Posts categorized as Social Networking
Google adds all the right stuff to sharing items
You've been able to share items with your Google Reader friends forever. You could also publish a page of all the articles and pages you share to the public in HTML or RSS format. Google added a bunch of new features to Google Reader today that enhance the experience of sharing items with people. If you're a regular reader of my site, you might remember that I specifically asked for these features back in February: Currently, I’m using Facebook Shared Items to compliment my Google Reader shared items, mostly because I can personalize the message and give my shared item ...
Posted on: 2008 May 05
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking
google, googlereader, linkblog, microblogging, socialgraph, twitter
Brightkite, easy to use, location based "Twitter" and photos
Long title, huh? I was going to write out a thoughtful post about Brightkite and why I'm kind of warming up to it, but Herschell's vertigo-addled brain did all the work for me: My first text to the brightkite servers was relatively painless and took the same amount of time as it would to tweet it (on Twitter). All I did was send “? LOCATION” to BrightKite’s SMS # and in seconds, BKite (see what I did there? heheh) asked me to verify WHICH LOCATION, in which I replied “1? and PRESTO CHANGE-O! Internets! YAY. Bonus points for the seamless ...
Posted on: 2008 April 20
Filed under: Internet, Life, Social Networking, Technology
apple, brightkite, champagne, chicago, fireeagle, geospatial, iphone, locationservices, sdk, sms
SXSW: Friday and Saturday
We left our apartment in Chicago around 6am and made it to the airport on time. We had a mini freakout when we encountered not one, but two sprawling and packed security check lines. To make matters worse, I only have an expired driver's license for identification and I was a little worried it would hold me up. I performed some ninja moves and found a tucked away security line that not many had discovered and we zipped through. My lack of non-expired identification was actually not that big of deal. They lady hassled me a little bit and then ...
Posted on: 2008 March 08
Filed under: Blogging, Health & Lifestyle, Internet, Social Networking, Technology
Find me on FriendFeed
FriendFeed is a site that lets you view something like your "Friends Feed" on Facebook but for all of their online activities! Here's my page, add me! http://friendfeed.com/clint
Posted on: 2008 February 26
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking
TechCocktail 7
These things are so packed I can never find anyone I actually want to talk to. I still meet new people every time though. Here's a photo of me and Jacqui waiting for the bartenders to start handing out the booze! Link: TechCocktail
Posted on: 2008 February 23
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking, Technology
South by Southwest Interactive
Yes, Jacqui and I are heading south this March. To Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, or SXSW as the kids say. A lot of really cool people from all over the country who also happen to be friends are going too. I am also excited to be attending my first conference in a long time where I am not media. That means I can have fun, enjoy things, learn stuff, goof around with friends, stay up as late as I want, and get a pony for Christmas too! For those who may not know exactly what South by Southwest ...
Posted on: 2008 February 07
Filed under: Internet, Marketing, Programming, Social Networking, Technology
How to add or update your Google Reader profile
As a service to all my new Google Reader friends, here is a short tutorial on how to update your Google Reader profile so you can add at least a nice little icon for your account. Why would you want to do this? Well, for one, it's tough to tell you all apart at a quick glance! Without an icon, my friends list looks like this: Not only does that list look boring, it's hard to tell everyone apart unless I read their names. Here's how you update your profile, which can include a lot more than just a user ...
Posted on: 2008 February 03
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking
Thanks to everyone who's added me on Google Reader
I just wanted to drop a quick line here and thank all the people who added me as a friend on Google Reader. I'm already seeing a lot of cool posts I probably would've never come across normally!
Posted on: 2008 February 03
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking, Technology
Seeking excellent Google Reader friends
I current have a good set of friends who use Google Reader on a regular basis and I often find myself enjoying the items they share with me. Despite that, I'd love to have even more really smart, interesting people who are sharing good stuff with me. Not to come off like Robert Scoble, but I feel that the more I "surround" myself with smart people pointing out cool things to me, I can only benefit! So, if you're a Google Reader-using, item sharing nut, add me as a friend in Gmail/Gtalk, I'm clintecker@gmail.com
Posted on: 2008 February 02
Filed under: Social Networking, Technology
Django People
DjangoPeople is a site put together by Simon Willison & Natalie Downe that hopes to gel the Django community at large into a more cohesive group. Simon puts it this way: I'm constantly surprised by the number of people I run in to at conferences (or even in one case on the train) who are using Django but are completely invisible to the Django community. It seems that this is the downside of having good documentation: many people just read it and start building, without ever showing their face on the mailing lists or IRC. The site allows you to ...
Posted on: 2008 January 22
Filed under: Django, Internet, Social Networking, Technology
django, gmaps, google, maps, mashup, nataliedowne, simonwillison
Futzing and Resistance to Change
Riding the train this morning to O'Hare, I read two great articles posted by Tara Hunt on her blog. Tara co-founded and works for Citizen Agency in San Francisco and is an Online Marketing Professional. That stuff is all in her about page, but as I've been subscribed to her blog over the past few days (and creepily following her on Twitter for a while... just kidding), I've come to really enjoy her posts. The two recent posts I'm referencing are Futzing as the Future of Word and The Human Body Teaches Us to Embrace the Chaos. The first is ...
Posted on: 2008 January 13
Filed under: Blogging, Health & Lifestyle, Marketing, Social Networking
bridgingcurrency, change, exercise, knowledgebroker, marketing, socialcapitol
Analytics junkies
My friend, super-blogger, and fellow Arsian, Josh Bancroft has a really keen post about how he tracks the various metrics of his personal blog (which gets quite a good bit of traffic!). I will admit it too, I am an analytics junkie too and I use a lot of the same metrics and tools as Josh does to see what content is doing good and where I can make improvements on my site. This is another post that grew from an interesting conversation at work. We were discussing what site statistics/metrics are REALLY important to a blogger. That is, swimming ...
Posted on: 2008 January 09
Filed under: Marketing, Social Networking, Technology
Facebook Shared Items now in Tumble Log. It was harder than it should've been!
As a point of notification, I've now started to include my Facebook Shared Items in my Tumble Log (how's that for openness!). While it's technically true that I can export all of my shared items from Facebook via a handy RSS feed, it's not nearly that cut & dry. I treat Facebook Shared Items as a sort of social bookmarking service. I have a bookmarklet in my browser's toolbar and when I run across a site I enjoy, I stab it, enter any thoughts of my own and click submit. Facebook tries to extract an image from the page as ...
Posted on: 2008 January 05
Filed under: Internet, Social Networking, Technology
dataportability, export, facebook, feed, import, RSS, socialgraph, socialnetworking, syndication
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