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Pandora For Your Desktop: A Quick Review

Even if our Canadian friends can’t join into the party (thanks to the R, my favorite Internet radio station/music discovery engine Pandora is now available as an Adobe AIR desktop application.
The AIR app installs quickly and simply (just like all other AIR apps) and basically gives you the full Pandora online experience without the danger [...]


Elite Tech News Podcast #10: Crickets

This week’s Elite Tech News Podcast features our first female guest, Tamar Weinberg of Mashable, Techipeda, and too many other blogs to list here .
Together with the regular crew of Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, MG Siegler, Louis Gray, Steven Hodson, Jason Kaneshiro, Art Lindsey, and myself, we discussed a fair number of topics.
While our original [...]


FriendBinder Review: Social Media Aggregation Done the Boring Way

[Disclaimer: As you read this, please keep in mind that this is a review of a product in its very early stages - my initial assessment here is based on what the service does at this point - this can (and will hopefully) change dramatically as development continues]

I got an early invite for FriendBinder, [...]


2500 Subscribers: The L33t Reddit Keeps on Growing

At the end of January, MG Siegler invited me to co-moderate the Elite Tech News Reddit with him, Steven Hodson, and Louis Gray (since then, Mark Hopkins, Tony Hung, Jason Kaneshiro have joined us as well).
It was this collaboration that also lead us to start the Elite Tech News podcast, which is still partly based [...]


Elite Tech News Podcast #9 – The ‘C-Word’ Symposium, Featuring Robert Scoble

This week’s Elite Tech News Podcast not only featured the most complete set of our little crew (with only Tony Hung missing), but also the always entertaining Robert Scoble as our special guest.
The regular crew, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, MG Siegler, Louis Gray, Steven Hodson, Jason Kaneshiro, Art Lindsey, and myself discussed a fair [...]


Posted
5 May 2008 @ 7pm

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google, rss

Google Reader with Notes – reinventing the wheel

The fact that Google Reader now allows you to share any webpage in Google Reader through a bookmarklet (how many bookmarklets do you have installed already, btw?) and with the revolutionary feature of adding notes to that is, in too many ways, yet another example of Google reinventing wheels it already has (and just adding [...]


Elite Tech News Podcast 6 – Where Are My Pants?

This week’s l33t Tech Podcast was a lot more humorous than the first episodes – but  I still hold out hope that our two Egyptian listeners will not unsubscribe.
This week’s lineup: Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins as out moderator (except for those precious moments when his Skype account runs out of money…), Steven Hodson of WinExtra , [...]


Elite Tech News Podcast 5: Turn the Car Around, We Left the ReadBurner On!

Another Sunday, another Elite Tech News podcast.
This week’s lineup: Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins as moderator, Louis Gray from LouisGray.com, Tony Hung from DeepJiveInterests, Steven Hodson of WinExtra , Art Lindsey from artlindsey.com and myself.
Adam Ostrow from Mashable and no co-owner of ReadBurner also joined us on the call.
A shorter show this time at just about an [...]


Lesson for Flickr: don’t mess with your paying users

I thought that Flickr adding video wasn’t a great idea – there is a 90 second maximum and you need a pro account ($25 a year) to even upload videos.
Flickr’s users, however are the ones that really didn’t like this new service, especially that Flickr put their money towards developing a video service. Wired [...]


Posted
10 April 2008 @ 1am

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scoble

Thinking about Hoot the Owl, Scoble, and Fast Company’s brand

I didn’t say much about the Loren Feldman/Shel Israel affair – to be honest, I like the puppets, but it was really more of a human interest story than anything else.
But as I was Matt Craven’s latest piece on this in the Blog Herald, I couldn’t help but agree that what all of this [...]


Blogrize Review: Shared Feeds meet Social Networking

Jesse Spauling, the developer of Blogrize send me an invite to try out his new service yesterday. Blogrize is still in a private beta. Louis Gray had some invites yesterday, but they seem to be all gone at this point there are still some left, so hurry to Louis’ site and grab one.
Blogrize describes itself [...]


Elite Tech News Podcast Episode 4

Once again, the l33t reddit crew got together this weekend to record our weekly podcast based on the highest ranked stories on the Elite Tech News Reddit.
This week’s lineup: Mark “Rizzin” Hopkins as moderator, Jason from Webomatica, Steven Hodson of WinExtra , Art Lindsey from artlindsey.com and myself.
We also finally managed to get Louis Gray [...]


Friendfeed: It’s not about killing Techmeme or Google Reader

Robert Scoble switched his homepage to Friendfeed. That’s a major endorsement for Friendfeed, and while I think his rethoric of Friendfeed as a Google Reader or Techmeme killer is a bit over the top, though his reasons for switching are very interesting:
On top of FriendFeed right now are people I don’t know. No A-listers. I’m [...]


Limelight loses patent suit and might have to go dark

Update: Adam Curry says Podshow does have a contingency plan and that Limelight doesn’t expect to go black anytime soon.
According to the AP, Akamai Technologies has won a a patent suit against Limelight Networks. Apparently Limelight’s content delivery system was infringing upon one of Akamai’s patents.
Judging from the early reports on Silicon Alley Insider, besides [...]