Archive for the ‘Shout-Out’ Category

Internet Commenter Funeral

This is a funny video that is an exact representation of what it’s like to comment over at YouTube!  In fact it should have been called YouTube Commenter Funeral! The language is not safe for work, much like the comments on YouTube, so keep the volume down!

Anyway… check out the 1 minute 25 second mark where a guy starts going into the origin of the word über and the girl responds with “Would you stop quoting Wikipedia!”  Sounds familiar, right?

More Tragic Website Domains!

As a continuation of my Domain video which showcased some tragic examples of not well thought out domain names… here is a list of some more.  This list was taken from the Slurls website and you can find the complete list by clicking here.

The contest is still on by the way, so register a domain to win the Kindle 2.

Here are some of my favorites from that list:

Cool DS. iPhone cases

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I LOVE my iPhone.. and I love to dress it up like I like to dress myself up  Well, people keep asking me where I got my cool iPhone case!  So, rather than having to keep replying to emails… here is the website where I got my cool iPhone case!  :-)  DSstyles.com

World’s oldest bible available online

All 800 pages of the oldest surviving Christian bible in existence were saved and scanned, including insect bites, scar tissue (???) and spilled candle wax.  The pages are now available online for all to see!

Check it out.

Anyone want to take a shot at translating it?

How and why I use Tweetdeck

This is another lesson in my TECH category that I think might be helpful to some of you. As you all may or may not know, I use Tweetdeck for all my Twitter needs. There are very specific reasons why I use Tweetdeck and I will spell them out for you here:

1. Tweetdeck gives me a view of what is going on on Twitter AT A GLANCE. As you can see in the pic above, I can see what the people I follow are up to, I can see whenever “hotforwords” is mentioned (more on that below), I can see my direct messages, and more importantly, I can see what conversations are hot right now and what is trending. All of this is available at a glance. The what’s hot/trending allows me to get news faster than when it appears on the various news outlets.
2. I am able to follow whenever my name is mentioned, not just replies to me. That is important as it gives me the ability to see conversations about me and help out.. for example someone might say “We should ask hotforwords about that word”, I can then chime in with the origin for them!
3. I can run Tweetdeck on my iPhone with the same columns (except for the TweetScoop and trending stuff, but I’m sure there is a way to add them. I will let you know as soon as I find out.)

I use Tweetdeck pretty close to how it comes out of the box except for two or three minor changes, which I list below:

1. Tweetdeck allows you to rearrange columns and add or kill them. I kill the second column, the @mentions column (click the x in the upper right of the column) and replace it with a Search “hotforwords” column (click the magnifying icon on the top row of buttons to create the search). I then move the search column to the second spot with the arrow at the bottom. I think doing this cuts down on your API calls which helps. Twitter limits the accessing of your Twitter account through another application to 150 reloads per hour. I *think* making the second column a search column eliminates API calls for that column.
2. I turn on the TweetScoop column by clicking the Owl button along the top row.
3. I turn off sound notifications. Click the Wrench icon in the upper right to access the preferences.

Anyway, that’s how I use Tweetdeck. If you use Tweetdeck or any other app in a unique way, let me know in the comments blow.

If you want to give Tweetdeck a spin, click this image:

Dr. Bob Parsons with me – Find your edge

Check out this fun video blog I did with Dr. Bob Parsons, the founder of GoDaddy. It’s actually very good business advice. Find your edge. I certainly did!

Oh, and pop over to his video blog and leave a comment or two (remember… hint hint… me as one of the GoDaddy Girls.. Superbowl… ), he really does read his comments.

You can find his video blog here.

My day at GoDaddy

I spent the day at GoDaddy’s offices yesterday and shot a video blog with Bob Parsons, GoDaddy’s founder and also did an interview on his radio show.   Bob is the coolest guy and he tweeted about my stay in the tweet above!

Please pop over to his Twitter account, follow him and send him a tweet that I should be the next GoDaddy girl!  Wouldn’t it be great to see your teacher on a GoDaddy Superbowl Commercial?  :-)  Here is his account on Twitter.

Here is a pic they took of me while shooting the video blog, pop over to it and make a comment if you’d like: 

Oh.. and here are all the pics plus some that I took:

Vote for my Boxee App

A nice developer by the name of Ümüt Özalp made a Boxee HotForWords application that plays my videos in HD, Full-Screen on your computer. Boxee itself is a wonderful, free video player that plays media from all over the web in a TV like player.  They keep getting blocked by Hulu, but they keep figuring out ways to circumvent the blockage!

Anyway, Ümüt will update my application to play all of my videos (it currently only plays the HD playlist), but please vote for it to help Ümüt get recognition for his hard work.  Plus if he wins, then maybe I can get him to add all kinds of cool stuff to it!

Vote Here.

The HotForWords application can be found in Videos/Internet once you install Boxee.

Thanks!

Got a Kindle miss that booky smell?

Awesome post from over at CrunchGear!

Technology is awesome, but sometimes it just doesn’t smell the same, if you know what I mean.

If you’re an avid Kindle user like myself, this spray will bring back the musty smells you used to experience while flipping through your dad’s old issues of National Geographic Magazine.

To see if this spray is compatible with your digital book collection click here.

[via CrunchGear]

The Lingo Kid

Look at what this kid has managed to learn from this one spot in the street, with no schooling, just out of sheer necessity (and then some)!

Here is another video with him younger and there are others as well: