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Assuming you’ve been to this site before, you’ll notice a re-design. I just moved this blog from Wordpress.com servers onto a private host (namely Dreamhost.com). Moving onto a private host allows me to have full control over what is displayed on the blog and it’s look and feel (somewhat limited when you use Wordpress.com). With the new design, I’m hoping to give this blog a bit more focus and attempt to write mainly about a few key areas:

1) Internet & Technology
2) Business & Enterpreneurship
3) Consumer Reviews
4) Some miscellanious items…

You can consider this somewhat of a restart for my blogging efforts

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Mike McNulty contacted me the other day to remind me of a great event that is coming up on Monday, June 16th - by Third Tuesday Ottawa.

Michael McDerment and Sault Colt from  Freshbooks will be talking about how Social Media helped spread the word about their company (which is doing quite well). It should be an entertaining and informative presentation

Here are the details:

What: Freshbooks’ Michael McDerment and Saul Colt

When: Monday, June 16, 6:00 PM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Meeting Description: We’re ending the 2007-8 Third Tuesday Ottawa
season on a real high.

Learn more here: http://publicrelations.meetup.com/84/calendar/8092436/

Kwout.com is an amazing tool for blogging. Everytime I want to create a screenshot and use it to paste into my blog, I head over to kwout.com. Its really simple to use… This is one of those must use services!

Here is a screenshot (courtesy of Kwout.com):

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I met Simon Chen at the last DemoCamp in Ottawa and he mentioned his new project called Sixent.com. I just tried out the service and created my own personal profile here: http://sixent.com/aydin/Public

Here is a screenshot:

I like Sixent since it gives me LOTS of privacy options… I get to determine who sees what and what is publicly displayed… I’d love for this profile to appear when people are searching for me… I definitely recommend everyone create one of these profiles for themselves!

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The Web Weekend is the first weekend being organized (May 9-11). Motivated professionals and amateurs work together in order to create a company and launch a web product in a weekend. Make sure to sign up here: http://www.ottawaw.com/

Ottawa Web Weekend is being organized by Marc-Andre Plouffe and hosted by Ian Graham’s CodeFactory.

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Remember the Milk is one heck of a ToDoList application. It will plug into your Blackberry, your Gmail Account, and your Google Calendar Account. I absolutely love it! The integration is amazing! I highly recommend everyone start using this website to manage their lives…

Here is a screenshot of the Gmail integration:

Here is a smaller image:

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A bunch of people have been asking me why my facebook status always says “Aydin is twittering:…”
Well, the reason is quite simple. I use a great tool called Twitter. I also installed the Twitter Facebook Application. With the facebook application, everytime I update my twitter status, my facebook status gets updated to and is prefixed with “Aydin is Twittering…”

Twitter is simply amazing… Rather than explain to you myself what it is exactly, I’ll embed this video that will tell you exactly what twitter is in plain english:

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o]

3D Browsing is just sooo much fun. It sure beats boring old 2D browsing…. that’s why I really love www.SpaceTime.com. Basically, it is a new browser that you can download that will make your life a whole lot easier and more fun by turning all your web pages into 3D images… You’ve got to try this! Although, of course, it won’t completely replace FireFox for me, but its a start…

For the SpaceTime team, not sure how possible this is, but, can we get SpaceTime as a plugin for FireFox? Perhaps with a button that we can use to turn on and off 3D?  The reason I make this request is because I know you guys listen The last 3 requests I made actually ended up in the product which basically makes me think you guys rock!
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Posted By: Aydin Mirzaee.

Everyone knows I love http://www.MeeMix.com. It is an absolutely amazing tool. You basically enter one artist/song you like, and it will continue to play songs that you like all day long. It works in Canada (unlike Pandora), which is awesome.

Recently they’ve added a whole bunch of cool social features where you can add friends that have similar music taste as you do. This is a very cool and addictive feature… I’ve made friends with a bunch of people on the website through these community additions. MeeMix even has Facebook & Twitter integration now… I for one can’t get enough of the music on the site… if you haven’t signed up, you are missing out
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Posted By: Aydin Mirzaee

In one word, wow!

I’d love to see Facebook implement something like this for viewing its photo albums:

http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/highslidedemo/

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