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During the week of May 24 through May 31st AustinLifestyles.com, The Spring, BHI, and RegistrationAssistant are hosting a visitor from the Netherlands, Paul Geurts of MyNameisE.com. He is bringing the first prototypes of a social networking and business card connector to Austin, Texas.  If you’re around Austin next week and want a demo, call Paul [...]

AUSTIN, Texas (Feb 11, 2009) — OrgSync, Inc (OrgSync.com) is excited to announce its successful campaign to raise $1500 for Charity: Water using social media. On Tuesday, February 3, 2009, OrgSync’s team launched a social media campaign to raise awareness for the importance of clean, safe drinking water around the world. The team of 25 [...]

Live Drill From Ethiopia – September Campaign www.borninseptember.org from charity: water on Vimeo. Come to the twestival in Austin and all over the world on Feb 12. Tags: water, charity, twestival, video, austin, texas

Here’s the schedule of events for Twestival 2009 at Ace’s in Austin, TX on Feb 128:00 Meet and mingle8:50 A word from sponsors9:00 Twestival Sumo Smackdown (see video below)10:00 Presentation by Glimmer of Hope, a non-profit that drills wells in Africa10:45 Performance by T-Bird and the Breaks, one of Austin’s most highly regarded up-and-coming bands. [...]

Twestival is going to be held around the world on Thursday, March 12.  It is the biggest twitter festival ever and has been set up to support the billion plus people in the world without clean drinking water.  It’s a fundamental cause that needs your support.  The Austin event will be at Ace’s on 6th [...]

Celebrate OneWebDay – The Earth Day for the Internet Activities all day long! Uber-Jelly Jam Barcampian Melange http://wiki.workatjelly.com/One+Web+Day+Uber+Jelly+at+Cafe+Caffeine+-+Monday,+Sept+22nd The idea behind OneWebDay is to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that (1) celebrate the positive impact of the internet on [...]

These are my links for July 13th through July 16th: 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 [...]

These are my links for March 10th through March 12th: YouTube – Casey Mckinnon, Veronic Belmont, Leah Culver rock sxsw – Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver rock sxsw QIK | Streaming video right from your phone – live streaming from Nokia n series phones SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be? – [...]

These are my links for March 26th: My Blog – my springnet stumbleupon blog TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips – Each day during the school year I try to send out a computer tip or two. It’s usually a website, but sometimes it’s a news item or an Excel tip, etc. You can also find [...]

These are my links for March 18th through March 19th: Ping.fm | Home – Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon. Bitstrips: ‘austincast has sxsw videos’ – my first [...]

These are my links for March 21st through March 22nd: Colorwar 2008 – boredom has set in after sxsw 2008 Kiki?s Korner – Home for my rants, raves and general sharing of ‘insytes’. Some of you will enjoy this gathering of text – others will wonder how I tricked them into giving me a Blogger’s [...]

These are my links for March 23rd: SEO for your WordPress Blog – This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for WordPress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using. Twitter / zefrank – organizing colorwars on twitter Tabs Open Relative :: Firefox Add-ons – open tab [...]

These are my links for March 27th through April 3rd: Magento – Home – Open Source eCommerce Evolved – Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places [...]

These are my links for March 20th: Mahalo Daily – Mahalo-Hahai – Mahalo Daily wiki with all of Veronica Belmont’s episodes in one place TerminArtors – Homepage – purports to be the largest online fine arts gallery with almost 30,000 paintings Social Media – they’ve got all the social media covered, Scoble, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, chrisbrogan.com, [...]

These are my links for March 13th through March 17th: PaidbyPixels.com – get paid advertising on a pixel map on your site SXSW on the ground – mobile experiment with pulver.tv … mobile personal broadcasting . . . you choose the questions and you pick the people to talk to FastCompany.TV – Scoble’s new venture [...]

These are my links for March 25th: SourceForge.net: Jahshaka – Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules. TwitPic – Share photos on [...]

