January 2008 - Page 2 of 5 - Stay N Alive

Social Media at Sundance

On Friday as I attended a few talks of the University Venture Summit, during which I met quite a few people that use Twitter.  Amazingly, I think Twitter is really starting to become the communications medium for Entrepreneurs.  I t may be catching on a little more in the Geek and development community lately, but […]

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Facebook Makes Their URLs Search-Engine Friendly

I just noticed, while browsing the I’m On Facebook — Now What??? Facebook Page that Facebook has now made their URLs search engine friendly. So now, instead of: http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=6816644117 It is now: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Im-On-Facebook—Now-What/6816644117 This appears to apply only to public-facing Facebook Pages, and not User Profiles or Application About Pages (which are also supposed to […]

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Twitter Opens Their Messaging Platform

Today, in the first post on the new Twitter Technology Blog, Alex Payne announced that Twitter is releasing their underlying messaging platform, which they call, “Starling”, to the community. From the announcement it appears Starling is the basis for handling all communication underneath Twitter, speaks memcached, and reminds me in some ways of Perl POE, […]

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Twitter Needs Amazon AWS

It’s no secret that Twitter has its hosting flaws. It was all over the ‘net this morning that the Apple Keynote Killed Twitter. Since Twitter doesn’t seem to announce its outages well, I’ll help them out a little here and tell you why they went down. I follow the Twitter Developers Group on Google, and […]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-14

Just realized there’s no place to put links on a Facebook Page – that’s frustrating! # it’s way hard to boycott Techcrunch when all my Google Reader friends are sharing Techcrunch feeds with me 😛 # lol – NBC must be desperate to do a whole special just for award announcements. Won’t they make more […]

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How I use Google Reader

I’ve been on the Google Reader band wagon for a long time now. I currently subscribe to about 150 feeds, and I read or skim over probably near 1,000 or more feed items a day. Reading my feeds is how I stay up on the latest and greatest, and how I am able to give […]

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