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cliKball ScreencastJanuary 17 2009

Click for video review of cliKball

Click the image above to view my screencast about a new web app called cliKball.  cliKball is a new link sharing service that has a great idea, but unless they quickly integrate it into other, more commonly used link sharing utilities it’ll just be more dust in the wind.

Also, cliKball is way too freakin’ hard to type.

Here’s another screencast showing off the IM and real-time functionalities:

cliKball IM

I want something like this added to FriendFeed NOW!

If you want to follow me on cliKball my name, as usual, is Tad.

Tad’s Jan 2009 Digital Lifestyle Part 2January 14 2009

Here are the indispensable web apps for early 2009.  It will be interesting to see how this list changes between now and 2010.  Note: I’m not going to describe these services in detail - that’s what the links are for if you’re unfamiliar with any of the following.

FriendFeed is my primary destination and habitation on the internet.  It is the pillar around which pretty much everything revolves for me on the web. Most of my internet friends have a presence on FriendFeed.  I get almost all of my technology and web-related news via FriendFeed.  If you’re not on FriendFeed then you’re well behind the times.

Twitter is kind of ancillary to FriendFeed.  For a long time I resisted using Twitter at all in favor of FF, but recently I’ve begun using Twitter more often.  Why?  There are some people that I like and respect who, for whatever reason, refuse to use FriendFeed.  I decided that I didn’t want to shut off that part of my online life.  And Twitter has its own delicious flavor which is different from FF.  They scratch similar, but different itches.

Tad’s Jan 2009 Digital Lifestyle Part 1January 1 2009

Since today is the first day of a new year, I figured it would be a good time to reflect on my current Digital Lifestyle.  6 months from now we can look back and see if anything major has changed.  A year from now I’m thinking I’ll be using some really different tools/sites/etc.

Stuff I Wear:

• T-Mobile G1 “Google Phone”
• Apple iPod Touch

These devices are on my body or within reach nearly 24 hours a day.  I sleep right next to my G1.  With them, I am in constant contact with the rest of the world.  I think I would rather have just an iPhone, but I loath AT&T and was already a T-Mobile customer.  I think, though that eventually Lindsay and I will develop some apps for our G1s - a process much more onerous on the iPhone.

Devices I Carry:

• Amazon Kindle
• Nintendo DS

When I head out to work, or where ever, I usually carry a messenger bag full of stuff I might need, like my DS.  I play Brain Age 2 every day and try to have at least one book on my Kindle worth reading at all times.  Since buying my Kindle, I have resolved not to buy any more meatspace books besides technical books.  This strategy has worked well.  I recently finished Anathem on my Kindle - much nicer than lugging around a 1200 page book!

First Websites I Look at in the AM:

• Drudge Report
• Huffington

The Wrist is Wasted Real EstateJune 20 2008

Nowadays most people I know don’t wear watches.  Nearly everyone has a mobile phone and those usually display the time in big huge numbers whenever you’re interested.

However, I really feel like we’re missing some opportunities by not taking full advantage of our wristerly regions.  I have two wrists that I want to adorn with something that’s stylish and useful.  But I don’t want a boring ole 20th century watch.  Yuck.

I do not want to look at my wrist to see what time it is.  To be honest, I usually don’t give a damn what time it is.

I don’t want to use a lame tiny stylus.

I don’t want a calculator watch,

The FriendFeed Front Page GameJune 19 2008

One of the emergent properties of FriendFeed is a new type of competitive content creation.  Only the most interesting content remains on the front page for any length of time.  All day long you can watch entries float on down the Rio del FriendFeed down, down into the tubez.  I think most people, like me, rarely look past the front page.

So, I like to play the FriendFeed Front Page Game.  It’s simply really.  Create threads or comment on threads that stay on the front page for as long as possible.  This not only helps you score imaginary points, it also helps keep the quality of front page material as high as possible.

I realize that everyone’s front page is different, but the threads that stay on your front page the longest also show up on most of your friends’ front page as well.  So, get your scorecards boys and girls.  2 points for each thread you start for each hour it remains on the front page and 1 point for each thread you comment on at least 3 times that for each hour that it stays on the front page.

So, play the FFFPG with me and help make Friend Feed the most interesting non-dump truck related site on the internets!