How I use Google Reader
I’ve been on the Google Reader band wagon for a long time now. I currently subscribe to about 150 feeds, and I read or skim over probably near 1,000 or more feed items a day. Reading my feeds is how I stay up on the latest and greatest, and how I am able to give […]
Read more...Stay N’ Alive Has a New Design!
I’m proud to announce the new design of the Stay N’ Alive blog. Yes, that is me on a Segway, a little slouched, but my real, geeky self, having fun. I’m tempted to subtitle the blog, “A Developer, Having Fun!” Really, that is what being a developer is all about – if you’re not having […]
Read more...How to Create Your Own TV Channel for Your Blog
I’ve been considering doing this for awhile – we’ll see how long it lasts and when my wife puts an end to it. If you look in the upper-left corner of the blog, you’ll see the “Ask Jesse” Show stream. If I’m online, when you click play you’ll see me, live, as you are on […]
Read more...Why I think Facebook Mail is a Good Tool
My Co-Author, Jason Alba, is having a bad day today. I’m sure I haven’t helped, as we both have had somewhat heated discussions over the design of the cover of our book among other things (we think we’ve got a good idea for it though!). Not just that, but now I’m going to disagree on […]
Read more...A Geeky Christmas
So, after a wonderful Christmas with the family – time well spent with kids, my wife, and in-laws, I find myself reflecting back over the last day and realizing how much of a geek I really am. Here are some of the Geek Christmas gifts seen around the Stay household this Christmas: Scooba floor sweeper/Cleaner […]
Read more...Facebook Toolbar, My New Friend
I discovered a new friend yesterday to aide in using Facebook. The Facebook toolbar for Mozilla Firefox is one of the coolest and most useful extensions I use for Firefox now. It shows you (like my Snitter does) with a popup every time a friend updates their status message, someone writes on their wall, or […]
Read more...OS X Leopard Woes
As those who read this blog know, I have a love-hate relationship with Apple. The other night I completely finished a great blog entry on Facebook releasing its own Platform Architecture, similar to OpenSocial Containers, and Bebo being the first to utilize it. Well, I hit “publish”, and realized Leopard had killed my internet connection […]
Read more...“Facebook Stalkin’”
My co-author, Jason Alba pointed out this hilarious acapella number by the group, “Straight No Chaser”. Check it out – they are quite talented, and it should get quite a laugh out of you!:
Read more...Utah Social Media Developers Garage a Success!
Utah had it’s very first Social Media Garage meeting as a non-Facebook specific group yesterday, December 11. Phil Burns and I started the Utah Facebook Developers Garage, and at our October meeting, the group agreed to making our name much more generic so we could support technologies such as Open Social. I think the meeting […]
Read more...Danny Sullivan Just Doesn’t Get SNO
Dave Bascom, of SEO.com, and also a good friend of mine, recently reminded me through a blog post of his about Danny Sullivan’s Whiteboard Daily Search Cast where he criticized Facebook ads as a “revolution”. Danny goes on to say that because search ads are being “requested” by the user, search engine advertising is much […]
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