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  • The Global Humanitarian Forum and live streaming

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorking at the Global Humanitarian Forum today, providing the live streams, was fun as some interesting conversations took place. Among the people present we had Micheline Calmy Rey, Kofi Annan, the writer of the wikonomics book (which I have as an audio book and haven’t finished yet), Nik Gowing, and a…

  • The twitter is great for revolutions bandwagon

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe free flow of information has been greatly facilitated by the development of modern tools such as the smartphone, more common laptops and data plans. As a result of all these tools the control of public opinion has become more of a challenge. It’s easy to block sites, but the problem is…

  • Influenza and the World Community Grid

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Worldcommunity grid is a datagrid style project where almost half a million people are offering computer cycles to help advance scientific research in a number of fields such as health, nutrition and more. One of the most recent projects to be added to the collection is the one for Influenza. If…

  • Minsh

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  • Streamlining with Quicktime Pro

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re learning about editing but don’t want to spend much money then Quicktime pro is a cheap and easy straight cut editor. It’s quick and easy to use. With the short cut apple+c apple+N and apple+v you have a very simple editor. Using J to play backwards, k to pause…

  • Interview with the creators of Minsh tomorrow

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMinsh is launching tomorrow and I will be meeting with them to record an interview with them about the website. They’re university students who did this as one of their projects. Minsh is a 3d virtual environment in which twitter users are represented as fish swimming in the ocean. Each fish…

  • Nanox,TRP files and Mpeg streamclip

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSatellite television broadcasting is an interesting field to looik into, especially now that there are thousands of channels available on a multitude of satellites. Over the past two days I have been learning about the Nanox HDTV recording device. What I like about using the Nanox receiver is the ability to see…

  • Here is the Nouvo video where you see me speak about twitter.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd there you have it, me speaking about twitter. As promised – update – I’m happy with all the positive reactions this video is having. Thank you.

  • Sociability and the web

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I had the pleasure of someone deciding to spend a good portion of the day with me, something that is quite rare. It’s also something that is important to a topic that I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about. How much of your time do you give to…

  • Nambu is great

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNambu is a desktop client for Twitter available only to users of Leopard 10.5. What makes this application great is that it has automatic threading of conversations, making it easier to keep track of conversations. The multi-column to single column view is also easy to interact with and creating groups and…