April 2008

Call For Help – April 29th, 2008 – Interviews with Drew Olanoff and AlanaTaylor / Podcamp NYC 2.0 Discussion

by Jeff Weisbein April 29, 2008
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Listen Here! Call For Help – April 29th, 2008 – Interviews with Drew Olanoff of ReadBurner and AlanaTaylor of AlanaTaylor.com / Podcamp NYC 2.0 Discussion —- Drew Olanoff of ReadBurner: Questions/Topics: 1. What is ReadBurner? 2. What is Google Reader? 3. What is the difference between ReadBurner and FeedBurner? 4. How does it work – [...]

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Podcamp NYC – Networking Experience

by Jeff Weisbein April 28, 2008
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In my previous post I discussed the sessions I attended at Podcamp NYC 2.0 as well as my thoughts on each session.  In addition to the sessions I was able to attend and learn from I was also privileged to be able to hang out with some very cool people.  If I miss someone please [...]

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Podcamp NYC 2.0 – Overview

by Jeff Weisbein April 27, 2008
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Podcamp NYC an “unconference” on new media which was hosted this year at Poly Tech in Brooklyn New York. I decided to attend this event (mainly because it was free and local) and I wasn’t quite sure what I would get out of it. However, I must say I was shockingly surprised by the sheer [...]

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Quick Tip – Access Quick Find in Firefox

by Jeff Weisbein April 23, 2008
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Thanks to Mandy (my girlfriend) for pointing this out to me. Ever need to find something on a web page? Chances are eventually you will find yourself searching a particular page for a something such as a string of text or a keyword. Generally, most people will either go to the menu bar – click [...]

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Call For Help – April 22nd, 2008 – Facebook News / Ubuntu Hardy Heron Discussion / Macbook Woes

by Jeff Weisbein April 22, 2008
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Listen Here! Call For Help – April 22nd, 2008 – Facebook News / Ubuntu Hardy Heron Discussion / Macbook Woes Facebook in the news – Facebook chat released and the obstacles Facebook is facing. Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is being released shortly and we discuss the release and what it means to users. Nick Parker [...]

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Ubuntu…You’re Killing Me!

by Jeff Weisbein April 21, 2008
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After a few more hours of playing with Ubuntu 8.04 Beta I was able to get my dual monitors working.  What I ended up doing was installing nvidia-settings, however, for some reason that wasn’t able to save the xorg.conf file to /etc/X11/, so I copied the xorg.conf to xorg.conf.backup and then copied the nvidia-settings preview [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Predictions

by Jeff Weisbein April 19, 2008
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Now with the release of the latest version of Ubuntu only 5 days away what better time then now to make predictions about the future of the Ubuntu Operating System. So lets get down to it, shall we? 1. Linux (more specifically, Ubuntu) for the masses – not happening (at least not yet). While I [...]

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Why Use Twitter?

by Jeff Weisbein April 18, 2008
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What is Twitter anyway?  Twitter is a micro-blogging social network.  The question of “What are you doing?” says it all.  People post updates containing a maximum of a 140 characters to their twitter page which your “followers” can then read and see well, what you’re doing at that point in time. So why use Twitter?  [...]

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Call For Help – April 15th, 2008 – Chris Pirillo on Web Communities

by Jeff Weisbein April 15, 2008
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Listen Here! Call For Help – Chris Pirillo discusses the Web and the ideas behind Web communities. Questions and Topics: 1. What does Web 2.0 mean for an Internet user? 2. What do users gain with Web 2.0 sites such as uStream, flickr, twitter, and YouTube? 3. Is the Web the new platform for publishing [...]

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Illegal Music Downloading: Look At The Facts

by Jeff Weisbein April 14, 2008
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The music downloading phenomenon has spread throughout the world. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is extremely concerned about illegal downloading from the internet. The RIAA believes that decreasing CD sales are caused directly by illegal downloading. As a result, the RIAA began using controversial methods to attempt to combat the problem – it [...]

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