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Godaddy Marketplace
Over the past couple of months I have been exploring putting up a shopping cart to sell some unique items for the show. There are a 100 different sites that have a 100 different features but what I found was that most where simply to expensive, or reminded me of some of those old school [...]
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Paper.li Review
If you are on Twitter and follow Robert Scoble you have probably heard about Flipboard for the Ipad, which takes your friends tweets and Facebook post and creates a daily magazine out of them. Most people who have an Ipad say it is a must have application, if you don’t have an Ipad, but want [...]
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Netgear Roku XD Player
Over 25,000 people are now watching Geek News Central on the Roku, and I was very excited to see that Roku has apparently made a distribution deal with Netgear. The evidence is this image that has surfaced at the FCC hat tip to wirelessgoodness.com for the source on this. Up to this point the only [...]
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AirPlay from Apple a Dream come True
In my book Podcasting The Do it Your Self Guide I talk about a day when we will be listening or watching a program while making breakfast and as we leave for work the media would follow us into a device in our pocket or in our car. I probably should have applied for a [...]
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Apple TV and the Missing Feature
I was sitting of all places in the Set Top Box conference in San Jose the past week when Apple made the announcement about the new Apple TV. In fact I was watching the event on my iPad. I have been pretty excited about the announcement, and my team at RawVoice has been spending a [...]
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GNC-2010-09-03 #607 What till you see the Bear!
Ok folks I am back from the Set Top Box Conference, only a few tidbits in todays show, I will have a full rundown on Mondays show. Lots of fun stuff plus a whole lot of tech. I introduce a very valuable finders fee for the show that could put a lot of money in [...]
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Broken Twitter Clients
If you use a Twitter client (either on your desktop or phone) then you may have had a surprise on Tuesday. A nasty surprise, actually. That surprise was a broken app. You probably thought, as I did at first, that Twitter was down. After all, that is something we have become used to. The “Fail [...]
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Is Google Cursed?
Back in the very early part of the 1990’s, the tech world villain of choice was IBM, and the underdog was Microsoft. As the 1990’s progressed, IBM began to move into the background and Microsoft took over the role as tech villain. Windows 3.0 was the version that really started making waves in a big [...]
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Facebook as a Hiring Network
Several times a year I have need of several extra bodies to complete time-sensitive work in my department. The work is tedious and mind-numbing, but important, and only lasts three to five weeks. Since we are a college campus, we do not have provisions in policy to bring on temporary workers from an agency, so [...]
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Why Hotmail Survives
Todd likes to ask the question, “why is __________ still around?” He asked it last week about Hotmail. It’s not a huge mystery if you work in academics. Hotmail, in the form of “Windows Live” email, exists on a great number of campuses across the country, providing student email that (in theory) integrates with other [...]
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Firefox 4 Beta 4
Recently Mozilla released the Beta 4 version of Firefox 4.0. Like all Firefox Betas in the past it will break your add-ons, but it also adds some REALLY cool new eye-candy. The biggest additions are Panorama and Sync, but there’s also a slick new interface. The first thing you’ll notice is the interface – specifically [...]
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HP Brings 3D To Laptop Line-Up
Today, HP announced its autumn line-up of notebooks, with the HP Envy 17 3D taking the flagship role as the first 17″ laptop to support 1080p 3-D and Blu-ray. The Envy 17 3D comes with active shutter glasses which wirelessly sync with the HD display giving a full 3D experience when viewing films or playing [...]
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Jim Louderback and I are on Same Page!
Jim Louderback the CEO of Revision3 who I respect a great deal, has made some frank comments in an article on Adage about the Viral Video Advertising space. In his opening statement he makes this assertion. “Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos, and that obsession is dragging down [...]
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GNC-2010-08-31 #606 Unique Content it Is!
The number 1 request by all of you that filled out the survey was more unique content. I am going to do my best to deliver it along with the standard fare. New contest to win a Roku is on now winner next week listen to win. Big Thank You to all three sponsors of [...]
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Tech Podcast Broadcast Booth @ CES 2011
While we are still four months away from CES 2011, the team members from TechPodcasts.com and TechPodcasts.tv have been very busy in planning for the 2011 event. For the first time we will have a broadcast booth on the show floor of the South Hall. Team Member Andy McCaskey worked with the CEA to get [...]
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