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Streaming my Flickr photos

I made this little movie of my Flickr photos, then added some music that I composed in GarageBand a while back. Can’t tell where the photos are from? The answers are here.
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Get used to the spinning YouTube wheel of wait

Get used to the spinning YouTube wheel of wait

I was trying to watch a short clip on YouTube today … this one, in fact. Unfortunately, it stuttered and stumbled like an aged man on a cobblestone path. The problem? 1080P, streamed over an internet originally designed for bare, simple, small … text. The solution, of course, is simple: take it down a...
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Easily download YouTube movies via Safari

If you’re using Safari, there’s an easy way to download YouTube videos. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows the Activity window. If you’re also loading other sites, you’ll see a list of them: scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about...
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Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

From the ReadWriteWeb story: # Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. # Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly. # Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning...
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Notebook, by Evelien Lohbeck

This is far too cool for words, but I’ll try: It’s a reality-bending fusion of sketch, art film, computer UI, and video by a Dutch artist, Evelien Lohbeck. Maximize the video and watch it fullscreen – you’ll enjoy. Two things that come to mind: One: this creative genius deserves a Mac, not XP. Two:...
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Ruin your reputation and cost yourself millions with social media

How can you ruin your reputation in a whole country and cost yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, with social media? Well, you could be Bill Bob Thornton, who is pulling out of his Canadian tour dates with his band, the Boxmasters. Why? Well, Billy Bob (it’s difficult to take anyone...
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Be afraid. Be very afraid

Be afraid. Be very afraid

I had to memorialize this interchange with my friend Cam Cardow on Facebook: The occasion? I had posted on JumpGate Evolution, after seeing this video:
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Zappo’s: on the Cluetrain

I absolutely love the way Zappo’s reminds their employees about corporate guidelines. Sensible rule First of all, they have a sensible rule: don’t reply to all! This is one of those Obviously Good Ideas™ that few follow … mostly for the purposes of CingYA in case of disaster, and appearing to look busy to...
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Feedyes? Feedno! Finding a working YouTube RSS Generator

I’m trying to create a feed for a page that has no feeds:http://youtube.com/results?search_query=serious+games&search=SearchFeedYes is supposed to be able to do that … but annoyingly, the site continually has technical errors that prevent me from making a feed. First of all, it doesn’t show steps 3 and 4 … after showing steps 1 and 2....
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