Paul Terry Walhus and Kimberlie Dykeman interview folks at the Lynn Bender GeekAustin party on Sept 30, 2008 at the Union Park bar and restaurant on West 6th Street in Austin, Texas. Julie Gomoll of LaunchPad, Silona of the Transparent Federal Budget and Austin Aaron are a few of the people interviewed. Stay tuned for the entire series of interviews and some commentary on this night and on Lynn Bender’s terrific idea to start a “BarCollege”. Yes, you heard it right, BarCollege. It’s an awesome hyper extension of the BarCamp concept that Lynn hopes people will steal. They should. It’s an idea whose time has come and one that should spread like the co-working movement.
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 16th through October 22nd
These are my links for June 16th through October 22nd:
- Being Peter Kim: A List of Social Media Marketing Examples – applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns. This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so, does it scale.
- Social Media / Business Marketing Links | The Global Social Media Network – Social Media Marketing – business marketing and social media marketing links
- Tweetmeme – 15:20 PM, October 9th, 2008 GB – less structured way to keep track of what links are buzzing on twitter categories links in to blog, image, video and audio posts
- Twitscoop – Search twitter, see what’s hot right now – What’s hot on twitter right now
- Twitturly – Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter – top trends on twitter, use this to stay ahead of the curve and tracks links
- Twubble – suggests new twitter friends based on your current twitter friends
- Tweet Scan – Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter and identi.ca. Tweet Scan indexes all public messages on both services so you can find the conversations, people, and tweets/dents you want. You can search by keyword or author with results available via email(Twitter only for now), RSS, and Twhirl.
- GroupTweet – GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
- Rogue Amoeba – Nicecast: Broadcast any audio on Mac OS X – Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world!
- 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – some excellent wordpress themes
- Irssi – Community Ubuntu Documentation – Irssi is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It is a text-based client as it lacks a graphical user interface (gui) such as XChat, Chatzilla and others.
- Fitbit – Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep – Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.
- Gnip API v1.3 – The Gnip API provides notification of activities (events) occurring in a variety of services and, whenever possible, a guid that identifies the activity itself vis a vis the service it was created on. Activity examples include a user “tweet” (twitter), a user “dugg” (digg), a user creating a blog post, etc.
- CrunchBase, The Free Tech Company Database – CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
- ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLBOX: 230+ Tools for Running a Business Online – A great roundup of business tools for running a business, all web based. I found some good stuff here.
- Eventbrite – TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up – TechCrunch is heading South for a Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures (http://www.austinventures.com/). We are landing in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits (http://www.aclfestival.com/default.aspx) music festival. We do have a handful of three day ACL passes to give away to sponsors and attendees, and will be announcing details of music festival give aways in the coming weeks.
- Rudder – The New Free Online Money Management, Budget Planning And Personal Finance Software – product that looks forward and determines how much you can spend today and still pay all your bills
- Gustav Information Center – good social network resource along with http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Gustav for tracking Gustav news and resources
- Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets » TweetLater.com – Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system. Send automated thank you notes to new followers, automatically follow new followers,
if you choose to do so. - (6) near:”Austin, Texas” within:50mi – Twitter Search – realtime search results for twitter tweets near Austin, Texas. Twitters official advanced search.
- SocialGO – Social Network Maker – Create your own Social Network for FREE
- Mashable Summermash Austin interview with Will Pate – spring.net – Spring.net interviewed Will Pate. Will cohosts CommandN a very popular video podcast with Amber Macarthur out of Toronto, Canada. He founded Raincity Studios which recently bought Bryte. Will ?can?t talk? about some upcoming ventures, but he does talk broadly about his future direction.
Spring.net did over 30 interviews at the Summermash Party in Austin at Buffalo Billiards on the night of July 30, 2008 and also videod the entire daytime Socialmedia Camp at the Thistle Cafe on West Sixth Street in Austin. The evening party featured an open bar, food, and a packed second floor. Brian Massey said ?It took a bunch of people from San Franciso to round up some of Austin?s best bloggers and developers in one place.?
