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Group Chat with Google Talk Gadget

Finally… Google offers the ability to do group chat by way of the Google Talk Gadget. It’s not available with the client version of Google Talk, though.

To use it, start a conversation with a contact, click on Group Chat and select additional contacts.

To have concurrent group chats, even involving the same individuals, repeat [...]

Congrats to Jon Swift

This past weekend, I added a new blogger to my blog roll: Jon Swift. Today, it turned out his blog was voted the “Best North American Blog or Column” by the Blogpower Awards.

I first came across his blog when I was checking out Technorati’s WTF list and saw an entry titled “I Am Paris [...]

Got My (Social) Dance Skills Back

I caught the dance bug in college at a dance party where people started doing swing dance. I was bummed that I couldn’t participate so I resolved to take one of the social dance classes at Stanford. I took beginner and intermediate Social Dance, and also took more advanced classes to hone my swing and [...]

ATT == A$$

The following video from savetheinternet.com, Big Ed’s Swan Song, is a parody so it shouldn’t be treated as facts as it was by the submitter in the slashdot thread AT&T CEO Attacks Network Neutrality. However, it does reflect the attitude that A$$, er, AT&T has shown toward net neutrality.

In the discussion about net [...]

Volvo’s Pirates of the Caribbean Treasure Hunt

Volvo is doing a promotion with the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Movie involving a treasure chest. When I saw the treasure hunt commercial, I couldn’t help but think “They’re littering in the ocean!”

Is it just me?

I can’t determine if the youtube video is from Volvo or not. I embedded it here [...]