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...Facebook Adds Small Features to Chat
I just noticed today a few new features in the Facebook chat window. When a new chat message comes through you may now hear a small, “pop”. It appears as though Facebook has begun adding sounds to their messaging, a much needed addition for those trying to know when people are trying to chat with […]
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...Utah Startup Series: Bungee Labs
(Sorry it’s been awhile since my last blog – it took me several days to figure out how to get my Flip video imported and exported to and from iMovie. To make a long story short, if you want to export from iMovie and have both picture and sound, you must import your source as […]
Read more...Epic Ventures Sponsoring Food for the Utah Social Media Dev Garage
Props to Rachel Strate, an Analyst from Epic Ventures (formerly Wasatch Ventures) who has offered to represent her Firm in providing food and drinks for the Social Media Developers Garage event on Tuesday. Rumor has it that they will be providing Pizza and drinks so come if anything for a free meal! The topic for […]
Read more...Facebook Announces Developer Integration Points to New Design, New "Publisher" Feature
While still vague in regards to details, Facebook today released some important information regarding their new design that is sure to excite those users that are considering leaving for other networks. The first of such features seems to be a slap in the Face (and maybe a token from former Google Execs) to Google Employee-founded […]
Read more...FBML Essentials Has a Cover!
I received a copy of the cover for FBML Essentials last Friday. I was waiting to figure out what the bird was on the cover before I shared it. The bird is a White Throated Dipper – from Wikipedia: The White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) is an aquatic passerine bird found in Europe and the Middle […]
Read more...Next Utah Social Media Developers Garage: May 13th at Bungee Labs
Our Utah Social Media Developers Garages (UTSMDev) happen every second Tuesday of every other month, and that is coming up one week from today. Our next meeting will be on May 13th from 7pm to 10pm at the same place as last time, Bungee Labs. We’ll bring the Wii or Xbox in case there’s time […]
Read more...Twitter Now Removing Blacklisted Accounts
(I’m beginning to move much of my activity over to FriendFeed lately. Scoble calls it the “World Wide Talk Show” – please subscribe to my feed to comment and participate!) I was going to write a few more of my annoyances with Twitter today, but a few pleasant announcements have come out of Twitter lately […]
Read more...Why I Hate the Twitter Syntax
I have disliked the Twitter syntax since I’ve been on it (you can find me via @JesseStay on Twitter – go ahead and follow me!). As a long-time IRC user, everything seems backwards! I have often referred to Twitter as “IRC 2.0”. I’m not sure I can fully embrace that concept though. For those unfamiliar […]
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