Dec
3

Blogger Beta Test

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I switched over to the new blogger beta test……and I find myself having trouble publishing via FTP now…

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May
10

Cool

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http://www.google.com/coop

“With the co-op service, users with a personal Google login will be able to label web pages so the information can be easily found by other people, including friends, family and co-workers. ”

Web 2.0 finally hits the web! The web really is experiencing its 2nd golden age. I just spent 20 minutes browsing YouTube and Google Videos for UCSC & Santa Cruz videos. Tagging, its amazing.

And now its hit the web. You join my co-op. We’re linked to our other friends. We go hang out in Santa Cruz, have lunch at Planet Fresh, and decide its the best meal we’ve ever had. Using google co-op, we tag Planet Fresh as being an amazing meal, highly recommended by us.

Two months from now, our mutual friend Jane visits Santa Cruz and needs a restaurant to have lunch at! So she googles “santa cruz restaurants” and damn, wouldn’t you know it! There’s some info about how you and me (and everyone we know for that matter) particularly like Planet Fresh! So jane goes there and has a delicious meal and her day is made.

That’s just one small example of what’s going on here. MySpace was just the beginning, and really the most useless part of social networking. Now the real fun is about to begin. Shared information. Shared likes. Shared everything. All accessible through a simple google search.

It really is an amazing time to be alive. Consciousness is continuing to become conscious of itself. (try a google blog search………and a google trends search and you’ll be discovering the Zeitgeist in REAL TIME!)

Less than one week until Pearl Jam (and Seth’s wedding of course)

Rock on.

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Apr
13

Perfect Timing

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Google has FINALLY released their calendar. And it rocks. The potentials it offers are amazing, and its all done in an open source format (unlike Microsoft). I’m super stoked for personal & professional reasons. Personally, it’ll finally help me organize my own shit, and that I might even try to alter brett dennen’s site so the tourdates system runs off of it.

Professionally I’m stoked because we had a major exchange server crash over the weekend (while I was backpacking, so I got off easy) bringing everyone’s emails to a screeching halt.

A lot of time and energy has been put into that exchange server, and it just doesn’t perform. Consequently, some of us here have decided to spearhead the idea that we should drop exchange and move everyone to Gmail. Google now offers corporate domain hosting for gmail accounts (so you can have yourname@yourcompany.com instead of @gmail.com) and our application was accepted.

However, one of the major objections to that has been that we’d lose Outlook’s calendar function. Myself and a coworker spent all yesterday hunting the internet for screenshots and any tidbits of what a google calendar would be, and BAM we wake up this morning and there it is. Everything truly does arise exactly as it should. I heart Google.

Anyways, nerdy post over. Fun post about last night’s Buckethead show coming up soon. (with pictures!!! and videos!!!!)

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