This American Castaway

by jpreardon on February 27, 2007

The availability of NPR Podcasts have given me a whole new appreciation of This American Life. Act one of last week’s show is an absolute riot: Out for a simple pleasure cruise with two friends, Alex Zharov (pictured), relaxes as (…)

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OpenID Explained in 5 Minutes

by jpreardon on February 26, 2007

JanRain CEO Scott Kveton’s 5 minute talk about OpenID at Ignite Seattle is probably the most succinct explanation of OpenID I’ve heard to date: Click To Play If that doesn’t make you want to run out and get your own (…)

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doodleboard

by jpreardon on February 25, 2007

doodleboard is an infinite whiteboard. Anyone can write on it and/or edit what has already be written. This screencast on the doodleboard blog explains how it works. Pretty slick. This will be bit more useful once they introduce private boards, (…)

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foning It In

by jpreardon on February 21, 2007

fon is offering free wireless routers to anyone near a Starbucks or other café type place. They will also split the loot from the customers you skim from the T-Mobile hotspot with your strategically placed router. This violates the terms (…)

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So Long Vonage

by jpreardon on February 21, 2007

Vonage is offering current customers a discount if they prepay for the year. Taken at face value, it might appear that Vonage is giving their existing subscribers a break if they are willing to shell out a year’s worth of (…)

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Snow Parking

by jpreardon on February 16, 2007

Gothamist takes exception to Bloomberg’s refusal to suspend alternate side of the street parking after Wednesday’s snowfall. While the Mayor’s attitude did seem somewhat harsh, given the amount of snow, he probably almost made the right call. I say almost (…)

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Hitting the Pipe

by jpreardon on February 11, 2007

Yahoo Pipes caused a bit of a stir this week. The wizzy drag and drop editor allows one to mash up RSS & Atom feeds to their heart’s content and publish them for the rest of the world to use. (…)

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GTD Review Tweaks

by jpreardon on February 10, 2007

As one who subscribes to the Getting Things Done philosophy of, well, getting things done, I should probably know exactly when I started applying GTD techniques. I can’t pin down an exact date, but I know it has been a (…)

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