We?ll be releasing the full 5 hour session of the Mashable Social Media Camp on one hour installments and we?ll also be releasing all of the 30 plus interviews over the next 2-3 weeks.
- chrisbrogan.com – one of the best social media and marketing sites on the web. It’s a must daily read if you’re a social network addict, like me.
- Social media camp at the Thistle Cafe 300 W 6th street in Austin – social media camp at the Thistle Cafe on 6th street the same day as the Mashable event.
- Austin 3.0 – If one were to look at the slew of Tech events happening this week, you?d think we were gearing up for SXSWi. Instead, it?s 104 degrees outside, and it?s just another eventful week in Texas; it?s time for our mid-summer stretching exercise.
- AgencyTool Web Design Dashboard – best web design, development, marketing and website maintenance resource I’ve every seen. Excellent! Five Stars. *****
- Web 2.0 Mashup: Best of the Internet Today –
- Ad Revenue Sharing Communities & Forums | Social Web Tools – social communitys that share revenue with their users
- Leveraging Social Media by springnet – Connie Reece and Paul Terry Walhus present “Leveraging Social Media” at SEOforSMB in Austin Texas on July 17, 2008.
- Deanna Zandt randomdeanna / Linkwad – Short-n-sweet Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and the Hightower Lowdown, and hosts TechGrrl Tips on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. Interview at http://austincast.com/blog/
- | LivingSocial – recommended by MichelleMMM on del.icio.us
- 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing | chrisbrogan.com – 50 Ways Marketers Can use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing
- How to Be Interesting | Copyblogger – Be wrong: The world is full of people trying to do the right things. It?s become so common that many of us are bored by it. We long for someone that is willing to do the wrong thing, say the wrong thing, be the wrong thing
- Five Ways to Build Your SMB Via Social Media Marketing : Online Marketing for Marketers – 5 primary strategies for building small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) via social media marketing. This post is a summary of my presentation, for those that couldn?t make it to Austin.
- Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Services Portland Oregon | Anvil Media, Inc. – Search Engine Marketing for High Performance Companies Anvil Media, Inc. (Anvil) is a search engine marketing (SEM) agency specializing in search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) management, search engine marketing public relations (SEM PR)
- http://seesmic.com/#/video/iXR1hYyDEF/watch – boiling down the basics of SEO
- The Definition of Social Media Marketing: How to Find the Best Social Media Consultant » techipedia | tamar weinberg – The main characteristic [social media marketers] need to have is a genuine curiosity/interest in social media, particularly on how it influences human relationships and business practices.
- Search Engine Optimization for Small Business – SEO Blog: Search Engine Optimization and Search Marketing :: Get Page One – And the co-founder of our humble SEO company, Brian Rutledge, will be talking about search engine optimization for small business at the SEM for SMB conference in Austin, TX. More on that later!
- Video SEO for SMB?s: What Does Standing Out Online Really Mean? – consumers typically visit an average of nearly five Web sites (4.8 actually) before deciding which attorney to select. When lawyers added video to their respective Web sites, however, this number decreased fairly substantially, to 1.8.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – seo blog aggregation. Guy Kawasaki’s alltop seo page. SEOmoz, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, SEO Book, Search Engine Journal, Matt Cutts, SEO Noobs, Google News Inside, SEO Blackhat, SEO by the Sea, Search Engine Watch, Stepforth SEO, etc
- ContentRobot | Blogging & WordPress Experts – awesome wordpress site with plugins and themes
- FlyCamOne2 Micro Video Camera for RC Aircraft from Hobby Lobby! – FlyCamOne2 Micro Video Camera for RC Aircraft from Hobby Lobby!
- Josh Highland : Internet Superstar – classic social lifestream webpage, a guy who lives in Redlands, CA
- TweetDumpr – This is a hideous tool that can be used to export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file, readable by any spreadsheet application (Excel, Numbers, etc.). Exported data includes the tweet plus a timestamp of when it was sent.
