August 12th, 2008
“Laid back”. That’s how Mashable top dog Pete Cashmore described Austin, Texas in an interview with AustinLifestyles at the Summermash party at Buffalo Billiards in the heart of Austin’s 6th Street live music district. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable described Austin as “comfortable and intimate, you had no problems striking up a conversation.”
Mashable put together a list of Austin’s most important technology blogs and AustinCast.com – sister site of AustinLifestyles.com – wound up on that list in some pretty great company.
Here’s the list with a few excerpts from the blog entry at Mashable:
- Austin 3.0 - A website designed to give the “younger Austin Geek a place to see what is going on in Austin.”
- Austin Startup - Austin Startup is simply a news site that chronicles the goings ons and creation of new tech sector business in the Austin area.
- AustinCast - This site is a frequently updated hub for video and audio interviews of local area movers and shakers in the technology scene. He’s published over 100 video interviews with the likes of Veronica Belmont, Pete Cashmore, Zadi Diaz, Cali Lewis, Lindsay Campbell, and Leah Culver as well as a number of local heroes to the Austin scene.
- Austin360 - This is the official New Media offering from Austin’s reigning Old Media institution, the Austin-American Statesman.
- GeekAustin - Probably one of Austin’s oldest tech blogs, LinearB’ and Orion have been chronicling the gaming, business and tech communities of Austin since 2000.
- Michelle’s Blog - . . . she’s a very active leader and figurehead to the new, young Austin Tech community, and has her hands in just about everything. Her personal blog reflects all the myriad of ventures she’s involved in there.
- Josh Dilworth - Josh is over at PR group Porter Novelli, based in their Austin office. Amongst all his many work related projects like SXSW, he has quite visible presence amongst those in the online Semantic and AI community as well as an avid participant in a number of widely used social media tools. I was recently a guest on a podcast of his, Falken’s Maze.
- John Erik Metcalf - John Erik Metcalf is a major figure in the Austin scene as well, as he’s a co-founder in one of the town’s two co-working spaces: Conjunctured
- Social Media Club Austin - The site describes itself as “part think tank, part curiosity, all new media” and is a repository for all that is going on in the “business networking event” scene for the Austin area.
- Some Assembly Required - a self-described “business development and networking blog” authored by Thom Singer.
- The Jeff Beckham Weblog - Jeff is an Austin area blogger who focuses his posts on the evolution of media, specifically in relationship to how the Internet is forcing transformation on not just media industries but “the word itself.”
- Door64 Blog - The blog for Door64, the forum and community portal for the Austin-area tech community.
If you an Austin area blogger and want to be added to the OPML file email Mark at Mashable to be included in the next version of the list.
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April 12th, 2008
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April 10th, 2008
These are my links for April 8th through April 10th:
- CivicSpace Home | CivicSpace - cms community management software probably running on drupal and civicrs.org
- Revision3 - Great news, world! I?m very pleased to announce that Veronica Belmont has joined the Revision3 family as Patrick Norton?s co-host on our tech-centric show Tekzilla, and we couldn?t be happier to have her on board.
- Twinkle - New iPhone Twitter Client Uses Locate Me Features! | Just Another iPhone Blog - Twinkle is a shiny (cough, excuse bad pun) new native Twitter client for the iPhone, that adds location-aware features to your Twittering. It has a very nice and easy to use interface and works very well so far in my testing of it.
- Dashboard | Shoeboxed.com - a new way to track all your receipts.
- :: Vídeos de sxsw2008 :: videos gratis - hey, a few of my sxsw videos got linked up on this French site os melhores videos de sxsw2008 with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka, Majorie Kase, and Electric Pulp (Guy Kawasaki’s guys)
- PR 2.0 - Solis blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes PR & tech insight to industry publications. Solis is among the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media
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April 7th, 2008
These are my links for April 4th through April 7th:
- CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch - Engadget - Apparently, when CERN isn’t colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it’s busy working on a new “internet” which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version.
- http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/tagdigest/ - * Tag Digest ? a page in blog form of the most popular bookmarks seen * The original blog post introducing LiveMarks Homepage: sandbox.sourcelabs.com Author: Alex Bosworth License: GPL
- Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » south by - SXSW was awesome. Nowhere else in the entire field of geek can you plug in so easily. There are so many conversations, so many connections. It just feels good to be there. Hummel asked for a transcript of the conference, so here goes?
