I’m not a huge fan of working in offices anymore. Not only am I rather out of practice (only one year in the past 10 have I gone into an “office” everyday), but I find them one of the biggest anti-workplaces I know. I enjoy writing and working in a coffee shop more than an office. Why?
People.
In an office there are people (well, duh), but because there are people you have to abide by standard social norms. If someone calls your name, not responding is considered rather rude. Never answering [...]
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Telecommuting,
Telework,
Work smarter
Although I have a BlackBerry, I’m liking it less and less everyday. Oh sure it’s fine as a phone. Yeah, sending email and texts on the BlackBerry is nice. Now, reading email on my Berry isn’t so hot. Checking things online through the browser, it’s so painful that I try to avoid it if at all possible. Now if Microsoft were to buy RIM, I think that would be just awesome. Fantastic.
For the iPhone, the Android platform, and Google’s Nexus One.
I can’t think of a better way to push a [...]
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blackberry,
iPhone,
Microsoft,
mobile tech,
Nexus One,
rim
I couldn’t help but to click through to a post with the title of “How Google Failed Its Users and Gave Birth to an Internet Meme“, but reading the post, I have to say that Mike is way off the mark here. His main point is that when users typed “Facebook login” into Google, they shouldn’t have gotten RWW, but Facebook:
While we mock those users, the simple fact is they haven’t necessarily failed, something failed them. With all of our talk about the semantic Web and search engine optimization and [...]
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Browsers,
Google
Flickr is one of Vancouver’s greatest Web 2.0 success stories. Born in Yaletown, bought by Yahoo, and continues to go strong (at least me and my 14,000 photos hope so). Today (like “today” as in midnight Pacific time) Stewart Butterfield’s latest project has a name, a look, and some light shed upon it.
Over the summer Stewart let the world know that Tiny Speck was the new project he was starting, and it would be a game of some sorts. Okay, we’ll buy that. Flickr started out as a game, so, [...]
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Glitch,
Social gaming,
Social Media,
Tiny Speck,
Vancouver tech
Techcrunch was hacked recently. Probably not too unexpected as they are a pretty large and juicy target for any hacker. It seems, however, that the hacking incident motivated the Techcrunch team to pull up stakes and move over to WordPress/Automattic’s VIP Service:
Assuming I am right and Techcrunch has moved to Wordpress.com for hosting, it’s interesting how short of a time they were hosted on the Rackspace Cloud Sites service. I have pinged a couple of Rackspace employees and will update this story once I get any further details.
Update: I can [...]
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Dreamhost,
Webhosts
There are only two of them, and they are in Vancouver for the Olympics. No, not a small island nation’s Olympic team, the Chevy Volt.
I had a chance to take on for a quick drive around the MacMillan Space Centre lot–it’s not road approved yet–and wow the damn thing is quiet.
There is amazing tech in this baby. From a mobile app to the plug that makes sure that it’s safe to charge up all awesome tech.
Believe it or not, it will be available in Canada in mid-2011.
What’s it like to [...]
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Chevy Volt,
Electric cars
Yes, I want a tablet. No, actually it doesn’t have to be an iPad, though that would certainly be wonderful, but an Internet-enabled tablet is what I think would best suit the things I’d like to do with something not a laptop/netbook and more than a smartphone. Sure I’d love an e-reader, but I know that I’m going to want to do more than just read a book or two on it. I’m going to want to jot some notes, probably sift through my RSS feeds, send a quick email. [...]
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ebook readers,
ebooks,
ereaders,
Kindle,
Sony eReader
I’ve lost count of the number of OSes I’ve tried on my netbook (an Asus Eee PC 901, btw). It started with WinXP then I’ve tried various flavors of Linux and even made a Hackintosh, but since I switch off XP one thing or another didn’t work quite right. Maybe the sound, or microphone, or webcam, or something. Rather annoying for sure.
It’s safe to say then that I’m always on the look out for a new potential OS to try. It also helps that I don’t keep files on my [...]
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Eee PC,
jolicloud,
Netbooks
Yep, I was taken in as well. The night before the iPad launch Jason Calacanis started off a stream of tweets that said that he had been an iPad tester for a while and rattled off a features that sounded logical. Cameras, games, e-reader, solar panels … hold on … I was wondering about that.
I was pretty interested what Jason was saying and since I met him a few times, I figured that there wasn’t a bad chance that Apple had given him an iPad to test. The next morning [...]
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iPad,
jason calacanis,
journalism
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. If you are interested in having Tris speak, teach, lead a workshop or consult for you, feel free to email tris [at] trishussey [dot] com.
