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 […]
Read more...WordPress “Socialize Me!” Plugin Connects Your Blog
I’ve recently been looking for better ways to connect my blog into the social sphere. I feel the easier my readers can connect with me, talk with me, ask questions, etc., the more personal my blog becomes. You’ll notice I’ve added some pretty little icons to the right that show the networks I belong to […]
Read more...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 […]
Read more...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, […]
Read more...I Predicted it – the “Real” Big Announcement at MacWorld
Overshadowed by all the hype generated around the “MacBook Air” and iTunes Rentals, it seems people are missing one big announcement that comes with the MacBook Air. That announcement is the final inclusion of a Solid State hard drive in an Apple product. While other manufacturers have this, it has been speculated for a long […]
Read more...“I’m On Facebook — Now What???” Available for Pre-Order!!!
Jason and I are excited to announce that HappyAbout has launched their Pre-order page for “I’m On Facebook — Now What???”. You can order it here: http://happyabout.info/facebook.php The Paperback edition will sell for $19.95, but all those who order now get a 15% discount, making the book just $16.96. The eBook can be pre-ordered for […]
Read more...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 […]
Read more...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 […]
Read more...Twitter Updates for 2008-01-13
@dacort: http://joemaller.com/2008/01/12/itransmogrify/ – convert flash to iPhone-native formats on your iPhone # This is how I use Google Reader – how do you use it?: http://tinyurl.com/2cekf4 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Read more...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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