Looks like Twitter is figuring out a new way to monetize by including relevant social networking tools.
Personally, I like this one:
Foamee is a free service that helps track who you owe beers to (and vice versa) using the popular messaging service, Twitter.
I presented a session with Stephanie Agresta last week on the place of affiliate marketing in the new media atmosphere.
Here’s the video interview we did after the talk:
This one shows the building from the outside. Cool, eh? And this one shows part of a Hebrew inscription on the inside. The first part of the inscription is outside the frame, but the rest reads ืื ืืื ืื ืืืื ืืืื ืืืืชื ืื ื ืขืืื ื ืืขื ืื ืืฉืจืื ืืื, “… the prophet, son of Buzi, the priest. May his merit increase upon us and upon all Israel. Amen.” The prophet in question is, of course, Ezekiel, who was a priest and whose father’s name was indeed Buzi (Ezekiel 1:3).
JJ Abrams (Lost, etc) is heading up the eleventh Star Trek movie. Supposedly, it’s going to be based on the academy time of Kirk, Spock, etc and how they all meet.
Here’s a (potentially) major spoiler post (that you have to read if you’re a fellow fan):
I can’t stress how big of a potential spoiler the following information is. If you want to remain spoiler free DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER.
IESB.net – Movie News, Reviews, Interviews and More! – JJ Abram’s Star Trek Story Details!
Seesmic is basically a “video Twitter.” I got an invite today from Jeff Pulver (it’s in very private pre-alpha release) and have to say that I’m liking the service…
Learning to play the piano at a respectable level is not difficult (or so I’ve been told).
So I’m going to learn to play the piano.
Anyone have a link to a site to help me out? Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email (mail@samharrelson.com) if so!
I’ll keep you posted on my progress here.
Here’s a great piano tutorial from Mahalo:
http://www.mahalo.com/How_To_Play_Piano_For_Beginners_(And_Save_$500_In_Lessons)
I got to meet and hang out with Brian Solis at this week’s BlogWorldExpo. Brian is one of my favorite bloggers and a heck of a photographer.
I liked this shot of me that he took at the ShareASale / Conversation Group party on Wednesday night at the Wynn Hotel in Vegas.
I’m imagining a future 3,000 years from now when scholars and archaeologists attempt to put together the scattered fragments of our digital cuneiforms like we attempt to do today with the scant remains of Mesopotamian cultures from the past that were just as vibrant as ours.
I wonder how far Google will get before the barbarians invade and the library is burned?
As early as the third millennium B.C., Mesopotamian scribes began to catalogue the clay tablets in their collections. For ease of reference, they appended content descriptions to the edges of tablets, and they adopted systematic shelving for quick identification of related texts. The greatest and most famous of the ancient collections, the Library of Alexandria, had, in its ambitions and its methods, a good deal in common with Googleโs book projects. It was founded around 300 B.C. by Ptolemy I, who had inherited Alexandria, a brand-new city, from Alexander the Great. A historian with a taste for poetry, Ptolemy decided to amass a comprehensive collection of Greek works. Like Google, the library developed an efficient procedure for capturing and reproducing texts.
Onward and Upward with the Arts: Future Reading: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. Richard Feynman US educator & physicist (1918 – 1988)
Quote Details: Richard Feynman: There are 10^11 stars… – The Quotations Page
