Facebook, Foursquare, MySpace, Skype, Twitter and YouTube are all mentioned.

See what you think?

@cybercoder on Twitter said: By far the easiest way to make a PDF file has got to be using Google Docs, just work it up, and download it.

It’s just that easy…you can create a PDF from a text file or a spreadsheet. With a text document open in Google Docs, go to the…
File Menu…
Download As…
PDF

Thanks @cybercoder for the great time-saving tip. I remember jumping through hoops years ago in an office environment trying to create a PDF document for a co-worker. We’ve made light-years of progress since then.

If you haven’t tried Google Docs yet, it’s a great easy way to save and share your documents online.

With this experimental program, the National Weather Service will be searching for Tweets that contain information about severe weather events like flooding, wind damage, hail, a tornado or funnel clouds, freezing rain, snowfall and dense fog.

The National Weather Service is taking advantage of the geotagging capability of Twitter, allowing the NWS to correlate each Tweet to its location when it was sent. They’re hoping this will help enhance and increase timely and accurate online weather reporting and communication between the public and their local weather forecast offices.

The NWS is asking Twitters to enable geotagging on their Twitter and 3rd party applications. Since geotagging is still controversial and not everyone is using it, the NWS is offering suggestions for users to Tweet either way.

With Geotagging on, submit your Tweet like this: #wxreport your significant weather report

Without Geotagging, submit your Tweet report in this format: #wxreport WW your location WW your significant weather report.

Some examples of weather report tweets without geotagging:
Ex. 1: #wxreport WW 1289 W Oakridge Circle, St Louis, MO WW 6.0″ new snow as of 1 pm
Ex. 2: #wxreport WW 44.115, -88.595 WW Hail 3/4 inch in diameter at 4:25 pm

• Here’s some examples, starting with the most accurate:
• Using a latitude and longitude, like this: WW 44.231, -88.485 WW
• An address: WW 2485 S Point Rd, Green Bay, WI 54313 WW
• A street intersection: WW intersection of Holly St and N 4th St, Perry, OK WW
• A city name: WW Ft Lauderdale, FL WW
• A zip code is the least accurate: WW 53221 WW

Your location can be just about anything, but the more specific the better.

Read more about this new program at weather.gov/stormreports

The NWS is working with the following sites to monitor #wxreport Tweets:
Wx411
Twitter search
nearbytweets.com
geochirp.com
Twitterfall

Twitter is finally talking about making money, but how? Without alienating thousands of developers who are building applications on top of Twitter? Or turning off millions of daily users?

Some very interesting and sometimes controversial topics were discussed at Chirp…Promoted Tweets, earned media and paid media, mobile apps, the development platform @anywhere, the user experience, and the Twitter ecosystem.

Video from Twitter Chirp Conference on Justin.TV

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Recent Tweets about Twitter’s Chirp conference and acquisition of the Tweetie iPhone app…

TheNextWeb.com>> Twitter’s New API “Will Change The Way You Use Twitter” bit.ly/cqsv7l

Advertising Age>> Twitter Has a Business Model: ‘Promoted Tweets’ bit.ly/cSUGdz

Twitter Development Talk from Ryan Sarver>> Some interesting views on the Tweetie acquisition and Chirp bit.ly/cRzjIB

gigaom.com>> Twitter Walking a Tightrope With Developers bit.ly/c9LYtp

The video tells all, but the website is updated sxsw.com

There’s 2 iPhone apps available to help keep track of all the events happening March 12th through March 21st.

SXSW Play: Discover New Media
my.SXSW: Social Networking & Scheduling

Official SXSW YouTube Channel

Follow SXSW on Twitter

SXSW on Facebook

“We’ve left the digital decade behind, and now we’re moving into the era of the connected community.”

So what does that mean? Well, often I have to look back at where I’ve been, in order to figure out where I’m going. In a previous post I wrote about the past ten years, the World Wide Web from Y2K to Today.

In 2005 I started blogging and discovered that I love to write. The blogging format gave me a world wide voice which allowed me to connect with others I never otherwise would have met. I started working with my brother David and we naturally wrote about our common interest, music. We used Google’s Blogger and eventually migrated into WordPress, and even looked into other platforms like Joomla!

In the ensuing five years we have evolved into working with other tools like Twitter and Facebook, FriendFeed, bit.ly and HootSuite. We have become more connected to a community of like-minded net citizens, engaging in many different conversations across the world wide web.

The term Web 2.0 first took off in 2004, during the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference. Six years later, Web 2.0 has exploded, expanded and morphed into a host of different web applications connecting us all with each other.

What does it mean to you?

buzzom.com features a great Management page with Recriprocate, Flush and Grow tools…
Recriprocate: Follow your Followers back
Flush: Unfollow those who are not Following you
Grow: Grow your network and Follow new people

Other nice features include the Lock and Block feature. I’m using the free version, but buzzom is also promoting their paid version for an introductory $10 a month. They’re offering advanced tracking features, but I’m happy using bit.ly for free at the moment for my reports.

Thanks to @cybercoder on Twitter for pointing out this great new tool. Follow CyberCoder @ cybercoded.net

buzzom.com

Google News Archive Search google.com/archivesearch

The 5 Elements of Hard Work altitudebranding.com/

A contest to name a mobile restaurant obsessedwithconformity.com/

How to Install PHP PEAR on WampServer crc-stc.com/

and finally, how Boomers are slowly joining the mobile web
readwriteweb.com/

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The adrenalin rush of racing down the winter slopes of Whistler Mountain has been captured in Vancouver 2010: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games. Dude, it’s awesome!!

Extreme speed…winter sports…new challenge mode and control schemes…revamped online gameplay…Vancouver 2010 is in development by Eurocom and SEGA for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

olympicvideogames.com

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