Archive April 2007
Google Calendar Security Notice
Uh, guys… y’all gotta tell your friends not to store usernames and passwords in public documents – at least, not without protecting them with passwords themselves. More importantly, the last thing you want to do is set a reminder for yourself in Google Calendar and leave the login credentials in the reminder AND set it [...]
Cingular BlackJack Phone Problems
Before I came down to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 and Podcast Hotel conferences, I stopped by my local Cingular dealer and upgraded my phone and data plan. I had been using the relatively-solid 2125, but craved 3G network speed. Their Windows Mobile selection was paltry, reminding me once again about how corrupt and [...]
Streaming Live from the Podcast Hotel
I just sent this out a few minutes ago to my email subscribers. Since I’m streaming “behind the scenes” at the Podcast Hotel tomorrow and Saturday, I figured you should know to tune in. As today’s exerpiences and conversations with Eric Rice, dotBen, and Justin.tv illustrate – you never know what you’re going to get. [...]
Mean People Suck
Just when I was getting ready to tell you all about how the Internet was an amazing people connector, I received this email from an anonymous asshole: Chris, What have you been up to lately? Coddling a bunch of losers while you drink wine out of single serving 187 ml bottles? You claim you are [...]
Pirillo’s Picks for 04/18/2007
I send my picks to 140,000 subscribers every day – join them by sending an email to picks@lockergnome.com. If you blog and encourage others to subscribe to the list, your site will be placed in the queue to be featured in an upcoming Pirillo’s Picks! [NUMBERS] Share Excel Spreadsheets Online Easily (tags: excel, spreadsheet, online, [...]
What is Blogging?
Dave is a tech industry pioneer. However, I believe the person who looks up to him most cares more about the man behind the code than the code itself. Ponzi loves Dave. Recently, she was given the opportunity to help furnish Dave’s new home in the Bay area. She wrote: I’ve spent the past two [...]
New Music Promotion Ideas
Ethan Kaplan thrives in the music industry as the Senior Director of Technology at Warner Bros. Records. According to him, “he loves computers and music (especially post-punk and punk). He has an MFA in conceptual art and cultural theory. He believes Jacques Derrida is the true father of the Internet.” He also apparently likes writing [...]
Monday Night Live
Last night, on our way home from dinner, I asked Ponzi if she’d come on cam to say hi to everybody who was tuned in. I told her there were probably 100 people in there and she said there probably wasn’t. We quickly discovered the chat room count sitting at 79, so she dismissed me [...]
Logitech is both Good and Bad
Remember how I was looking for a keyboard the other day? Well, I did purchase a Logitech diNovo Edge. The hardware was amazing, but the software was beyond lousy. After a couple of BSODs and workflow hiccups, I decided to uninstall the SoB and take ‘er back to the store. My friend, Jeff Partridge, had [...]
Busy Week in SF
My goodness, where does the time go? I’ve been sucked into this “live” Web vortex, and I don’t see myself emerging from it anytime soon. I’m getting done everything I need to get done, but it’s happening differently now. I’m thinking about things differently now. This Wednesday, I’m headed to San Francisco for the tail [...]
The Ultimate Photo Search Engine
Pixsy is a media search platform that powers private label image and video search engines for websites. Image and video content across the web is aggregated in the form of thumbnail images and is organized within the Pixsy index using proprietary technology. The content is then distributed through a variety of publisher branded image and [...]
Get a Second Life
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you’ve explored a bit, perhaps you’ll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business. You’ll also [...]
Think Small
Citizen Agency, LLC is an Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development and marketing. A few notes from Chris Messina and Tara Hunt’s session were taken by Gnomedexer Alberto (Lopez): Non zero-sum means is a WIN-WIN for everyone Do it for Love Do it for Fun bunches of camps [...]
How not to Pitch Venture Capitalists
As more social bookmarking and tagging sites (like Technorati or del.icio.us) come online, it will become increasingly important to unveil results from all of them on a single page. TagJag has been doing this from day one, and more search providers are added on a regular basis. Steve Rubel, in his blog post titled ‘Search [...]
Future of the Music Industry
Dave Dederer, best known as guitarist and singer for the Presidents of the United States of America, was born on October 5, 1964. An alumnus of Seattle, Washington’s The Bush School and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he founded the Presidents with fellow Bush School alumnus Christopher Ballew, with whom he had been playing [...]
