With Facebook’s New Page Design, Do We Really Need Twitter?
(Alternate Title: “Twitter: 3 Years Later and Nothing’s Changed”) Talks of acquisition, deprecation of whitelisting, charging for API access – Twitter’s doing all they can to reduce cost and become more profitable. It’s actually a typical story for them. I’ve written the same post several years in a row – about 4-5 years strong and […]
Read more...Families Can Be Together Forever
I hope you’ll forgive this diversion from tech so I could share something that touched me. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (my employer, and Faith) just released this video and I just had to share it. It’s based on a song I’ve sung since a kid. In my faith this carries a […]
Read more..."Super Indexing Sunday" Breaks World Record With 2 Million Records Indexed in a Day
Facebook has quite a database with 500 million active users, and rumored total users in the billions. There are few that can relate to the types of problems engineers and architects encounter with a database of that size. FamilySearch.org is one of those, with a claimed database size of over 1 billion individual records, and […]
Read more...FamilySearch.org To Discuss Living/Dead Relationship Technology With New RootsTech Conference
One of my favorite things to do is research my family history. Even more interesting to me is the technology that can make finding and exploring your heritage even easier. As a former employee of OneGreatFamily.com, a former Consultant for Ancestry.com and FamilyLink.com, and a current employee of the LDS Church (who owns FamilySearch.org), I […]
Read more...Emailvision Acquires Social Media Marketing Company ObjectiveMarketer
I’m always giddy to report on people I know whose companies have been acquired. Amita Paul’s ObjectiveMarketer announced today it has been acquired by Emailvision, a leading Software as a Service Email marketing company providing solutions to enable marketers to communicate more effectively. No details were disclosed as to the amount of the transaction. ObjectiveMarketer […]
Read more...to End Poverty
If you’re wanting to do something good on January 21st and 22nd, save the date, book a flight and a hotel, and come to Utah for what is certain to be an unprecedented event. The lack of precedence is perhaps not just because of its potential to make a big dent in poverty and homelessness, […]
Read more...Miss Those Old Style Retweets on Twitter.com? Try This Kynetx Extension
One of my biggest annoyances with the new Twitter API has been the migration to the new “retweet” structure where clicking the retweet button pulls the person’s Tweet into your own stream, with the person’s name and profile picture attached to it. The problem with this method is that it is not near as visible, […]
Read more...Want to Give me a Christmas Present? Please Like This.
Fighting the homeless is something near and dear to my heart, especially when it’s at home. I have a non-profit idea I’ll share here later which I may pursue at some time and I think could completely (or closely) eradicate the problem of homelessness. This Christmas I’m thinking a lot of those that are less […]
Read more...Twitter Misleads. Bloggers Take the Bait. About that Facebook vs. Twitter Infographic…
Back in April I shared how Twitter was misleading the media and its users into thinking the numbers it was reporting were comparable to Facebook’s. The deception stems from a report by Biz Stone at Twitter’s Chirp conference that Twitter has 105 million users. It appears that in the last day or two many of […]
Read more...Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s "Hallelujah Chorus"
This video, featuring Handel’s Messiah by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was put together in partnership with BYU TV just for Youtube. I think it’s a beautiful piece. Many people, Christian and not, can’t imagine the holidays without this amazing Choir. I think back to “Mr. Krueger’s Christmas” (with Jimmy Stewart), something close to my family, […]
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