Jake Anthony Blog

These are my links for May 13th through June 10th:

• ICSI Netalyzr – analyze your network connection, very detailed and comprehensive, web based
• How to install the Windows 7 Release Candidate – Windows 7 Release Candidate: Installation instructions
• Twitter Lists – twitter lists, resources and how tos
• 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media – Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They?ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. And they?ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment.
• Live social actions map | im doing my part.org – live twitter map of social actions around the world, a very useful toll for social activists who put on events like twestival

During the week of May 24 through May 31st AustinLifestyles.com, The Spring, BHI, and RegistrationAssistant are hosting a visitor from the Netherlands, Paul Geurts of MyNameisE.com. He is bringing the first prototypes of a social networking and business card connector to Austin, Texas.  If you’re around Austin next week and want a demo, call Paul at 512–699–4000 or email terry at spring dot net.

My Name is E

The E device can be used at conventions, trade shows, and meetings, in metropolitian areas like Austin and on college campuses like the University of Texas.  There are over 1.2 million conventions, trade shows and events in the US every year.

What is the E device? In its current incarnation, E is small white, sleek looking device much like an ipod nano or USB storage device. With E, you can share your contact information and social networks in one simple gesture.

Connector allows you to safely transfer an online business card and your set of social networks in a simple gesture like a fist pump or a high five. Tap two Connectors together and you’re connected. Synchonize Connector by using the built-in USB plug with your PC or Mac. It is ideal for networking at large events and conferences.

During the week that Paul Geurts is visiting Austin, we will be meeting with venture investors, potential partners, customers and forming a team to distribute and promote E throught the US and North America.

There is no setup with connector, it can be used immediately out of the box. It’s equipped with a lithium polymer battery which allows you to use it for 72 hours on a 2 hour charge. It holds two of your E Business Cards (one for personal and one for professional) and connects to RFID tags as well as other Connectors and iphones. It gives you intuitive feedback through LED lighting.  The RFID tag feature opens it up the world of “choice based advertising” and integrates these connections in to your social network activity stream.  It connects you to objects and to the environment as well as to people.

These are my links for February 22nd through April 11th:

• 8 Steps For Building Community On Twitter: Tips For Membership Organizations – Here?s a quick eight-step rundown of how to set up a Twitter account for your ?.org?. This isn?t the only way, of course. But if you are starting from scratch, this is what we?re finding works the best.
• TwitterForBusyPeople – Friends At a Glance – twitter at a glance for busy people … great mouseover action
• Texas Social Media Award Winners – I won an award! I made it in to the top 25 Social Media Award winners in Texas
• Free Twitter Designer – great tool to design your twitter background, I need this!
• Super Screenshot! – web app that makes a screen shot of any web page you choose and it can be any size

These are my links for January 7th through February 1st:

• SOCIAL NETWORKING GOD: 350+ Social Networking Sites – collection of over 350 social networking sites
• How to Make an Animated Avatar on Twitter | Tiffany Dow?s Internet Marketing Blog – It’s pretty cool, for about 10 seconds then it becomes tiresome. Sure fire way to lose a lot of twitter followers.
• Reply Notifier – sends your twitter @ replies to your email inbox
• TechFuga – All the top Tech news – Techfuga – Techmeme Digg HackerNews Reddit TechCrunch Arstechnica Slashdot GoogleNews YahooNews CNET News
• My Team Is Better Than Your Team – The Transitive Property of College Football – Why Texas would beat Florida.

These are my links for December 20th through January 4th:

• 70 top tips to generate blog traffic – 75 traffic generation techniques that I learned while blogging
• Display RSS Feeds – everything you need to display rss on your web page. Just plug in an rss feed and most of these will gen up code you can use on your web page or blog
• Tweetree – Home – Tweetree, a site that takes your Twitter account and tweaks it, just might be the reason you close that desktop client and return to the browser for your Twitter cravings. – mashable
• austinlifestyles’ favorites – Slideshow of my favorite pictures of Austin, Texas on flickr
• Austin Texas favorites on Flickr – My Austin, Texas favorite pictures from flickr . . . some pretty amazing stuff… recommended: run this as a slide show

These are my links for December 13th through December 17th:

• The Daily Beast – Tina Brown (formerly New Yorker editor) daily politics, culture and media
• CMS Showcase: 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites – Six Revisions – From personal blogs and brochure sites, to fully-featured social networking sites, portals, news sites, and e-commerce websites, Drupal has proven itself as the most robust platform currently available in the content management system market.
• tweetworks – With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of Twitter. How it works?
• iTweet 2 : Web – web interface to twitter, nice job
• 10 Great Thunderbird Addons You Must Have | MakeUseOf.com – More than a year back, Aibek wrote a great list of 35 must-have thunderbird addons. Since then, a lot of great addons have been created and some of the older addons have also evolved to become better ones.

