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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-12

Posted on January 12, 2008 by jessestay

Lots of articles like these today: http://tinyurl.com/2zx825 #

@Afrowhitey ouch! What are you going to do now? #

@AfroWhitey get on IM when you get a chance. I’d like to get your blog back up. #

“Ask Jesse” Cam is back up at http://www.jessestay.com #

my 3 year old is logging into the computer all by himself on camera right now #

ordering Dinner and Cake from cheesecake factory mmm… #

@expecting_rain I’m not sure – last I checked it was close to 2 hours wait. For pickup it’s only about 25 minutes curbsite-to-go. #

Scratch curbside to go at cheesecake factory being 20 mins. You have to wait 20 more mins after u get here #

@biznickman I love that Dave & Busters! Man I miss VA/DC/MD area. #

Wondering how my 84 year old grandmother got on Bebo #

@susanreynolds, @conniereece I wish I could convince my mom to be on Facebook! #

Just added the Bebo developer app – woohoo! I’m a Bebo developer now! #

need to modify the WWW:Facebook::API for Perl to work as WWW::Bebo::API now. #

Bebo has much better categories than Facebook does for its apps. There’s an actual “charities” category. #

just secured the app names “latterdaysaints”, “catholics”, and “baptists” on Bebo #

@petdance are you atl500? #

@petdance added #

Anyone (biznickman?) know if there is any API and developer documentation for the Bebo development platform yet? (other than Facebook :-P) #

Are Pink and colored iPhones to come at MacWorld?: http://tinyurl.com/269o6k #

Look at me! I’m a Bebo Developer!: http://tinyurl.com/yuxrx9 #

How we used Facebook Notes to sync http://www.imonfacebooknowwhat.com with our Facebook Page(http://snurl.com/1wej5): http://snurl.com/1x8a5 #

so am I a sap if I like “My Best Friend’s Wedding?” #

@hundreddollar that’s what I love about it! Finally, a movie where she doesn’t break up the good, existing relationship! 🙂 #

didn’t realize @leolaporte broadcasts his KFI show on ustream.tv. Hi @leolaporte! #

I think Apple is releasing solid state Macbooks at MacWorld – they had a patent several years ago for that #

@kdumont you can chat with him in irc – irc.dslextreme.com #techguy #

w00t! After one year I finally convinced Microsoft to give me the $22 they owe me. 🙂 #

what’s going on with gmail right now? Can’t get it to send e-mail. #

Does anyone know a network admin that does freelance in the Boston area? My brother, @Afrowhitey is looking for one. #

@MarinaMartin it’s nice to see you back on rss – I’ve enjoyed your rss shares on google reader #

Jesse Stay is Now a Bebo Developer and Consultant!

Posted on January 12, 2008 by jessestay

That’s right – you may now add Bebo to my list of expertise. You may notice there’s a new category to the right – “Bebo”. The popular website Bebo.com, that I guess one could compare much closer to MySpace than Facebook announced late yesterday night that they were opening up their platform to developers. Before this, the platform was open to a small number of developers developing in a private beta of their application space.

I have started delving into their API, and I have to admit – I’m impressed! Their system is much more responsive than Facebooks (Facebook was recently rated as one of the slowest Social Networking sites), and in setting up a basic app, I have to admit it is a little more user-friendly than on Facebook. While it is much more user-friendly, Bebo has striven to maintain compatibility with Facebook. Almost every aspect of their API, from the API itself, to its FBML derivative called SNML is near duplicate. Bebo denies being the first to use the 3rd party partner-licensed platform Facebook is soon to release, but I have to admit, Bebo has done an excellent job at replicating what Facebook has done. If only Google could do the same with Open Social. Could this bring the developer community over to Bebo from Facebook?

Stay tuned – on SocialOptimize.com we’ll be posting some white papers on statistics surrounding Bebo, demographics, traffic, users, etc. as we find them. My partner, Allan Young is hard at work putting those numbers together. In addition to that, I’m working on migrating the WWW::Faceboook::API Perl libraries over to Bebo.

