• setting up my Tour of Texas blog at http://touroftexas.com/blog and of course this twitter page. Nice day in Austin Texas #
• Lance wants to return to elite racing in January on the Tour Down Under race in Australia runs from January 20-25 #

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setting up my Tour of Texas blog at http://touroftexas.com/blog and of course this twitter page. Nice day in Austin Texas

 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 it’s designed to be a blog community.

This is where you can find me on Scoutle

I started a blog network for Austin, Texas also.  One member so far, me.

To quote Wicked Pretty, who has quite a following on Scoutle, “I particularly like the animated one, Scoutle. You have a little Scout (who you get to name and give a catchphrase) and he "wanders the internet" looking for people to match to your blog.I don't really understand how it all works, so if you're the kind . . . "

Is this the next big thing?  It could get pretty big from what I’ve seen.  If these guys hit it hard and listen to their community they’ve got a great start.

Here’s the description of Scoutle by the creators:

Scoutle is an automated social network for bloggers and functions as an ideal Guide for internet users to find a valuable blog, no matter the language, subject or location.

Scoutle helps you find, promote and connect blogs using an automated rating and matching system. Not only find a blog easily, but also know what a blog is worth and discover similar blogs.
Scoutle searches, matches, validates and values. You only need to find a blog or as a user, make sure your blog is and keeps interesting.

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.

“Laid back”. That’s how Mashable top dog Pete Cashmore described Austin, Texas in an interview with AustinLifestyles at the Summermash party at Buffalo Billiards in the heart of Austin’s 6^th Street live music district.  Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable described Austin as “comfortable and intimate, you had no problems striking up a conversation.” 

Mashable put together a list of Austin’s most important technology blogs and AustinCast.com – sister site of AustinLifestyles.com – wound up on that list in some pretty great company.

Here’s the list with a few excerpts from the blog entry at Mashable:

1. Austin 3.0 - A website designed to give the “younger Austin Geek a place to see what is going on in Austin.”
2. Austin Startup - Austin Startup is simply a news site that chronicles the goings ons and creation of new tech sector business in the Austin area.
3. AustinCast - This site is a frequently updated hub for video and audio interviews of local area movers and shakers in the technology scene. He’s published over 100 video interviews with the likes of Veronica Belmont, Pete Cashmore, Zadi Diaz, Cali Lewis, Lindsay Campbell, and Leah Culver as well as a number of local heroes to the Austin scene.
   
4. Austin360 - This is the official New Media offering from Austin’s reigning Old Media institution, the Austin-American Statesman.
5. GeekAustin - Probably one of Austin’s oldest tech blogs, LinearB’ and Orion have been chronicling the gaming, business and tech communities of Austin since 2000.
6. Michelle’s Blog - . . . she’s a very active leader and figurehead to the new, young Austin Tech community, and has her hands in just about everything.  Her personal blog reflects all the myriad of ventures she’s involved in there.
7. Josh Dilworth - Josh is over at PR group Porter Novelli, based in their Austin office. Amongst all his many work related projects like SXSW, he has quite visible presence amongst those in the online Semantic and AI community as well as an avid participant in a number of widely used social media tools. I was recently a guest on a podcast of his, Falken’s Maze.
8. John Erik Metcalf - John Erik Metcalf is a major figure in the Austin scene as well, as he’s a co-founder in one of the town’s two co-working spaces: Conjunctured
9. Social Media Club Austin - The site describes itself as “part think tank, part curiosity, all new media” and is a repository for all that is going on in the “business networking event” scene for the Austin area.
10. Some Assembly Required - a self-described “business development and networking blog” authored by Thom Singer.
11. The Jeff Beckham Weblog - Jeff is an Austin area blogger who focuses his posts on the evolution of media, specifically in relationship to how the Internet is forcing transformation on not just media industries but “the word itself.”
12. Door64 Blog - The blog for Door64, the forum and community portal for the Austin-area tech community.

If you an Austin area blogger and want to be added to the OPML file email Mark at Mashable to be included in the next version of the list.

