Projects
Pirillo streams video live from his home office on Ustream, and his stream at http://live.pirillo.com is one of the more popular, with over 5,000 regular watchers. His streams, also broadcast on YouTube, focus on software, hardware, news, reviews, computers, iPhone applications, operating systems, gaming, and other technology-related topics and events. As of 23 November 2012 (2012 -11-23), Pirillo has just over 150,000,000 video views.
Pirillo runs several online communities. His Lockergnome blogging network has over 100,000 members. Geeks, his Ning-based social network, has over 24,000 users. Lockergnome began as a technology mailing list in 1996, offering tricks and tips for operating systems and applications, software suggestions (with an emphasis on public domain and shareware software), and web site recommendations. Several mailing lists are now provided, offering technology advice and tips and other content syndicated from Lockergnome's blogs and web forums, including IT Professionals and problem solvers.
Pirillo's advocacy of new technology went as far as the creation, along with Jake Ludington, of a BitTorrent server at vistatorrent.com "to help Microsoft get Beta 2 in users' hands" in 2006. According to Information Week, Microsoft had "reported problems in delivering Beta 2 electronically ... recommending on its own Web site that users order the DVD rather than download the 3.5-4.4GB file". Microsoft sent a cease and desist e-mail, and the pair complied.
In January 2010, he began hosting "Help Desk with Chris Pirillo", a weekly live video call-in show on Microsoft's Channel 9 web site. The show is at the pilot stage. Since early 2011, Pirillo has been one of the featured "CoolHotNot Tech Xperts," along with John C. Dvorak, Jim Louderback, Dave Graveline, Robin Raskin, Dave Whittle, Steve Bass, and Cheryl Currid. At CoolHotNot's web site, he shares his "Loved List" of favorite consumer tech products, along with a "Wanted List" and a "Letdown List".
His most recent and one of his most successful projects is his 'Pirillo Vlogs' that both his wife Diana and himself upload daily to the Lockergnome YouTube channel. These daily vlogs are made to give insight to his personal life and social connections. Pirillo Vlogs The vlogs are edited into 10 minute segments before they are uploaded to his YouTube account.
Pirillo is the author of several books, including Poor Richard's E-mail Publishing, Online! The Book with John C. Dvorak and Wendy Taylor, and several ebooks which can be purchased at GnomeTomes.
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