tasty blog snack

Hope you have a great one! Here’s a little festive turkey day video for you.

Someone told me there were snakes on the plane from the Virgin America seat to seat chat.

Watching Michael Buckley break dance.

Met Chad Hurley.

..and Kevjumba and Smosh!

Played Ocarina with Phil, Shaycarl and Charlestrippy on our iPhones.

There were many more highlights, but these are a few that I had photos for. This was a pretty great event and hope everyone enjoyed watching it live from the internet!

Chicken nuggets — ijustineified

Hanging out backstage at YouTube live! Hammer was nice enough to introduce me to Akon.

..and I made them both take pictures for me

Yes, this is being posted from the air!!! Checking in.

Getting ready to test out the wifi!

Watching Micheal’s intro on the on-board entertainment.

This bag made us feel special.

I actually wrote this entry on the plane.. but ran out of time to publish More to come from the plane!

Tomorrow (if you haven’t heard) is an event called YouTube Live — It’s pretty much a ton of internet people and some musicians. Really, you can’t beat that!

One of their sponsors is Virgin America and I’ll be going up to broadcast live to the event. Virgin will finally be rolling out their on-board wifi and I’ll be there to test it out!!

So, get ready and check back tomorrow here, my youtube , twitter and on qik for more updates during the day!

Oh, btw.. this was shot with a new Flip mino HD. I still can’t figure out the best compression to use with the flips when uploading to YouTube. Will keep you posted on that

Do you know how much photoshopping it took to get this iTunes box to fit just so in a 480 pixel width box? About as long as it took my iPhone to back up (which is significantly shorter than before because I dont back up my apps.. why? Because it used to take 3.5 hours)

Back on track here.. new iPhone 2.2 update is out today! Get it, yo!

New features include (as promised by Apple):

• Enhancements to Maps:
Google Street View
Public transit and walking directions
Display address of dropped pins
Share location via email

• Enhancements to Mail:
Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
Improved formatting of wide HTML email

•Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls
• Podcasts available for download in iTunes application
• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages
• Pressing Home button from any Home screen displays the first Home screen
• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings

..and I’m still currently updating!

I made a little montage of some of the adventures Karen and I have been on in the past few years. Crazy crazy times!

Happy birthday, Karen! Here’s to another year of fun movies!

(and yes, it was actually yesterday the 20th.. I know, I know!)

Had a great time at the digg meetup tonight! One of the best things ever was the photoboof where Karen and I spent a good portion of the night taking ridiculous photos.

Check out the photoboof website.. this is a pretty cool idea.

“If you have a Canon Powershot, Canon DSLR, Nikon DSLR or any USB webcam and a printer, now you have a photobooth that takes much better pictures than any other photobooth you’ve seen.”

Lots of fun with Ross, Karen and MC Hammer! Full images on flickr.

There are tons and tons and tons of URL shortening services. A lot of these seemed to magically surface around the time of twitter’s popularity grew as people struggled to keep their tweets under 140 characters.

One of the more popular is tinyurl that twitter uses to automatically shrink down your long URL’s into cute little tiny chunks. That’s all well and good.. but what if you want to see stats and statistics of click through? Or even where someone is clicking your URL from.

For me and a lot of others, we all syndicate our tweets out to say Facebook, Friendfeed and any number of other services that will allow you to import your updates from twitter. If you’ve ever wondered who’s clicking from where.. bit.ly is your answer!

I tested out bit.ly with a simple test twitter to my blog to see how it worked. As you can see, the above is breakdown of who clicked from where. Perhaps you were even one of those clicks

Another cool feature is a little graph with realtime tracking of how many people clicked when.

It’s pretty simple to use and you can even tweet directly from bit.ly by syncing up your twitter account to it. There is also a toolbar shortcut to quickly shorten any website you’re on and will take you right back to bit.ly to tweet or share the new link.

Let me know what you think of bit.ly! It’s pretty fun.. and their little logo is way too cute!