These are my links for December 8th through December 9th:

• Going Green – Environmental Issues and Global Warming News – Green Living Tips – consumers guide to the green revolution
• Salon.com – Breaking news, opinion, politics, entertainment, sports and culture. – news source and cultural commentary, affiliated with the WELL
• Digg – All News, Videos, & Images – Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by users
• Daily Kos: State of the Nation – Daily Kos has grown in those five years to the premier political community in the United States, with daily traffic between 2-4 million visits. Markos Moulitsas — a.k.a. “kos” — created Daily Kos on May 26, 2002
• Balsamiq Mockups Examples | Balsamiq – cool little mockup program to sketch out websites
• Profilactic.com – springnet’s lifestream – profilactic collects all your social network content, blog posts, etc in one place

These are my links for November 24th through December 7th:

• Whatever – interesting, funny daily blog – Whatever – Taunting the Tauntable since 1998 John Scalzi, Proprietor
• Gmail – Inbox- walhus@gmail.com – my gmail inbox
• Delicious – delicious main page
• near:”Austin, Texas” within:50mi – Twitter Search – Austin, Texas realtime twitter search within 50 miles of Austin, Texas 50 results
• Facebook | Home – facebooks live realtime feed, watch it refresh continually in realtime
• Home – FriendFeed – Real-time – friendfeed on steroids, real time view of your friends updates
• Plaxo – Home – plaxo would get a good review from me if it didn’t continually scramble up my contacts. Plaxo is a mess. It could be great if they fixed it.
• springnet’s daily Bookmarks on Delicious – sites to look at on a daily basis … for a more narrow selection see http://del.icio.us/springnet/primo for the best daily sites
• Facebook | Home – number one social network with tons of cool apps, you could almost make it your blog if it were more public
• iGoogle – google’s start page you can personalize with widgets and content
• Twitter Search – best twitter search, let’s you search by geographic area in advanced search
• Reva Bhalla on CNN –
• Reva Bhalla – This Austin international security expert has made some of the most intelligent comments on the situation in Mumbai India with the terror attacks on the Taj Mahal Hotel and other sites
• Swaine’s World – Michael Swaine added me as a friend on facebook and I was amazed to find that he lives in Grants Pass, Oregon and has written some remarkable books like “Fire in the Valley”

These are my links for November 16th through November 23rd:

• Goodreads | people online now – goodreads is a social networking community for readers of good books, this page shows you who’s online
• Tweet Grid – neat twitter search, create your own search grid or matrix and then you can watch multiple searches
• SystemExplorer Homepage – great monitoring and diagnostic tool for Windows XP or Windows Vista machine
• TouchGraph | Products: Facebook Browser – incredible facebook visualization, really amazing
• PrimePress Theme for WordPress – This is quickly becoming my favorite wordpress theme, I used it on http://austen. com/blog and just now on http://touroftexas.com/blog/ . . . it’s truly awesome!

These are my links for November 8th through November 12th:

• How to Change the World: Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter – Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter
• Op-Ed Columnist – How to Fix a Flat – NYTimes.com – Any car company that gets taxpayer money must demonstrate a plan for transforming every vehicle in its fleet to a hybrid-electric engine with flex-fuel capability, so its entire fleet can also run on next generation cellulosic ethanol.
• monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget – monitter? what is it? Simple. It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh?
• 30+ Great Web Tools You Might not Know Yet but Should | SEOptimise – social media, web design & development, search, SEO and analytics, e-commerce, blogging and Internet tools are not yet widely known main stream tools
• Social Networking Sites | Social Networks Directory – search engine for finding social networks, impressed with results I got