Author Archive for Jeff Smith

Jeff is a blogger. a podcaster. a geek. He is one of the founders of the Social Media Club of Kansas City, a contributor on The Social Geeks Podcast, blogs over at (jeff)isageek.net as well as dropping all kinds of stuff on twitter (jeffisageek).

Google Search : It’s Full Of Stars

Google Search : It’s Full Of Stars

Today Google annouced it was replacing the SearchWiki feature with Stars. With stars, you can simply click the star marker on any search result or map and the next time you perform a search, that item will appear in a special list right at the top of your results when relevant. That means if you [...]

The Daily Show And Colbert To Be Pulled From Hulu

The Daily Show And Colbert To Be Pulled From Hulu

In what can only be a bad thing for online video service Hulu and just overall crappy news as Viacom has announced they will pull The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from Hulu in the next week and stream only stream them on the shows websites as well as the Comedy Central site. Obviously [...]

PubSubHubBub Gets Real With WordPress

PubSubHubBub Gets Real With WordPress

I love PubSubHubBub for two reasons.  First because it helps bring the real time web and second I just love saying it all the time.  PubSubHubBub there I said it again! Well today WordPress announced it would be pushing the protocol out to 10.5 million hosted blogs on WordPress.com. Not sure what PubSubHubBub is or [...]

BuzzAware – App Directory For Google Buzz

BuzzAware – App Directory For Google Buzz

Looking for that Chrome or Firefox Extension for Google Buzz?  Maybe see if there is an Adobe Air app?  Mobile apps or anything else Google Buzz related?  Well BuzzAware is the site for you. BuzzAware currently has about 21 apps that allow you to extend the functionality of Google Buzz

Feedly Going Mobile!

Feedly Going Mobile!

One of my favorite services to use with Firefox and now that I am using Chrome is Feedly.  Recently the service announced they are working on going mobile.  AWESOME!!! Not familiar with Feedly well it is an extension you can install for your browser that can take you Google Reader items or your Twitter items [...]

New Version Of TweetDeck Goes Live

New Version Of TweetDeck Goes Live

Thats right kids there is a new version of Tweetdeck out there and amongst some of the updates we have more API calls available along with a way to let Tweetdeck control your allocation as well as more media integration with the likes of YouTube and Flickr.  Watch this video for more.

Plancast – Broadcast Your Future

Plancast – Broadcast Your Future

You have Twitter that lets you tell the world whats happening now and you have Foursquare that lets you tell the world where you are now but now there is a new service called Plancast that lets you tell the world what are you doing in a little bit or even what you will be [...]

Palm’s “Hot Apps Program” Goes Live

Palm’s “Hot Apps Program” Goes Live

Are you a developer?  Need some cash?  Wanna develop for WebOS?  Well if you answered yes to these then you will be interested in the new competition launched by Palm called The Hot Apps Program. In hopes to get some fresh new apps Palm is putting 1 million dollars out there that you can win [...]