Here is mine.  Now show me yours.

For more information go to http://www.defendtheinter.net/

Kevin’s new project launched yesterday called Oink.

Guiness Book, because you chose to not innovate @Sacca and a few others just took millions from you.

• We had over 1,000 people attending WCSF and many more watching the livestream, making it the biggest WordCamp yet.
• The survey of 18,000 WP users revealed some interesting data, like a median hourly rate of $50 and that 6,800 of the self-employed respondents were responsible for over 170,000 sites personally.
• WordPress 3.2 had 500,000 downloads in the first two days, representing the fastest upgrade velocity ever.
• WordPress now has 15,000 plugins and 200 million plugin downloads, and we’re doing a lot of work to make the plugin experience more seamless.
• 14.7 percent of the top million websites in the world use WordPress.
• 22 of every 100 active domains created in the U.S. are running WordPress.

Installation

Open a terminal and enter the following commands.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Amazing interview of Chris Sacca.

 

OK just got done DJ’ing on Turntable.FM.  They weren’t feeling the Sammy Hagar, that got killed right away but my second and third songs killed.  ;)  Turntable.FM is crazy addicting and scary at the same time.  DJ’d with @Sacca, a very famous VC and investor (most famous for investing in Twitter).  Interesting conversations in the chat room tonight while we were DJ’ing.  Oh and people have no clue what Ubuntu is when they see my computer. Technology is changing the world…love it…fun stuff.

@Sacca: Sweet sweet tune.

@Sacca: It kind of democratizes the fundraising process

Jeremy Person started playing “Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta” by Geto Boys

The folks who made this presentation have some really good points…

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I’ve become obsessed with Foursquare.  I just realised you can learn a lot from a person by where they check in.

• I travel
• I love coffee
• I appear to like fast food (although I don’t)
• I do love ice cream
• Yep, Chipotle is my favorite
• Also love chinese

I wasn’t sure how @FourSquare was going to monetise their app but now I think I know.  Now I want my discounts!

I had some time over the holiday break to “geek out” and get some things done I never seem to have time to do.  One of the things I finally got around to was connect Boxee to my living room TV.  You may have heard about the Boxee Box which was recently released by D-Link and sells on Amazon.com for $199 at the time of writing.  I’m running the Boxee software which is based on an open source platform on my Linux box at home but it also runs on Mac and Windows computers as well.  So long story short you don’t need a Boxee Box unless you don’t want to mess with running long cables from your PC to your TV or if you don’t have a decent graphics card and processor.  The video review above takes you through the entire Boxee experience and so far I am in love with it (was up until midnight watching Revision3 shows).

I got the Android 2.2 emulator to work on Ubuntu 10.10 this afternoon and I installed the SDK while Tyler went down for his nap.  Now it is time to get things working in Eclipse and I’m good to go for developing whatever I want on Android.  Now I just need an Android phone (few more months).

I just got done watching Pirates of Silicon Valley which was very interesting and I highly recommend watching it.  Here are two interviews from Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak on hacking the phone system back in the day.  Pirates of Silicon Valley gets into this topic very briefly.

Ladies and gentleman when you think “D-Day” you probably think of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944  right?  There appears to be another D-Day and nobody is storming beaches but rather Internet users are storming off to reddit.com (a popular Digg clone) and declaring war on the site and its founder.  Before we get into the war of the geek kind lets start with how this all started.  On August 25, 2010 when people started flooding to the Digg site to preview the release of the newly redesigned site they were angered to find many features its hardcore fans loved had been removed and the front page no longer had sites from individual users, but rather from large mainstream  publishers.

A week ago today Digg 4 launched and what a week this has been for Kevin Rose, the Founder and Chief Architect (and at the time of launch, acting CEO) of Digg.com.  Kevin has been a popular Internet celebrity and someone I follow very closely and blog about often.  The longer I’ve lived the more I’m finding everything tends to be cyclical.  Disney calls it the “circle of life” and I think they are onto something.  In 1990 when Apple was being bailed out by Microsoft, who would have ever thought that in 2010 Apple would be the company everyone talks about and have $40 billion cash in the bank?

Two weeks ago everyone was blogging (including myself) about Kevin’s iTV rumors being announced at today’s Apple keynote.  Fast forward two weeks and would you have believed that Kevin Rose would become one of the most despised people to his previously loyal Digg followers?  Just look at the picture below which is a line for a Diggnation live taping which features Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht where they talk each week about stories they have “dugg” on the “social news website digg.com”.

Diggnation Line

One week you are one of the most popular people on the web and the next what seems like a legion of geeks now hate you.  Easy come, and easy go, but can Digg and Kevin Rose come back from this enormous backlash?  Digg users are voting up, or digging stories from Reddit.com and the homepage is littered with stories from its competing site.  The circle of life happens everywhere around you so enjoy the highs and do everything you can to survive the lows.

A few months ago LeBron James announced he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to join the Miami Heat.  When he announced his decision many of his fans in Cleveland turned on him and some were so angry they went in the streets to burn his jersey.  Let’s stop and think about this for a second.  Want to know who your real friends and fans are?  They are the ones who stay by your side when everyone else is turning against you.

People tend to like you as long as you do what they want you to.  They like you when you have something they can benefit from.  They like you when you do something outside the box but when it fails they will be the first to berate you over it.  Kevin created Digg and at that time the site was something revolutionary.  I like Digg’s new design and I can understand user’s outrage over having mainstream content appear directly from the sites as opposed to being submitted by users.  When Facebook did its latest redesign, many users also got very vocal.  If nothing else I respect people with an opinion but give people feedback with as much grace as possible.  Elbert Hubbard famously said “to avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing”.  What Kevin and lots of other Internet entrepreneurs have now hopefully learned is do everything you can do make your users happy.  I think Digg is trying to fix the issues being brought up to the best of their abilities so good luck Kevin and the Digg team.  Hang in there…

Didn’t know YouTube is keeping track of my video streaming speeds.  If you want to see what your speed is and how it compares to mine (above) you can do so via http://www.youtube.com/my_speed.

What we learn: the Kindle 4 is super thin and Kevin has “medium sized” hands.  Will the Kindle survive?