These are my links for March 24th: Christine – Mashups for social change? Apparently, you’re not the only one that thinks this is a good idea. Last week, 122 project ideas were submitted to the annual NetSquared Mashup Challenge. http://twitter.com/christine Fluid – Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard – Use Fluid to [...]

These are my links for March 2nd through March 3rd: 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 [...]

These are my links for March 4th: 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 [...]

Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He’s worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper’s personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin’s Spanish-language newspaper. He’s been a writer and performer with Austin’s award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television [...]

 

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These are my links for 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 [...]

These are my links for March 5th: 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 [...]

These are my links for March 7th through March 8th: QIK | Streaming video right from your phone – ijustine turned me on to this last night at sxsw interactive in ausitn… she’s been raving about it Our Work | Elevator Up – Recent Projects * Ascribe – Collaborative Portfolio Manager NEW * Roov NEW [...]

These are my links for February 29th: sxswtwitter wiki – A collaboration place for all of the Twitterbuds coming to SxSW in 2008! Let us know who you are, what your twitter name is, where you’re staying and how to get ahold of you. We definitely need to get a drink or two together! Dailymotion [...]

These are my links for February 23rd through February 28th: Wired LivingHome – Wired Living Home made from cargo containers $4 milliion is not exactly our budget though… exclusive LA enclave Shopit – The Social Commerce Network – Shopit’s storefront profiles, portable store widgets and networking tools are built for social commerce. Use them to [...]

These are my links for June 16th through June 27th: 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 [...]

These are my links for May 26th: Movavi Online Video Converter – Free Online Video Converter No software to install. No ads to interrupt. Pixel Qi – About Us – Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen was previously the founding chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child. Notably Mary Lou invented the laptop’s sunlight-readable display Xo [...]

These are my links for May 21st through May 25th: MediaWiki – MediaWiki – MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki. Tweet Clouds – # 78612 [...]

These are my links for February 21st through February 22nd: Agendacide: Minutes from Somewhere Else » Rock out with your glock out. – do the best booty-slap dance in the San Francisco Bay Area ? where I currently live. Ask me to do it for you sometime. EPIC-FU – art+tech+music for geeks – Zadi Diaz [...]

These are my links for February 20th: Huge List of the Best Open-Source Apps – Ubuntu Forums – great big list of ubuntu apps LinkBlip – Send a link to someone, get an email when they click it. – # When someone clicks that special URL, you are notified by email with the time they [...]

These are my links for April 18th through April 20th: News.com’s Blog 100 | CNET News.com – In 2006, CNET News.com introduced you to our first Blog 100 list. With more than 14 million blogs in existence that year and another 80,000 being created each day, we highlighted what we thought were some of the [...]

These are my links for May 19th through May 20th: Disqus | Hello, springnet! – Boost your blog community by installing the DISQUS comment system Disqus makes your comments more interactive for readers and easier to manage for you ? all while connecting your community with other blogs. “no one needs you” – Leo Blogging [...]

These are my links for February 18th through February 19th: Gcast. Make your voice heard. – get your podcast on itunes in 10 minutes and record it with a cell phone Gcast. Make your voice heard. – make a pocast and get it on itunes inside of 10 minutes! awesome t|w|i|t|t|e|r|m|e|t|e|r – Enter a word [...]

These are my links for May 18th: how to grab all the free media publicity you could ever want. Thousands of media email addresses here at All the Secrets newsletter’s free publicity resource centre – websites that help mail out your press releases ShowYourself Widget – ShowYourself is a simple to make, easy, free and [...]

These are my links for February 16th through February 17th: Migrate a WordPress site to Drupal | Adding Understanding – Recently I’ve been helping a few folks migrate websites from WordPress to Drupal. Presently this works for migrating to Drupal 5 so if you want a Drupal 6 site first migrate to Drupal 5 and [...]

These are my links for May 17th: The Most Popular Twitter Apps According to the Blogosphere – ReadWriteWeb – which Twitter clients are getting the most buzz on blogs. The result is a list of the most popular 3rd-party Twitter-apps according to the blogosphere. @steverubel This is a guest post from Anton Johansson, a business [...]

