April 28, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
These are the posts from April 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
Seesmic
I’m really stoked on Seesmic. Seeing as I don’t have a webcam on my machine or an external one I have been limited in the comments or vids that I’ve made. However, as you can see I’ve enable the Seesmic wp plug-in on the site here and would encourage you to use it. The plug-in [...]
Posted by Ryan Graves
Skate vid
My buddies did a little stop-action video this weekend that I got a kick out of and thought was worth sharing. Good work Tad and Samic.
April 25, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
Chilirec – DVR your internet radio
chilirec is like TiVo for internet radio. You log in, choose your music that you want to record, and within about 5 minutes you have music that has been recorded for you off the internet. chilirec then stores the music in “your personal space” on the web and you can return to listen to it [...]
April 23, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
travis barker remix
Seeing as how I was obsessed with Blink in high school I got pretty jazzed on this video… Not the normal type of post but who diggs normal? Found on say.no.radio
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MyBlogLog
I’ve just added the MyBlogLog widget to ActionsTalk. Be sure to join the community so that you can know who else reads ActionsTalk and we can begin to connect.
April 22, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
I once again feel obligated to apologize for my post bashing the Twitter faithfuls. It is truly an awesome and affective web app! I am now fully on board and would encourage any of you who are not yet sold to try it again. It took me two tries to see how useful the tool [...]
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Start-Up School
Must watch videos of Y-Combinators start-up school. http://omnisio.com/startupschool08 David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 My take: This guy is a riot and he makes a great great point. Where are the good Italian food placeson the web? Mike Arrington at Startup School 08 My take: Really, you’re going to have technical difficulties at [...]
April 21, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
Do More With Your Photos – Two New Apps
Post compliments of BlakeSamic.comTwo new applications I’ve been impressed with are Piclens and Animoto. Piclens is a plugin for Firefox that lets you view photos on the web in a new, completely immersive way. Once you have it installed, it integrates with all the major photo sharing sites: Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Smugmug, etc. With [...]
Posted by Ryan Graves
Mantra
Many motivational speakers will tell you that if you tell yourself something over and over you will begin to believe it and once you believe it will become true. Well, I buy into that and I’ve decided to act on it. At the risk of creeping any of my friends or my girlfriend out, I’ve [...]
April 19, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
Y Combinator news, deadpool?
Y Combinator news is down! Due to the community that is actively involved in Y Combinator it became one of my favorite news feeds to read. The combination of tech and entrepreneurial focus was awesome! Now…it’s down. Does anybody know what happened over there?
April 18, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
100 top Rails apps
To go along with my recent acceptance of Twitter, I noticed that Twitter is the 5th largest Rails app. This is an interesting ranking of apps that use Rails. Check out (http://rails100.pbwiki.com/). Being some what familiar with the +’s and -’s of PHP, I’d like to learn more about Ruby and the Rails framework. If [...]
April 13, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
Building on an idea
It’s OK to build upon someone else’s idea right? Do they own the idea? If someone builds a webapp or a piece of software and stops short or doesn’t follow through with it enough to solve a certain problem, you have the right to pick up the torch and run it to the solution of [...]
April 12, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves
Ireland Trip – August 2007
April 10, 2008
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Viewfinder – How to Seamlessly “Flickrize” Google Earth
This is a project is a collaboration between the Interactive Media Division and the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. This video is yet another example of an awesome application of a mash-up of technologies. It will be fun to see the final product. “Viewfinder” is a novel method for users [...]