Download Now! (OPML) (import this into your favorite feed reader)

Starting today, I’m going to start a series of reviews, accompanied by screencasts, of reviews of social networks, social bookmarking services and social media sites on the Spring.  You can see my initial list there which I’ll be modifying as this series goes along.

Listal is a social networking site where you can find people who share your tastes in movies, books, music or games.  Lists and collections are shared via a simple url like (in my case) http://springnet.listal.com and they give you widgets to plug in to your blog or website.

The site stands out for it’s tight integration of tagging, friends, finding others, forums and messaging.  The “explore” feature is hot, it lets you scan through reviews of movies, tv shows, books, games, dvds, and music. 

These are my links for May 16th through 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!
• Summarized SEO Tips from SMX Advanced - Part 2 - Search Engine Guide Blog - The SEO panel provided a few examples of the great widgets and applications they use to make their life easier. Here are a few, including my own favorites: * SERPH: track the ?buzz? of yourself and your competitors using this handy social search
• Future Jets Owner Gary Vaynerchuk Brings Thunder to Austin ? Damon Clinkscales - @damon Fortunately, I brought my Flip Ultra and I captured 60 minutes of pure Gary for your viewing pleasure. Keeping with the tradition of WineLibrary TV, these videos are unedited.
• Not An MBA » fiercely independent - InnovationCamp #1 is two weeks from today! Being a first, there will inevitably be loose ends, chaos, and some pesky problems on the day. Without risk, though, there is no reward? @juliegomoll
• Austin Coworking - An interview with Drew Jones - LaunchPad Coworking Blog - Drew: Austin is the perfect community, and GSD&M Idea City is an awesome space for Innovation Camp. Julie and I share a GenX/Boomer fascination with the creative energy that is out there among designers young and old. June 28 @juliegomoll
• 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 Brings Thunder to Austin "I?ve been tracking Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV ever since the day that Dan Benjamin told me about the sale of Corkd to this sorta zany character with a wine show on the web." - Damon Clin
• springnet > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter - dashboard, gets love, gives love, box score, links
• LaunchPad Coworking ? Coworking in Austin, Texas - Austin Launchpad coworking gets green light from the City to build. Sept 2008 is start date. @juliegomoll
• Alltop, all the top stories - Guy Kawasakis daily news aggregator
• 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 | Startup District - Austin's startup district forming and creating a coworking space in East Austin, Texas
• One Egg, One Hundred Baskets: Social Media Leverage - Social Leveraging squeeze goodness out of the tools that are free strategy acts as platform wrangler drags big names of social media, networking and aggregation together. create one page/blog post that hits on social aggregator ften different directions.
• WiiiZZZ - What has been listened to and shared today no Twitter . . .
• Tim's Quicktime VR Panoramas : QTVR - @timpatterson picked a digital camera, an inexpensive Fuji FinePix A205, and decided to get back to creating Quicktime VR panoramas for fun and he has a Google Map of all my QTVR locations in Austin!
• 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 Laptop 2.0: OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens, Looks Amazing and Future-y - At OLPC's Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. Wow! Dual touch screen!
• Tag Galaxy - Holy Cow! This is such a cool flickr visualization, a spinning globe that shows whatever tag you pick
• Internet Marketing and Social Media: Dosh Dosh - One of the best ways to promote your website or business is to work together with others . . . twitter @doshdosh
• Bare Bones Software : PRODUCTS : YOJIMBO - Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It?s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo?s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and
• 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 # add # american # amp # app # application # apps # april # archive # austin # austincast.com/blog # austintexas # belmont # best # big # bike # blog # bookmarks # broadcasting # catching # cedar # channel # chat # check # coffee # come # communit
• optimal experience - This guy has some great ideas like an "Austin startup district and a wordpress fest in the park. And he walks to Will Wynn randomly.
• End of Silence - Austin blog with a great Austin linkroll
