Who wouldn’t want to launch the next Twitter, Facebook or Google? Everyone in the tech business is asking the question, “What is the next big thing?” Clearly the most recent “big thing” has been the social networking boom. But what’s next?

I encountered a problem with a Microsoft encrypted file system and I want to explain how I solved the problem in case someone else has this same issue.

This presentation by Kevin Rose of Digg.com provides us with fantastic and timely information for how to grow a site and cultivate the community of followers you gain. I have outlined the highlights of his presentation here for easy reference. For further discussion, visit the Tech Cast Talk Discussion Forum Post for this topic.

On TWist Episode 16 Jason talked about an idea to have fans of an artist pay a subscription fee to receive news and bonus mp3s from the artist.

I am a big fan of Pandora.com. Jason’s idea inspired me to start thinking about the possibilities for Pandora and a subscription model. On Pandora, a user creates a custom “radio station” that the user seeds with artists and songs and then trains by giving selections a thumbs up or a thumbs down. In addition, users are offered the ability to bookmark a song or even purchase a song.

Looking at my list of the Best Tech Podcasts it is no secret that I love Leo Laporte’s lineup of podcasts. Listen to this talk given by Leo Laporte at the Online News Association Conference in San Francisco on Friday.

You enter the extension you set up earlier in the “User ID” field. You enter the password you assigned to the extension in the “Password” field. And you enter the DNS name for your Asterisk server in the “Proxy” field. Tap on “Login” and Fring will register the extension with your Asterisk server and you’re ready to begin making calls and enjoying your new WiFi SIP phone.

Solved. I recently moved a group of Windows Server 2003 servers to a new data center and upon recreating the scheduled tasks from the previous server, the tasks would run fine for about a day and then stop.

Recently I did a full re-install of one of my Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 boxes to the new Ubuntu Junty 9.04. After installation, adobe flash was no longer working within mozilla for some sites.