These are my links for April 13th through April 17th: About DG « Demo Girl – I started learning how to create screencasts in April of 2006 and since then have created well over 300. socialthing! – aggregates twitter, pownce and facebook with a lot more rss feeds to social networking sites coming. See the [...]

These are my links for May 12th through May 16th: Jennifer Slegg – Search Engine Marketing Consultant – @jenstar jennifer offers tips on SEO marketing and I’m trying to get her to return my follow on twitter Whatever – nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think [...]

These are my links for June 15th: Qik On IPhone: Qik Video Streaming Finally Comes to iPhone – Wow! When I was interviewing the geekalicious Cali Lewis at SXSW I asked her what she was most excited about and she started bouncing up and down and shouting to Neail. Qik! Qik! Bring me Qik. Quick! [...]

These are my links for February 13th through February 14th: Pure Mac: Audio – Software for Macintosh – whole bunch of audio recording and editing apps for the mac Kevin Kelly — The Technium – The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we [...]

These are my links for June 4th through June 12th: Themes – Tumble-hybrid Deuce is a cleaned up version of the original Tumble-hybrid theme. Please follow the directions outlined in the original Tumble-hybrid post to install and use this theme. The Life of an Internet Bedouin ? Damon Clinkscales – Future Jets Owner Gary Vaynerchuk [...]

These are my links for February 11th through February 12th: Network Camera Model IK-WB15A – Toshiba – The Toshiba IK-WB15A IP Network Camera captures live, high-resolution video that is viewable anywhere in the world through a standard web browser. It is the perfect tool for surveillance, business, entertainment, web site broadcasting and more. Gmail Manager [...]

These are my links for April 11th through April 12th: Singularity Conference – On October 24-26, join 100 of the world?s top web visionaries, developers, designers, thought leaders, and celebrities for three days of talks at this seminal web event. Ian Forrester is the subject of an upcoming interview on austincast.com Free Themes – Design [...]

These are my links for February 10th: JinaBolton.com – Jina’s website has a very sexy css stylesheet oaktreeidea.com – a community of hope, innovation and purpose – Oaktreeidea is not your average social networking website. Oaktreeidea is just that, an idea, an innovation. Where community members can be inspired and accomplish big things. Things with [...]

These are my links for May 7th through May 10th: Home | premium wordPress theme, wordpress cms, custom wordpress template, – wordpress cms theme Texas Startup Blog – My advice is to become a ?maker?, become a ?builder? or if you can?t make or build find a partner who can. Build something, show it to [...]

These are my links for April 8th through April 10th: CivicSpace Home | CivicSpace – cms community management software probably running on drupal and civicrs.org Revision3 – Great news, world! I?m very pleased to announce that Veronica Belmont has joined the Revision3 family as Patrick Norton?s co-host on our tech-centric show Tekzilla, and we couldn?t [...]

I’ve been twittering for a bit.  I tweeted @dvorak about his great podcasts and columns.  Have you seen http://channeldvorak.com?  If John get his son Arick to open source this, I’ll use it.  I’m already rocking and rolling with Arick’s other open source project which has something to do with Craigslist.  Sssshhh! Lyn Bender just sent [...]

These are my links for February 4th through February 9th: FastCompany.com – Where ideas and people meet | Fast Company – Fast Company is about to shake things up again. Back in 1995, in our first issue, we announced on our cover: “Computing is… Flickr: The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR [...]

These are my links for June 28th through July 9th: 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, [...]

These are my links for April 4th through April 7th: CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch – Engadget – Apparently, when CERN isn’t colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it’s busy working on a new “internet” which will be 10,000 times faster than our [...]

Super Tuesday rocked the airwaves last night as  Hillary and Obama were in a near dead heat with Hillary racking up the big California prize.  Texas looms large now for the March 5th primary with 228 delegates at stake and a scheduled Feb 28th debate between Obama and Hillary. It was interesting to see Huckabee [...]

