Governor O’Malley hosts Maryland’s first online town hall to discuss small business and credit reform. John Marsh, Director of Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, joins us.



Mario discusses 3 technology tools that have the capability of increasing productivity and efficiency:

1. Scheduling Services

• TimeBridge
• Tungle
• Doodle

2. Customer Relationshiip Management Tools

• SalesForce
• Microsoft Dynamics

3. Note Taking

• Pulse Smart Pen



Microsoft wants you to party like Andrew WK with their new operating system. XP has the a monumental marketshare lead over all the other operating systems combined. Why are they so desperate to be liked?

How do games have the power to change the way that we live our lives? Dennis Crowley of Foursquare discusses how the mobile application encourages users to try new things in their real life with its combination of gaming mechanics, and hyper-local social networking.

Serial entrepreneur Dave Troy gives us a brief history of the lecture series that has attracted speakers like Bill Gates and Bill Clinton to talk about culture, technology, media, and innovation and how TedxMidAtlantic came to debut in Baltimore. The primary theme for this event is the power of stories and why we do things.



Digital-out-of-Home communications in Blade RunnerAre we hurtling to a future of pop-up advertising surrounding us everywhere we go? James Tunick, founder of Studio IMC, discusses the huge growth of digital-out-of-home communications and how internet applications could be applied to public spaces.



Colin Drane, founder of SpotCrime, discusses how he used government data and Google Maps to bring crime information to the public in a convenient manner.

Jose Zamora, journalism program associate, joins us to talk about how the Knight Foundation is ready to throw money at you if you have an idea to use technology to improve the quality of life in your community.



At least that’s what researchers from Northwestern’s Relationships Lab are saying in this article from the New York Times about how online matchmaking, not dating, sites work.

Researchers who studied online dating found that the customers typically ended up going out with fewer than 1 percent of the people whose profiles they studied, and that those dates often ended up being huge letdowns. The people make up impossible shopping lists for what they want in a partner, says Eli Finkel, a psychologist who studies dating at Northwestern University’s Relationships Lab.

“They think they know what they want,” Dr. Finkel said. “But meeting somebody who possesses the characteristics they claim are so important is much less inspiring than they would have predicted.”

Also of interest in the article, EHarmony.com is allegedly responsible for 2% of the marriages in America last year, at least according the survey EHarmony.com comissioned. It seems that the main problem with online dating is that 1) people pick and choose potential dates on faulty criteria and 2) people project too many expectations onto others based off of intangible information (as Lux Nightmare, editor of Boinkology.com noted in this Digital Cafe segment).

 Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love from the NYT

This isn’t an exaggeration – part of the problem of using a computer for me since the availability of broadband has been the constant distractions: IM, email, the Internet party.

Dark room is a free, lightweight text editor that looks like my web page from 1998. Sure, you could just fullscreen Microsoft Office, but there’s something about the green on black text and lack of features that just makes it appealing. It also makes you feel like you’re typing in the Matrix.