Geek Brief TV #341








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Uploaded: June 23, 2008 at 6:53 pm
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Webmaster Video Comments: Twitter [1] is increasingly becoming a richer and richer part of userslives. Even with all the twitter evangelism, though, there are stillplenty of hold-outs who think it's silly or might not be useful. It'sbecoming a network that activates the 6 Degrees of Separationprincipal in powerful ways. This past weekend, Mike Arrington [2]'sInternet access went down. Comcast customer service failed for him,and after spending some time with a chicken, he vented on Twitter [3].Shortly after the tweet, Mike got a call from a Comcast executive andhis problem was quickly repaired. Even though I can't expect everyGeek Brief viewer to join twitter, I believe in its benefits enough totry. If you're not following me, I'm at twitter.com/calilewis [4].The Samsung Instinct [5] is intended to be an iPhone killer. It hasa few advantages including 3G and real GPS, but it doesn't have abrowser as great as Safari on the iPhone.eBay has decided to do the Naked Conversations [6] thing and launcha corporate blog [7]. The editor-in-chief is my friend, RichardBrewer-Hay [8]. The blog launched last week and ebay users with pentup frustrations started commenting like crazy. It's really kind of funto read, but my heart goes out to Richard as he interfaces with theworld on ebay's behalf.iCoral [9] was the craziest gadget I saw today. It's a $2000 iPoddock made of artificial coral.Hava [10] is a place-shifting device that does some things Slingbox[11] doesn't. They have a player for Nokia Internet Tablets. The guysat TabletBlog.com [12] got their hands on a pre-release copy andshowed of the results. You can get a Nokia N810 for 15% off atpodshowoffers.com [13] (more details here [14]). Use Promo Code"geekbrieftv".The Wacom Cintiq 12WX [15] is the most awesome tablet interfacedevice we've seen. It came out last November, but we missed it. Itserves as a second monitor, and I think it's the same tablet MaribethGandy [16] used for her Second Life application demo.Links:------[1] http://... http://... http://... http://... http://... http://... http://... http://... http://... http://... http://... http://...
ra2yuri4 (September 5, 2008 at 5:50 am)
lol I thought I was the only one thinking that.
kamie24240 (July 31, 2008 at 5:01 am)
boy, doesn't she talk fast. lol

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