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Promote your expertise with this search engine
Social networks are great for following your friends’ daily musings, but rarely do they help grow your income. I think we all want to leverage social media to help our business efforts – now there is Weedle.
Like a LinkedIn/Yellow Pages hybrid, Weddle’s a new platform from Ireland to help users effectively market their professional expertise through mutual contacts which leverages an implicit “element of trust.” Users fill out a description of their vocation (plumber, video producer) and location, back it up with a mini resume and optionally a photo/video of their “skills in action”, then one imports contacts from myriad accounts including Gmail, LinkedIn, and AOL. Users searching for hires (done by skill set) will have their results prioritized based on individuals with whom they share contacts, allowing them to vet you by a trusted source should they choose; if interested, they can reach out.
Once the process is over, both parties can go back “rate” one another and/or comment on the experience.
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Add comment August 31, 2010
Traffic JamCam App
How about an app that let’s you peep in on live traffic cameras in major metro areas? This iPhone app is nice enough to let you peep live traffic cameras of metro ATL’s major interstates and other problem areas; just type in a street/intersection and select your eye(s) in the sky. You can also check a zoomed-out "Map" view, upon which the status (green flags for flowing, red for stalled) of the streets is overlaid. It’s available in the appstore and called “TrafficJamCam Atlanta.” Now we just need an app for red light cameras.
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Add comment August 30, 2010
Find the best street food!
I recently was watching the food channel and the show featured food trucks in Texas. Wow, I thought it was just taco trucks … but no! Many gourmet chefs are setting up shop on 4-wheels. Yes, gourmet food! But how do you find these delectable delights?
Go visit http://roaminghunger.com/ – see for yourself the reviews and tips and enter into a new era of technology helping you to find the best fast food!
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Add comment August 27, 2010
Goggles brings search by sight to iPhone
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According to The Register, Google is planning to release their search-by-sight feature, Goggles to the iPhone, which is currently available for Android phones.
Google Goggles will allow users to search the web using the camera on their iPhone . It can recognize languages, books, album covers, artwork, landmarks, places, logos, and more.
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Add comment August 25, 2010
UH BUYS RICE’S RADIO STATION?
In Houston, TX there’s an uproar on the campus of Rice University because of a potential sale of their FM radio station to the University of Houston for $9.5 million. If the purchase goes through, U of H wants to rename the station from KTRU FM to KUHC FM. This further ignites a flame on Rice’s campus. U of H already has one public radio station, KUHF FM (88.7), which features both news and classical music plus other arts programming. Both radio stations will be affiliates of National Public Radio. KTRU FM (91.7) with its new call letters KUHC FM will broadcast classical music and arts. This allows KUHF FM to concentrate on NPR news and talk. U of H officials say that KUHF will raise the $9.5 million purchase price through private fundraising and increased underwriting also that no state or tuition funds will be used. So it yet to be seen if the Cougars will eat Rice radio.
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Add comment August 24, 2010
Music snobs … meet Dubset
What is Dubset?
This site uses the internet to redefine the latest hot dance mixes. Gone are the days where you had to hang out at the disco or buy a recording of the DJ’s mix for the night.
According to Dubset … “Re-Defining Internet Radio + Music Discovery by the world’s top DJs. WE are working hard to create a place where music lovers can come to listen and discover music from the world’s top DJs. Dubset is NOT a Democracy. DJs are either hand selected or Invited to join by their peers and a group of industry experts.” Visit www.dubset.com
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Add comment August 24, 2010
An iPhone camera lens and lens coffee mug
The people at PhotoJoJo.com have some very cool gifts for the photo enthusiast. One new product is a two lens bundle for the iPhone camera that includes a fisheye, macro and wide angle. Or how about a Diana lens that converts your $2000+ SLR into a toy camera? One of my favorites is the camera lens mug – a great gift. This is a cool site.
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Add comment August 19, 2010
Unified Contacts List
In OS4 the new Contacts app unifies these contacts so that the names on the ‘All Contacts‘ page appear only once. These listings unify contact names from your iPhone address book, MobileMe account and your corporate exchange server so that you may access all information about your contact from a single page. To access any particular contact card, you simply have to scroll down to the bottom of the contacts page and tap on the Linked Cards section.
Since this is automated, the listing is prone to errors. If you think listings are were wrongly linked. Additionally, users may also insert new contacts to a unified card by tapping on Edit -> Link Contact and choosing a contact name to link. This is especially useful if you want to group a list of users under one head.
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Add comment August 17, 2010
Flash on your iPhone
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs had posted an open letter elaborating on the reasons why Apple has chosen not to allow Adobe Flash on their platform. It’s a big mistake for the moment until HTML 5 becomes a reality – but now there is a hack called Frash.
The following may void your warranty …
You can follow these instructions to install Frash on your iPhone:
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If you haven’t jailbroken your iPhone then use JailbreakMe to jailbreak it.
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Launch Cydia from your jailbroken iPhone homescreen.
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Tap on the Manage Tab and then tap on Sources.
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Tap on the Edit button and then tap add to add the following repo URL to add sources: http://repo.benm.at/
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After it is successfully installed, tap on the Search tab and search for frash.
Add comment August 9, 2010
Free Food Friday – October 8th @ SoundWorks
SoundWorks has fun ways of supporting the creative community with Free Food Friday* networking lunches. Menus for past events have included everything from good ole’ fashioned homemade hamburgers to Mexican, Spanish and Portuguese-inspired dishes prepared by local chefs. FFF is free lunch fun with Houston creative people. Dwight Cook of SoundWorks says, “It’s very cool to see graphic designers, writers and filmmakers make personal and business connections. It’s about making the Houston community smaller by getting to know each other.”
The next FFF event on October 8th will feature a Jamaican-themed menu and guests get to suggest their favorite Caribbean tune for download. Pirate punch for everyone!
* FFF translates: free lunch, invitation only, creative community enjoying creative cuisine. We believe in building this Houston network of professionals through the art of conversation, a shared perspective, a plate at a time. FFF is by invitation only, so if you want to attend you might have to twist an arm at SoundWorks.
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Add comment September 1, 2010