These are my links for February 3rd: ScobleShow: Videoblog about geeks, technology, and developers – Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing. SpaceTime? – With SpaceTime’s? 3D Web Search, you choose your search engine from [...]

These are my links for May 27th through June 2nd: PR 2.0 – As much as media and blogger relations drive traffic and increase your user base, we can?t overlook the importance of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, DIGG, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Diigo, FriendFeed, Ning, Mixx, Bebo, Ge Uniting Austin’s Startup Community [...]

These are my links for February 1st: Marshall Kirkpatrick – The highlights of the post are the link to this Wired article about the economy of screen scraping (great article) and this screencast about how to use Dapper that I finally recorded. agentgenius.com- national real estate opinion column » G-Spot – collaborative real estate blog [...]

These are my links for January 31st: dooce ® – our panel will be held Sunday, March 9th, if you are in Austin and can spare the mortgage payment it costs to get into the festival. Maggie will be the one speaking coherently, I will be the one trying to distract her by snapping the [...]

These are my links for October 22nd through October 31st: 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists – 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists My Creative Team Wiki / Media People Using Twitter – most complete list of media people using twitter Where is [...]

These are my links for August 1st through August 31st: 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 [...]

These are my links for January 29th through January 30th: Jeffrey Zeldman Presents – daily report, designing with web standards Merlin Mann – Merline Mann’s blog SF CA of 43 Folders and MacBreak Weekly nailing down speaking gigs including sxsw 08 creator of 5ives Lijit | Home – I saw this on Veronica Belmont’s blog… [...]

These are my links for January 28th: Theme Viewer – graphical theme viewer for wordpress GarageBand.com : charts – tons of podsafe music available for downloading ReadWriteWeb – news and apps in the web 2.0 world Social bookmarking services poster and community websites submitter: digg.com reddit.com netscape.com propeller.com Del.icio.us Stumbleupon.com etc. – DomainsBot – Available [...]

These are my links for January 27th: springnet’s podcast – within 5 minutes I had a show on itunes! it was so easy it was amazing. http://www.gcast.com/u/springnet/main is the url. highly recommended Social Networks in Education » home – listing of social networks used in educational environments. Please add to this list (alphabetical by category [...]

These are my links for January 26th: Put Together Quickly » Optimizing performance for WordPress – make wordpress work better 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging – John Mccaint – Look out Chuck Norris, Sylvester?s comin? after you. He?s comin? after you and he?s going to get you. You better run! Chuck, you can [...]

These are my links for April 23rd through April 26th: earlysound’s bookmarks on del.icio.us – Veronica Belmonts bookmarks Wp-plugin – Seesmic – The Seesmic-wp-plugin allows you to: * Record one or more Seesmic video’s to a post. * Accept authenticated or anonymous video comments. * Moderate video comments exactly like text comments. Loic Le Meur [...]

These are my links for January 22nd through January 25th: 250120082.jpg (JPEG Image, 800×600 pixels) – Daikatana or “daiky” is an awesome lifecaster from the Netherlands SocialEngine PHP – Build your own unique social network! – SocialEngine is a PHP-based social network platform that lets you create a social network on your website. Right out [...]

These are my links for July 21st through July 25th: 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 [...]

These are my links for April 21st through April 22nd: The Last Podcast – With Alert Thingy and now Twhirl, the market for FriendFeed desktop apps already feel crowded. The development cycles for both apps are extremely fast and the Twhirl developers arerumored to release a new version tonight. Technology « // Internet Duct Tape [...]

These are my links for January 20th through January 21st: Will We See Delicious 2.0 This Week? – It?s been four and a half months since Yahoo first previewed Delicious 2.0. We?ve heard not a peep from them since as to when it might launch publicly and replace the existing, somewhat dated interface. DVM5051_SPECS.pdf (application/pdf [...]

These are my links for January 15th through January 18th: Wired LivingHomes – About the Home – The 4,057 square foot WIRED LivingHome is designed to attain at least a Gold rating from the USGBC LEED® for Homes Program. Consistent with its focus on sustainable design I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Google-Mart | PBS [...]

