http://stevebuchan.org/aeon Steve's Musings - Life Unexplained Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:40:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_72" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Joe in the Blue Pitches Licensed 2010 SWAG"][/caption] Congrats go out to my buddy Joe and his partner at Cojo Designs out of Vancouver for making it to he big time on The Shopping Channel this weekend. Joe pimped his passport holders, tote bags, school bags, luggage tags ... http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/08/17/way-to-go-joe/ Very interesting talking points on protecting iPhone apps from being copied/cloned by other providers. Given that the problem of Discovery and Distribution of applications (with the iPhone) is resolved - how do companies attain mindshare, and brand-awareness on this distribution platform? Source: Techcrunch, via Google Pal http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/08/05/facebook-connect-control-of-the-social-media-contact-list/ This is a snip of a Techcrunch discussion on Mobile Web, iPhone and Andriod  -- Hilarious Quotes. "Raise your hand if you care about Andriod!" -- (off camera .. "nobody does") “I need Android like I need a hole in the head.” -- Pandora CTO Tony Conrad “As soon as it ... http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/08/05/iphone-vs-andriod-techcrunch-battle-fourm/ Special thanks for Joe F. for submitting this! do you want to post my picture with it?? - Joe F. Sure .. Folks .. this is Joe F.  ---> http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/07/25/bear-warning/ Fire Art, originally uploaded by sbuchanyvr. Someone just emailed me and asked for the rights to print and sell this image as art. Of course -- I said yes. Just looked at the image again on the large screen .. and it does look great. -- Something pretty came come out ... http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/07/24/forest-fire-art/ Water bombers on Pender Hill, originally uploaded by jduy. My Neighbor Judy posted this short little video of the Forest Fire burning on the hill right behind us. This puts some perspective on how close this was!. Fire is almost out, certainly under control and the teams are in ... http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/07/24/video-of-water-bombers-on-pender-hill-2/ Picture, originally uploaded by sbuchanyvr. Four little monsters getting a good talking to by parents, police and Deputy Fire Commander It's 2pm in the afternoon .. and it sounds like some olde war movie. There are like five helos flying overhead. Step outside .. and folks are running around like mad. ... http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/07/23/vacationing-kids-almost-burn-our-place-down/ Heading overseas on your next vacation? Wanna practice driving your Hertz Rental Car on the 'right side' of the road? The cool mash-up with Google Maps let's you do just that! Test drive Googledrive now. The author has big plans - look out Need for Speed and Gran ... http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/04/12/drive-a-car-on-google-maps/ April 27th, 2007 - Belmont Leaves BOL heads to Mahalo'. It's been less that a year since I blogged about Buzz Out Loud's Loss (CNET), and Mahalo's gain. Now big Jason must be driving up and down 101 in a loaner Tesla looking for someone more awesome than ... http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/04/02/veronica-belmont-moves-on-again/ Mashable.com and Kluster's monthly meetup called NextWeb 2.0 NY is an awesome platform to learn about exciting new web 2.0 technologies. This event is attended by locals, and by the net-remote. Below is tonight's event. http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/03/31/next-web-20-ny/