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May 31, 2007
The Technology Evangelist team is sending a crew out to San Diego, CA this coming week to cover Telepresence World. This is the place to be for all things telepresence. For those of you not familiar with the concept of...
Ed continues his journey thru video 101 by learning a little bit about microphones and if the built in microphone on his camera is good enough....
Continue reading "Ed Learns Video 101 - Episode 2" »
We're trying something different and embedding the UStream.tv feed of the Podcast right on the homepage. Let us know what you think in comments. Topics include 1-year ago on TE, Palm announcing the Foleo, Microsoft unveild the surface computer, 10...
May 30, 2007
We're back after Memorial Day break. Ed Kohler joins us via Gizmo to talk about Apple blocking MySpace.com in their retail stores.Make sure to join us every Sunday through Thursday live at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600...
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Clifford Clarke is the chief technology officer from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is as the mayor calls him the chief innovation officer for the city. He works on finding new technology for the city and helping figure out what...
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Google announced the launch of a new way to customize your Google Maps at Where 2.0 called Mapplets. Mapplets allow you to personalize your Google Maps experience by overlaying data that is of interest to you. That could be anything...
May 29, 2007
Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) works with communities to try to help them with their connectivity goals. They were at the Killer App Expo showing off some of the services they have and the communities they have helped....
Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Gary Evans, HBC" »
The city of Minneapolis is in the process of rolling out a city-wide WiFi-based Internet service that will provide wireless access from anywhere in the city starting at $20/month. During the bidding phase, which was eventually won by a local...
Apple has banned MySpace.com in their retail stores and this has created an interesting debate here at TechnologyEvangelist.com. While Ed Kohler is in the 'this is a good thing' camp, I tend to think this is a bad thing. Blocking...
May 28, 2007
Let's say I just talked my parents into buying a new Mac. This would probably occur after stopping by their house to help them with a problem with their current computer where I'd suggest to them that it's not worth...
May 27, 2007
Twitter's web platform is easy to communicate with and includes a powerful API that allows for the creation of applications that take the platform in directions well beyond sending 140 character or less shout-outs to friends. For example, a one...
May 26, 2007
David Dalka raised an interesting point about Facebook's apparent policy change to open up public profiles for search engine indexing: Facebook Spamming Your Identity To Drive Their Traffic The other day I was highly surprised to learn that my Facebook...
May 25, 2007
Ken Tysell works on AT&T's three screen products. He talks about what their plans are for upgrading bandwidth to the home and ideas for bringing phone, television, and broadband applications together....
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While many sites work just fine on a mobile device without creating a mobile version, there are some where a mobile version works much better than surfing to the original site. My favorites are listed below. You should be able...
It's Freestyle Friday, the best kind of Friday around. Please note that we will be taking an extended break over memorial day weekend and will return with Web 2.0 Wednesday live on Tuesday night.Make sure to join us every Sunday...
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May 24, 2007
Special guest Robert X. Cringely joins us for Search Thursday. The rise and fall of Excite.comMake sure to join us every Sunday through Thursday live at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600 GMT for those around the world)...
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Jim Erickson is the president of FiberFirst Minnesota. Their goal is make Minnesota the leading state in the deployment of fiber to the home. Now of course since we at TechnologyEvangelist.com are from Minnesota, we think this is a...
As we've reported before, some airports in the United States including the Minneapolis / St. Paul Airport are installing power charging units from companies like Smarte Carte so they can charge travelers to power up their mobile devices. I find...
May 23, 2007
You probably won't encounter this error very often as a Flickr user: the dreaded 414. This is the kind of error you have to earn through hard work. How does one create this? By generating incredibly long URIs after uploading...
Web 2.0 Wednesday features the future of Web 2.0... Would that be web 3.0? Benjamin and Cariann gaze into their crystal balls with the help of UStream.tv and Stickam.com participants.Make sure to join us every Sunday through Thursday live at...
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Tripactix started as a health care IT company but has since branched out. At the Killer App Expo they were showing their extension product, which repurposes content and makes it available on a variety of devices....