- Twitter / stevewoolf - Steve has a bunch of great links in his twitter stream
- NTV Rerun: EPIC-FU to TV? « NewTeeVee - The show now sees 2 million views per month across its archive, said Woolf, with new episodes receiving about 250,000 views. At this time last year, episodes were getting 30,000 to 40,000 views.
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April 3rd, 2008
These are my links for March 27th through April 3rd:
- Magento - Home - Open Source eCommerce Evolved - Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business proc
- Twitter Friend Adder - Have you ever wanted more friends on your Twitter account? Now you can. Just enter your Twitter login details below and we’ll add 20 random friends to your account.
- Magento - Store Demo - Open Source eCommerce Evolved - In the demo’s frontend, explore how a Magento-driven store might look to your customer and test some of the features. Get a feel for it by going through the checkout process, tagging a product or leaving a review.
- Twitter Tools, Tweaks and Theories: TypePad Hacks - reviews of 26 powerful tools you can use to make Twitter do all kinds of groovy things
- Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver rock SXSW 2008 - Bonnie Pierzina on drums, Leah Culver (pownce.com) on bass, Veronica Belmont (Mahalo Daily) on guitar, and Casey Mckinnon (Galacticast) belting out vocals at SXSW 2008. Technical difficulties couldn’t stop tech’s hottest video bloggers from rocking.
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March 26th, 2008
These are my links for March 26th:
- My Blog - my springnet stumbleupon blog
- TipLine - Gates’ Computer Tips - Each day during the school year I try to send out a computer tip or two. It’s usually a website, but sometimes it’s a news item or an Excel tip, etc. You can also find the archive of my tips going back to May of 2005. Please leave a comment to let me know
- WP Themes at ElegantDirectory.com - WP themes and related resources. - A new Word Press theme has been launched recently, made free by Elegant Directory & AllinfoDir Web Directory. Theme has been called as Trendy; highlighting property of this theme is its decent and elegant look with 3 columns view and with integrated Adsen
- 45+ Must See WordPress themes - This is the second article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. We are taking a look at some quality outstanding Free and premium WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months.
- Follow Twitter Conversations - Quotably.com - twitter search engine
- Viddler.com - Your videos - Currently Viewing “Waking up in Amsterdam - Todd L Gilbert” - Todd L Gilbert is an American expat and blogger living in Amsterdam and seems to be having a blast living there. He’s agitproper on twitter and he’s big on the hyves.net which he adopted early on (big in Amsterdam and Peru).
- aNobii - community around books you’re reading. clever and well done
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March 25th, 2008
These are my links for March 25th:
- SourceForge.net: Jahshaka - Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.
- TwitPic - Share photos on twitter - share your photos on twitter with twitpic
- Who Are The Austin 80? - The situation in Burma has been getting out of control. People are dying as they fight for peace. Some of the monks have been beaten, arrested, and killed.
- Digital Craig - First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drankwhile they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue-cheesedressing, and tuna from a can. They didn?t get tested for Diabetes and there are no Ultrasound photos of us in the womb.
- Web Links - Metacafe - Studio - If you are familiar with names like Adobe, Alias, Apple, Avid, Discreet, Eyeon, Media100, Newtek, Pinnacle, Sony and Quantel, you will be surprised to find out that there is an open source video editing and post-production program that is freely available
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March 24th, 2008
These are my links for March 24th:
- Christine - Mashups for social change? Apparently, you’re not the only one that thinks this is a good idea. Last week, 122 project ideas were submitted to the annual NetSquared Mashup Challenge. http://twitter.com/christine
- Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard - Use Fluid to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other WebApp as a separate Mac desktop application.
- Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software - Dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. Dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. Dimdim´s
- AskMen.com - Hottest women in tech - 10. Wendy Cheng 9. Blair Butler 8. Kristen Holt 7. Amanda Congdon 6. Veronica Belmont 5. Cali Lewis 4. Olivia Munn 3. Jessica Chobot 2. Morgan Webb 1. Amber MacArthur
- Welcome to GeekyMomma’s Blog: I’d Like To Thank My Producers, Mom & Dad! - In a follow-up post, I encouraged others outside our Twitter edtech network to join and today, Paul Terry Walhus (twitter @springnet) contacted me because he not only wanted to duplicate the concept for his SXSW network but he wanted to interview me (ME!,
- Tasty Blog Snack - Justine Ezarik’s blog. submitted on springnet’s bookmarks on del.icio.us on her birthday. March 23, 2008 she turned 24.
- gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” - When I was last in San Francisco a few weeks ago, my good friend, Shel Israel interviewed me, as part of his new FastCompany.com gig. We talked about “Social Objects”, with a heavy emphasis on “Social Markers”.
- Global Neighbourhoods - People everywhere, equipped with cameras and access are posting what they see, for a few friends or the entire world. It is the reporting of everday people and places and incidents that will never be ready for prime time, but are useful and interesting to
- Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing from ooVoo - ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication ? a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
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March 23rd, 2008
These are my links for March 23rd:
- SEO for your Wordpress Blog - This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.
- Twitter / zefrank - organizing colorwars on twitter
- Tabs Open Relative :: Firefox Add-ons - open tab next to current tab like in Internet Explorer
- Waking up in Amsterdam! - Friday, March 21st is Good Friday for Christians, but it?s also a sacred date for many other religions. People are celebrating Good Friday, Purim, Narouz, Eid Milad an Nabi, Small Holi, and Magha Puja. That doesn?t happen often.
- SheGeeks - SheGeeks is a social network and social media discussion blog. Here, you can find the latest news on new social networks and media tools, technology, twitter, friendfeed, rssmeme, linkriver, web applications, web services and more.
- Blog : LOL: The Life of Leo - To begin with we?re going to stream everything we do at TWiT, including the production of all our shows, live and interactive. To that end we?re adding considerable bandwidth: a T1 line and a cable modem to our existing DSL connectivity. We?ll Skype
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March 22nd, 2008
These are my links for March 21st through March 22nd:
- Colorwar 2008 - boredom has set in after sxsw 2008
- Kiki?s Korner - Home for my rants, raves and general sharing of ‘insytes’. Some of you will enjoy this gathering of text - others will wonder how I tricked them into giving me a Blogger’s license…
- SXSWhere 2008 - BricaBox - where the sxsw parties are on a google map
- ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon — a blog by Tara Hunt - This 2.5 minute video is a result of feedback from our fans. We?ve received a number of requests from people who want their friends to use the micro-blogging service Twitter, but can?t seem to explain it well. We hope this video helps.
- Home > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter - Conversation analytics, links and feeds from Twitter. filters out the sxsw related twitter feeds or “tweets”
- Item : How to Ramp Up (Or Filter Out) the SXSW Twitter Experience - First, how can new users tune in to the hottest conversations on Twitter quickly? Second, how can all the people not participating in the week long event still enjoy their beloved Twitter if it’s overrun with SXSW references?
- mDialog - Easy Hi-Res video sharing for iPhone, iPod, AppleTV, Mac and PC. - fast delivery of Hi-Res Video… has cc chapman interview of Robert Scoble at sxsw 2008
- Entrepreneur.com - Blog Network - Creating a Community - Once you?ve been, it?s almost as if you are part of a tribe. You are let in on secrets that not everyone knows about. Events that are off the grid suddenly open their doors to you. The events happening that are not listed on the official schedule have
- Socialthing! - Socialthing! is in private beta at the moment, but you can always request an invite by signing up for our mailing list!
- GoYoDeo! - GoYoDeo is a free video player that allows anyone to publish their personal video content ON TOP of their blogs, social networks and websites.
- Print I Think You’re Fat - Radical Honesty. The movement was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough — a world without
- Technology News - BusinessWeek - BusinessWeek’s tech news, Sarah Lacy has a column here.
- PR 2.0 - Sarah Lacy on Sarah Lacy and the SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote
- Darren Hoyt Dot Com » Blog - Premium Themes Should Advance the Wordpress Community
- Deep Blue Wordpress Theme Released - elegant theme created by Nathan Rice. Easy adsense integration
- Theres a Blog in my Soup! ? All about blogs, technical toys, video games, social media, and making money online. - feed your blog 39 ways
- TubeMogul.com - Online Video Distribution and Analytics - TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed.
- Hak5.org - Darren Kitchen - Hak.5 is a video podcast for the hacker, modder and do-it-yourselfer. Hosted by Darren Kitchen and Wess Tobler on the 5th of each month, the show is a hybrid of technology and geek humor.
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