Are You Subscribed to My Link Blog?
Some of my best comments are made via my Google Reader Link blog. I often avoid writing about already-written stories because there are so many better ways to do it. I often comment on FriendFeed, and where I have an opinion, I write about it as a Note in my Google Reader shared items, which […]
Read more...Be Careful What You Post on Facebook. It Could Get You Killed!
In an amazing act of rage, a South London man appears to have killed his wife over a simple statement she made on Facebook about her and her husband splitting up. According to the BBC, Emma Forrester, mother of two, had posted an entry on Facebook (no word on where and how), stating she had […]
Read more...Stay N’ Alive – The Cure for the Common… Heart Attack?
According to a study by the University of Illinois medical school published on CNN.com, this very blog could be the cure to anyone suffering a heart attack. Okay, maybe not this blog, but the song that inspired the blog, which became popular the year I was born, “Stayin’ Alive“, from the movie, “Saturday Night Fever” […]
Read more...Web 2.0 – A Strange New World
Luke Stay is my younger brother, and fellow geek like myself. I like his writing style so I asked him to start guest-blogging on Stay N’ Alive. You can follow Luke on his blog at http://lukestay.com, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/afrowhitey, or FriendFeed at http://friendfeed.com/afrowhitey. –Jesse About 6 months or so ago, my brother, Jesse, […]
Read more...Facebook Reaches Landmark Milestone With 10 Billionth Photo
Facebook has long been known to be the largest photo repository in the world. Today on the Facebook Engineering blog it was reported that Facebook today hit the milestone of 10 billion photos across the entire site. The 10 billion photos each have multiple copies stored, totaling 40 billion files in whole. According to Jeremiah […]
Read more...Facebook is Not the Top Social Network in America, Yet
Just yesterday, MySpace announced the release of their myAds Beta self-serve Ads platform. As part of it, similar to Facebook’s self-serve Ads platform, they released an automatic statistics engine, now available to any user that goes through the motions of setting up an Ad. The new engine allows a glimpse into the MySpace userbase. What’s […]
Read more...Could Pandora be Leaking User E-mail Addresses to 3rd Parties?
UPDATE: See the comments below. Pandora’s CTO responded with the following explanation – while I haven’t shared much, I can see it being a spyware issue of someone I’ve shared having spyware on their computer – he has a good point. “Hi there, I’m the CTO over at Pandora. Saw a link to this post […]
Read more...i.TV Hits #1 in 72 Hours
I’m trying to post a few more inspiring posts with the state of the economy and the sad state of the elections currently. I really believe much of the state of the stock market is being caused by negative reactions in the media. Hopefully I can help stop that. I started with my last post […]
Read more...Forget the Economy – The Burns Family Needs Your Help!
The economy’s in bad shape right now. Let’s put it a little in perspective – it could be a lot worse, and that’s the situation the Burns family is in right now. I was just contacted by my former colleague, Phil Burns, and he sounded quite troubled. I could hear the concern and worry in […]
Read more...This Utah Texan’s Voting for Obama
I rarely pipe in with Political rants here because well, it’s a tech blog. However, with the change in the economy and lead-in to an election, politics seems to be the only thing people talk about these days. I’m going to make an exception today because I think, as an Independant, I’ve made a decision […]
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