Last night, Ken and I got invited to a call on twitter. There is a new service by our friends Stuart Henshall and David *mrblog* Beckemeyer, called Phweet.

Their ‘About Page’ looks like this:

About

* Have you ever wished you could just Talk to your Twitter friend?
* Have you ever wanted to spontaneously set up a Conference Call with your Twitter friends?
* Have you ever felt irritated that you have to turn on a separate client to accept a Call?

Phweet lets you accept calls with one click from your Twitter page or Twitter clients. Phweet is a simple service where you don’t need to download or share anything more to talk. The call is contained within a PhweetUrl; a smart link that calls you. And you can share who you are talking to in real time without having to reveal or exchange phone numbers or other identities.

Last night what I saw on my twitter feed was this: stuarthenshall @sherylbreuker http://phweet.com/45bs This is a new type of Phweet. It works like a watercooler or “coffee talk cafe”. You can visit at … …

Once joined, this is what showed up in my twitter feed: Sheryl Breuker joined @stuarthenshall http://phweet.com/45bs with @mrblog @phoneboy @andrewhansen @phweeter @kencamp @asaunders.

The interesting thing about this is that it really supports the idea Ken and I had with our last podcast a few weeks ago. In it we talked about the uses of hyperconnectivity and what that can mean for our lives in the future.

I wouldn’t take anything away from Stuart and David by saying we thought of it first, obviously we didn’t, but I would like to point out that for those of us using these tools, tools like Phweet are revolutionizing our world.

Kudos to David Beckemeyer and Stuart Henshall for providing a great new way to stay connected!

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Ken and Sheryl just recorded a podcast on how hyperconnectivity has pitfalls as well as some of the potential future ways we see it evolving.

Tonight we talked about use for parents, students and educational possibilities. We also discussed how it isn’t always a good fit, such as during productive times when the blink of a light from an IM program or the sound of a voice in your ear on a phone is a distraction to accomplishment.

As always, Ken and Sheryl went off topic and discussed how having guests join them may be an addition to future podcasts, and are asking for women in Unified Communications to step up and create a pool of potential guests to further the discussion on why women are so apparently absent from this industry.

If you have questions or comments, please feel free to drop either of us a note at stardust@stardustglobalventures.com or reply to this post.

We look forward to hearing from all of you. We want to help others feel comfortable as technology enters our lives more completely, not only in our work but in our daily endeavors.

When Geeks Collide – The Chronicles of Sheryl & Ken

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Several people have asked just what it is we do here at Stardust Global Ventures. Our lives have been so busy with multiple moves and projects in progress that we haven’t taken time to hone the description of our services until now. This is from Our Services page.

At Stardust Global Ventures, one of our primary goals is to help others. While we don’t engage in what’s commonly called personal coaching, we do offer personal coaching for your business with our unique involvement and ideas. Just as we reach for our stars and realize our dreams together, we can help you reach your dreams and succeed in new ways.

We offer a number of different consultative services to help you improve your business, increase your visibility, and reach for your personal dreams. Our clients range from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 100 companies. Geography knows no boundaries, and our network of clients and resources spans the universe.

We are Hyperconnectivity Evangelists. We live it. We eat it. We breathe it. We are hyperconnected every day of our lives. For us hyperconnectivity means that we use tools – online tools, mobility tools, technology tools – to maintain and share a common space in our world. Just as we live together and share space in our home, we use tools to extend that sharing when we’re apart. When we’re together at home, we don’t talk constantly, but we do share the physical space. We simply use technology tools to carry that into all aspects of our life together. We believe that the technology and communications tools of today are changing how we interact as people and that what we call hyperconnectedness is becoming a way of life that will permeate society in the years ahead.

We are the First Couple of Technology. We are enthusiastic and animated evangelists for those people, products and services that support the coming changes associated with hyperconnectivity. If you share this vision of the future, and want to know how you can move into the future of hyperconnectivity, we are your solution team!

Embracing Social Media – If your company needs help in embracing the world of the web in new ways, from blogging to podcasts, video to webinars, presence and availability to simply joining the conversation, we provide coaching and guidance to help you step out of the old traditional business mode into the future, real-time interactive community. We deliver this through a series of consultative meetings or conference calls, providing ongoing strategic guidance and coaching as your efforts gain momentum.

Public Speaking - We offer a variety of speaking services. Whether it’s a keynote address for your sales team, panel moderation at a seminar or motivational sessions to energize your team, after all, we are a dynamic duo – the first couple of technology. There’s no other team that interacts with each other and our audience the way we do. We will help bring your team together in an enthusiastic and lively session. Fun is at the core of what we do.

Blogger & Media Relations – We are not a public relations company. if you’ve seen any of the media and blogger relations programs that are being used, and wondered how to reach out to implement or launch your own program, we can help. We’ve been active members of this media and blogging community for many years. Our connections and contacts are diverse and worldwide. We can collaborate with you and your PR team to raise your visbility.

