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February 28, 2007
I've previously written that real estate agents need to take more photos of their listings since photos play such a large role in telling the story of a property and save home buyers time. My two theories on why we...
February 27, 2007
A reader wrote in with a few interesting iTunes questions I thought I'd throw out to the group. I'll take a shot at the questions, but would appreciate some additional takes. 1. There are at least three computers that I...
February 26, 2007
Having a variety of tech perspectives on this site is both a blessing and a curse. It's great to have a variety of points of view, although our readers may not be interested in every one of them. If you're...
Remember the Polaroid cameras? Take a picture and in a matter of seconds a print appears from the camera. The magic was in the chemically treated paper. Now the same chemists have gone one step further. Send a digital image...
February 24, 2007
Google, this past week, announced its Google Apps Premier Edition, a web-based competitor to Microsoft Office priced at $50 per year with 10 gigabytes of online storage and a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee. For many organizations (here's a list...
February 23, 2007
Before blogs were king I ran community based forum web sites. I would grow the community, allow it to flourish, find moderators that I trusted then when it was self-sufficient I would move on to my next community. It was...
February 21, 2007
Aaron Landry knows a lot about mobile blogging. In fact, he has 1000 mobile blog posts from his Hiptop to prove it. Ben had a chance to sit down with Aaron to discuss "The End of an Era" of moblogging...
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We currently use a bunch of Blue Snowball USB microphones to do our Podcasting. These are great mics if you're only going to plug one of them in to the computer, but if you need to have many people talking...
February 20, 2007
MySpace has proven to be a great way to reconnect with old friends for me. People I haven't talked to in over a decade have tracked me down through the service, rekindling old friendships in a matter of minutes. What...
February 19, 2007
Minneapolis techie, Peter Fleck wrote in asking why I didn't mention where I got the OPML* file I mentioned in my "5 Thoughts on Tech Consultant Blogs" post the other day. It's a great question without a great answer. I...
"At this airport they even charge you for electricity!" -Traveler talking on her cell phone while boarding a plane departing Minneapolis / St. Paul International Airport today. Thanks to the Technology Evangelist reader, Carly, who SMS'd in this message related...
February 18, 2007
I have written before about power access in airports so it should come as no surprise that I was outraged when I read that airports are going to begin charging travelers for access to power outlets. How much? $3...
February 17, 2007
Welcome, Pioneer Press readers. Thanks for stopping by. For those of you not coming from the Pioneer Press this morning, Technology Evangelist was profiled in the business section today. I believe registration is required, but maybe you'll get lucky. I'd...
February 16, 2007
I subscribed to around 60 new blogs earlier today after discovering an OPML file (feed or blog's feeds) that looked interesting to me. The blogs happen to have a local tech focus, so they're not necessarily high traffic or great...
An impressive basement Mac collection. Personally, I have a somewhat less impressive pile of PCs on life support in my basement. Via Ben's Bits....
In my last post here I revealed that a former Microsoft contract worker had come to me some time ago to reveal details about the possible destruction of evidence in the Burst.com v. Microsoft case -- destruction of evidence...
February 14, 2007
Microsoft settled today its anti-trust case with the people of Iowa, which may well be the last anti-trust case against the world’s largest software company, at least in this cycle. Iowa was all that remained of the original 18 states...
Apple has a little product called iChat AV which is only available on Mac OS X systems. I remember watching the keynote when Steve Jobs first announced the video conferencing solution and I was blown away. h.264 as the primary...
February 13, 2007
We caught up with Nicholas Reville of the Participatory Culture Foundation. They are about to release version 0.9.5 of democracy player which will be their last big revision before their release of Democracy 1.0. Click To Play...
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Dear Google, It's come to my attention that you're acquiring land near power plants. It just so happens that a beautiful parcel of land is opening up near a power plant in St. Paul, Minnesota that may be of interest...
February 12, 2007
When we met the creators of Menuism.com a few months ago at Tech Cocktail, they were just getting started. We decided to check in with them and see how the site is doing and find out about their best pancake...
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Adobe announced today that Flash Lite will support playback of Flash video on mobile devices: "At the 3GSM World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that support for video will be integrated in the next generation of Adobe® Flash...
February 11, 2007
Back in October, I wrote that Bloglines Still Beats Google Reader Today. It's time to update that statement. I've now made the switch to Google Reader. Google Reader has gotten better in terms of speed and interface. Some of my...
February 9, 2007
The creative folks behind Be A Design Group managed to land anexclusiveguest post by the primary color, Yellow. Yes, that's right. A color wrote apost. And it turns out Yellow had a few things to say about the way it...
On January 5th, 2000 Apple unveiled their new web site. This site was like nothing we had seen on the Internet (I'm practicing my RDF). In a time of flashing animated GIF 'SALE' graphics and more, MORE, M-O-R-E on every...
February 8, 2007
The Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper ran a story on the front page of startribune.com with the following headline and excerpt: Robber steals student's iPod "An armed robber stole an iPod from an Asian-languages and literature senior from the University...
February 5, 2007
Spell check is an amazingly powerful tool, going back to Office 97 where words started becoming auto-corrected and questionable words were underlined for easy editing. However, one feature that I'd really like to see that doesn't exist today is a...
February 4, 2007
I've never been to a documentary film about a font before, but there is a first time for everything. ErikSpiekerman's comments about being a "type-o-maniac" sold me: "I've obviously a type-o-maniac, which is obviously an incurable - if not mortal...
February 3, 2007
I wrote the other day about why engagement matters when it comes to web marketing, explaining that networking is the key to building endorsements, thus links, referrals, and traffic. Rand Fishkin, CEO of search marketing firm, SEOmoz, took a look...
February 2, 2007
Digg founder Kevin Rose has posted about changes coming (starting today) to the Digg community, including the elimination of the Top Digger list: "So what does this all mean? After considerable internal debate and discussion with many of those who...
February 1, 2007
This is an amazing stat from today's Amazon's investor relations press release: "Over 220,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Services, up greater than 55% year-over-year." That's huge. What are 220,000 developers developing? My guess is a HUGE number...
Technorati has recently launched a feature called WTF (short for Where's the Fire, duh) that provides fast answers to what the blogosphere is buzzing about in real time. The Technology Evangelist team has attempted to explain Technorati to thousands of...
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