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Every single day I feature a video at Viddler. Since joining the team in January of this year I’ve strived to do this everyday, even while on vacation. Though I’ve missed many days since my track record has slowly improved as we were able to improve the featuring system (you can see how well I’ve […]

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So a few weeks ago I asked for help to switch back to iPhoto from Aperture. I had a few issues that I wasn’t able to solve myself so I asked the masses for some direction. Turns out I did learn a few things from the conversations this post, and the Apple discussion board post, […]

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Just one week shy of a full year on this diet! This week has been a great week though at the moment I feel like I went a few rounds with the champ. I can has cramp Last week was the normal exercise and workout activities but near the end of the week Chris and […]

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I’d seen Skitch pop up on Flickr and various Mac-related web sites for quite awhile before I got my hands on a copy. I’d wanted to try it but there is no open beta yet available. I thought this was because Skitch was unstable or simply not ready for the public eye. Boy was I […]

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Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the […]

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Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the […]

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Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the […]

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Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the […]

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Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the […]

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Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the […]

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Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the […]

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The very first part of the Web2Open in San Francisco I was able to sit in on, for only a few minutes, was answering the question: "Do communities scale?". Of course, there were many opinions as to whether or not they do, whose doing it best, and how to improve in the future. But in […]

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We’re living in an age where all the tools for creating rich media are put into the hands of the consumer for far less than ever before yet this does not mean that producing this content isn’t still very hard work. I’m now involved with a weekly videocast for Viddler called ViddlerTV, and even though […]

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You’re probably thinking I’m a bit off but I doubt I’m alone. I’d love to travel back in time, to the beginning – you know – Genesis 1:1, and spend an entire month in various "time periods" throughout the existence of man up until our day. Sure I could just get a Library card but […]

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Gary Vaynerchuk in London Photo credit: The hard working Tara Hunt For those that do not know Gary, Wine Library TV, or Cork’d – let me take a second to catch you up to speed. Gary Vaynerchuk is the Director of Operations for Wine Library and began his career in wine at the ripe age […]

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This week marks the fiftieth week of the-diet for me and several others that have been here since the beginning. I think something special should be done for week fifty two (which falls on the 29th of this month). Hmmm, ideas? So, this morning I weighed in at 185lbs. which is a loss of 1.6 […]

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In February of this year I switched from iPhoto to Aperture for very specific reasons. My laptop’s hard drive was running out of space, as it was housing my photo library that was quickly approaching 25,000 photos and pushing about 30 Gigabytes, and I wanted to take advantage of Aperture‘s ability to store photo masters […]

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I knew this wouldn’t be a week for loss and I thought it’d actually be a week for gain, but it turned out that even after taking a weekend vacation and eating whatever I wanted – I was able to just about maintain my weight from last week (186.6). This past weekend Eliza and I […]

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I wouldn’t want anyone to be gettin’ in troublez so don’t be sharin’ this with no one. Here is a link to the video that you should not share. Oh, but if you do share this video – let me know where you did. No wait, don’t share it – bad idea. [tags]hd-dvd, video, colin […]

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As we approach the first full year of the diet I’m excited to report another great week of getting more healthy! Even though I only got to play a little basketball and managed to hit the gym only once this week, I did what I think was a great job in the "food intake" department. […]

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I was unsure of what to expect from the NY Video 2.0 Meetup because, although I’ve been to other meetups, this one definitely had a much more professional "feel" to it going in. Almost like an Expo, without the huge price tag. I suppose to best cover what I thought of the meetup, I’ll split […]

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Tomorrow, Wednesday April 25th, I’ll be heading to New York City to attend the NY Video 2.0 April Meetup. Rob will be giving a presentation on Viddler and three other presenters will be demoing some of their stuff. I’m looking forward to all of the presentations, but mostly I look forward to making Rob laugh […]

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I skipped my weigh in last week due to being away. I typically do not like to weigh in somewhere else since I know that not all scales are created equal. While in California for six days I actually ate pretty well. And by well I mean a decent amount of food. When I went […]

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My appearance on The Vloggies at South by Southwest was supposed to be nearly immediately followed by an appearance on Lunch Meet – a show hosted by Eddie Codel where you’re able to discuss and demo your product. Boy am I glad that we waited until the Web 2.0 Expo to do this, since Viddler […]

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Last night the next-iteration of the Viddler.com web site and video player launched. The development team did a nearly 18-hour development cycle in some borrowed office space we managed to secure in Santa Clara. The latest version of Viddler really add some fantastic features, which will be detailed much better on the Viddler blog once […]

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Tonight Donna, Chris Tingom, and I went to Ignite at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We had to drive down from Santa Clara (from the offices that Viddler is borrowing to pump out the next version of our site) – and the drive to San Francisco is pretty fun. Ignite was a great event. […]

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Overlooking Denver, Colorado So what do you do when you’re tens of thousands of feet above the Earth, looking down at nothing but the clouds that most people are seeing above their heads? Well, I write – finally – about heading to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo. The entire Viddler team is converging […]

