Andrew Cafourek

Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good… Read It!

By Andrew ⋅ June 11, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Monday afternoon, I returned home from work to discover Sarah Lacy ‘s new book Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good awaiting retrieval in my mailbox…it is the first package I’ve gotten at my new apartment so I was naturally pretty excited right off the bat. But I [...]

My Twitter Desktop Welcomes TwitterLocal

By Andrew ⋅ April 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I downloaded the desktop AIR application from TwitterLocal yesterday to give it a try and it has been awesome thus far. In case you haven’t heard, TwitterLocal is a tool to create an RSS feed of tweets for your area based off of users’ declared location from [...]

September 29th Web Picks

By Andrew ⋅ September 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

This edition of my Web Picks is quite the hodge-podge of interesting/useful sites across the internet… Yuxt is a social video-sharing site that makes for a really easy way to share and host your own video clips or those that you find on other sites. A simple [...]

September 4th Web Picks

By Andrew ⋅ September 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Well, after quite the weekend in Las Vegas and the recovery period that followed, I’ve managed to stop planning my return trip long enough to compile this edition of Web Picks. A couple of good sites plus a facebook application and a Google Earth ‘easter egg‘ round [...]

Microsoft’s Tafiti Brings Back The Revolution

By Andrew ⋅ August 23, 2007 ⋅ One comment

UPDATE: 1) Embedded video and added citation 2) Added to described feature set (Tree View) -ac Microsoft has released a beta version of its newest search feature: Tafiti. Essentially, this is a visual search tool built on Microsoft Live Search and Microsoft Silverlight technology: rather than just [...]

Christmas in August

By Andrew ⋅ August 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

After months of scouring the internet and posting on numerous message boards, I have finally gotten an invite to 8apps! (As it turns out, Mashable has a pretty awesome system set up for beta invites) So, I’m just getting myself acquainted with this incredible online productivity suite, [...]

Twitter Steps Up The Game…Sort Of

By Andrew ⋅ August 21, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Twitter is a really cool service that asks the simple question “What are you doing?” All you have to do is type in what you are doing in less than 140 characters and it updates your timeline. It is a really cool tool to track what you [...]

August 17 Web Picks

By Andrew ⋅ August 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I haven’t really run across any high quality ‘functional’ sites in the past weeks (most likely due to the fact that most of my past two weeks has been inside a car!), but I’ve hit a couple excellent ‘content’ sites! I am delineating a ‘functional’ site from [...]

August 5 Web Picks

By Andrew ⋅ August 5, 2007 ⋅ One comment

When I use del.icio.us I try and limit it to articles or subsections of webpages, rather than just a general link to the homepage of some web service, etc…. So in order to chronicle the best overall websites that I discover in any given week, I’ve decided [...]

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