Diwali 2008

I know this isn’t a professional blog, but it’s somewhat professional! First of all, this is just a quick post to show a bit of the Diwali show I went to last night at the University of Victoria. AWESOME show, and I’d love to go see more of this dancing. This video is just a snapshot of some of the action.

Second point, I’m posting this blog entry directly from flickr using service integration I’ve never seen before. Very cool (if it works) and a nice and easy way to make quick blog posts of your photos and videos.

There was an option under the sharing feature called ‘Blog It’ and it must have been put there from some flickr extension I installed on my wordpress blog perhaps? We’ll see if this works anyway! If it does, SO cool!

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2008 Canadian Federal Election Tweets

Ok, I’m no political guru, and I find it annoying to follow politics period.  Social media though is making this a lot easier.  I’m not sure if the parties were always setup in the key tools like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook etc but they are for this election coming up and it makes it very easy to follow their updates.

Public Timeline Tweets Canada Election 2008

I whipped this pipe up this evening to track all of the tweets happened related to the election coming up this year.  I’m going to spend some time tonight trying to aggregate more election data in an easy to understand way.  There is loads of RSS links from the parties websites, and it would be nice to be able to follow some key items like election promises, commercials and other media.

Let me know what you think!

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Quick post on a wicked new service I discovered…

Here’s a video I made using a wicked cool SaaS animation studio called Fuzzwich.  Animations were all created using the minivid tool they provide, and then stitched together with iMovie on my Mac.  Music was borrowed from the Katamari Damacy OST (just so that attribution is properly given).

RMS Idol from llawliet on Vimeo.

On a side note, I CANNOT wait for this to be released in public beta!!!  It’s going to change the way we do presentations in business and how we create epidemically popular TV shows and movies!

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Why don’t we have roaming profiles for Firefox?

Welcome to 2008.  Many people often use 2-3 different computers everyday.  Some use Mac’s, some use PC’s, some use a Mac at home and a PC at work, or a wide variety of other permutations.  The common factor being all of them can likely access the internet.  My question is, in the age of SOA, why are we still stuck with a plain Jane local installed browser application that carries nothing of itself online?

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Last.fm and the mobile internet revolution

Here’s a somewhat quick video blog showing some random thoughts on how things are beginning to shape up with mobile internet, and it’s impact on current technologies.

Last.fm and the mobile internet revolution video from llawliet on Vimeo.

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Quick update on moi

If you don’t already know, I recently relocated to Victoria BC, from Halifax NS (literally from the east coast of Canada to the west coast).  The 4500km move has been comsuming most of my time these days, with me starting a new job and living in a new city etc.  This is why I haven’t really had time to post much about what’s really interesting me these days, like Amazon Web Services, OpenSpime and Metaverse technology.

What I will briefly mention though is my fairly positive experience with Socialtext wiki, and Clipperz. Read the rest of this entry »

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Internet as an operating system, when will we get there?

Ok, I’ll just point out here that I’m pretty much OCD about having my life in a completely spartan and portable manner at all times.  Therefore Web 2.0 technology bodes quite well in my mind, as it is allowing me to easily go to different places and still have access to all of the same stuff I would have at home (RSS’s, Twitter, Blogs etc).

Today I wanted to do a very quick blog on IAAOS (Internet As An Operating System) and Adobe Air.  Basically, I like the effort Adobe is making to create non-web based internet applications, and I see some opportunity for improvement.  What I would like to see is: Read the rest of this entry »

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Blog Theme 2.0

So I’ll just say right off the bat that I visited Joi Ito’s recently redone blog and I was so into his design (and also sick of mine) that I took some major inspiration / ripped off some of his great design and put it onto my own. My blog feels more like an SOA now than it did before as it’s linking up to all of my favorite web services. I also linked it to my flickr account to give it a lot more dynamic / changing colors. Anyway, it’s taken me all night, but I think it looks a lot nicer now than it did before, and displays a lot more information about me than before.

Comments and feedback appreciated! For now off to bed, it’s 2:30am. :O(

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