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My Web Travels for January 22nd 2008

• Genfavicon. Free Online Favicon Generator. Icon Generator. – Nice web service if you are in need of this
• The Best Companion Tools for YouTube and other Web Videos – A list of some useful video sites
• The Escapist : Zero Punctuation: Crysis – If you’ve never seen a Zero Punctuation review. Here’s a great one to accolomate ya. Very Very funny stuff and spot on in many ways.
• The 2007 Darwin Award Winners – Ahhh…always fun to see what the pinheads of the world are up to
• Get Feeds for Sites Without RSS with Dapper – Lifehackers take on a useful tool to add content that doesn’t offer an RSS feed to your Lifestream
• Example: How to Embed Two Views on the Same Page | drupal.org – This is useful in Drupal to create a pretty complex custom homepage
• Bill Gates last day at Microsoft (video) – istartedsomething – This video proves that Bill Gates is waaaay cooler than Steve Jobs
• WeGame.com – Show Your Game – Site provides in-game videos for many PC games. Also provides the tools to create the videos
• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – Another nice collection of Wordpress themes

My Web Travels for October 22nd 2007 through October 31st 2007

These are my web travels for October 22nd 2007 through October 31st 2007:

• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters – I already use some of these tools but thought this was a good resource to learn about tools I may want to use in the future
• eBible.com: Online Bible Search & Bible Study Community – Online reference site for the Bible
• GodTube.com – A niche based offshoot of YouTube
• e-Sword – the Sword of the LORD with an electronic edge – Free software that provides many great tools to use the Bible as a reference guide
• Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday – This may provide a large step towards creating a framework for Lifestreaming platforms. Only time will tell
• Self publish with free BookSmart software for Windows or Mac | Blurb – Great service to publish your own professional looking book at a reasonable price. I learned about them at the Wired NextFest
• Soup.io Offers Simplest Microblogging Yet – Mashable coverage of new Lifestream service
• From shoebox to performative agent: the computer as personal memory machine — Van Dijck 7 (3): 311 — New Media & Society – From author José Van Dijck comes an interesting article that covers Lifestreaming
• CleverClogs: Basics of Attention Profiling through APML – An easy to understand and well written primer on what APML is by Marjolein Hoekstras
• APML – Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: The open standard for Attention Metadata – Newly re-designed APML site for any info you need
• Emily Chang – Blog: Lifestream to APML – Emily discusses her forray into the world of APML and offers several resources as well
• Viewpoints – Let’s review. – Interesting community based review site

My Web Travels for October 16th 2007 through October 20th 2007

These are my web travels for October 16th 2007 through October 20th 2007:

• Tumblr Takes 750K Series A – More proof that investors are now funding Lifestreaming. Tumblr gets funding
• Breaking: Google Acquires Jaiku, Why Not Twitter? – Mashable’s news on the Google purchase of Jaiku. Lifestreaming finally hits the big time in the form of a major acquisition
• Share Personal Memes on Meemi – Mashable info on another Tumblr inspired service called Meemi
• listography: your life in lists – Interesting minimal list creation site that could be used to create a manually based Lifestream. I found this via the first BoingBoing video show
• Soup turns big ideas into teeny blogs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – Webware info on Soup which is a Tumblr inspired Lifestream service
• Slifeshare Relaunches Sharing Network – Mashable info on Lifestreaming service Slifeshare
• Utterz: Yet another nanoblog platform… or is it? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – Webware info on a new service that has some Lifestreaming features
• Readr: Latest News Feed Aggregator – Mashable blurb on a new Lifestreamin service called Readr
• Elsewhere I’m: Relationship Update Stream – Interesting development from Six Apart on what appears to be another player in the movement happening to build backend systems to help communicate data in a better fashion than just polling for feeds.
• [OC]ModShop – Enable 4GB of memory on Vista: I need my 4GB! – Guide to unlocking unused memory if you have 4Gb RAM and you are running Vista 32-bit. I tried the simple fixes which didn’t help, and I didn’t feel like messing with my Bios so I remain using only 3.5Gb of my RAM
• WordPress Theme Hacks – Here’s a ton of insight into the Wordpress code that include mods that allow you to convert it to be used as a CMS