- Technology Review: Social Networking Is Not a Business* – In less than two years it has created the underlying structure for more than 20,000 social-networking sites–“mini-Facebooks” with an aggregate of 300 million page views per month. You’ve probably never heard of it.
- bub.blicio.us – social networking blog, really smart content
- Summize Conversational Search – another killer app du jour for twitter, conversational search
- All I Ate Today – clever little food app somehow connected to twitter
- austinlifestyles’ bookmarks on del.icio.us –
- Derbyshire Writer?s Guild - – Crysty Shih is now heading this major fanfic site for jane Austen aficianados
- Social Media Club Austin – You’ll find a number of social media types hanging out at Cafe Caffeine as part of the Jelly! Austin co-working scene. Come join us.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 2nd through March 6th
These are my links for March 2nd through March 6th:
- A Photo A Day – is a personal project of mine to keep me motivated over the next year to shoot more and publish more. Not everything here will be new but it will all be shot by me. More of my work can be found at JPG Magazine or my SmugMug Galleries.
- WWTelescope – The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.
- A Spoonful of Hip-Hop Helps The Guilt Go Down « Scott Robbin – Scott Robbin is a web developer, musician, photographer, bicyclist and general tinkerer. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois where he is self-unemployed as a freelance programmer for the Internets.
- Scott Robbin – Songza.com is a side-project that I worked on with friend and Humanized co-worker, Aza Raskin. Songza lets you search for a song that’s stuck in your head, play it, and even share with your friends.
- walkah | striving towards mediocrity – drupal user blog
- www.kribaby.com – I think that there are still other opportunities for marketing companies to leverage Social Media. It isn’t just to use social media as a feedback tool – that is but one of the many marketing objectives that may cause a company to engage in a social media
- Politweets – When Twitter gets political – when twitter gets political … looks like Obama won the Texas caucuses and Hillary raised $4 mil today
- Doug March » Design, Development and Music Intelligence – With today being Super Tuesday, two days after Super Sunday and the same day as Mardi Gras we thought it would be good to make some updates to politweets.
- Tables Turned – Audibot? is an Linux-based audio device that Tables Turned distributes to radio stations and music venues. Connect it to an audio source and it automatically records, formats, and uploads MP3 recordings to any website.
- WordPress Themes – wordpress themes
- Surf*Mind*Musings – industry is abuzz with a new Google Split test that offers a site search box underneath the first result, for a small set of navigational queries. The blogdom analysis has been rather shallow of this feature, so let me break it down for you.
- me.dm – my centralized webmedium / philip “dm” campbell. – heading to sxsw in austin,tx. Be sure to hook up to chat. I want to interview you. whoever you are.
- SCHED: SXSW 2008: springnet’s schedule – my schedule for sxsw
- SCHED: SXSW 2008: melkirk’s schedule – melkirk’s sxsw schedule
- Perfect Porridge ? Music, Minneapolis, Mutiny – Here?s Tristan Prettyman?s cover of the song ?New Soul.? You?ll probably recognize it from the Macbook Air commercial.
- Pandora Radio – Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music – plays only the music you like…. new kind of web radio station
- ELASTRA – The Infinite Database – ELASTRA is the world’s first infinitely scalable solution for running standard relational databases in an on-demand computing cloud. ELASTRA’s exclusive, high-performance S3DFS storage technologies enable a standard RDBMS to be deployed on Amazon’s Elasti
- Qipit Documents – Qipit capture it. share it. qipit. * My Docs * Let Us Know * Help * Sign Out
- Tom Conrad – And then the blogosphere picked it up. The first accounts I read sounded like ?HUGE BLOWUP AT GNOMEDEX!!!? Strange, I thought ? my experience of the event was quite different: it was a non-event for me.
- Todd Earwood – guy who likes snailmail and is on twitter
- Daily Idea – There are many schools of thought when it comes to getting rich. And our cracked staff of researchers at The Daily Idea flunked out of four of them. But they?re still qualified to survey the landscape of trust fund babies, over-paid celebs and lotto win
- Make Money Blogging – The following income streams (from a number of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure income each year for the last three years from blogging. I?ve ranked them from highest to lowest.
- Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging – ProBlogger – Here?s a quick AdSense tip that could make you some good money. AdSense offers two rectangle ad unit sizes – 300×250 pixels and 336×280 pixels.
- Russell Wilson – Dexo Design – Interface Design, Interaction Design, and Usability – this guy has more social networks that anyone I know. Austin guy.
- Daniel Morrison – I founded Collective Idea to build intriguing software. I can usually be found working in a local coffee shop, or on my front porch.
- mezzoblue § Home – So here’s a not-so-hypothetical question I’d like to put out there: as a designer what are the saleable products one might go about creating?
- Vara Software : ScreenFlow – excellent screencasting software for Mac that combines video and screen capture
- Apple Mail 3.0 (Leopard) – how to set up gmail imap on mac leopard mail
- Veronica Belmont – daily blog of the mahalo daily rock star
- Overheard, rocking out at SXSW – Veronica Belmont – If you missed my Rock Band skills at the Jonathan Coulton show, fear not! Casey McKinnon has assembled a super group of female talent to rock SXSW this year! Here are the details: Vocals – Casey McKinnon Bass – Leah Culver Drums – Bonny Pierzina Guitar -
- Chris Brogan – MyBlogLog – What percentage of your day is email, phone, and msgng? SXSW: what are you most looking forward to doing there? Who are you hoping to see?
- chrisbrogan’s bookmarks on del.icio.us – remarkably relevant bookmarks on business, software, art, design, learning, linux, web 2.0, gtd, howto, research, acme, illustration, entrepreneur, podcasting, dly, bsmin, podcast, graphics, bizinbox, blogs, wordpress, blog, mp3, photos, rss, free, etc.
- [chrisbrogan.com] – The Social Media 100 is a project by Chris Brogan dedicated to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for your business, your organization, or your own personal interests.
- Voodoo Ventures – Idea Fuel Blog – ?ve got 99 friends on Facebook but I hear from Jason Calacanis more than anyone. He has turned Facebook into a marketing platform for his human-powered search engine, Mahalo. And he doesn?t pay Facebook a dime for this primo branding opportunity.
- Blueroot Studios An Experiment – Mashable has a great roundup of online calendars and calendar resources that are available right now. The usual suspects are there along with some lesser-known calendars. Of course we all know who the leader is still (at least until Yahoo releases their
- Pete Hopkins, Grogmaster – Just a quick note that the same principals I used a few weeks ago to add XFN support to Blogger?s Link List work just fine when applied to the new Blog List blogroll page element, available on Blogger in draft. I?ve just done this, so everyone in ther
- Future of Real Estate Marketing – Say what you like about their business model, Redfin?s real estate search tools are world class and only keep getting better.It?s why it was the only national real estate broker (I defined ?national? as anyone having operations that spanned both c
- Rohdesign Podcast 03 – SXSW Interactive Edition – podcast about sxsw
- SMtv: INFO – sxsw participant
- Geek Entertainment TV – It?s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn?t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player?
- velda.org 2.0 – one of the best contact pages I’ve seen on the web. sxsw’er
- Blog : Texas Startup Blog – Techcrunch is reporting Demand Media bought Austin-based Pluck for $75MM cash. Frankly, I am fairly surprised. I first wrote about Pluck after sitting on a panel at the McCombs School of Business (UT @ Austin)
- blist – really fine online database
- The Top 101 Ways of Making Money Online – There’s no catch and I’m not trying to sell you an ebook. Or anything (read about conmen who do). I’m not even signing you up for a newsletter. This list was put together more as a laugh. It may change your life. Or it may annoy you enormously because of
- Practical Blogging – Helping bloggers and webmasters increase their income via Adsense, Affiliate Advertising and General Blogging Help.
