It is Blog Day and I am ashamed I had no idea until I saw a post on Roundpeg. On blog day, the thing is to showcase 5 new blogs that you like and to let them know that you gave them a shout. I’m going to just list the blogs sans description, so...
Read more →So I stumbled upon Pheedo a short time ago because I saw a video on YouTube about it. Because Feedburner is no longer the coolest kid on the playground anymore. So I signed up for Pheedo in the hopes that I could upgrade my feeds with little hassle. Well, I am just not awesome...
Read more →Fake Follow is the social media equivalent of being at a party, running into someone you sort of know, having empty conversation with them before awkwardly being offered their phone number. You write the number down on paper because you intentionally left the phone in the car, and dump your pockets later. Friends shouldn’t...
Read more →It used to be great when there was a variety of services to choose from. It was fantastic when each service had something different to offer. Now its just a race to integrate everything else. This is one of the aspects about social media that made me so reluctant to get into it in...
Read more →It’s actually a shame that I am not thrilled about SocialGO. The user interface is intuitive, the sites are nice looking like Ning but with KickApps functionality. I had a video uploaded really quickly with no problems — it did limit the video to about a minute. It did give me a bit of...
Read more →Image via Wikipedia Questionable Content. It is not for the kids. I just realized when I sat down to read them, I read every single comic. I think there was five years worth on the site. Could not stop reading— did not even sleep. Found it from this list on Wired: 10 Great Webcomics...
Read more →Been playing around with the new kid on the block called Twine. It is supposed to be a semantic web godsend, but it’s just there. To simulate the average user wanting to quickly sign in, I did not pick topics for it to classify me. The result was a stream of comments from people...
Read more →There are many many spammers in the world. There is no way we can dodge that fact, and no one is trying to. Unfortunately some of the services some of us hold dear have come up with their own methods of dealing with it. Sure if I state that following a couple thousand people...
Read more →You guys are great. Lots of bloggers love your tool. Most of us even dig promoting you with a Zemified or Reblog link. My question is….when can we just make the Reblog link a permanent link in our blog templates, like a feed flare? Being steady users of the service, it is going to...
Read more →Image via CrunchBase As everyone should know now due to the blogstorm, Sitemeter hurts a whole bunch of sites on Friday and Saturday. The javascript code went wonky and shut down anyone using IE to look at the sites. I find it hilarious that many of the folks who had sites affected had no...
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