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Stephen Pickering

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  • Video of Google’s Nexus One Phone Event Recorded Live

    Thanks to @Scobleizer for live streaming and recording this on Ustream. Follow him on Twitter if you want to get cutting edge coverage of special events like this and the best videos of Tech’s newest of brightest startups.

    Check out http://google.com/phone for information about the new phone.

  • Cotton Eye Joe Cover

     

    Cover of a Cover. Cover of Josh Rouse covering “Cotton Eye Joe.” Damn, I keep forgetting to turn the iPhone sideways for video. Will remember next time. Vocals not very clear because P.A. is way in the background and the iPhone mic is picking up mostly the guitar. Oh well just a test. Not bad.

    Damn, I also just realized I left out a whole verse!!! The one that goes, “I’ve been laughing in the sunshine. I’ve been lying in the rain. You know that living is easy, and I ain’t feelin’ no pain.”

    Oh well, do over. And next time I’ll have the camera sideways, and maybe try to play picking with my fingers, Brazilian style, like Josh plays it.

     

  • Looking Pretty After the Groomer’s

    Picked up the dogs the other day from the groomer’s. This lady is a real dog lover. She has like 10 dogs in her house, all kinds and sizes. It’s a trip, but I like that, taking them to someone who really cares about animals. She does the best job with them too of all the places I’ve ever taken them. Not surprising.

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  • First Iphone Video

    OK, I should have had the camera in landscape mode instead of portrait. That’s why its the first. Live and learn.

  • The Best Commenting Engine for Your Blog
    *Update 10/30/09 I'm changing my mind here. With Disqus's latest update I believe it is just as good or maybe even better. For one thing Disqus is more widespread which makes it by default more social. Also, Disqus has a webpage where all your comments are aggregated so that you can easily access them and which can be indexed. Most feed aggregators use Disqus, so that all of your comments will be automatically sucked into them, if you so choose. This gives your comments a bigger footprint. I used FriendFeed, and I don't think they accept JS-Kit yet. I assume the other aggregators are similar. Now with JS-Kit you can manually choose to send your comments to various social networks, but since its not automatic, its tiresome to individually select and choose each one. So usually you don't, and your comment remains in a "silo." Now, the advantage to JS-Kit is that it's smoother and real-time, and I assume they will add all the features that Disqus has in the future. But it all depends on how popular the engine gets for it to be a default for the feed aggregators, which may or may not happen. So as of this moment I would suggest that you go with Disqus, or at the very least, if you don't add it to your blog, get an account, so that you can use it to comment on other blogs, most of which use it, if they use anything at all. It's a real-time commenting engine for your blog or website that also gives you the power to propagate your comments across your entire social graph. It turns a static, "block-like" commenting section into something that is more alive like a river. It keeps the discussion of a blog post, or other content, on the content page itself. And when the comment section comes alive more value is added to the original content itself. It also benefits all of the social networks because comments become additional content that's added to their site. Also, it encourages commenting because they are more recognized, responded to in real time and propagated, if you want, to all or some, whatever you choose, of your various other social graphs. The company, JS-Kit, totally rocks. I love their attitude. It's about innovation. This new system, "Echo", will be coming out in a couple weeks, but if you want it, be sure and go to their site and sign up now, because they will be sending out invitations, or opportunities to install it, on a first come, first serve basis, to those who send out a special tweet.
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  • Zuckerberg Interview from Building43.com

    Building43.com is a great site, maybe the best site, if you are interested in Social Media in general and specifically the nexus of Social Media and Main Street, “everyday” businesses. In other words how to use the web and all these great tools to enhance and build your existing brick and mortar type business, to bring it into 2009 and engage and benefit from the new “Trust” economy.

    They just launched last Friday with 7 new videos that I all highly recommend watching, but the premier one is this one with, of course, the co-founder and chief of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.