This afternoon, the state Council on Revenues is giving a briefing on the state economy at the Hawaii State Capitol. And at least two people are Twittering from the briefing as it unfolds: Ian Lind (independent investigative journalist and blogger) and Georgette Deemer (Communications Director for the Hawaii House of Representatives and former state film [...]
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Twitter Reports on Hawaii Economy
January 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Hawaii, The Web
Tags: economy·government·Hawaii·tourism·twitter
Honolulu Power Outage Covered Online
December 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Hawaii, Media, Television, The Web
At about 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 26, a lightning storm over Honolulu apparently knocked out electricity for almost the entire island of O’ahu. As people from Waikiki to Kaneohe were plunged into darkness, those that still had battery operated gadgets gathered and shared information online to determine the extent of the blackout. Of course, [...]
Tags: blackout·Hawaii·honolulu·kgmb·Media·outage·power·twitter
Local Designer Unveils Twitter Shirts
November 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · People, Technology, The Web
Island geeks are crazy for Twitter. And now Hawaii designer Valentino Valdez of VALDEZign has unveiled (unofficial) Personalized Twitter Shirts. Valdez is using the custom T-shirt printing service Zazzle to print and ship the shirts, but will apparently be designing each shirt on demand as orders come in. The design is strikingly simple. Your Twitter username [...]
AT&T Fails, Engages on Twitter
November 20th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Business, Hawaii, Technology, The Web
AT&T’s cellular network in Honolulu failed this morning, disconnecting thousands of customers for at least six hours. (As I type this, service is restored in some areas, like downtown, but not in Mililani.) At first I thought I just missed a bill payment, but it didn’t take long to realize it was a significant service [...]
Tags: att·cs·customerservice·customersupport·engagement·support·twitter
Meetup Madness
November 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Food, Hawaii, Social Media, Technology, The Web
Manoa Geeks — the Web 2.0 inspired social geek gathering I now help organize — is upon us! Come on down Thursday evening to Thirtyninehotel in Chinatown to talkstory and catch up with what’s going on in Hawaii’s vibrant tech scene. There’ll be food, drink, and lots of cool stories and websites to share. This [...]
Tags: flickr·flickrfriday·manoa·manoageeks·meetup·social·tweetup·twitter
Whither Rejaw?
August 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Technology, The Web
Another day, another microblogging service: Today I checked out Rejaw. And the best way to describe its offerings is to compare it to its many peers. Rejaw is a microblogging service like Twitter, except instead of a 140 character limit, you’ve got an expansive 1,000 characters to work with. (A limit I had to suss [...]
Tags: friendfeed·microblogging·plurk·pownce·rejaw·socialnetworks·socialweb·twitter·web20
Tweet-Up with Seesmic’s Sukhjit
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Events, Technology, The Web
If you’re not on Twitter, you may not have heard: a member of the Seesmic team is in Honolulu, and several local geeks are turning out to welcome her and enjoy some terrific tech talkstory. Sukhjit, who hosts the Seesmic video show “Unboxing,” will be at the Aloha Tower Marketplace food court at 5 p.m. [...]
Google Grabs Jaiku
October 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · The Web
The “activity stream and presence sharing service” Jaiku has been snapped up by Google. Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it’s more difficult to keep track of everyone when they’re running around at [...]
Tags: google·jaiku·lifestreams·microblogging·presence·twitter
