The iPhone
I noticed you can now get your Google Tasks on the iPhone with a very pleasing user interface. Even though its web based, it has pretty much everything you could possibly want from a simple and easy to use task management system.
The simplicity of this product is amazing. You can create and manage separate tasks lists, and create or remove tasks from the iPhone.
Couple of drawback I can see right off the bat:
But for basic task management, this is a good first stab. I know Google will release more features as it carefully tracks usage.
Here are a few screen shot from my iPhone
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The simplicity of this product is amazing. You can create and manage separate tasks lists, and create or remove tasks from the iPhone.
Couple of drawback I can see right off the bat:
- Can't move a task from one list to another
- Can't set a default list to show
- Tasks aren't ranked
- Can't see a list of all active tasks, if you have more than one list
But for basic task management, this is a good first stab. I know Google will release more features as it carefully tracks usage.
Here are a few screen shot from my iPhone
Friday, January 23, 2009
Is An RSS Feed Important Anymore?
Goolge has started transitioning users from Feedburner to its own brand of RSS delivery. After I completed the transition I reviewed the different RSS feeds that are being distributed through Feedburner, and I started to wonder if RSS feeds actually have any value individually.
My reason to question this is I have FriendFeed consuming all of my blogs RSS feeds, my Twitter Feed, my Flickr feed and many other. In essence I am posting all of my content in one location which doesn't require you to subscribe to my individual feeds, only one FriendFeed. So my question is, are RSS feeds becoming a means to display multiple streams of content in a single location, which can also provide a single RSS feed to consume if someone chooses too?
I know RSS has value, but I'm wondering if it has the same value today as it did a year ago. Are you subscribing to as many individual feeds as you have in the past or are you letting social networks help give you the streams you are most interested in?
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My reason to question this is I have FriendFeed consuming all of my blogs RSS feeds, my Twitter Feed, my Flickr feed and many other. In essence I am posting all of my content in one location which doesn't require you to subscribe to my individual feeds, only one FriendFeed. So my question is, are RSS feeds becoming a means to display multiple streams of content in a single location, which can also provide a single RSS feed to consume if someone chooses too?
I know RSS has value, but I'm wondering if it has the same value today as it did a year ago. Are you subscribing to as many individual feeds as you have in the past or are you letting social networks help give you the streams you are most interested in?
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