It looks like Anheuser-Busch, America's largest brewer, is close to ending its experiment with Bud.tv, the company's Internet video site launched earlier this year. This is according to Advertising Age, which seems to know about such things. Bud.tv was...
May 22, 2007
It's New Tech Tuesday and we have telepresence guru Howard S. Lichtman from HumanProductivityLab.com as our special guest.Make sure to join us tonight live for Freestyle Friday at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600 GMT for those around...
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May 21, 2007
New Media Monday Podcast. HDTVs, the power of New Media and how it hurt Apple and is Joost worth the hype?Make sure to join us tonight live for Freestyle Friday at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600 GMT...
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May 17, 2007
Larry Irving is the Co-Chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance. The IIA believe that broadband Internet will improve Americans' lives by promoting innovation, next generation services and service providers, and more competitive U.S. jobs and firms. To allow these...
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Steve Rubel from MicroPersuasion posted an interesting Twitter the other night about metaphors: Sports offers great metaphors for business. This one has been nagging me. I ask you: is it true? If you're reading this post when it went live,...
Searching in Opera, Finding Audio Podcasts, Finding eBooks and How to Make Online Video Easier to Find in this Search Thursday Podcast.Make sure to join us tonight live for Freestyle Friday at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600...
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May 16, 2007
Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition, health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity and futurism. At the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ray gave the evening Keynote speech. We were fortunate enough...
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A few weeks ago, I posted about why teachers should have blogs. But I didn't really get into what they should blog about. I'm out of school and don't have kids, so take my opinion for what it's worth. Contribute...
Today we interview Eric Goldstein the CEO of Clipmarks.comMake sure to join us tonight live at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600 GMT for those around the world) for the live recording of Search Thursday, right here on...
Continue reading "Web 2.0 Wednesday Podcast - 05/16/2007" »
May 15, 2007
Quick question: Why do mobile websites force users to login over and over again rather than remembering users like normal websites do? For example, Gmail, Dodgeball (another Google property), and Twitter Mobile all have a habit of logging me out...
New Technology Tuesday Podcast: New tech that is 5, 10 and 20+ years away. Where does humanity fit?Make sure to join us tonight live at 10:00pm EDT, 9:00pm CDT, 7:00pm PDT (that's -0600 GMT for those around the world) right...
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May 14, 2007
HomeMovie.com is a site that takes all of your home movies and digitizes them and makes them available to you, and anyone you want via the web. It also has simple editing capability and the option to turn your...
Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Steve Smallman, HomeMovie.com" »
Steve Borsch over at Connecting the Dots has put together an extensive look at a common challenge faced by companies trying to pick a platform (or platforms) for their online businesses. His example looks at the challenge of building a...
May 12, 2007
Just over a year ago, Apple's legal department told a 14 year old girl to shut her pie-hole after she suggested to the company in a hand-written letter that they include song lyrics with songs purchased through the iTunes music...
May 11, 2007
Freestyle Friday! All topics are on the table, technology or not technology based. Should be a fun night! Remember to join the conversation live in TalkShoe, on Ustream.tv and in IRC on chat1.ustream.tv in room #technology-evangelist. If you would like...
Fort Wayne, Indiana has become one of the leaders in a technology movement to provide better services to residents and businesses. Mayor Graham Richard has been at the front of this cause and we talked to him about his...
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Almost every day on the Technology Evangelist podcast, someone will ask in the chat room, "What is Twitter?" This post is designed to answer that question, so we can pop a link in the chat rather than answer it over...
May 10, 2007
SecureCom Technologies provides network security devices, and while that is not anything new, being able to look at security cameras with your phone is. Their Mobilarm will allow you and multiple users to view security cameras with just a...
Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Brian Skocaj, SecureCom Technologies" »
April Fool's played a roll in April's top posts. It's worth nothing that the posts below weren't necessarily the top posts by page views for the month of April. This is just a look at which posts written in April...
May 9, 2007
Google Analytics has come out with their first major refresh, integrating much of the functionality and interface features of MeasureMap, a previous acquisition, into the program. Avinash Kaushik has a quick summary of what to look for in the changes:...
May 8, 2007
I'm heading on a trip to Amsterdam, Croatia, Slovenia, and Montenegro tomorrow for what should be an awesome vacation. However, my biggest concern before departing is power. I'll be using my Canon SD 800 IS camera while I'm there, which...
Vodium is a provider of web based media services. What does that mean? They take any event that you want video of, combine it with other media elements, such as power point or flash movies, and distribute it via...
Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Cameron Clarke, Vodium" »
New Tech Tuesday topics: Skype offers Mac users the ability to transfer calls, Sun going after the iPhone with JavaFX, Ubuntu going after the iPhone with Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded, 16GB SDHC has launched!It's the last day before we lose...
May 7, 2007
One of the biggest complaints about Gmail I've heard from email power users - you know, the type of people who have a million things going on at once rather than linearly working through their inbox - is the inability...
Killer App Expo showed us a lot of cool items, but this is the one that we want to buy for ourself. What's not to like about a robot that can destroy bombs, and have a paintball gun mounted...
Continue reading "Killer App Expo - Carey Butler, WVHTC Foundation" »
Just got a Microsoft Zune, how does it compare to a Video iPod? The mushy middle video market, when will it take off? Can the Internet backbone take Media 2.0? With SilverLight will Windows Media make a comeback?Make sure to...
Continue reading "New Media Monday - 05/07/2007" »
May 6, 2007
It's Mother's Day in the United States (and many other countries around the world) this coming Sunday, May 13th. If you were to break away from traditional Mother's Day presents like flowers and chocolates and opt for something techie, what...
May 5, 2007
If there was ever any doubt that search engines use inbound links to measure authority, Technorati's latest move closes the case. The popular blog search engine has long ranked blogs based on the number of inbound linking sites a particular...
May 4, 2007
Relevancy is the key to getting people to click on ads, so it only makes sense for ad serving services, like Google AdWords, to use any data they can get their hands on to improve the relevancy of the ads...
This Freestyle Friday covers everything from the Killer App Expo to Digg v. Digg to hypermiling. We even bring in user Maykz from TalkShoe to talk HDTV sets for college. Make sure to join us Monday live at 12:00pm EDT,...
Continue reading "Freestyle Friday Podcast - 05/04/2007" »
May 3, 2007
PacketFront's Tim Scott presented a case study on how Vasteras, Sweden has positioned the fiber to the home network they've built over the past 4-5 years. City felt under served by telecoms, so they decided to build their own gigabit...
May 2, 2007
Live from the Killer App Expo show floor! Interviews are being recorded in HD and will be edited and the posted in the coming days. Live coverage is with a Logitech web cam and will be available as a live...
Larry Irving, president of the Internet Innovation Alliance, presented a keynote at the Killer App Expo on the infrastructure challenges we face due to the new and demanding ways people are using the Internet today. Services like social networking programs...
Michael Render from RVA, LLC gave a morning keynote at Killer App Expo on the needs for government investments in fiber to the home. Giving a historical perspective for this type of investment, he reminded us that past investments in...
May 1, 2007
Ray Kurzweil gave the evening keynote on day one of the Killer App Expo. Below are my notes: Kurzweil discussed that many discoveries and innovations in science are much more predictable that most people realize. While individual predictions are difficult,...
Cameron Clarke from Vodium presented in the Broadcasting Online for Business session. Vodium is an online video platform focusing on rich media communication for corporations and government institutions. Videos from conferences, presentations, and training are formatted for the web, and...
Chris Brogan from Network2.tv included a footer in his PowerPoint slides asking the audience to take pictures, blog about it, talk about it, etc. He clearly didn't have a problem with his presentation being streamed live to the web using...
The mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Graham Richard, kicked off the Killer App Expo with a keynote speech outlining how technology investments have improved the lives of Fort Wayne residents. Starting in 2000, Fort Wayne began investing in a fiber...
Advertising Age has an article in this week's issue on the potential impact of FON's free WiFi sharing system on Starbucks. It includes the following take from me: Starbucks' Pushy New Neighbor Some businesses already offer free Wi-Fi as a...
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