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At YouTube’s Videocracy event over a month ago, they gave out ‘party favors’ in the form of a YouTube branded Flip Video, made by Pure Digital Technologies (sidebar: a friend of mine is at a VC shop who invested in PureDigital a number of years ago).  It sat in its faux velvet bag for about 3 weeks until I came across the following Flip Video Vlog: A Tale of Two Formats, which I had found from reading one of David Pogue’s blog posts.  What it proved to me is that for the overwhelming majority of video recording I do (minimal…usually family, etc., that I then post online), the Flip is the perfect video companion.

I’ve recently been trying to figure out how I can update content in fewer places rather than more…between this blog, Facebook, LinkedIn, aSmallWorld and Twitter, there are just too many ways to say too many things in too many formats.  It’s like having 2 computers with different operating systems and 3 mobile devices, all of which need to sync contacts, calendars and notes together.  Well, today I found a partial interoperable solution between Facebook and WordPress, which is the Wordbook plugin.  As the author of the plug-in states:

This plugin allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Mini-Feed. Your Facebook profile will also show your most recent blog posts.

And so far, it works as advertised.

TBD on if it works….

I recently finished Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell’s account of his SEAL team mission gone horribly awry in Afghanistan. I came across the following interview of Luttrell by Matt Lauer on Good Morning America:

and then another from NPR (audio here).

900 feet up…no tether…just a small parachute to deploy if you bail off the 180 foot long wire that runs across the canyon while you attempt to traverse it on your own.  Dean Potter can make all the Man Rules he likes….

Found this site today with a bunch of random facts and trivia (i.e. good dinner party chit-chat).

I found this great post on the differences between setting up Facebook groups vs. pages.  Pages seem to kick-ass with regards to opportunities.

Here’s the link:

http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/archives/2008/01/facebook_groups_vs_pages.shtml

Every once in a while, a Google search query will make its way through the distributed server maze and cough up unrendered code like what you see in the screenshot.

Check out www.ridetheplanets.com.

I’ve only had the brief pleasure of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, but these guys are absolutely insane.  A company called BirdMan is responsible for the creation of flying suits…literally, suits one can put where you both look and act like a flying squirrel.  Some call it slope-flying, an evolution of base-jumping, etc.  Here’s another video and yet one more.

And three more!