Thanks to crowdfunding service Kickstarter, and a lot of hard work and community support, two local projects met their fundraising goals last week and took a solid step toward reality. The delightfully simple Juicies project, which I profiled on Earth Day, blew past its $5,000 goal in only three days, and ended up with over [...]
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Two More Hawaii Projects Kickstarted
May 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Events, Gadgets, Music, The Web
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Namesake a Noteworthy New Network [Invites]
May 18th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Social Media, The Web
Update: Namesake is again limiting signups, but you can use this invite link to jump the queue. I obsessively sign up for every site or service that I find. But if I measure my level of enthusiasm for a site based on how much time it takes away from the other sites I love, then Namesake is [...]
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Featured on FourCast
May 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Media, Technology, The Web
Be still my geeky heart. If I had a bucket list, I would have crossed off a big entry yesterday, as I was a guest on “FourCast,” a show on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network. I was honored to be on the show alongside local developer Brian Dote, talking with hosts Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson. [...]
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Aloha, Ryan [Updated]
April 24th, 2011 · 44 Comments · People, Social Media, Technology, The Web
Last updated 12:32 p.m. HST on May 2, 2011. See end of post. Ryan Suenaga, “Hawai’i’s best known Apple II Geek and social worker.” A Blogger. A Twitter user and Facebook friend to many. He’s shared hundreds of personal stories, from his job as a social worker to his love for hacking and gadgets, from [...]
UFOs Over Oahu? Sorry, No.
April 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Technology, The Web, Video
A video is making the rounds on YouTube, Facebook, message boards and blogs, said to depict five unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, hovering over the Makua military reservation on the island of Oahu. It spread like wildfire through online communities focused on everything from aliens to government conspiracies, then started catching the notice of people [...]
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Hawaii Amazon Tax Back from the Dead
March 25th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Business, The Web
History may repeat itself. Last year, Hawaii bloggers, webmasters, and other online businesspeople rallied to fight a state plan to tax retailers like Amazon.com for business generated by local affiliates. The state was looking for extra cash, but opponents of the tax bill argued that Amazon.com would just drop its Hawaii partners. And that’s exactly [...]
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What is Dabble.in? [Updated]
March 23rd, 2011 · 7 Comments · The Web
This morning, Twitter was awash with messages reading: “I just reserved my Dabble.in username. Gets yours here.” My friend Burt Lum posted the first tweet I saw, and as an obsessive signer-upper, I raced over to register. My post sparked another half a dozen of my friends to sign up and tweet as well. But [...]
Social Media Tsunami Coverage
March 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Media, Social Media, The Web
Once again, social media played a key role in reporting and distributing information during a crisis. In the wake of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Japan, communities around the Pacific Rim braced themselves for the inevitable tsunami waves. In Hawaii, the “#hitsunami” hashtag aggregated thousands of posts from news media, government officials, and everyday citizens. [...]
City Launches Transparency Portal
March 7th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Government, The Web
As an advocate for free access to government data, I was glad to hear about the City and County of Honolulu’s newly launched online transparency initiative, “Citizens Analyzing Numbers Discover Opportunity” (or CAN-DO). Indeed, based on the “About” and “FAQ” pages, the CAN-DO site seems to demonstrate a clear understanding of some of the problems [...]
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Audi’s Social Media Fail
March 3rd, 2011 · 20 Comments · Blogs, Social Media, The Web
By most accounts, global carmaker Audi’s high-profile Twitter campaign was a success. Great press, thousands of Twitter mentions, $25,000 going to charity, and glowing quotes to put in a press release. But for some of us, it was a failure. Which is a pity, because it could’ve been something truly innovative and meaningful. Hopefully, it [...]
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