Wednesday, May 27, 2009
www.howtosayin.com is VERY COOL!
Want to be quick to respond to someone in another language? You need to have this website in your phone! Want to blow someone away with your language skills? Want to send a special text to that favorite someone! You need to check out this quick translation site: http://www.howtosayin.com
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Barcamps are Cool
A BarCamp is an unconference. An unconference takes the old, stogy idea of a conference and turns it on its side. Instead of corporations paying for boring keynote speakers talking and waving their hands, you have the participants in the conference leading all discussion sessions.
One of my favorite BarCamps I attended last year was ProductCamp, they had sessions ranging from career advancement for product managers, to intellectual property discussions, to working with Agile development organizations, to working effectively with Sales and Executives, to user interface design. ProductCamp attracts a broad and diverse crowd of smart people who “get it,” so the networking is really good and the discussions are rich and rewarding.
Other Barcamps I have attended are Mobile Widget Apps Camp and IT Barcamp. There is an upcoming Product Camp in Austin that I am looking forward to attending. For more info on BarCamps in your area go to the barcamp wiki.
One of my favorite BarCamps I attended last year was ProductCamp, they had sessions ranging from career advancement for product managers, to intellectual property discussions, to working with Agile development organizations, to working effectively with Sales and Executives, to user interface design. ProductCamp attracts a broad and diverse crowd of smart people who “get it,” so the networking is really good and the discussions are rich and rewarding.
Other Barcamps I have attended are Mobile Widget Apps Camp and IT Barcamp. There is an upcoming Product Camp in Austin that I am looking forward to attending. For more info on BarCamps in your area go to the barcamp wiki.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
The Coolest People Search Tools
It's been a while since I've found something cool enough to write about. I'm not sure if it is cool but I have to say www.isearch.com and www.wink.com are amazing (and kind of scary) people search tools.
isearch.com scrapes data from some social sites like myspace.com -- another reason to set your privacy settings...eek. They both have some kind of handshake with intellius.com. Wink has teamed up with www.reunion.com. You know reunion.com, those are the emails you keep getting that tell you someone of a certain age is looking for you.
Look yourself up on www.isearch.com and www.wink.com and see what you find.
isearch.com scrapes data from some social sites like myspace.com -- another reason to set your privacy settings...eek. They both have some kind of handshake with intellius.com. Wink has teamed up with www.reunion.com. You know reunion.com, those are the emails you keep getting that tell you someone of a certain age is looking for you.
Look yourself up on www.isearch.com and www.wink.com and see what you find.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Moximity -- I think it could be really cool...
Moximity is all over the wires today and the Austin paper-- which is cool for them. Moximity is a social connector that connects your IPHONE to your Facebook and Twitter Updates along with Google Maps (via GPS).
I watched Bryan Jones' video demo where he gives the scenario of checking in with friends and hooking up for lunch if proximity permits. I can see using Moximity for a reunion, conference or group trip. This goes to convergence of marketing and PR. If I have a reunion/conference/trip and I set up a group on Facebook or a special twitter site then I can tell everyone to get Moximity to find the party instead of IMing eachother. I have needed something like this on the last several trips I have been on.
My question is does the application only let me update certain friends? Maybe I don't want ALL of my Facebook friends and twitter peeps (that have the Moximity app) to know where I am? I think this is an important feature to point out.
Moximity is a cool startup. Good luck.
I watched Bryan Jones' video demo where he gives the scenario of checking in with friends and hooking up for lunch if proximity permits. I can see using Moximity for a reunion, conference or group trip. This goes to convergence of marketing and PR. If I have a reunion/conference/trip and I set up a group on Facebook or a special twitter site then I can tell everyone to get Moximity to find the party instead of IMing eachother. I have needed something like this on the last several trips I have been on.
My question is does the application only let me update certain friends? Maybe I don't want ALL of my Facebook friends and twitter peeps (that have the Moximity app) to know where I am? I think this is an important feature to point out.
Moximity is a cool startup. Good luck.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Ummmm... www.Browsershots.org ... if you don't know about this...
If you don't know about Browsershots.org... you are just not cool. This site will make you aware of browser shortcomings or rather your web design shortcomings in different browsers. How it works is you put your URL in the top and click on the browsers you are concerned about. If you click them all, it will take a while to download but it is a good way to get an understanding of how you look to the world regardless of browser type.
For example, my site, Three Lakes Marketing, doesn't look so great in MS IE 5.5, 6 and 7... it shows the navigation stacking obviously from a floating CSS style it is not recognizing.
Anyone out there have a fix for this?
Be aware of your web look, be cool with www.browsershots.org.
For example, my site, Three Lakes Marketing, doesn't look so great in MS IE 5.5, 6 and 7... it shows the navigation stacking obviously from a floating CSS style it is not recognizing.
Anyone out there have a fix for this?
Be aware of your web look, be cool with www.browsershots.org.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Vyew (sounds like P.U.) is what I have been looking for
Vyew is cool! Looking to collaborate online...see EXACTLY what people are working on and make comments. Be that annoying backseat driver or micro-manager--then Vyew is for you.
BTW, did you know P.U. stems from the French term "peur" which means "to stink". I never knew that.
But Vyew definitely does not stink...it's cool.
(Thanks to my pal, Greg, for the frothy tip.)
BTW, did you know P.U. stems from the French term "peur" which means "to stink". I never knew that.
But Vyew definitely does not stink...it's cool.
(Thanks to my pal, Greg, for the frothy tip.)
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