Category Archives: internet

Interesting items for October 20, 2009

By Dave | Published: October 20, 2009

Here are some interesting links I found on Google Reader today The Average Internet User Spends 68 Hours Online Per Month [User Data] – Pfft. I easily do that many hours every day NYPD Has New Name for Hipsters – Hah. RADIOBUTT is Getting Gay with Statistics* Free-Falling Art Of Li Wei Carl Sagan Auto-Tune [...]

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The 7 Degrees of Retweeting

By Dave | Published: September 28, 2009

Earlier this evening, Sony announced (via Twitter) that they would be at the gdgt event this week and show off a demo of a new game. Sweet! From there, it kept being retweeted by members of team gdgt, just to see how far we could push it. Two degrees: Three degrees: Four degrees: Five degrees: [...]

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Rolling my own URL shortener

By Dave | Published: September 23, 2009

Thanks to the popularity of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, URL shorteners are popping up everywhere. Bit.ly, one of the most popular shortening services, has raised over $2 million dollars in funding! Despite their popularity, URL shortening sites are by no means a permanent fixture on the internet. A perfect example of this was tr.im, [...]

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The Ultimate Productivity Blog

By Dave | Published: September 23, 2009

Hah, genius. This will definitely help me get things done.

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One year walking through China.

By Dave | Published: August 5, 2009

This is a fantastic video.   Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Chuck Norris has nothing on the Most Interesting Man in the World

By Dave | Published: July 23, 2009

Hah, I *really* enjoy these Dos Equis commercials. I think it's a pretty hilarious ad campaign. Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Really cool packing material made out of old cardboard boxes.

By Dave | Published: July 11, 2009

This is the first time I’ve seen this type of packing material! Reusing old cardboard boxes. So awesome! See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Popular words I use on Twitter

By Dave | Published: June 18, 2009

It’s no secret that I love to use Twitter. As I approach my 3,000th tweet, I used Wordle to compile a list of words that I most frequently use when posting to Twitter. The size of each word is based on the relative frequency that I use it. This data was generated with TweetStats. TweetStats [...]

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Impending projects

By Dave | Published: June 15, 2009

Things have been relatively quiet on this end. You might wonder what’s going on. I’ve been feverishly working with a few other fine folks on a new website. Hoping to officially launch in the near future. Stay tuned.

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So long Twitter!

By Dave | Published: April 5, 2009

Twitter? That’s totally jumped the shark. Flutter is where it’s at now! [Via Laughing Squid]

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