My Web Travels for September 21st 2007 through October 13th 2007

These are my web travels for September 21st 2007 through October 13th 2007:

• The Worst Thing about Macs – And the winner is….drumroll please….The users! No surprise here. However I doubt this post will stop them from drinking the kool aid
• 10 tips for improving your wireless network – Some good tips to optimize a wireless network
• Phone Scoop – I came across this site while researching the Samsung i760 phone which I am considering to buy from Verizon
• Kongregate: Play Desktop Tower Defense – I read about this addicting little flash game in Wired. It passed my son’s good game testing procedures and I liked it too
• BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages. – Found this Bible resource by accident and it looks like a great site.
• Weekend Project: Soup Up Your Xbox Media Center – Lifehacker – I upgraded to this flavor of XBMC. If you haven’t heard of XBMC, it’s the best Media Player available for your Home Theater system and runs on the old XBOX. A bit tricky to get running but well worth it
• ThemBid.com » Blog Archive » Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop – Always useful to have some photoshop skills.
• Covertastic.com – Great site to get CD or DVD covers. I sarted using this to get cover art to my new iPod Nano.
• Kevin Kelly — KK* Lifestream – Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly’s version of a Lifestream. It’s actually an aggregated view of his posts to many different blogs.
• T3CH XBMC BINARY RELEASES / DOWNLOADS for XBOX, Latest SVN = 2007-09-23 rev10329 : I AIM TO MISBEHAVE – This is a recommended distribution of XBMC for the XBOX. I am trying the latest version tonite.
• Virtual Hosting Blog » 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images – This list should come in very handy. I like using photos every so often for posts as well as my poetry
• The Apple Store: Where Intelligent People Go to Die – Love the title…love the post…sad commentary on the Apple freaks out there. Applegasm…classic!
• 100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write : [chrisbrogan.com] – Here’s a great list of reasons that should inspire me to write something as soon as I find time

My Web Travels for August 23rd 2007 through September 19th 2007

These are my web travels for August 23rd 2007 through September 19th 2007:

• PR 2.0 – Silicon Valley – Lifestreams Channel Online Activity, Creating Rivers of Relevance – Some general commentary on Lifestreaming that also appears to have been spurred by Steve Rubel’s Lifestream
• US WebBlog » Blog Archive » No time to blog? Why you should start your own lifestream… – Using Lifestreams as a method to Micro-blog when you don’t have time for normal blog posts
• Get Engagd: Creating an APML file from your Lifestream – Chris Saad offers us an easy way to create an APML file from our Lifestreams
• Who needs Carnivore when you have lifestreams | WinExtra – Commentary on Lifestreams and fear of losing privacy
• IPhone: Bill Maher Rips iPhone Fanboys a New One – Gizmodo – I can’t get enough of people ripping on Apple fanboys
• World Rally Championship – I’ve recently become a big fan of Rally and sadly heard about the passing of Colin McRae. These are the most talented drivers in the world by far. Nascar has nothing on these guys.
• Smarty : Template Engine – Keep this in mind for some future development efforts
• How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great on Squidoo – Good tips on optimizing the method used to encode videos for best quality to upload to Youtube
• gameupdates.org – Download game patch, demo, trailer via bittorrent fast – With the recent mega size downloads for Bioshock & Medal of Honor Airborne game demos topping over 1GB I found this great pc gaming torrent site to help bring em down faster
• Drupal Performance Tuning and Optimization for large web sites | 2BITS.com – Drupal Development, Customization and Consulting – This is going to come in very handy for my current project
• CRICAVA.org – PHPBB.module for Drupal – I needed a way to provide a single account and authorization point between Drupal and phpBB and tthis appears to be a great modified version of the original module that enabled this
• Behold: Dell’s XPS 420 revealed – Engadget – This looks like a sweet machine…buy or build…decisions, decisions
• LA Drupal – Los Angeles Drupal Group Site