Podcasting? Of course. Video? Why not? When it comes to using Internet media for content delivery, we’re your team!

Strategic Business & Technical Writing – We write in collaboration with our publisher, but we also engage in projects with our clients worldwide. Our writing ranges from bit-level technical details to strategic business visions and plans.

Please contact either of us at any time to learn more by emailing us at stardust@stardustglobalventures.com.

The results are in and our first guest for our “Day in the Life” series is Jeff Pulver. We’ve already confirmed with Jeff and we’ll be doing this around his visit to Seattle and Vancouver in June. He’s doing Breakfast with Jeff in Seattle on June 11th and in Vancouver on June 12th. Confirm your attendance on Facebook.

We have lots of time to prepare, and Jeff knows we want some one-on-one interview time with him during his visit. And for those of you who haven’t been to one of Jeff’s breakfasts, if you’re in either area, plan on attending. You haven’t lived until you’ve done at least one.

We got early word of another special guest who will be joining the Seattle event, but we aren’t going to spill the beans just yet. Suffice it to say, we’ll be there doing video, and we’re trying to see what other interview and video we can get during that week.

Here’s our latest episode of GeekSpeakTV. As a reminder, they aren’t just posted here on our web site. They’re also available on pulver.tv here. This episode was filmed with our new camera, and we’re hoping both the video and audio quality is better now. Neither of us is a videographer, but we’re learning and improving.

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Here’s our latest episode of GeekSpeakTV. In addition to posting them here, they’re now available on pulver.tv here. We also stared doing some live broadcasting today on BlogTV.com as part of our pulver.tv show work.

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Around all the other work we’ve had going on today, we did a live session on BlogTV earlier too. This is all in preparation for making GeekSpeakTV a live part of the PulverTV network. Here’s our session from earlier today.

GeekSpeakTV Live 4/15/08 - Broadcast your self LIVE

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This evening we sat down to talk about what social media is. It seems to mean many different things to different people. We took some time to think about what it means to us and try to give broader definition than we see in most conversations.

In this episode, we also unveiled our new look for the show and new them music. We want to thank our friend Dan Lynch for the great music.

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If you haven’t already done so, please also take a minute to go vote in our poll here.

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We’ve just added a new feature here as part of a brainstorm we had with our GeekSpeakTV shows. On Twitter the other day we were talking with our friend Jeff Pulver and had the brilliant idea what a blast it would be to shadow him for a week to document what his life is like. A week probably isn’t practical, but a Day in the Life sounds like a lot of fun and an interesting approach to some video specials.

That settled, we started thinking about who we’d like to interview, and realized that what we really want to know is who you would like to see shadowed for a day. That question meant adding some polling mechanism, so we went searching for a poll plug-in we could use here with Wordpress. Now we’re set, and here’s our first poll.

You only get to vote once, so use your votes wisely. We’re reaching out to all the people listed to get a sense of how receptive they are to the idea. Some we already know will be game. We can auto-close polls, but this first one is open until we close it manually. We’ll see how this works and take our cue from our readers, listeners and viewers to see who our first Day in the Life candidate is.

You can check back and see the results on our sidebar as time goes by. When we have a clear guest in our sights based on voting, we’ll close this poll and post the results here.

Our friend Dan Lynch is a talented musician. For those of you who don’t know, he wrote Sheryl’s GabbyGeek theme music she uses on her Incidental Interviews podcasts. Dan’s talented and always looking for new projects, Once we started seriously looking at our GeekSpeakTV project, there was never a question where we’d turn for the music theme.

Dan’s done another stellar piece of work and we’re both thrilled with the outcome. We’ll be unveiling it live on our next episode. That should air sometime this week. In the meantime, you can read about the creative process and hear the tune early from the composer himself by following the link below.

If you’re looking for theme music, for a podcast, a video show, an event or anything else, Dan comes with a five stars recommendation from us! Check him out at shedmusic.net.

GeekSpeak TV Theme

Hey folks, sorry it’s been a while. Anyway, I do have something brand new for you to listen to, it’s a theme tune I made recently for my friends Sheryl & Ken’s new show GeekSpeak TV. They’re gonna be doing the show as a video podcast I think but I’m not sure of all the details at the moment.

I met Sheryl almost a year ago now when I joined Jaiku.com, a little microblogging / social networking site. She was one of the first people I got talking to on there and I’ve made a lot of good friends through the site since, some I’ve even met in real life, yes that’s right in person, I never would have expected all the cool things that have come out of it but it’s been amazing. We have quite a cosy little community over there which is great fun to be a part of. Sheryl started doing a podcast a while back which became pretty popular and soon she was hanging out with the stars such as Leo Laporte, a popular technology broadcaster. Prompting much repetition of the phrase “I knew her before she was famous” from me. The show was called The Gabby Geek and I offered to make some theme music for it. Sheryl seemed pretty happy with the resulting tune and I was happy to make some good use of my studio, I was even a guest on the very first episode of the show which was great fun.

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