Twitter’s Down – Come Talk About it On Pownce!
Twitter’s down and I want to talk about it – come join me on Pownce! http://www.pownce.com/jessestay
Read more...Bebo Announces Auto-play for All for Flash on User Profiles
A really cool feature of the Bebo API is that, unlike the Facebook API, they are committed to allow autoplay on Flash widgets placed on Profile pages. Facebook has turned off this feature, requiring users to click on the widget before it is allowed to play. Today, Bebo became even more appealing by announcing they […]
Read more...Cha Cha Saved My Brother – Why I’m a Believer
A few weeks ago, I met at a Tweetup with Justin Keller from ChaCha.com and a few others that were in town visiting for Sundance. He gave me a cool, free scarf with the Cha Cha and Sundance Logos on it. It was my first official “Sundance Swag”.  That was also my first introduction to […]
Read more...Better Blog Visibility With Facebook Notes Tagging
On FacebookAdvice.com (the official blog for the book, “I’m On Facebook — Now What???”), I go over how you can use Facebook Notes tagging to get the attention of those with larger networks in Facebook. This is my first time using video, so be light on me! I see a lot of potential for using […]
Read more...MySpace Announces Developer Platform, OpenSocial to Leave Beta Feb. 5?
Tonight, MySpace released a signup to enter their development platform. Mashable is reporting that the Platform will go live February 5, and will support OpenSocial from day 1. The MySpace Platform is also rumored to provide revenue sharing options for developers, perhaps providing a solution to the ad sharing networks becoming so rampant on Facebook […]
Read more...Prologue – OpenSocial for Twitter
Just today, Matt Mullenweg, founding developer and owner of Automattic, announced a new, open source, theme for WordPress called Prologue. The theme essentially turns your blog into a “mini-Twitter”, with a “Whatcha up to?” text box at the top where your users can post what they are currently doing. This is an excellent way to […]
Read more...A Very Social Farewell to Gordon B. Hinckley, President and Prophet of the Mormon Church
Tonight at 7:00 pm Gordon B. Hinckley, President and Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, passed away in the company of loved ones. President Hinckley was 97 at his passing. I’ve been alive through the death of a few LDS prophets, but never has the death of one President hit the […]
Read more...Why Facebook Did *Not* Release Their Platform Last Night
It’s all over the web right now that Facebook supposedly “released their platform last night”. I want to clarify the situation – Facebook did not release their platform last night! What Facebook did release, as the title of their announcement states, is a Javascript Client API library for Facebook. First, let’s discuss what a platform […]
Read more...Pownce – Why it May be Worth Considering
I’m very surprised that Twitter is not trying to compete with Pownce. As some of you may know, Pownce recently went out of beta, and opened their platform to anyone interested in joining. For awhile, I wasn’t much of a proponent for Pownce, but just recently, I’ve decided to give Pownce a try and see […]
Read more...Next Utah Social Media Developers Garage Meeting: February 2nd
I have learned from Joseph Scott (a local developer at Automattic, the owners of WordPress) that Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress will be in town on February 2nd. Originally we were going to plan on the next Utah SMDev meeting being February 12th, but due to Matt’s appearance, we’re going to join other […]
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