• http://yesyes.penalicio.us/ - really inspiring "about me" page @yesyes on twitter
• Digital Voodoo — Social Media strategy and intelligence applied to marketing. - Strategy + Tactics - Dave Evans network of best-of-class partners helps define and implement new applications built around a socially-aware launch strategy that you can measure. twitter @evansdave
• Do-it-yourself SEO and SEO Project Management | SoloSEO - @mdjensen 's seo page. Michael is from St George Utah and is an entrepreneur and twitter tool maker. SoloSEO.com CityMarketer.com AppliedContent.com TweetBeep.com LiveTwitting.com for events like SXSW and TweetAnswers.com
• Bare Feet Studios - @roxannedarling Bare Feet Studios LLC is a small, curious, tech-savvy company based in Honolulu, Hawai?i, owned by Roxanne Darling and Shane Robinson. We participate in and advise on New Media and the Social Web to connect people and solve problems.
• 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 2.0 and Professional Blogging - The reality is that Web 2.0 is finally catching up to blogging. The walled gardens of singular blogs are making way to social interaction across multiple platforms. @shey thanks to tim shey for the pointer to this on his blog
• Remote Access and Desktop Control Software for Your Computer - Over 40 million devices connected worldwide for remote support, access & backup. cross platform remote access. recommended.
• The 70 coolest free applications in existence - Seopher.com - some of the best free apps and online services on the net for web developers. great list. recommended. from Steven York's blog about making money online, blogging, marketing, seo and web development
• Read The Words - My Recordings - most text to speech is awkward, this web app is really natural sounding and lets you make recordings, save them and embed them on your website. Really cool. Recommended
• 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 fun utility to help establish your identity across the web. Have a Flickr account and a Facebook and AIM? Combine all your profiles on the web into one attractive widget that you can put on your blog, your
• Work Happy Now! - Maximizing your work happiness should be the theme of your working life. Happiness creates success. When you stop putting in the hours and start extracting joy from work, you'll be successful.
• Web Site Design and Marketing | hosting, domain names, e-commerce, pay-per-click - You have come to the right place to learn about web site design, domain names, Internet marketing, custom programming and social media.
• Battlestar Wiki - Battlestar Wiki, An encyclopedia of the Battlestar Galactica sagas. ? 3,273 articles in English ? Warning: Spoilers are to be expected. See our Spoiler Policy for details. Ridiculously detailed and thorough!
• 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 developer at the Swedish startup Twi
• Symbian World - twitter @ewanspence sybian blogs aggreggated on this site
• Miss Geeky - @mseckington on twitter and her blog Melinda Seckington on gmail, twitter, flickr, facebook, youtube, del.icio.us, etc. etc. blog has great links and possibly a Battlestar Galactica fan like me
• Twitter-peoples - welcome to my e-world, dive right in! ? Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 ? the soundtrack to the day you wish you?d had - @solbassstevethe soundtrack to the day you wish you?d had, great background sound and pretty sure it's podsafe
• Free Wordpress Themes, Free Wordpress Templates, View & Download - free WordPress theme called ?AdsPress?. The theme is ready to use with Google Adsense and the advertisement blocks are perfectly placed (tested & tried) for giving you the maximum revenue out of your websites.
• 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 is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. - ptw
• NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - Spoonfed Web Tutorials - NETTUTS is a blog/tutorial site aimed at web designers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, java script, CMS?s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, a
• NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter - In this tutorial we're going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven't seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple
• Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer
• 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed - free tutorials and collections from top universities and well-respected websites to train you in areas like web design, graphics and imaging, programming and coding, multimedia, connecting with your audience, and even learning freelancing and entrepreneur

These are my links for April 17th through May 14th:

• Twitter Friend Adder Firefox Plugin - You will then need to login to your account find the persons friends you would like to communicate with right click on there profile and there should be an option stating ?Grab this Users Friends? hit that and the plugin should start working.
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing - strategy, twitter addict, cms maven, conference hopper
• Create your own crowds :: Crowdstatus.com - Crowdstatus is made up of twitter crowds, each crowd contains people and each twitter person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd.
• TwitterFone: Send Messages to Twitter with Voice - send messages to twitter with your voice on your cell phone. Sweet.
• 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 customers, get some traction and then raise money.
• TwitterSnooze! v0.13 - Hit the snooze button on your "verbose" Twitter friends.
• Searchme Visual Search - Beta - rev. 1.339 - visual search . . . what folks have been waiting for in search
• We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar - exploration of human emotion
• 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: The Tool For Notes - Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.
• Pixel Currents » Portfolio - Pixel Currents. It?s a WordPress theme adapted for content management. The power of WordPress is how flexible it is. It can be used for projects from a simple blog to a full-fledged business site, even for e-commerce.
• Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan - best twitter search that I've seen so far.
• Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components - Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
• 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 of Austin, Texas - TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area.
• @heidimiller Love client meetings on site! - @heidimiller great podcasting site
• Twister Grabber :: Firefox Add-ons - adds twitter friends en mass
• Tantek's Thoughts ? 2008 April - on open flow - the book I'm currently reading is titled "Flow", thanks to my new super friend Tara Brown, who somehow knew exactly where my head was at and gave it to me to read just last week. It's a really good sequel in many ways to David Allen's Getting Things Done
• Insoshi: open-source social networking platform in Ruby on Rails - Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!
• Ayman Hourieh's Blog - thoughts on Open Source software, Computer Science, and various bits from my life and the web.
• springnet : twitter100 - What 100 of my twitter friends are saying
• Twitter Spy - fascinating but not totally useful, just added filtering to this twitter real time display
• 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 Blog: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog - The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service. Yes you can cross post or add badges, but it's not rea
• tantek wiki / CommunicationProtocols - communication protocols for the new age from tantek celik "‘m capturing and collecting some notes on my experiences with optimal human to human communication protocols and mediums from my perspective, i.e. when others are trying to communicate with me, wh
• Blogger mentality at SXSW - Los Angeles Times - In the halls of the Austin Convention Center, you couldn't take three steps without tripping over a blogger, "vlogger," podcaster or online TV show host of some kind. There was so much recording, photo snapping and keyboard tapping that anyone who wasn't
• Twapper Groups - create your own twitter groups using twitter names and the plus sign
• 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 - I?ve written a program that uses Google?s social graph to find the links between Twitter users and Friend Feed users. Download the program, run it, enter your passwords and watch it find and subscribe to all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed.
• Sphinn's Greatest Hits: The Most Popular News and Discussion Articles - search marketing news and discussion forums, doshdosh contributes
• CURRY.COM - Adam Curry the podfater's blog.
• Welcome to Zigtag - an intelligent, semantic, social tagging and bookmarking service - Zigtag is a revolutionary new semantic, social tagging service that allows you to save your favorite websites, see what your friends are tagging, and find the sites you're really looking for!
• TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world - startling 3D view of the twitter planet, when will Starbuck find this place?`
• Internet Marketing and Social Media: Dosh Dosh - My previous post on social networking ROI already talked about the benefits for building a strong social media presence so let?s move on to examine the characteristics which constitute successful social media profiles.
• Alert Thingy: A desktop app for FriendFeed.com - all your friendfeed alerts delivered direct to your desktop. Does for friendfeed what twhirl does for twitter. wow.
• http://jeffnolan.com/wp/ - Just like Thwirl and Snitter totally changed the way I interact with Twitter and drove up my usage as a result, Alert Thingy is doing that for FriendFeed. As Dennis says, who btw I ripped off the title for this post from, the result is that I am evolving
• 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 ones worth checking out. Blogs have become
• About JD Lasica - J.D. Lasica is one of the world's leading authorities on social media and the revolution in user-created media. A writer, strategist, blogger and consultant, he is the co-founder and editorial director of Ourmedia.org, president of the Social Media Group
• Social Media - video, social networks, citizen media, web 2.0, mobile podcast, blog and news channel
• twhirl | a twitter client - connects to multiple Twitter accounts
• Tweet Clouds - my twitter "tweet cloud" springnet
• louisgray.com: Silicon Valley Blog - home for early adopters, tech geeks, RSS addicts, and Mac freaks. TiVo, sports, politics. Good daily read.
• louisgray.com: UPDATED: Elite Bloggers Joining FriendFeed In Droves: Silicon Valley Blog - Update 2: Given how this is now seen as a reference point for the hot bloggers on FriendFeed, we're going to try and keep it updated. Added in this round includes folks like Allen Stern of CenterNetworks, Tris Hussey, Chris Pirillo and others.
• 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 Vote page for what they're working on. Contact me for a beta invite
• FriendFeed - social aggregator that ties together twitter, facebook, and other rss feeds. It's going to eventually aggregate a whole lot.
• iminta - what are you inta? - Iminta has a cool thing going for it: you can put your followers in groups and specify which group sees what. I really like the idea of variable resolution for social feeds. Still in beta as of 3/16/08
• How-to produce an online video Show: Export & compress. The blip.tv Learning Center. - settings for exporting video to blip.tv

