Archive for February, 2008

These are my links for February 21st through February 22nd:

• Agendacide: Minutes from Somewhere Else » Rock out with your glock out. – do the best booty-slap dance in the San Francisco Bay Area ? where I currently live. Ask me to do it for you sometime.
• EPIC-FU – art+tech+music for geeks – Zadi Diaz has a hot, hot, hot video series on this page… gotta find out if it’s syndicated!
• JumpBox | Server Software Made Simple | JumpBox Inc. – The easiest way to deploy server software on your local network.
• Amendment-backer dogged Domain deal from the start – Brian Rodgers is no City Hall mover and shaker. But he has nonetheless shaken things up with his crusade to stop the tax subsidies that Austin granted to the high-end Domain shopping center in 2003.
• Storynory: Free Audio Stories For Kids – Welcome to Storynory where Prince Bertie the Frog brings you an audio story every week. Each one is read specially for him by his friend Natasha. But Bertie likes to share – so you can hear them too, blantent copycat site modeled after http://childrenstor

These are my links for February 20th:

• Huge List of the Best Open-Source Apps – Ubuntu Forums – great big list of ubuntu apps
• LinkBlip – Send a link to someone, get an email when they click it. – # When someone clicks that special URL, you are notified by email with the time they clicked it as well as the city and state they were in.
• ExpressionEngine – Publish Your Universe! – ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website.
• Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. – capture images from your desktop, record video of what you do or what you see and share online in email, im, or blogs
• TwitterWhere? – While we have awesome tools like TwitterVision and TwitterMap that show you where people are Tweeting from, there isn’t an easy way to subscribe to Tweets coming from a certain area…until now.
• Serendipity Weblog System – Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and e
• doubleTwist | FAQ – doubleTwist desktop, is a free application for sharing, enjoying and syncing personal media.
• Newspond – This may be better than digg at digg’s own game.
• Newspond – About – At the heart of Newspond lies a tireless electronic brain. This highly-advanced machine intelligence continually watches over and reads hundreds of different websites, including everything from major news portals, to the tiniest blog, or forum.

These are my links for February 23rd through February 28th:

• Wired LivingHome – Wired Living Home made from cargo containers $4 milliion is not exactly our budget though… exclusive LA enclave
• Shopit – The Social Commerce Network – Shopit’s storefront profiles, portable store widgets and networking tools are built for social commerce. Use them to buy, sell, trade, or to just promote yourself, anywhere on the web.
• sxsw registrants directory – requires password
• SXSW Videos – Capturing the scenes of South By! – viddler has launched this cool way to jot down video notes at SXSW in Austin, TX March 7 – 11 2008 at the Austin Convention Center.
• Ubuntu Howtos – Ubuntu Howtos – ubuntu howtos
• cheesedip.com – funniest Celine Dion video I’ve ever seen. In fact, the only Celine Dion video I’ve ever seen. Don’t watch if you’re a fan of Celine Dion.

These are my links for February 29th:

• sxswtwitter wiki – A collaboration place for all of the Twitterbuds coming to SxSW in 2008! Let us know who you are, what your twitter name is, where you’re staying and how to get ahold of you. We definitely need to get a drink or two together!
• Dailymotion – Share Your Videos – the youtube of high definition video
• Open Source Templates | Free CSS and XHTML Website Templates – Welcome to the best free css and xhtml open source template design showcase where the community gets to pick the best designs to be showcased on the front page.
• Cebu Living: The Good Life in the Beautiful Island – gorgeous and functional wodpress site
• How to use WordPress to run a magazine, news website: CMS, theme, template | Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments – WordPress, however, is an extensible website content management system that can be used to run magazine-type websites. Here are steps I took to turn this online magazine on Cebu from a blog into its current presentation.
• FreePOPs – download mail from the most famous webmails, but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much more. This way it is possible to get all your messages in your favorite email client. FreePOPs is Free Software!
• Using WordPress as CMS | blogHelper – WordPress (WP) has always been a highly versatile blogging platform, even way back in v1.2. So versatile that many have attempted to push it to the next level, and use it as a more conventional content management system (CMS) – not unlike Drupal, XOOPS, J

