The National Bloggers Blood Drive – How You Can Get Involved
My good friend, Phil Burns (@phil801), whose daughter was recently diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, has organized a cool concept that is starting in Salt Lake City today, but could be organized soon in your area as well. The idea is organized by his foundation, The Serenity Foundation, in conjunction with Takes All Types, who […]
Read more...The TechMeme Factor – is it Good for Blogs?
I received a lot of criticism for my post recently stating my reduction in use of the service Twitter towards other services like Identi.ca and FriendFeed. In a series of personal attacks through both Twitter and the comments on my blog, people called me names, said I was pompous, and almost seemed offended as to […]
Read more...SocialToo.com Now Supports Identi.ca
If you log into your SocialToo.com account (or register if you haven’t already!) you can now click on the “Identi.ca” link at the top, provide your Identi.ca credentials, and you’ll now have the capability to automatically follow those that follow you on the microblogging site identi.ca. Not only that (I realize you can do that […]
Read more...My Hiatus From Twitter – Why You Should Join Me
Yesterday I announced I am permanently and officially on hiatus from Twitter. Bloggers and other Twitter users, while annoyed, are giving them too much attention in both the negative and positive forms, and frankly, both of these only help Twitter. Any publicity is good publicity, especially when it comes to Twitter. I’m fed up with […]
Read more...Facebook, May I Please Have a Shirt???
http://seesmic.com/embeds/wrapper.swf Okay, I’ll admit, I did beg and get an “F8” shirt from the booths (which I lost and I’m still bitter about), but any chance you could send me (or even let me buy???) a shirt with the Facebook logo on it (like the waiters were wearing) to add to my collection Facebook? Pretty […]
Read more...Facebook Confirms Launch of Platform on iPhone
Ben Ling just announced that the iPhone will be an official Facebook Connect launch partner. As I mentioned earlier, this is part of the developer course today. I’ll be staying tuned today to try and find out more information on how you can include Facebook in your iPhone App building process as the day goes […]
Read more...SixApart Announces Comment Integration With Facebook
In an announcement about the launch of FacebookConnect, and going head-to-head with commenting services such as Disqus, IntenseDebate, and others, David Recordon from SixApart has announced the integration of MovableType comments with Facebook. When commenting, the service recognizes your Facebook account and automatically takes the information from your Facebook account and posts it into your […]
Read more...Facebook Quietly Announces New iPhone/Mobile Platform
In a recent blog post announcing the developer track at F8, Facebook made brief mention at the very end of one simple, yet very significant announcement. From the post: 7:00-7:45pm Made for Mobile Jed Stremel and Pedram Kayani (Q&A with Joe Hewitt) Mobile is everywhere. On Facebook Platform, too. These devices are opening up and […]
Read more...The iPhone Needs Privacy Controls
The iPhone seems to have created a huge security and privacy problem recently that I think many more people should be watching. By launching a developer platform and SDK, Apple has essentially created one of the largest social network platforms in existence, bringing even more powerful and personal data than ever before to the developer. […]
Read more...The Rise of the Twittering Church-Goers
I knew Twitter had hit mainstream when I was Twittering about speaking in Church awhile back, and the CIO of a major Church organization Twitter’d me back, wishing me luck, while he himself was in church. Both he and I some times Twitter about the current sermon or teaching going on in our individual congregations […]
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