Amanda in Second Life, by Cosmic Kitty “As long as the roots of relationship are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the community’s garden. There will be growth in the spring!” — Chauncey Gardiner, from Being There Online communities are not virtual. They don’t exist only in the bits and […]
Cali Lewis on what goes into a successful podcast
Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The host of GeekBrief.TV also offers 7 secrets to podcasting success If you travel in technology circles, chances are you’ve heard of Cali Lewis, the extraordinarily gifted, personaable and successful Web show pioneer who hosts and co-produces GeekBrief.TV. She’s about to top 50,000 followers on Twitter […]
Coolest power tools of some top geeks
During the Traveling Geeks’ trip to the United Kingdom last month, I spent some time polling the Geeks about the productivity and must-have tools that they use during the course of a typical workday. I did the same thing during the first Geeks trip to Israel last year and came away with a wealth of […]
A chat with the co-founder of FriendFeed
A chat with the co-founder of FriendFeed from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Today came word that Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, is buying the microblogging service FriendFeed. This is interesting on a couple of levels. First, it provides further proof that Twitter — the microblogging platform that has taken the world by storm […]
I upgraded to HootSuite 2.0 because it works
Back in the earlier days of 3rd party Twitter apps (just a few months ago, actually), a few very effective web-based services got my attention: SocialToo, TweetLater, and HootSuite. Sad thing was, while they were all very powerful services, they were all poorly designed, very hacked together, and fugly. Enter the elegant, sexy, feature-rich HootSuite […]