On a side note – one ironic thing I found about Bebo is that somehow, my 84 year old Grandmother is on Bebo. She has been sick lately, so I can’t imagine how old that account is. How many people can say their Grandmother is their friend on a social network??? 🙂

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-11

Posted on January 11, 2008 by jessestay

Just realized FC7 has rpms for Catalyst! That makes my job *so* much easier! #

Happy that I’m the only one in my family who likes the almond hersheys bars from @AfroWhitey’s wedding. #

Ecstatic that @rebeccastay got me both regular and Cherry Pepsi at the store! (I love my Pepsi) #

Expect for a *lot* of Facebook applications to go down in numbers!: http://tinyurl.com/yo32lg #

Sorry, just have to share this – this is article is very unclassy of Crunchgear and how they make fun of Mormons: http://snurl.com/1x52m #

@biznickman the great thing about the Bebo launch is it’s very simple for a Facebook developer to port their app over #

@biznickman any clue on demographics for Bebo? What are the largest countries using it? age range? #

@biznickman a few hints here: http://tinyurl.com/2bvyz4 #

finally! Stay N’ Alive blog is back online! I tried to do it right this time, hence the wait: http://www.jessestay.com/ #

@humancell I would, but my day is full of meetings (yuck!) #

considering registering for http://en.oreilly.com/gspwest2008/public/content/home #

@phil801 I was just about to write a blog post as well – very unclassy, I don’t care who they were making fun of! #

@phil801 the thing is, I was backing off from mentioning my religion on my blog, but they just gave me a reason to that fits with my theme #

@phil801 I would have too – it’s unacceptable #

is Mike Arrington on Twitter? #

@TechCrunch what were you thinking in posting blatent bigotry on your “respectable” gearcrunch blog? I know many Mormons unsubscribing now. #

sounds like I need to make some posts on the LDS Apps on Facebook – the number of Mormons on Facebook rival that of Catholics, based on … #

I bet I can get those on the Catholic App (35k users) to rebel against @TechCrunch’s actions as well #

Not to mention that if I say the word Mormon on Twitter, other Mormons on Twitter will talk about this post: http://snurl.com/1x52m (track) #

@phil801, @TechCrunch see my comment on the phil801.com blog #

forget my backup strategy – I’m blogging now 😛 #

@libel_vox – I’m turning my other cheek, from TechCrunch #

My answer to @TechCrunch ‘s CrunchGear bigoted Anti-Mormon fiasco: http://snurl.com/1x5ab #

Facebook’s announcement tonight and why I think it will mean more productive applications: http://snurl.com/1x5c7 #

Digg up the story for anti-bigotry in America: http://tinyurl.com/ytuej6 #

Join the “Boycott Techcrunch” group on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/22luln #

@ByteEngine http://snurl.com/1x5ab also http://snurl.com/1x6r3 also http://snurl.com/1x6r5 #

@ByteEngine thanks for adding me! #

w00t! Just got my free O’Reilly books! 🙂 #

@petdance – they chose for me, so don’t laugh – “Learning the UNIX Operating System” and “C# Essentials”. I still like books, so hey – … #

CrunchGear – That was Uncalled For

Posted on January 11, 2008 by jessestay

I’ve been straying away from mentioning religion on my blog for awhile. Partly because I deal with so many religions on a daily basis through my Catholic Facebook Application, Baptist Facebook Application, and recently sold LDS Application. I love religion, and have grown to respect all religions as I strive to make this business model flourish. Each religion has its own identity and culture, and everyone within that religion appreciates that religion as part of their lives. A Religion one belongs to is a part of that individual, something they can’t easily part from, and will stay with them to the end, whether they remain a part of it or not. There are true, sincere human beings within these religions!