These are my links for February 10th:

• JinaBolton.com – Jina’s website has a very sexy css stylesheet
• oaktreeidea.com – a community of hope, innovation and purpose – Oaktreeidea is not your average social networking website. Oaktreeidea is just that, an idea, an innovation. Where community members can be inspired and accomplish big things. Things with purpose.
• Explore and learn in the MindBites how-to video marketplace – how to videos
• Songza – The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now. – One of the finalists in the 2008 SXSW web awards… to say this is an internet jukebox is apt… pick a song, any song or album, and it just plays. It just plays. Simple. Easy. Revolutionary. Best website I’ve been on in weeks. I’m hooked! Awesome!
• Linux-Unix cheat sheets – The ultimate collection >> Scott Klarr – huge collection of linux cheatsheets
• A N I M O T O: the end of slideshows – analyzes your images and makes a slideshow video
• Ecolect – A Sustainable Materials Community – ecolect the community for sustainable living artilce on prefabrication and modularity
• TED: Ideas worth spreading – world’s greatest thinkers and names
• Only Human – Technology Stories – good collection of stories from techies
• Behance :: Overall Concept – The Behance team studies exceptionally productive people and teams working in the creative fields. We document the methods and resources that productive creative professionals use to push their ideas forward. By invitation only.
• GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine – God, Without the Fuss – His mother, Dodie Osteen, claims never to have seen him mad. The same goes for his brother Paul, though his senior adviser and chief of communications Donald Iloff Jr. (also Osteen’s brother in law), claims he’s seen him irritated a couple of times.
• Wired News – the monumental, great wired “yahoo rejects microsoft”
• Investing Wiki with Research about Companies, Investment Concepts, and more… – investing simplified… a must site for investors
• Techthrob.com | Technology | Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices – parallels now works on linux!

These are my links for February 11th through February 12th:

• Network Camera Model IK-WB15A – Toshiba – The Toshiba IK-WB15A IP Network Camera captures live, high-resolution video that is viewable anywhere in the world through a standard web browser. It is the perfect tool for surveillance, business, entertainment, web site broadcasting and more.
• Gmail Manager :: Firefox Add-ons – Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail… Allows you to manage multiple Gmail ac
• How to Change the World – Guy Kawasaki’s blog.. great stuff
• How to Protect Your WordPress Site » Small Business Trends | small business experts – Here, from the voice of experience, is some advice for protecting your WordPress blog from hacking, or recovering quickly in case it happens to you:
• Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla – Painless Team Collaboration for the Web – a web 2.0 version of gotomeeting

These are my links for February 4th through February 9th:

• FastCompany.com – Where ideas and people meet | Fast Company – Fast Company is about to shake things up again. Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: “Computing is…
• Flickr: The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR Pool – funny flickr pix about microsoft
• HelloTxt – Home – post simultaneously to twitter, jaiku, pownce, plaxo, facebook, tumblr and a bunch more
• Free HTML Form Builder – Create Forms, Surveys and Invitations – web based form builder
• Splashup – Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
• Popular Desktop Apps And Their Online Alternatives – blog index – Outfitting your computer with the latest software can be expensive. Time and money aren?t things to be wasted. With sky rocketing prices for desktop applications, you need to arm yourself with the right alternatives.
• Dive Into Web 2.0: Contents – great free web 2.0 ebook html version
• Dive Into Web 2.0 eBook – an really well presented book on the web 2.0 world
• featured drupal sites | latest showcase | drupal sites network – examples of drupal sites
• Membership Management Software and Website Design for Associations and Chambers of Commerce – Weblink International – web based membership management solution
• entrepreMusings – extraordinary woman raised about $15 million of which $3.5 million was from angels or what I would call boutique VC firms (i.e. a group of angels under one investment roof). Keep in mind that was all before the bubble burst back in 2001.
• Google Maps – googles come up with the killer election map and it’s full ‘o tweeters
• Tom Petty ? ( 187 Lyrics + 23 Albums ) – Tom Petty sings at Superbowl 2008 American Girl , Stand my Ground, Free Fallin’

These are my links for February 18th through February 19th:

