To Blog, or Not to Blog — That is the Question (via LouisGray.com)
“I’m noticing a trend lately which started several months ago, and I couldn’t quite pinpoint what was causing it. It seemed as though many of my friends and others that I esteemed as good bloggers were getting tired, and were posting much less frequently, or not at all. Many of these people were part of […]
Read more...Google Bullies Blogger to Surrender "GoogleAppsEngine.com"
A friend of mine, Ali Akbar (@aliakbar), has made me aware of an interesting development going on with the domain he bought, googleappsengine.com (note the “s”). When he bought it, he approached me asking if I would be a blogger for the site, with intent to blog about Google App Engine news and announcements on […]
Read more...The Mormon Church/Wikileaks Fiasco (or not-so-fiasco), A Mormon’s Perspective
Note that I’m not going to provide any links to the mentioned content here – you can go research yourself. Unlike Wikileaks, I respect others’ copyright. One thing you may notice on this blog is that while I rarely pipe in with religious thoughts and my own personal religious beliefs (although I used to quite […]
Read more...Are You a Hot Up-and-Coming Utah Startup? I Want to Meet You!
I’m thinking about starting a series on this blog of hot startups that I find interesting in Utah. I’d really like to show to the world the great startup scene that Utah has to offer – hopefully other bloggers in the area can pitch in and join in this effort as well. I am relatively […]
Read more...Live Blogging the Web 2.0 Expo: Matt Mullenweg of WordPress
Matt Mullenweg, a fellow Houstonian and all around cool guy spoke to us today at Web 2.0 Expo about WordPress’s present and future. Some features from the talk: WordPress has 2 main products, Akismet, and WordPress.com. Akismet is solving many of the Spam problems Matt Cutts from Google talked about earlier, and WordPress.com handles much […]
Read more...It’s a Boy! The first full, live Twitter Birth
It’s a Boy! Yes, we gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy last night, March 19th, 2008, at 3:24am. He was 6lbs 4oz, at 19″. We’re still figuring out a name – it’s now between “Jesse III” (after my grandfather, continuing his legacy), “Joshua Timothy”, and “Joshua Gregory” (my Dad’s name is Gregory). We […]
Read more...Announcing OpensocialNow.com – OpenSocial News and Reviews
I’m proud to announce a new website I’ve been working on. You may have heard me Twitter about it a few times. The site is called OpensocialNow!, and will be your source for OpenSocial News, Reviews, and info. We’ll cover the Orkut launch, the Myspace launch, Hi5, and LinkedIn, as well as general things you […]
Read more...Demo of Prologue With Joseph Scott, Developer at Automattic
I sat down for lunch at Applebees with Joseph Scott, a Developer at Automattic, who was the developer on the Prologue project. As I mentioned earlier, Prologue is essentially, as I term it, “OpenSocial for Twitter“, and allows you to create your own Twitter-like community on any WordPress blog with the addition of just a […]
Read more...Better Blog Visibility With Facebook Notes Tagging
On FacebookAdvice.com (the official blog for the book, “I’m On Facebook — Now What???”), I go over how you can use Facebook Notes tagging to get the attention of those with larger networks in Facebook. This is my first time using video, so be light on me! I see a lot of potential for using […]
Read more...Prologue – OpenSocial for Twitter
Just today, Matt Mullenweg, founding developer and owner of Automattic, announced a new, open source, theme for WordPress called Prologue. The theme essentially turns your blog into a “mini-Twitter”, with a “Whatcha up to?” text box at the top where your users can post what they are currently doing. This is an excellent way to […]
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