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Touch Wood: The Best Minute of the Month

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Scott Berkun shared this absurd, amazing, wonderful Japanese commercial that must be seen with the volume turned up. Enjoy.

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Restrepo – Add to your Queue

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Documentaries fascinate me, and Restrepo is gripping. The Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. My [...]

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Vimeo Comes to the Big Screen

Browsing videos on Vimeo via my Samsung Blueray

Yesterday I turned on my Samsung Blueray player to tune into Pandora (which sounds amazing cranked through my A/V system). I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve used my Blueray player to watch a disc, but I’m constantly using the various web apps: Netflix, Hulu Plus, and especially Pandora. As the [...]

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What is a Browser?

20 Things I Learned About Browsing and the Web

What is a browser? Ask the typical man (or woman) on the street that question and you’ll get some surprising answers. Back in April 2009, some folks at Google did just that. They took a video camera to the streets of New York City to ask people “What is a browser?” Watch… Clearly there is [...]

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Video via the Updated WordPress iOS App

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Recently an update to the WordPress iPhone/iPad app was released in the iTunes App Store. One of the interesting new features is the ability to record, upload, attach and play videos directly within the app. I know several people who would love to streamline and simplify the process of posting video in near real time, [...]

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The Beauty of Data Visualization

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David McCandless is a journalist who has developed a passion for making sense of data, beautifully. It’s a fascinating talk on finding patterns and truth through visualization, when data alone won’t suffice.

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Communities Behind the Firewall

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Last July, I spoke at the inaugural Ignite/LA on the use of virtual communities to enable strategic knowledge sharing across the enterprise. It took a while, but the video is now online. The Ignite format uses 20 slides which auto-advance every 15 seconds making the presentation length a total of five minutes. The next Ignite/LA [...]

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Kaki King rocks TED

Rolling Stone magazine made Kaki King the first women on the Guitar Gods list. Kaki has a unique, percussive style that can’t be fully appreciated without seeing it. Fortunately for us, her entire 15 minute performance at TED is now available. It’s worth watching. Now you’ve seen it. Have a nice Sunday.

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Jobs and Gates on the future of computing

Walt Mossberg of the WSJ sat down with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to discuss the future of computing, the “death” of the PC and life in a “post-PC” world. It’s interesting to hear their vision for where things are going. Hint: look for a lot of innovation in the small form factors (iPhone, tablets, [...]