 You’ll notice another widget in the lower right column of this blog, it’s scoutle and I recommend you check it out and add me as your friend so we can compare notes.  I found this in Louisvillian Tom Osborne’s profilactic mashup this morning.   As far as I can tell, this came out of the Netherlands and [...]

These are my links for September 2nd through September 15th: 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 [...]

These are my links for January 8th through January 14th: DeluoGPS – Deluo MouseGPS(tm). An optical laptop USB mouse with an integrated GPS. – Available with Microsoft® Streets & Trips, the best-selling mapping software, the Deluo MouseGPSTM will help you find your way through urban jungles and the World Wide Web alike. ATP’s GPS Photo [...]

These are my links for November 8th through November 12th: How to Change the World: Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter – Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter Op-Ed Columnist – How to Fix a Flat – NYTimes.com – Any car company that gets taxpayer [...]

These are my links for September 20th through October 9th: 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 [...]

These are my links for January 2nd through January 7th: Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman’s 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows Scripted Re-Mark – Batch Editor for Bookmarks – manage your bookmarks stored at del.icio.us. one [...]

These are my links for May 5th through May 6th: Push My Follow » A podcast about social media and other things – @pushmyfollow Michael Gaines @istarman – Joe Cascio @joec0914 – Eric Rice @spin – Christine Cavalier @purplecar – Sarah Vela @orchid8 – Ann Boccio @banannie7 podcast about twitter and socialnets … recommended Tinderbox: [...]

These are my links for April 27th through May 4th: optimal experience – John Erik Metcalf is a 24 year old entrepreneur living in Austin. What is he interested in? social media, coworking, identity and reputation systems, social entrepreneurship, semantics, mobile communication, and much more. Cool dude. Worthwhile blog. TwitterLocal – Tweets within 20 miles [...]

These are my links for December 31st through January 1st: Cutline – Links Menu – great wordpress theme, I’m using this on http://bountyhuntersecrets.com and other blogs karmalised – antiwar blog, nice use of the cutline theme Bounty Hunter Secrets ? Secrets of a Bounty Hunter – Secrets of a bounty hunter – blog for a [...]

These are my links for December 29th through December 30th: Tweet Scan – Real-time Twitter Search – real time search of twitter for springnet One Blog Many Categories or Many Blogs? – Am I better off having one blog site with multiple categories or multiple blog sites highlighting specific interests?? Resources to Make Money Online [...]

These are my links for December 27th: Invite Share – Everyone is invited! – some kind of crunch network Twitter Groups! – Twitter Groups allows you to tag your followers into different groups. Then you can send a message to those groups without needing to send the message to each person one at a time! [...]

These are my links for December 26th: habibbijan.com – series of reviews on free antivirus programs Data Recovery Software – File System Utilities – Image creation uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe “hot images” even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process [...]

These are my links for December 24th through December 25th: BoogarLists – With more than 1,000 venture capital and private equity firms listed, BoogarLists is an excellent place for entrepreneurs to start their search for investment capital. And for students, analysts and planners who need to kick-start or augment their on-lin The Definitive Top 25 [...]

These are my links for December 23rd: Delete duplicate lines – TextOpus – all text tools You need! – TextOpus – all text tools You need! ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Photographers, Videobloggers, Podcasters & Musicians – ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Photographers, Videobloggers, Podcasters & Musicians Revolution WordPress Theme – Welcome to [...]

These are my links for December 22nd: Wireless Networking – Wireless networking news, publications and reviews Home > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter – Tweeterboard is a way of looking at who is influential on Twitter based on their conversations with other Twitter users. There are other services, like Twitterposter, that base influence on [...]

These are my links for December 18th through December 21st: InkFinger – Jack’s Pick and Most Recent Deals at BargainJack.Com – sxsw podcast – Secrets of Self Taught Web Developers – DegreeTutor.com – Secrets of Self Taught Web Developers: 115 Resources to Help You Develop on the Web Poletti’s slideshow on Flickr – galactically hot [...]