- SCHED: SXSW 2008 Schedule for Friday March 7 in Austin, TX – films, parties, interactive, nicely designed calendar
- SXSWi 2008 ical schedule by Stuart Colville –
- contact // hicksdesign – Hicksdesign is a small creative agency based in Witney, Oxfordshire, UK. We create web sites and user interfaces built with web standards, as well as designing for print (we like branding in particular).
- Performancing WordPress Themes » The world?s best free wordpress themes – themes for wordpress: college, tis the season redbook and performancing (very nice)
- SXSW ’08 Insider’s Guide – SXSW insiders guide to share party info, blog posts, etc.
- Dave Made That – New Media Musings by Dave Delaney ? Join Dave Delaney as he explores and shares his findings from the wild world of web two-point-whoa! – On that note, be sure to friend me on the SXSW ?08 Insider?s Guide so we can stay connected in Austin.
- Video of my Graphing Social Patterns talk on MyBlogLog API | everwas – Video of my Graphing Social Patterns talk on MyBlogLog API
- http://everydotconnects.com/ – It?s the same with SXSWi, but the lure of connection, learning and good times at conferences is like the search for magical Disney moments, right? Aww, put on your Mouse ears and go with me on this one?.
- Silhouette WordPress Theme – some of the best wordpress themes like revolution and silhouette, tapestry, vertigo, dropshadow and downtown java. Excellence!
- Bryght | Community content hosting – Try a free 30-day trial of Bryght’s Drupal 5 hosted service today.
- Webware: Cool Web 2.0 apps for everyone – Twing is launching a new site on Tuesday where you can find out what people have written about specific topics in forums and other online communities.
- Downloads – Named after Futurosity, my other blog for which this theme was originally designed, Futurosity Magazine is a magazine-style theme with a custom home page, ready for multiple authors. Usage does require some hand coding, but it shouldn?t be too difficult
- blist | product – blist is the world?s easiest database, it?s a database for the rest of us. blist is easy, visual, and intuitive. And we are really excited about it!
- Arbitrage, brokerage, other clever ways to make money from anywhere in the world – He rinsed and repeated a few times till he was left with about 15,000 people who saw him get it right several times in a row. They were obviously very impressed. He then invited them to pay $5,000 each for a seminar with him on picking stocks!
- oh, don’t forget… – text messages queued up with ohdontforget.com will be delivered at the date & time specified, unless you specify “now”, which will send the message instantly
- Social Bookmarking Icons – technorati, del.icio.us etc
- iShowU – Just drag the capture rectangle over what you want to record and hit enter. There’s only one button (that’ll be the one labelled “record”) between you and video bliss.
- SXSW Interactive 2008, A Massive Geek Convergence in Austin | Laughing Squid – SXSW Interactive 2008 starts next week (March 7-11) and the majority of the geek world that I know will be there. SXSW Interactive runs concurrent with SXSW Film and is followed by SXSW Music. This will be the fourth year I?ve attended the conference. H
- Pownce : SXSW 2008 . – Next New Networks and Tumblr are organizing the first ever and destined to be epic SXSW Rock Band party!
- How magazine – Events – I just booked my flight to Austin and registered for the South by Southwest Interactive Conference this March. I had an amazing time last year and this year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Confirmed sessions in the design track
- indieWIRE BLOGS > Matt Dentler’s Blog – sxsw blog covering music, film and interactive
- SXSW Festival | Facebook – sxsw on facebook
- 16bit SXSW Interactive 2008 Party on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – 16bit SXSW Interactive 2008 Party
- SXSW | Digital Savant – Unfortunately, I see one big problem: does anyone else get a little intimidated seeing that there are as many as 16 things going on at the same time in many of these time blocks?
- johnbiehler.com – There are many ways to see what?s going on from the official site, Upcoming, Facebook and the SXSW Insider on Ning to name few.
- Register to Buy with Home Auction Live – Onsite or Online Bidding – live home auctions in Austin, Texas
My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 16th through June 15th
These are my links for May 16th through June 15th: