My dad is Qikking at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. My mom works there saving the environment like she has always done. I remember chaining myself to trees as a kid with al the other neighborhood kids, in protest to a highway being built through a park in the area. Great memories. Love my parents for [...]
image via CaglePost.com It is interesting to see how the web is being used as a tool for activism in Iran. And probably more importantly how people around the world show their support for the cause. Let’s take Twitter and Iran. Most of the news is coming out of this country through Twitter. And journalists [...]
Xbox and Steven Spielberg have gotten into a project called “Milo“. It is scarely like A.I. that was made by Spielberg, and really shows how far the “Tamagochi” Phenomenon can happen. When we feel lonely our laptops and our games are our new friends. Scary and sick but this is how it is going. But [...]
My roommate Marlooz gave a presentation today at the 140 conf by Jeff Pulver. Back in Kinnernet, Pulver and I where in a group talking about twitter and I shared my TwitterDate experience with Marlooz. Now Marlooz and I are roommates. He said he wanted that story at the 140conf. So Marlooz was able to [...]
So, I come across a video that I would like to save on the internet. I may wanna use it for a class, to create a mash-up, keep a copy of friends videos, use it to VJ, etc. I need to download a lot because of either copyright, or loss of account or some other [...]
The other day I was helping my friend Isabelle out with her blog. Of course setting up a blog with your own hosting etc. you need some good passwords, for example many sites insist that you create an extra strong password. Isabelle was having trouble with good passwords that were easy to remember. I told her [...]
Have you played PowerPoint Karaoke yet? Ok this is one for the real nerds and geeks. The rules are simple.1. Have a powerpoint or slideshow that no one knows yet.2. A presentor tries to present the Powerpoint or Slideshow and make a coherent (and often humoruos) presentation.3. (Optional) Presentor must take a shot after every [...]
Last weekend in Berlin I met with a number of journalists to talk tech. GameBizz.de is a popular site about gaming which also did an interview with me. Here is the interview in which I talk about Games, Game Development, teaching at the HKU, female gaming demographics and what Newspapers could be doing with Gaming [...]
Next week I am attending the HKU Design for Virtual Theater and Games EXPO in Utrecht at the Huis aan de Werf. It will be a great show on June 18 and 19. Don’t miss it! For an example there are a couple free games to try out that some of my students made. Felisberto [...]
File this in the category: WTF? I log into my twitter today to see this: MY FREAKN ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED! FOR WHAT? And what pisses me off the most is the fact that there is no email to sent to me to give a “Head’s Up!” or WHY? Nothing what so ever. I have to [...]
There is this really great project that my friend Jamain is doing. It is called Dream Amsterdam. This year she is asking for entries on the site to then select and actually make some happen. This is the chance to change your city conceptually. Go over and join the iWonder project, and give your ideas [...]
The Google Wave team gets played off by Keyboard Cat. Why? Should they have practiced the demo first.If you want to see the full demo check here. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: google, wave, keyboardcat, fail, demo, funny, googlewave Related articles by Zemanta Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New [...]
Check out this new Viral Video that was just launched for the iPhone Love Lips app. I pissed myself laughing when I saw it. I so want to go get this app and try it out. Watch Obama and Heidi Klum get it on!
Image via Wikipedia Many of you may be planning a vacation, or maybe staying around town for vacation. One thing I love during vacations or long drives is audiobooks. It’s nice to listen to podcasts, but sometimes a nice audiobook for a longer period is better. Although you can buy many audiobooks on Amazon and [...]
Image via Wikipedia Sometime this afternoon I started getting mails from people asking me about a link I had mailed through facebook. I thought it was one of the links I put through twitter. Then I noticed it was a message I hadn’t sent at all. Plus, it had sent it to practically everyone in [...]
At Webcom I gave an interview after my talk about the virtual immortality project. It goes on for a while, but it was a fun interview to do. webcom : Gabe McIntyre by amicalmant For More interviews from Webcom check Christian Aubry’s page.
Last week at Webcom in Montreal I met a lot of great people, and saw some old friends. One of the friends I got to catch up with is Marc Canter. Now Marc has always been ahead of the curve. He was making the first synthesizers himself. He created Director to be able to create [...]
After coming back from Webcom where I gave a presentation on Virtual Immortality, I opened up my monthly photojojo time capsule and am floored yet again. This month I see pics from when Nuno and Nikki came to visit last year. I just got back from visiting them in Canada this weekend. Not only that [...]
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Many people have been asking me online and offline if I am going to start something new. Well there is a “New Show” in the works, but as I said before I need money to be able to really do it. One of the ways I am earning some money after the massive loss of [...]
Last week my friend Rose Bertins asked me to explain WordPress in a testimonial for a communication project she is working on in the fashion industry. She posted the video, and here it is. Why is WordPress cool? Why is it one of the largest Content Management Systems in the world, and why do people [...]
If you think that Youtube is still a platform for independent film makers, think again. Watch this video about how they are slowly turning into a site purely for corporate means, and killing independent film maker oppurtunities. Youtube needs to be careful, otherwise it will fall leaving room for others to take the market such [...]
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Today I am traveling to Montreal Canada for a few days to talk at the WebCom 2009 conference. At this conference I will talk be talking about our digital identities and how we need to preserve them or not for future generations. Hopefully I will have a video to post of it afterward. If you [...]
Later this year at Theater Spui in Amsterdam Den Haag is Blog-Art. I am really excited to see how this event unfolds so that we can see the art that is Blogging and Vlogging. It is an artform that many are forgetting about in their quest for SEO domination. blog-art work in progress (wip) apr09 [...]
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Top 28 Best Motion Graphics Blogs and Resources | GoMediaZine We've scoured the net and tapped every resource we could to get you THE best list of mograph blogs and resources out there. Both novice and experienced mographers will get some insight here. We've also posted the twitter links of the brains behind some of these sites. [...]