These are my links for March 23rd through April 16th:

• fring ? Free mobile calls, and chat with mobile Skype, mobile MSN Messenger, mobile icq, Twitter, AIM® & Yahoo!? and more - fring? is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk?, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!? and AIM
• TechSoup.org - The Technology Place for Nonprofits - good example implementation of drupal, see also http://twit.tv for another great drupal site
• 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 Disease - Professional Blog Design - some great wordpress themes
• BlogName - great group of themes, VeronicaBelmont.com uses this theme.
• MoMB's bookmarks on del.icio.us - Museum of Modern Betas - web 2.0 applications
• Google App Engine Blog: Introducing Google App Engine + our new blog - This preview of Google App Engine is available for the first 10,000 developers who sign up, and we plan to increase that number in near future.
• 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 be happier to have her on board.
• Twinkle - New iPhone Twitter Client Uses Locate Me Features! | Just Another iPhone Blog - Twinkle is a shiny (cough, excuse bad pun) new native Twitter client for the iPhone, that adds location-aware features to your Twittering. It has a very nice and easy to use interface and works very well so far in my testing of it.
• Dashboard | Shoeboxed.com - a new way to track all your receipts.
• :: Vídeos de sxsw2008 :: videos gratis - hey, a few of my sxsw videos got linked up on this French site os melhores videos de sxsw2008 with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka, Majorie Kase, and Electric Pulp (Guy Kawasaki's guys)
• PR 2.0 - Solis blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes PR & tech insight to industry publications. Solis is among the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media
• 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 current version.
• http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/tagdigest/ - * Tag Digest ? a page in blog form of the most popular bookmarks seen * The original blog post introducing LiveMarks Homepage: sandbox.sourcelabs.com Author: Alex Bosworth License: GPL
• Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » south by - SXSW was awesome. Nowhere else in the entire field of geek can you plug in so easily. There are so many conversations, so many connections. It just feels good to be there. Hummel asked for a transcript of the conference, so here goes?
• Twitter / stevewoolf - Steve has a bunch of great links in his twitter stream
• NTV Rerun: EPIC-FU to TV? « NewTeeVee - The show now sees 2 million views per month across its archive, said Woolf, with new episodes receiving about 250,000 views. At this time last year, episodes were getting 30,000 to 40,000 views.
• 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 no constraints on business proc
• Twitter Friend Adder - Have you ever wanted more friends on your Twitter account? Now you can. Just enter your Twitter login details below and we'll add 20 random friends to your account.
• Magento - Store Demo - Open Source eCommerce Evolved - In the demo's frontend, explore how a Magento-driven store might look to your customer and test some of the features. Get a feel for it by going through the checkout process, tagging a product or leaving a review.
• Twitter Tools, Tweaks and Theories: TypePad Hacks - reviews of 26 powerful tools you can use to make Twitter do all kinds of groovy things
• Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver rock SXSW 2008 - Bonnie Pierzina on drums, Leah Culver (pownce.com) on bass, Veronica Belmont (Mahalo Daily) on guitar, and Casey Mckinnon (Galacticast) belting out vocals at SXSW 2008. Technical difficulties couldn't stop tech's hottest video bloggers from rocking.
• 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 the archive of my tips going back to May of 2005. Please leave a comment to let me know
• WP Themes at ElegantDirectory.com - WP themes and related resources. - A new Word Press theme has been launched recently, made free by Elegant Directory & AllinfoDir Web Directory. Theme has been called as Trendy; highlighting property of this theme is its decent and elegant look with 3 columns view and with integrated Adsen