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This week I weighed in at 189.4 pounds for a difference of .2 from last week, in other words, negligible difference. The last few days have been spent on the couch sleeping, waking up to eat, drink, and take medication, and then back to sleep again. So I’m fairly happy with maintaining my weight this […]

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Over the last few days TUG.n has been down. However, I’ve been experiencing problems with email for months, and I never even knew it. I’ve had everyone from clients to my mother telling me that I did not get their emails. My main personal email address is currently cdevroe(at)theubergeeks.net and has been for 5 years. […]

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I’ve been playing around with Google My Maps ever since they were released and I’m still having trouble using embedded videos. At first I thought that I somehow had to ask Google to whitelist Viddler as a video provider. But since then I’ve tried random YouTube videos to test and I have even had trouble […]

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I signed up for del.icio.us in November 2004. I bookmarked a few URLs in the first few months, then didn’t use the service for over a year. I was always teetering between wanting actual browser bookmarks and wanting to have a publicly available list of bookmarks. I used del.icio.us on and off but ended up […]

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My weigh ins are going to become less and less exciting (as if they were riveting before right?) because I think my weight will begin to plateau now that I’m sub-190lbs and I’m actively working out. So instead of just covering the amount of gain/loss each week I’ll also toss in some of my other […]

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Photo courtesy of ABC.com In short; I loved it. Typically I enjoy when the writers of LOST deviate from the main story line and have a little fun. It gives us all a short break in the drama. That being said, this episode went a little beyond the typical deviation. And I can completely understand […]

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My friend Alex Hillman sent me an IM yesterday: "hey, i think twitter might have switched something up on you, on your blog your twitters are there but the time isnt" After doing a little sniffing around I’ve found that Twitter has indeed updated their JSON output for my personal timeline on Twitter and removed […]

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Pickles just chillin’ Before I get questions about his nails, we use soft nails on both of our cats and I personally can not recommend them enough. The cats are not subjected to the pain of removing part of their bodies (which is obviously less traumatic to the cats at an early age) and your […]

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I’ve decided that I am going to rip through my SXSW notes, pull out the best bits, and try to give my thoughts on them. I tried, unsuccessfully, to write up my panel thoughts into something of some value – but I found that all of the posts I tried to put together were long-winded, […]

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Being able to record my fifth straight loss feels great. When I came out of my slump I was worried it would take awhile to get back on track, especially during the winter months. But I’ve found that, although I do not like going to the gym when compared to doing something active outdoors, doing […]

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A meme, started by Esther Lee on Viddler with her 5 random things about her, is beginning to spread across Viddler and various blogs. It is a video meme and all you have to do is divulge five random facts about yourself. I took part in it, and here is my 5 random things about […]

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I was unable to weigh in last week due to being in Texas. I’m actually surprised by this morning’s weigh in because obviously my diet was thrown by the side while I was in Texas and then I’ve been sick since I came back. This week I weigh 192.2 pounds which is a loss of […]

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I’ve already mentioned this on The Viddler Blog – I had the privilege of representing Viddler on The Vloggies while at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. We talked about how I got Scobleized and Viddler. Watch the show below (if you are in a feed reader come to my site). Me on the Vloggies. […]

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The clouds over Texas Something always strikes me when I’m flying. Whenever I fly I’m inevitably sitting next to or near someone that feels that flying is "old hat". Typically these people are reading the newspaper, sleeping, or just generally not interested in their surroundings. I, on the other hand, am still astounded that it […]

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Justin Blanton has taken the time to give Slugger (a plugin for WordPress that I wrote to allow you to edit your post’s slug from outside of the WordPress administration area) an overhaul. He took the time to write what he did, and didn’t like, about the plugin and why he chose to fix it. […]

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Fourty weeks! Though I didn’t manage to weigh in every single week for the last forty weeks, I did manage to do so for over 25 of them. I really can not believe that we’ve hit the forty week mark already. This week was a fairly good diet and exercise week. I wish I had […]

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I have the privilege of hitching a ride with Viddler to the South by Southwest Interactive and Film Festival in Austin, Texas this coming weekend. Rob and I – February 2007 Look us up in Austin! Having never attended SXSW I’m looking forward to seeing what all the hubbub is about. I’m also looking forward […]

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MeToday, the Flickr group where a group of us have been posting a single photo per day and one of the ways that I "blog", has reached a milestone of 3-months. To celebrate, I’ve put together a short video highlighting some of the photos I’ve posted there, as well as a few that were not […]

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The warm evening sunlight shone through the shades and cast patterns on the office furniture. Eight padded chairs with wooden arm-rests lined the white walls. A small round table with a green leafy plant on it set in the corner with some assorted magazines that were so neatly stacked you could tell no one ever […]

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This week I did manage to get to the gym but didn’t manage to do much cardio. I missed two days of basketball that I would have otherwise gone normally, so that sorta sticks. However, I still managed to get to 196.2 pounds from 198.0 a week ago. I need to focus a little more […]

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