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  1. Archive your bookmarks using WordPress

    Many people use some sort of social bookmarking service to collect their favorite how-to guides, recipes, interesting articles, and funny cat pictures. There are a number of services available: Delicious, Gnolia, and my personal favorite pinboard.in. I found Doug Bowman’s guide to creating your own browsable, searchable archive of tweets to be perfect: create a self-hosted [...]

    Mar 7, 2010 — No Comments

  2. Are Yelp check-ins a conflict of interest?

    The concept of “checking in” to a location using a web-based service is not new. Brightkite, Foursquare, and Gowalla have all been doing this for quite some time. But ever since Yelp has joined the fray, I can’t help but feel awkward about it. We’ve now added the ability for yelpers to “Check-in” to businesses. Active [...]

    Feb 11, 2010 — 4 Comments

  3. Seeking success via celebrity

    The American culture has become ever noticeably celebrity-centric. Ever since California elected itself a Republican Governor it’s become very obvious to me: no matter how bad the last guy did, how does the most liberal state in the union do that? For one, Schwarzenegger is recognizable and, through his acting and body-building days, a celebrity. Celebrities [...]

    Jan 23, 2010 — 2 Comments

  4. Posterous: three months in review

    One of the greatest hosted services on the web is Posterous (pronounced a few different ways but consensus is: pahst-err-uhs). I experimented with the service for a few months and came to love it. If you take photos, its great. If you record video or voice notes, it’s excellent. If you blog, magnificent. If you [...]

    Jan 17, 2010 — No Comments

  5. Google Profile tips: OpenID delegate, resetting profile photo

    I’ve been more and more interested in having Google manage, store, and maintain my entire life. Not just my digital life, but my real life. Needless to say, I’ve been using Google Profiles and have come up with a few neat tips. Google Profile photo being reset all the time Some people have noticed their profile photo [...]

    Nov 30, 2009 — 1 Comment

  6. Use Google Reader as a delicious.com alternative

    Google Reader has only recently added social features (following, liking, people searching) but I’ve found them to be amazingly powerful. Consuming information If you use Google Reader, you likely consume a lot of information through it via RSS feeds. Everything from news (BBC, NYTimes), sports, humor (ICHC, xkcd) to photos from your Flickr contacts, Twitter mentions and [...]

    Jul 29, 2009 — No Comments

  7. Twitter is the new MySpace

    I get a lot of good emails but Rachel made a great observation today: Not only is “Spongebob” a trending topic on Twitter, but it’s “Wich Spongebob.” The fact that we have gazillions of people taking quizzes about their similarity to a Spongebob character is sad, but not nearly as sad as the fact that the [...]

    Jul 19, 2009 — 3 Comments

  8. Add Twitter Favorites to your site

    Hint: if you’ve never used Twitter the following won’t make much sense to you. I easily annoyed by people on Twitter who ‘RT’, or ‘re-tweet’; they simply post an update that says exactly what someone else says, plus attribution. Frankly, answering the Twitter mantra “What are you doing?” with “this is what someone else smarter, funnier, [...]

    Apr 6, 2009 — 4 Comments

  9. Overlooked feature in Facebook

    When the new site design launched nobody realized that Facebook added the ‘Top Friends’ functionality: I don’t see TechCrunch, Mashable, or anyone noticing this. But everyone was very quick to get upset when slide’s ‘Top Friends’ app was taken down (it was a legitimate security concern). I hate this short-term-memory-loss-lynch-mob we like to call the internet. Uproar [...]

    Nov 13, 2008 — 3 Comments

  10. Social media best practice: be authentic

    Jeremy Tanner tagged me: I need to chime in and tell the world, in all my infinite wisdom, what a “social media” best practice is. Interestingly enough my knee jerk reaction was to say either: if you call it social media you’re doing it wrong, or just stop trying, FFS. At least, that’s the way I’ve felt in the [...]

    Sep 4, 2008 — 3 Comments

  11. Top three lessons from online communities

    I’ve seen, first hand, the challenges faced when trying to get a group of people together on the internet. I’m a member of a of a number of online communities. I’ve also helped found a few communities. They include: 9rules – a group I really wanted to become a part of, the best of the best [...]

    Jun 29, 2008 — 1 Comment

  12. Why people are always wrong about Facebook

    People like Scoble still think Microsoft is going to drop something like $20 billion on Facebook. A site with maybe $0.2 billion in revenue? Yeah, okay. Aside from what I like to call the decimal-place-mismatch let me explain why Facebook is not worth that much and why Zuckerberg is not a billionaire. We aren’t in a [...]

    May 19, 2008 — 1 Comment