Tag: Misc
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One-click Drupal 5 Hosting – Preview Release
One-click Drupal 5 Hosting – Preview Release Bryght has been busy too! In addition to contributing to the Drupal 5 release, we have upgraded our own service so now anyone can create their own Drupal 5 site, with the push of a button. But that’s not all! We’re also cutting our prices in half, from
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one year anniversary approaching for discollection
one year anniversary approaching for discollection Over the next little while I will be sharing with all of you what I have learned, what opportunities discollection has provided me, people that I have met becoming a part of a gastown community, and how this store has entirely changed my life. I expect it Part of
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Happy sixth birthday Drupal
Happy sixth birthday Drupal Today, six years ago, Drupal 1.0.0 was released! The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement: Today, drop.org announces the release of drupal 1.00 after an extensive period of testing. Drupal is a full-featured content managemen Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI
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Get a Travel Bursary for Northern Voice
Get a Travel Bursary for Northern Voice This year Northern Voice is offering six travel bursaries of CAN $500 each. To apply, write a blog post, or record a podcast or video blog post describing why you want to come to Northern Voice. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building
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Personal Challenges on 43Things
Personal Challenges on 43Things We’re always looking for ways to better engage the software in your head that actually changes behavior rather than just gives you a new tool or feature. The influences of peer pressure, reputation, and other social contracts are a lot more powerful as Part of the Web and Early Blog archive
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Change Everything starts with small steps close to home
Change Everything starts with small steps close to home Congratulations to Kate and the team at Change Everything for the fine mention of their efforts to help the homeless with toques and warm clothes in the Globe and Mail. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: The Web3 Manifesto: Challenging Tech
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trendwatching.com’s TOP 5 CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2007
trendwatching.com’s TOP 5 CONSUMER TRENDS FOR 2007 del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI Companions w/ John Anthony Hartman of IHAVEROBOTS.
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Eric Appel’s SmartSetr Seriously Rocks
Eric Appel’s SmartSetr Seriously Rocks One of the things that I really like about Zooomr is that we have SmartSets. SmartSets are a much better way of building sets or albums than the way that most photo sharing sites are organized. SmartSets allow you to predefine criteria and then use a data Part of the
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Google’s Identity Infrastructure is Messed Up and No One Is Talking
Google’s Identity Infrastructure is Messed Up and No One Is Talking OK, I’ve talked to several people about this now and everyone is feeling the pain. 2007 means no more free ride for Google. No, they’re not evil….they’ve just seriously messed up their infrastructure to the point that it is utterly broken. Part of the
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The Compact – the Antithesis of American Consumerism
The Compact – the Antithesis of American Consumerism You got to respect these trendsetters. The Compact is a consumer group from the Bay Area who’ve made a vow not to buy anything new in 2007 — except food, health and safety items and underwear. Compacters can get as much as they want from thrift shops,
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We’ve (Finally) Posted the Northern Voice 2007 Schedule Grid
We’ve (Finally) Posted the Northern Voice 2007 Schedule Grid We finally got our sundry ducks in a row (and there’s a barnyard full) and have published the Northern Voice 2007 schedule for day two, Saturday. As I mentioned a while back, there were more submissions than ever, so we had a ton of tough decisions
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LinkedIn Answers Getting Hot
LinkedIn Answers Getting Hot If you haven’t been back to LinkedIn for a while, it’s time to check it out again. I’ve written about it in full or passing before — my favourite title is probably The first business plan with social networking features: LinkedIn, highlighting the fact t Part of the Web and Early
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Streisand effect – The increase in popularity of an item due to interest driven by the publicized outrage over its existence.
Streisand effect – The increase in popularity of an item due to interest driven by the publicized outrage over its existence. Streisand Effect is a category of Internet phenomena in which a reckless attempt to censor or remove (in particular, by the means of cease-and-desist letters) a certain piece of information (such as photograph, file
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Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Photowalking with Flickr’s Heather Champ
Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Photowalking with Flickr’s Heather Champ Robert Scoble and I spent some time hanging out with Heather Champ for Episode 4 of Scoble Show. Heather talked about her photographic style, the reincarnation of JPG Magazine, Flickr, how she shoots her Polaroids and more as we spent the morning in one o Part
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Anyone Up for a DSLR Summit in San Francisco?
Anyone Up for a DSLR Summit in San Francisco? What about organizing an actual DSLR conference in San Francisco? They have Web 2.0 and CES and Gnomedex and SXSW and all these other tech sort of conferences, why not organize one around digital photography? As far as I know there is not a conference bas
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Flickr Upload Limits Increased
Flickr Upload Limits Increased And it’s even better to give the gift of Flickr since now your recipients will get unlimited uploads — the two gigabyte monthly limit is no more (yep, pro users have no limits on how many photos they can upload)! At the same time, we’ve upped the limit Part of the
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You Witness News
You Witness News Were You There When News Happened? Upload your photos and video here to have them considered for use in articles and features on Yahoo! News. Part of the Photography and Visual Storytelling collection. See also: Embarking on a Media Revolution: My Participation in the Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab.
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FLICKR PICKR / Morning do
FLICKR PICKR / Morning do Narcissism is a recurrent theme on Flickr. There is vast new potential to reveal yourself to the world. Part of the Photography and Visual Storytelling collection. See also: Embarking on a Media Revolution: My Participation in the Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab.
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Continuous Partial Attention (if you’re lucky)
Continuous Partial Attention (if you’re lucky) I just read an article at the Wall Street Journal that made me feel pretty depressed. It’s called “Blackberry Orphans” and describes a generation of parents who can’t/won’t/don’t give their full attention to their children and partners, so addicted are th Part of the Web and Early Blog archive