Through gdgt, you can share lists of gadgets you currently have, gadgets you want, and gadgets you used to have. You can also contribute by adding reviews of gadgets or even adding new gadgets to the gdgt “network”. For you gadget geeks out there (such as myself), this site is a fantastic site to belong to. I encourage you to sign-up and give it a go and starting your own gdgt list.

You can check out my gdgt list here.

Download: Seesmic for Windows 0.5.2

If you have Seesmic for Windows already installed, you can update it by clicking the download link above.

Seesmic announced that they are moving to the Windows Platform (essentially Seesmic for Windows is a “WPF app”) at PDC in November. You can read my blog post from The Windows Blog on Seesmic’s announcement and the first release of Seesmic for Windows.

Loic tells me that in early January, we can expect another release of Seesmic for Windows with new features and further improvements. I can’t wait!

What I would do is have super high-end Internet pipes that would connect all my datacenters together. Each datacenter would have the exact same data. That means if one datacenter gets taken out, the others will be able to keep everything up. Kind of like server clustering. I would refer to this network of Internet pipes pumping huge amounts of bandwidth between all the datacenters as “SkyNet”. The service would be called “Brandon’s SkyNet”.

Who could resist a hot new cloud service called that? Eventually, “SkyNet” would be self-sustaining. Eventually, it could think and do whatever it wanted. I could then take lots of vacations while “SkyNet” did it’s thing. And no one’s blog hosted on “SkyNet” would ever go down!

Oh, wait…

Ok sarcasm aside, there has got to be a better way to do redundancy for a cloud service spanning multiple datacenters in different geological locations. Redundancy is key. If one datacenter goes down, something should kick in that keeps the services and websites up and running. While I was being funny about the whole “SkyNet” thing, I do think operating a service with datacenters as “nodes” isn’t such a bad idea. And when a note goes down, another one picks up the slack.

I seriously can’t wait for Iron Man 2. Marvel.com is running an exclusive t-shirt where on the front it shows Tony Stark’s “glowing repulsor” (in the first movie this was a mini “arc reactor” designed by Tony to keep shrapnel from his heart) and on the back it says “Iron Man 2”. You can order the shirt here.

So I’m no longer using Telligent’s Graffiti CMS. Graffiti is a pretty neat platform with a lot of potential. But I do not believe it is getting the attention by Telligent that Graffiti needs to survive and grow. When you are a blogger, you want to be on a platform that will continue to be improved upon with a reasonable amount of releases. I expected Graffiti to be a platform that receives continued improvements with a “reasonable amount of releases” but that has certainly NOT been the case. In using Graffiti, I’ve sat on the sidelines watching friends and fellow blogging colleagues receive impressive updates from WordPress. Essentially I got a little fed up and decided the best thing for me is to move back. After I made the move back to WordPress several weeks ago, Telligent blogged about the future of Graffiti (with yet again more apologies):

“Secondly, we were not fully prepared for the effort required for version 2.0 of Graffiti after releasing version 1.2 in December. While we had every intention of releasing version 2.0 this spring we quickly found that we were understaffed and not in a position to dedicate more people to both Graffiti and Community Server. We decided that we needed to put those people / resources into Telligent’s core products to accomplish some of our very aggressive plans for the next release of Community Server and Evolution, thus slipping Graffiti 2.0.”

Essentially, Telligent explains they are pushing Graffiti 2.0 back as they dedicate people to their core products which of course is products like Community Server, Evolution and Harvest. I give props to Telligent for coming clean and essentially setting expectations to current Graffiti users (unlike the unacceptable period of silence we had in 2008).

Will we ever see Graffiti 2.0 get released? It certainly looks more doubtful today but who knows.

But I couldn’t remain on a blog platform that remains in “limbo”.

Now, what Telligent is doing makes perfect sense especially with the economy being what it is today. Many companies are refocusing work on products that of course are essential to their business. Graffiti isn’t essential to Telligent’s business.

Looking ahead, I look forward to see what Telligent does with Community Server and especially Harvest.

In bouncing between platforms in the past year – I’ve lost a lot of content. This was incredibly stupid of me and does hurt my personal “brand” I try to maintain here via this blog. Essentially, there is a lot of content indexed by search engines which is no longer live. So when people stumble upon content that I was blogged via some search engine and try to go to it – it will most likely throw an error. I’m looking to try and restore some content based off backups I have but at this point I am not sure when I’ll get around to trying to import the content back in. Piece of advice: when blogging pick a platform and *stick* with it!

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