Bytemarks

First we’ll take a look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then we’ll talk to Mike Douglass and Henry Mochido about a new crowdfunding project to assist earthquake victims in Japan called Place of Hope: http://www.indiegogo.com/Place-of-Hope Finally, we’ll explore some of the Internet and tech related bills moving through the [...]

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We had Gorm Lai, Peter Justeson and Rechung Fujihira on the show today. Rechung was our news guest talking about Jelly Week over at the Box Jelly. Peter and Gorm are co-founders of the Honolulu Chapter of the International Game Developer Association. You can check out the podcast of the show here: http://www.bytemarkscafe.org/2012/01/19/episode-179-gamification-jan-18-2012/ Google+: View [...]

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It was a bit cloudy tonight but that did not stop an awesome view of the earth casting a shadow on the moon in a total lunar eclipse on Solstice 2010. This is a hoailona for this Makahiki season. Lonoikamakahiki!

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I do not believe the kind of phishing emails that get sent out via spam. Here is one that is so obvious that I had to preserve for its shear idiocy. If you get an email like this DO NOT REPLY. Instead send in a Phishing Report to your email provider (Gmail in my case).

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Sent from my iPhone

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Last week’s announcement that Hawaiian Telcom will finally emerge out of bankruptcy comes with a sigh of relief. As difficult as the land line business is, it would not be good for the consumer (and businesses in general) if the incumbent telecom provider were to go out of business. Not that the possibility of HT [...]

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Last night’s Saltimbanco show was exhilarating! It’s rare that you can catch a show like this in Hawaii. Most Hawaii folks fly to Las Vegas and come back to tell everyone what they missed. My first Cirque du Soleil show was in LV some 10 years ago. Since then there have been numerous themed shows [...]

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Recycle wear at Tadpole Studio. Experimenting with Posterous.com and it’s ability to send posts to many of your social media sites. With Posterous it will accept a post coming from a authorized email and send it out to the sites you select. Other sites like Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Tumblr, Twitpic or Twitxr will receive a [...]

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I recently visited Archinoetics in downtown Honolulu to get a first hand view of what they do. Lianne Kitajima was kind enough to give me the nickel tour on a very impromptu request. As a tech geek, Archinoetics is a company I would want to work at. They have their hands in the right mix [...]

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The minute I start claiming I have a great job it is going to end so I won’t say it. So as it turns out I am rather routinely looking into Second Life and its application in health services. Last week I got to attend an online conference conducted by Learning Times about the virtual [...]

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