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 [...]
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Third Tuesday Ottawa & Freshbooks
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 fromĀ Freshbooks will be talking about how Social Media helped spread the word about their company (which is doing quite well). It should be [...]
Kwout.com – great for Screenshots
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):
Aydin.
Sixent.com – your online personal profile
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 [...]
Ottawa Web Weekend is Next Week
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.
Aydin.
GMAIL plugin TODO List
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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What is Twittering?
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 [...]
New Version of SpaceTime is GREAT :-)
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 [...]
MeeMix adds Social Features!
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 [...]
Facebook, please implement this!
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/
Aydin.
