In an effort to rebuild there public image, Comcast has decided to rebrand it’s Internet, TV, and phone service to Xfinity Internet, TV, and phone.
The overhaul is set to start this week starting with the first 11 markets: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Hartford, Augusta, Chattanooga, parts of the Bay Area and San Francisco.
So, Whats your thoughts on the new name, post in comments.
“http://lockergnome.net – You’re doing things online every day, whether you’re posting to YouTube, publishing photos to Flickr, or sending out tweets. You’re doing all kinds of things, but what are you doing to archive your life stream? I have a solution for you… a brand-new site that I have created with some help. It’s a free WordPress blog, where we will help you aggregate all of your social media activity. You will be able to export all of that information at any point you choose! http://chris.pirillo.com –http://geeks.pirillo.com“
On New Years Eve we donated money to the Subservient Chris fundraiser to help raise money for the GeekShed IRC network and the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and in return he gave us an awesome shout out.
THANKS CHRIS!!!
The IT Lounge is a small tech blog being run by some of the students in the Information Technology shop at Blackstone Valley Tech.
The name “IT Lounge” came to be when the IT shop was introduced into our amazing vocational high school back in 2005. We call it The IT Lounge because if we finish all of our work and labs, we basically get to do whatever we want, as long as its shop related and falls within the schools rules. So if we get all of our work done on Monday, we get most of the rest of the week to our selves. (We alternate between shop and academics every other week).
The original idea for the The IT Lounge was to have a weekly podcast about tech and gadgets. But due to time restraints and lack of ideas that never happened. The school also decided not to let us post anything we filmed in school.
In late 2008 we began work on our website. We settled on the idea on starting a tech blog, and what else better to use than WordPress.
The next big problem we had was finding/making a good WordPress theme for the site. We tried making our own theme but then realized that we had nowhere enough experience to make one. So after searching for quite some time we came across Chris Pirillo’s Social Media theme WicketPixie, and fell in love with it. We also needed to host the site somewhere. We found an amazing FREE web host called X10Hosting, clearly the best free web host out there!
We try to post stories about what we are learning in shop, latest gadgets, random interesting video, or whatever other crazy projects we are trying to do. Basically anything that we think is awesome.
James: Founder/Site Admin
Andrew: Site Admin
Vinny: Author
Ryan: Author/Forum Moderator
“Discover breaking news on the web with real-time updates from news, blogs and social networks.”
Google has finaly partnerd up with all the popular social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, Jaiku, and Identi.ca) to pull up real time search results.
“Darren Kitchen, hacker and host of tech show Hak5, says why hacking isn’t the same thing as cyber crime. Jorge Ribas sits down with him to find out the difference.”
I’v decided to test out the new wordpress plugin Wavr.
Wavr is a WordPress plugin that implements the Google Wave API so you can easily embed a wave into a wordpress blog. You can try it out below if you have a Wave account.
“Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. http://www.chromium.org“
Here are some videos we took of The Breakup Seasons performance at Hot Topic.