• Gcast. Make your voice heard. – get your podcast on itunes in 10 minutes and record it with a cell phone
• Gcast. Make your voice heard. – make a pocast and get it on itunes inside of 10 minutes! awesome
• t|w|i|t|t|e|r|m|e|t|e|r – Enter a word to graph its use on twitter’s public feed To add more than one plot, separate your words with spaces.
• Talking WordPress – Macworld Wordpress Meetup
• 51 Creative RSS Buttons » Jeffro2pt0 – Bloggers Journey has an interesting post today which is nothing more than 51 different RSS buttons that you can use on your blog. They range from the typical RSS orange square to the huge RSS orb. Do you find it weird that I don?t have any big orange RS

These are my links for February 17th:

• Migrate a WordPress site to Drupal | Adding Understanding – Recently I’ve been helping a few folks migrate websites from WordPress to Drupal. Presently this works for migrating to Drupal 5 so if you want a Drupal 6 site first migrate to Drupal 5 and then upgrade the site to Drupal 6.
• Maura Moynihan ? writer, musician, traveler, and daughter of Daniel Patrick Moynihan – At age fifteen, Maura Moynihan moved to New Delhi, India, where her father, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was appointed the US Ambassador. She graduated in 1975 from the American International School, New Delhi, known as ?Hindi High.?
• Useful WordPress Plugins – useful wordpress plugins from bloggies finalist
• How It Works – KickApps – As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, we host, manage and deliver all community applications and media. There’s never any software for you or your members to download. You never have to worry about upgrades, application development or managing serve
• Pure Mac: Audio – Software for Macintosh – great list of all the audio apps for the mac except for ecamm
• Blaze New Media » » Five Wordpress ?CMS Enabling? Plugins – more cms enabling plugins for wordpress
• 10 Email Addresses That Will Be Useful When You No Internet Access – www@web2mail.com – Send an email with the URL of the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you?ll soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when there?s no Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for

These are my links for February 16th through February 17th:

• Migrate a WordPress site to Drupal | Adding Understanding – Recently I’ve been helping a few folks migrate websites from WordPress to Drupal. Presently this works for migrating to Drupal 5 so if you want a Drupal 6 site first migrate to Drupal 5 and then upgrade the site to Drupal 6.
• Maura Moynihan ? writer, musician, traveler, and daughter of Daniel Patrick Moynihan – At age fifteen, Maura Moynihan moved to New Delhi, India, where her father, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was appointed the US Ambassador. She graduated in 1975 from the American International School, New Delhi, known as ?Hindi High.?
• Useful WordPress Plugins – useful wordpress plugins from bloggies finalist
• How It Works – KickApps – As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, we host, manage and deliver all community applications and media. There’s never any software for you or your members to download. You never have to worry about upgrades, application development or managing serve
• Pure Mac: Audio – Software for Macintosh – great list of all the audio apps for the mac except for ecamm
• Blaze New Media » » Five Wordpress ?CMS Enabling? Plugins – more cms enabling plugins for wordpress
• 10 Email Addresses That Will Be Useful When You No Internet Access – www@web2mail.com – Send an email with the URL of the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you?ll soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when there?s no Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for
• Overlay.TV – add links on to video, you grab a video from youtube etc. and add hypertext to it. works on flash currently works w top 20 video sharing sites
• The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte – Rob Lane of Overlay.tv, HotOrNot acquired, Facebook now quittable, the iHole and more.
• Ecamm Network: Call Recorder for Skype – Automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac – Finally, an easy way to record Skype calls and podcast interviews. Call Recorder is an add-on for Skype which automatically transforms your audio or video calls into QuickTime movies.