• 45+ Must See WordPress themes - This is the second article in the four-part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress". We are taking a look at some quality outstanding Free and premium WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months.
• Follow Twitter Conversations - Quotably.com - twitter search engine
• Viddler.com - Your videos - Currently Viewing "Waking up in Amsterdam - Todd L Gilbert" - Todd L Gilbert is an American expat and blogger living in Amsterdam and seems to be having a blast living there. He's agitproper on twitter and he's big on the hyves.net which he adopted early on (big in Amsterdam and Peru).
• aNobii - community around books you're reading. clever and well done
• 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 twitter - share your photos on twitter with twitpic
• Who Are The Austin 80? - The situation in Burma has been getting out of control. People are dying as they fight for peace. Some of the monks have been beaten, arrested, and killed.
• Digital Craig - First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drankwhile they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue-cheesedressing, and tuna from a can. They didn?t get tested for Diabetes and there are no Ultrasound photos of us in the womb.
• Web Links - Metacafe - Studio - If you are familiar with names like Adobe, Alias, Apple, Avid, Discreet, Eyeon, Media100, Newtek, Pinnacle, Sony and Quantel, you will be surprised to find out that there is an open source video editing and post-production program that is freely available
• 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 run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other WebApp as a separate Mac desktop application.
• Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software - Dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. Dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. Dimdim´s
• AskMen.com - Hottest women in tech - 10. Wendy Cheng 9. Blair Butler 8. Kristen Holt 7. Amanda Congdon 6. Veronica Belmont 5. Cali Lewis 4. Olivia Munn 3. Jessica Chobot 2. Morgan Webb 1. Amber MacArthur
• Welcome to GeekyMomma's Blog: I'd Like To Thank My Producers, Mom & Dad! - In a follow-up post, I encouraged others outside our Twitter edtech network to join and today, Paul Terry Walhus (twitter @springnet) contacted me because he not only wanted to duplicate the concept for his SXSW network but he wanted to interview me (ME!,
• Tasty Blog Snack - Justine Ezarik's blog. submitted on springnet's bookmarks on del.icio.us on her birthday. March 23, 2008 she turned 24.
• gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" - When I was last in San Francisco a few weeks ago, my good friend, Shel Israel interviewed me, as part of his new FastCompany.com gig. We talked about "Social Objects", with a heavy emphasis on "Social Markers".
• Global Neighbourhoods - People everywhere, equipped with cameras and access are posting what they see, for a few friends or the entire world. It is the reporting of everday people and places and incidents that will never be ready for prime time, but are useful and interesting to
• Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing from ooVoo - ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication ? a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
• 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 next to current tab like in Internet Explorer
• Waking up in Amsterdam! - Friday, March 21st is Good Friday for Christians, but it?s also a sacred date for many other religions. People are celebrating Good Friday, Purim, Narouz, Eid Milad an Nabi, Small Holi, and Magha Puja. That doesn?t happen often.
• SheGeeks - SheGeeks is a social network and social media discussion blog. Here, you can find the latest news on new social networks and media tools, technology, twitter, friendfeed, rssmeme, linkriver, web applications, web services and more.
• Blog : LOL: The Life of Leo - To begin with we?re going to stream everything we do at TWiT, including the production of all our shows, live and interactive. To that end we?re adding considerable bandwidth: a T1 line and a cable modem to our existing DSL connectivity. We?ll Skype