CrunchGear, TechCrunch, and the Mike Arrington crew crossed the line yesterday in a bigoted article that defies and offends many of the culture Mormons and I would say even other religions and cultures hold dear. The article can be found here.

I don’t care what religion or culture you belong to (See phil801’s post where he compares their comments to “the gay person that’s interviewing after you”). I don’t care if you belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for all I care. You were brought up in that religion or culture, you accepted that culture as part of your life. You love the religion or culture you are in and it is personal to you.

Now, imagine if instead of “magic underwear”, Devin and the crew at Crunch Gear were making fun of the “magic crucifix” that Catholics wear, or the “magic prayers” Evangelicals give to each other, or the “magic Turbans” Siekh’s wear, or the “magic yarmulke” that Jewish men wear, or the “magic Burqa” Islamic women wear. These are all very respectable symbols to their religion, part of their identity and culture that CrunchGear is making fun of by posting this interview. This interview is a symbol towards bigotry in America and we shouldn’t stand for it.

Michael Arrington and CrunchGear, I suggest an apology to the Mormons, and removal of the anti-Mormon comments on your blog. I don’t care if Penn Jillette or you guys started it. The fact is you have chosen to post an interview that is blatently bigoted towards a single faith on your site which has nothing to do with religion! As a religious person, or human being in general, I will be unsubscribing from CrunchGear, TechCrunch, abstaining from voting for the Crunchies altogether, and disassociating myself with any of the TechCrunch network. I hope my readers will as well until this is resolved.

(2008-1-11) UPDATE: Please join the Facebook Group, “Boycott TechCrunch!” here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7719689369

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-10

Posted on January 10, 2008 by jessestay

Trying to figure out why a new Amazon EC2 instance won’t let me set up Software RAID (I’m following the Amazon tutorial!) #

why won’t “fdisk /dev/sdb” work on my EC2 instance? It keeps giving me an “Unable to open” error, yet the tutorial tells me to do it! #

@humancell you’re right, I don’t. I’m an idiot. 🙂 However, I do have /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, and I get the same when I “fdisk /dev/sda” #

I wonder if the EC2 small instances don’t support software raid? #

I need a Fedora-based AMI that comes with software RAID pre-setup #

@humancell, yes – that works. I wonder if I just need to go about it that way, rather than targeting a whole device #

@humancell whoa – that’s weird. I could, but now I can’t any more. Now it says it’s unreadable again. #

pounding my head on the desk #

frak! Amazon small instance servers DO NOT support software RAID. Starting to think that ec2 may not be my best solution – no good backup. #

that was about 20 hours down the drain… #

My suggestion – get a cheap hosted solution, mount RAID to an S3 virtual drive, and then setup large ami instances on Amazon to be ready #

@petdance -> #

Stay N’ Alive Has a New Design!

Posted on January 8, 2008 by jessestay

I’m proud to announce the new design of the Stay N’ Alive blog. Yes, that is me on a Segway, a little slouched, but my real, geeky self, having fun. I’m tempted to subtitle the blog, “A Developer, Having Fun!” Really, that is what being a developer is all about – if you’re not having fun, find something else! I sincerely love what I do – at heart, I will always be a developer, a Geek at heart.

Another geek at heart, Bill Gates, gave his final keynote address at CES last night. He left a hilarious, yet touching video making fun of what his final day could be like. I have to admit, as a Linux and Mac user primarily (I use Windows for my Entertainment Center experience), I was a little choked up after this. I became a programmer because of Bill Gates, working on MS DOS machines, Windows 1 (came on a 5″ floppy), 2, 3, 3.1, and 95 way before I was ever a Linux user. I owe much of my experience as a programmer to this man – while we make fun of him, he is an inspiration to us all:

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-07

Posted on January 7, 2008 by jessestay

Sitting down in the office, getting ready to watch “Deal or No Deal” #

Simpsons was a classic tonight #

so do I have to have silverlight installed to use “ZuneSocial”? #

omg! Microsoft has reinvented iLike! #

@petdance lol! #

does sync come with the cameraman? #

I want voice on my iPhone – I miss that from my MDA #

lol – Bill Gates is playing GH3! #

much less excited about Microsoft this year than I was last year – what happened? #

Las Vegas needs to hop on the Twitter bandwagon – if one person wins $1k and Twitters all their friends, can you imagine the onslaught? #

@ladanea lol! I’d still wear pants – just not Christmas ones 😉 Actually, I like my Christmas pants. #

What are your favorite WordPress theme sites? #

@libel_vox how did Laura get into CES? I’m so jealous! #

@LauraMoncur you’re famous! Great to see you on qik. #

@jptrenn do you have a url? #

@jrockway rub it in why don’t you? 😉 It’s like 20+ degrees here in Utah. #

My new blog design is up: http://www.jessestay.com/ #

@akula I’m such a geek! 😉 #

I’m off to bed – night guys! #

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-06

Posted on January 6, 2008 by jessestay

Want to follow all those that follow you like @scobleizer and @guykawasaki and @chrispirillo? Announcing SocialToo.com: http://snurl.co … #

@QueenofSpain are you still looking for a way to automatically follow those that follow you? #

follow the CES podtech bus!: http://mogulus.com/podtech_CES_live #

@MarinaMartin it will follow *everyone* who is, or will ever follow you. #

@marinamartin all I ask in return is that you tell your friends! 🙂 #

@MarinaMartin yes, this is *much* easier than installing my script #

@MarinaMartin let me know if you want me to blacklist any usernames – the functionality is there, I just don’t have a UI for it yet #

@MarinaMartin I’ll set a goal to have the UI for that this week. I’d also like to add a few other features if I have time. #

anyone have a good suggestion for livestreaming directly from my blog? I want to post a widget that users can see me when I have it on. #

@humancell is there a web service out there that hosts it for me? #

ustream.tv and mogulus both allow live streaming, but don’t provide widgets to stream outside their own website #

@humancell I’m looking for a free service like ustream.tv or mogulus, but I want the video embedded on my own blog #

@octalmage, @acmephoto, how do I go about embedding that? Any suggestions? Just look at the source and replace ids? #

@octalmage excellent! Thank you! #

@juliaroy Happy Birthday!!! #

@QueenofSpain sign up at socialtoo.com and it will do it for you. #

I need to redesign my blog some time – it’s *way* cluttered #

on ustream, how do I get it to stream another channel when my channel isn’t working? #

@octalmage, correct – when pirillo is gone, he is somehow able to turn it over to another stream #

@octalmage okay – I can probably hack it if I ever need to – just thought there might be a feature. #

look at me! I”m live – left sidebar of my blog: http://www.jessestay.com (forgive my messy hair) #

@jasonalba I’m giving free advertising of your book on my stream 🙂 #

wow – you can really see my bald spot in this video 🙂 #

@humancell I found code on their show page. @octalmage helped me out. #

wow – I have 4 people watching me – this feels so weird. #

I think I’m going to keep the video on and see if @rebeccastay complains. Just have to remember to keep my clothes on in the Basement. #

@octalmage yup – that was you twittering me 🙂 #

you can chat in here (I’ll try to add the chat somewhere in my blog too): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jessecam #

“The Ask Jesse Show” it is – anyone have any questions they want to ask me? 🙂 http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jessecam #

@jasonalba night! #

Wondering when everyone else on Twitter is going to get their own TV channel #

How I created my own Blog TV Channel: http://tinyurl.com/26gco7 #

@mlwhall it’s so needed, yet so many more things to do ahead of a redesign! I hear you there! #

@mlwhall me neither! Just a little html and css, with a good pre-existing WordPress template will often do #

@ladanea night! That just gave me an idea – live reading of THE BOOK via ustream #

pilot light in the heater went out last night – it’s freezing! #