musings about tech & miscellanea
How to Suck at Facebook
Chuckling, this is so true. Check it out at The Oatmeal, How to Suck at Facebook. I’m so tired hearing about Farmville status updates…and those people don’t even know what’s really going on with Zynga. Do a search on Zynga and you’ll see what I mean.
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Gaming can make a better world: Jane McGonigal
about 1 week ago - No comments
Provocative, from TED.com: “Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.”
Leo Laporte livestreaming his crowd surfing @ SXSW
about 5 months ago - No comments
Crazy stuff! Leo Laporte has a customized livestreaming rig at SXSW and crowd surfing! And here’s the video link of him starting out on his crowd surfing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnstone/4430516153/ Check out Leo’s livestream from South by Southwest at: http://live.twit.tv/
@LisaTickledPink gets Leo’d
about 5 months ago - No comments
The power of social media is phenomenal! Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose of Digg.com while on Leo’s This Week in Tech pod/video-cast (Episode 238), randomly picked LisaTickledPink on Twitter to see how many followers they can get her. She started out with only 3 followers at around Sunday, March 7th, and at the time of More >
WP-SpamFree – great antispam plugin for WordPress
about 6 months ago - No comments
Ever since starting a WordPress based blog, I started getting spammed with my admin email address. There are some pretty smart spambots out there crawling through the various WordPress pages and harvesting email address. After some research and trying out a couple of different WordPress plugin solutions, WP-SpamFree is what I’m now using and have More >
Google Buzz now integrated into Gmail
about 6 months ago - No comments
Buzz integrates with your Gmail inbox and lets you share updates, photos and videos with friends and followers. You can add in your Google accounts (Flickr, Picasa etc.) and even Twitter to receive all your updates in one handy spot. It seems like a mini-Google Wave integrated into Gmail.
Teknorati.com now migrated to WordPress
about 6 months ago - No comments
Well, finally after migrating to a new web host with far much better performance with MySQL databases, I’ve installed WordPress and migrated this blog’s content from FlatPress. I couldn’t find any FlatPress to WordPress export scripts, so I had to manually enter all of the content into the WordPress app. Oh well, at least I’ve More >
Ipower.com = FAIL
about 6 months ago - No comments
I’ve been migrating all of my various websites to Hostgator.com and so far have been very pleased with load speeds and especially the admin control panel. My Stickist.com site gets a lot of traffic and with its MySQL database backend supporting the forums, fast loading is of the utmost importance. Hostgator also utilizes AwStats for webstats on More >
Site Migrated
about 6 months ago - No comments
Thursday, February 4, 2010 Migrated this site to the new web host and now waiting for the DNS propagation.
ÜberTwitter for the Blackberry
about 6 months ago - No comments
There are quite a few Twitter clients out there for the Blackberry, which my favorite is ÜberTwitter. BTW, on Twitter follow BreakingNewsif you would like a real-time global newsfeed.
Social Media Landscape
about 6 months ago - No comments
Social media has been a highly embraced phenomenon that has exploded in the last couple of years and has truly created azero geography mindset. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook … this is staggering to think of the all the implications of so many people in the world on a More >
