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December 21, 2008
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Getting Off…line

The next few months are going to be crazy. I just moved out of my apartment, then I’m heading to San Diego for Christmas on Wednesday morning. I’ll be out in SD until January 6th spending time w/ family, meeting my San Diego based Twitter “friends” and hopefully getting some sweet stuff for Christmas. Then [...]

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September 12, 2008
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BearHug Camp : Live

*click on the pic to watch live This afternoon I watch the BearHug Camp hosted by Steve Gillmor.  The event was focused on the progress of the micro-blogging space. One of the main topics of conversation was around live search of the Twitter data. Currently there is nothing that is “real time” and for political [...]

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Posted Under People & Leadership Technology

June 18, 2008
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Future of Web Trends

Here is a slide presentation that I found interesting. The quotes are quite funny and the predictions are scary accurate. | View | Upload your own

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April 23, 2008
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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.

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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 [...]

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April 10, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

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 [...]

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April 1, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Work – Life Balance

Aren’t you getting tired of hearing people talk about the Work – Life balance? I am, and it’s mostly because I don’t understand the concept. It’s not that I work 80 hours a week, or than I don’t have a social life, because I do, I have a great one. The confusion is derived from [...]

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Posted Under People & Leadership Travel & Adventure

March 18, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Learning vs. Doing

There is something that I’ve been struggling with a great deal recently and an article I read tonight by Paul Graham made the struggle even worse. The issue originated from my decisions surrounding what I should be reading, how I should be spending my “develop Ryan time” and what sort of further education I should [...]

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February 28, 2008
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Nanotechnology – Nokia’s Morph

    The Nokia Research Center is working with the Cambriage Nanoscience Centre to develop nanoscience technologies that will bridge the latest and greatest in emerging technologies with the ability to benefit the end user. The idea behind this is (I know I say this a lot) absolutely market changing. This will change the word [...]

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December 13, 2007
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A Long Way Gone – Ismael Beah

Reading is the only way to get enough experience in one life time.  A few months ago I read A Long Way Gone – memoirs of a boy soldier  by Ismael Beah and it is one of those books that really makes you thankful for the life you’ve had.  Whether you were raised in upper, [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution Economics People & Leadership

December 6, 2007
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Best of The Web – guest post from Blake Samic

Here they are. These are the best and brightest web sites out there right now. What do they win? Nothing… but maybe they’ll get a few new visitors when this hits the presses. Check them out, and leave comments! Netvibes has become my homepage of choice as of late. It competes with iGoogle and PageFlakes [...]

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Posted Under People & Leadership Technology

September 27, 2007
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Public Transportation

As I write this post in response to a post on tadfad.com about Public Transit I am sitting on the northbound redline train of Chicago’s elevated train system.  The CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) is imposing rate hikes within the month and the trains seem to be getting slower and slower and at least in the morning [...]

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Posted Under Economics

September 25, 2007
Posted by Ryan Graves

Mom’s on Facebook

This topic is a bit disterbing, you’ve been warned.   Why are mom’s on facebook? Mine is and its a bit wierd.  I understand that facebook is one of the most popular websites on the internet and is used as a very effective tool to stay in touch with friends and family, however I definitely [...]

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September 11, 2007
Posted by Ryan Graves

iPhone-mania

Is it just me or does everyone have a huge hard on for Steve Jobs? Chill out about it.  Today the iPhone hit the 1 Million in sales mark which is pretty impressive, however, there are a lot of other great products and companies out there and frankly I’m kinda tired of reading every other [...]

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