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Thursday 26th March sees a major milestone for Huddle – as they launch a brand new UI to everyone. If you are unfamiliar with Huddle do not worry this explains it all. You can see more about the new UI and other changes below, but this video gives you a visual journey through the new huddle before it opens tomorrow. After reviewing other free online collaboration and project management tools (Zoho, GoPlan, ActiveCollab, Project2Manage) for the past 2 weeks, this looks very promising. more  Read More →

Testing the functionality of the Feedburner RSS subscription and adsense modifications since Google’s acquisition.  If anyone is having problems with either the RSS feeds or the e-mail subscription to the right leave a comment below.  This post should be temporary and will only remain until further functionalities have been tested.  If anyone needs help either fixing an existing feedburner account, creating a new one, integrating your blog with feedburner, or  integrating your feedburner... more

Furl, a web page archiving and bookmarking web service was acquired by Diigo, a social bookmarking and annotation service. Diigo has made the acquisition of Furl from LookSmart, who released them earlier this week. The acquisition makes many frequenters of both sites happy now that they won’t have to choose between the two. I am sure that the furl users will be happy with what diigo offers as a community. more  Read More →

Quake Live is a multi-player first-person-shooter game that runs directly from your web browser.  The game will be released as a free version of Quake III: Gold (Quake III and its expansion pack, Team Arena) and claims to support 30 maps. During the last year’s QuakeCon 2008 keynote speech, John Carmack stated that Quake Live will have no mod support but will be continually updated and may include officially approved user-made maps. The game has been in live beta for a little over 24 hours... more

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO post Gates, claimed yesterday that Linux is a bigger threat to Microsoft than Apple. This could be  due to the lack of businesses and individuals adopting Windows Vista, or due to last years increase in sales of the eeePC and other MID’s “mini laptops” floating around that come bundled with Linux. more  Read More →

Testing site functionality for my iPhone skin.  If anyone can comment below to see if the blog is more readable on an iphone?  Read More →

Testing Technorati’s “blog claim” function. Qwik Solutions ->Technorati Profile. Blog Information Profile for burtflaxton  Read More →

This is the first post on Qwik-Solutions, and I would like to introduce myself. I am Travis Harshaw, I have had over 13 years experience in the design and corporate branding world.  I have created, developed, and consulted numerous companies on their online identities and image relations, both on an international and local scale. A true revolutionary in the digital world, I  see trends before they happen and know right where they are headed. As an expert on web & data analytics I can take logs... more

This video titled “An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube”, was presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.  Professor Wesch decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result…. more  Read More →

This past week Clay Shirky gave a wonderful Web 2.0 speech entitled “Where Do They Find the Time”. He manages to relate the argument used by a British historian at the end of last century, saying that gin was the critical technology responsible for the early phase of the industrial revolution– to the sitcom and its role as the “social lubricant” that keeps our society together since the early days of WWII. more  Read More →