Category: The Web

During yesterday’s lifecasting talk at Hawaii Public Radio, I got to meet Eric Nakagawa, a guy who’s impossibly close to one of the year’s hottest Internet memes: lolcats. Lolcats are those Photoshopped pictures of...

No, just a power outage. Geeks across Twitter (which did not go down) are reporting various websites and online services as unavailable. They include Craigslist, SixApart (LiveJournal and Typepad), Technorati, Yelp, Second Life… Google...

Congratulations to long-time Hawaii blogger Ian Lind for logging his millionth visitor today. (When I checked in, I was logged as visitor number 1,000,050.) As Ian himself notes, the true number of iLind.net visitors...

Hawaii Sen. Daniel K. Inouye is behind a bill that would require several government agencies to provide better information about broadband internet service availability. Our lawmakers need to know what they’re talking about before...

Once upon a time, old-school online diarists — an ancient civilization that hand-coded HTML and updated static pages, uphill, both ways! — decried the rise of the weblog as the beginning of the end. “There goes...

Things really do happen faster on Internet time. Turns out one of Hawaii’s first “professional lifecasters” is already going independent. Star 101.9’s Maleko showed early interest in lifecasting, and was (along with yours truly)...

One of Hawaii’s tech startups, fundraising facilitator ChipIn, has unveiled its Facebook Application. ChipIn, which was effusively profiled in Hawaii Business Magazine (with several follow-up pieces), didn’t seem to be getting much traction outside...

Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, which generally teeters just beyond the edge of credible reporting, surprisingly nailed a serious story today. As serious as blogging gets, at least. “Microsoft pays star writers to recite...

I’ve written before about Justin.TV and Justin Kan, the San Francisco lifecaster whose antics inspired me to start experimenting with live video. It all ultimately led to the launch of HawaiiGeek.TV, my own lifecasting...

Podcasters with accounts at Adam Curry’s PodShow “social media community” got a bizarre e-mail message this morning: From: “[email protected]” Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Jun 5, 2007 7:12 AM Subject: HACKED! Mailed-By: podshow.com podshow.com...

Perennial übergeek Jason Calcanis — “Entrepreneur in Action” at Sequoia Capital and founder and former CEO of Weblogs, Inc. — today unveiled his latest brainchild: Mahalo.com. He apparently secured the domain last November, before he knew...

Whether or not you’re a Flickr user, you need to check out Gary Cohen’s Flickr Ticker. It’s an elegant presentation of Flickr photos (reminiscent of the Apple TV screen saver). Powered by JavaScript and...

The never-ending debate as to whether bloggers are journalists (and therefore entitled to some of the protections afforded the press) has surfaced in Hawaii. Malia Zimmerman, former mainstream journalist turned “online journal” editor, has...

It Started with Justin It’s no coincidence that my blog and podcast went quiet right about the time Justin.TV went live. Indeed, for a couple of weeks, I became so obsessed with Justin Kan’s...

When I’m at work, my Mac sits beside me as my window to the outside world. Sometimes its my “with friends” Twitter stream, sometimes it’s a live webcam or two, and sometimes it’s Digg...

Justin.TV is a week old, and is taking the web (or at least the hyper-interconnected Web 2.0 startup crowd) by storm. The concept is simple enough: Justin Kan, 23, is broadcasting his life live...