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first live broadcast on Google+

  The first ever live webcast on Google+ happened on Saturday, July 15 starting at 5:15 am and ending at 10:45 am.    Michael Mozart embedded his youtube live show in his Google+ stream and was as excited as a … Continue reading

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Google+ out of the gate

Google+ was obviously this weeks big story, sorry Facebook your skype addon was a side note by comparison. TechCrunch had one of the best explanations of what Google+ is all about, and Wired’s Steven Levy wrote the most complete accounts … Continue reading

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elect Kathie Tovo for Austin City Council

Full Screen High Definition version of the above video here. Ken Koym received and forwards the following notice reminding you how critical this issue is as $14 million dollars of public taxpayer funds have been pledged to make it possible … Continue reading

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Empire Avenue – invest in friends

What is Empire Avenue? Strong “buy” recommendations: sarahlane, pelpinatripp, chftwt (Leo Laporte) A guest post from “pundit”. She writes on politics, policy, current affairs and human interest news from or related to India on her daily blog, http://punditcommentator.blogspot.com. If you … Continue reading

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Bin Laden Dead

No drone. Burial at sea. Four helicopters to prevent a Blackhawk down scenario. It was an operation done right. Extraordinary. It’s a stunning, amazing story that’s unfolding before our eyes. Just after I went to bed last night my ipad … Continue reading

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ZeneScene iphone app has arrived in Austin

Spring.net talked to Valerie Cason of the new iphone social and location app ZeneScene and she says that “since SXSW we have had a turn around in the focus of spreading the word about ZeneScene. Learning the locals is of … Continue reading

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Statesman Social Media Awards huge shift

Since I first won one of the Statesman Social Media Award in 2009, the first year they were given, there’s been a huge shift in the emphasis. Back then the Awards went to the “usual suspects”, people who were clearly … Continue reading

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Ricky Williams premieres “Run Ricky Run” documentary

// Ricky Williams, Heisman Trophy winning star of the Texas Longhorns and current running back for the Miami Dolphins premiered his revealing documentary “Run Ricky Run” to an Austin audience at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum on Friday, April … Continue reading

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SnapPages – websites for the rest of us

The door64 Happy Hour was held on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 from 5:00pm – 7:30pm  at the UT Club, 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, Texas 78712.  http://spring.net video talked to TJ Horlacher from SnapPages, “website creation for the rest of … Continue reading

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5th ProductCamp Aug 7

ProductCamp Austin Summer 201 Saturday, August 07, 2010 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (CT) ProductCamp Austin Planning is amping up for the 5th ProductCamp Austin – have you signed up yet? Here’s where you can go to do that: … Continue reading

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Social Media Club Austin – Dara Quackenbush

Austin’s Social Media Club met at Bazaarvoice on 5/18/10 and Dara Quackenbush was one of four speakers on Social Media and Higher Ed. Dara is a strategic communications advisor and founder of Montage Strategic Communications and public relations professor at … Continue reading

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Olivia Chaney at SXSW

// Grace Sharington interviews Olivia Chaney at SXSW. Olivia was part of the Looking for a new England folk showcase. She’s a London based singer and songwriter. For the full series of http://spring.net videos subscribe at the Itunes store using … Continue reading

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Product Camp Austin #pca10 “What did you learn today?”

Texas Coworking – in addition to being a shared workspace – is also a video and media production company.  TC has partnered with Spring.net, AustinCast.com, AustinBlogger.com and AustinLifestyles.com and Dremana on a media and video production enterprise that is producing … Continue reading

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Why am I using Google Chrome today

Short answer. “Rapportive”! It’s an amazing app that I just installed in Google Chrome.  You know those text ads that appear to the right of your email?  Well this app just replaces those text ads with a complete social network … Continue reading

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Kristin Diable at SXSW

Grace Sharington interviewed Kristin Diable at SXSW. She even sang a song for us called “Be my Husband”. She’s appearing at Momo’s on Wednesday, March 17 at 1 pm. Highly recommended. You can get this interview on itunes by subscribing … Continue reading

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Leo Laporte to be live at Texas Coworking

Watch live video from The Cube LIVE from Austin on Justin.tv You’re watching Paul Terry Walhus, Michael Sean Wright and company at Texas Coworking where they’ll soon be streaming Leo Laporte and his “This Week in Google” (TWIG) and “This … Continue reading

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Semantic Austin meets at Texas Coworking

Juan Sequeda brought the Semantic Web group to Texas Coworking for a dialog with the City of Austin about “open data”. This is part of 1 of a 9 part video series from that meeting.

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@laniar has another rockin’ tweetup

Lani published a terrific list of the top 100 social media people in Austin which has links to a lot of great people around town in the social networking scene. Pictured is one of Austin’s top realtors, Sumina Bhati who … Continue reading

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Spring redesign

AustinBlogger | AustinCast | AustinTweet | AustinLifestyles | TourofTexas | The Spring Blog Excuse our dust!  We’re remodeling Spring.net and it won’t be much longer till we’re full functioning again! You’ll see quirky code and stuff while we work on … Continue reading

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Grace Sharington chats with Lindsey Allen

In this interview at conjunctured coworking, Grace talks to Lindsey Allen. Rock singer and actress Grace Sharington (dremana is her band talks to WordPress veteran and educator Lindsey Allen (exploringnewmedia.com) at the Nov 3 WordPress meetup at Conjunctured Coworking, Austin, … Continue reading

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Carson Coots interviewed by Grace Sharington

In this Spring.net / AustinLifestyles.com interview, Grace encountered Carson Coots at the WordPress meetup.  Carson is a website builder who uses wordpress and other solutions.  He’s a search engine optimizer as well (seo).  He specializes in all kinds of marketing … Continue reading

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Pat Ramsey talks to Grace Sharington

In the above video, Spring.net’s Anchor Interviewer Grace Sharington talks to Pat Ramsey. Pat is a wordpress template builder, guiding light for

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Jim Swift on the loose in Vancouver

Jim Swift spotted in the wild, Vancouver, BC Folksy Austin KXAN tv personality Jim Swift was on vacation in Vancouver BC when we spotted him in the line at Vancouver customs and we had a delightful chat with him. He … Continue reading

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Alex Jones – 404 panel

Alex Jones “404″ panel at Product Potluck The first ProductPotluck Austin – a series of collaborative “unconference” meetings focused on Marketing, Product Marketing, and Product Management topics was held at the AT&T Conference Center at the University of Texas campus on … Continue reading

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Paul Terry Walhus 4 secs of fame on “My Generation”

This is the video I made of the cast and crew of My Generation several months ago while sitting at Little City Coffee House in downtown Austin, Texas on Congress Av. I was sitting outside the Little City Coffeehouse on … Continue reading

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