These are my links for February 13th through February 14th:

• Pure Mac: Audio – Software for Macintosh – whole bunch of audio recording and editing apps for the mac
• Kevin Kelly — The Technium – The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it.
• 100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better | OEDb – If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven’t been keeping up with the latest technology.
• 4 YouTube Tools you Probably Don?t Know About | MakeUseOf.com – best applications for dealing with Youtube
• 20+ Great Resources For Video Tutorials – Video tutorials seem to have taken over the world thanks to the ease with which they can be posted nowadays. We?ve gathered over 20 sites to help you get started with this exciting recent development in the world of the Internet.
• iDesktop.tv – iDesktop.tv is an incredibly cool dynamic web 2.0 application, with a terrific modern design, that brings you a better way to search and watch YouTube videos. Not only but you can download YouTube videos!
• Cradlepoint PHS300 Battery-Powered EVDO Router [PHS300-B] – $179.99 : 3Gstore.com, Verizon & Sprint EVDO Modems, Antennas, Amplifiers, Routers – Cradlepoint PHS300 Battery-Powered EVDO Router
• SXSW Baby! – unofficial sxsw blog

These are my links for February 3rd:

• ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers – Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing.
• SpaceTime? – With SpaceTime’s? 3D Web Search, you choose your search engine from the drop down menu, type in your search term and enjoy the experience as SpaceTime? displays all your search results at once in our patent pending interface. Enjoy the perks that imme
• FastCompany.tv is Coming Soon – NEW YORK, January 16, 2008 – Mansueto Digital President Edward Sussman today announced the launch of FastCompany.TV, a new online video network featuring coverage of bleeding edge technology trends, interviews with leading executives and business people,
• Works 9.0 release near; Microsoft mum on whether Google Docs killer in wings – The latest update to Microsoft Corp.’s Works productivity software is expected to go on sale Wednesday amid renewed speculation that the long-standing, low-end counterpart to Microsoft Office is also being groomed to take on Google Inc. in the online offi
• Screencast-O-Matic – Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!
• Linux.com :: CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 – When something goes wrong with your Linux-based system, you can try to diagnose it yourself with the many troubleshooting tools bundled with the operating system. Knowing about these tools, and how to effectively use them, can help you overcome many of th
• Facebook | Cisco Systems – This is a group for anyone around the world, who is pursuing a career with Cisco Systems, or any other company that utilizes products, services, and technologies from Cisco Systems.
• Flickr: Tools to upload and share your photos – There are loads of ways for you to upload your photos to Flickr, in addition to the web-based upload form. Try out one of these tools to get your photos online quickly and effectively.
• Linkwad :: Firefox Add-ons – Linkwad lets you save and restore tabbed browsing sessions called wads. Wads can be shared and accessed from any computer. You can also share your “wads”.
• Kevin Kelly — The Technium – There are a number of qualities that can’t be copied. Consider “trust.” Trust cannot be copied. You can’t purchase it. Trust must be earned, over time. It cannot be downloaded.
• Urchin Software from Google – Urchin Software from Google analyzes traffic for one or more websites and provides easy-to-understand reports on your visitors – where they come from, how they use your site, what converts them into customers, and much more. If
• A Whole Lotta Nothing ? Matt Haughey?s Personal Blog – How to record a good podcast between two mac users on the cheap
• FIREFOX GOD: 300+ Tools and Resources For Firefox – As the second biggest browser out there, and the biggest open source one, Firefox has a tool for just about anything you can dream up. In this list, Mashable has collected over 300 of the best.

These are my links for February 1st:

• Marshall Kirkpatrick – The highlights of the post are the link to this Wired article about the economy of screen scraping (great article) and this screencast about how to use Dapper that I finally recorded.
• agentgenius.com- national real estate opinion column » G-Spot – collaborative real estate blog
• wordTube at alex.rabe – playlist demo of several media files. wordTube supports streaming video format (Format .flv or .swf), sound files as MP3 and JPG, GIF or PNG grafic files. With wordTube you insert it into your blog with the tag [MEDIA=ID] or as playlist [MYPLAYLIST=ID].
• Contact Form 7 1.7.3 « iDeasilo – I released Contact Form 7 1.7.3 last week. I added two options for dropdown menu, checkboxes and radio buttons. default: option allows you to set initially selected or checked items. label-first option is for checkboxes and radio buttons; this makes check
• Building a Container House – We’re starting a container sales company and container home builder in Austin Texas so we’re looking for inspirational websites like this one by Bob Vila. http://cargotown.com http://cargosolar.com are our sites but they need content!