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 […]
Read more...A Very Social Farewell to Gordon B. Hinckley, President and Prophet of the Mormon Church
Tonight at 7:00 pm Gordon B. Hinckley, President and Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, passed away in the company of loved ones. President Hinckley was 97 at his passing. I’ve been alive through the death of a few LDS prophets, but never has the death of one President hit the […]
Read more...Why Facebook Did *Not* Release Their Platform Last Night
It’s all over the web right now that Facebook supposedly “released their platform last night”. I want to clarify the situation – Facebook did not release their platform last night! What Facebook did release, as the title of their announcement states, is a Javascript Client API library for Facebook. First, let’s discuss what a platform […]
Read more...Pownce – Why it May be Worth Considering
I’m very surprised that Twitter is not trying to compete with Pownce. As some of you may know, Pownce recently went out of beta, and opened their platform to anyone interested in joining. For awhile, I wasn’t much of a proponent for Pownce, but just recently, I’ve decided to give Pownce a try and see […]
Read more...Next Utah Social Media Developers Garage Meeting: February 2nd
I have learned from Joseph Scott (a local developer at Automattic, the owners of WordPress) that Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress will be in town on February 2nd. Originally we were going to plan on the next Utah SMDev meeting being February 12th, but due to Matt’s appearance, we’re going to join other […]
Read more...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...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 […]
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