Newsvine Relaunches… Announcing Evergreen
April 26, 2007
Newsvine is getting a major overhaul. I’m using google.com/ig myself but Newsvine looks really tempting. I like the idea of building your own website.
“Call it a redesign. Call it Newsvine 2.0. Call it whatever you want, but today Newsvine is proud to announce the first major overhaul of our site since launching a little more than a year ago. It’s an exciting thing for the team and for the now 600,000 people who visit the site every month because it not only provides a hugely enhanced front page but also showcases a lot of the great technology we’ve been building behind the scenes over the last several months.” Read more
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Testpost For Twitter
April 24, 2007
I’ve finally by myself solved the issue with the widgets and a few other errors. I’m celebrating it with a couple of new features, well I’m testing them first before implementing for real.
More news when I know if they work. So stay tuned!
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New Page Added - Social Media
April 24, 2007
Inspired by my mail correspondance with Mark Blair who knows quite a lot about Social Media and Social Media Optimization, I’ve created a new page about the Social Media services/sites I’m currently using.
You are more than welcome to drop by any of the site and add me to your friends list if you feel like it.
If you think I forgot a site or service please drop a comment. There is a chance that I’m already signed up there, but perhaps I’ve forgotten all about it.
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Get Ready for Blogging and Social Media Week @ eMoms
April 23, 2007
Fear not its not just for moms. As you know I am going to be an eDad in September and I’m still allowed to read the site.
eMoms features alot of brilliant articles, idea, Wordpress tutorials and how to monetize your blog.
eMoms are celebrating their 1st anniversary this week (Congratulations!) with several contests.
This is copied from the birthday post:
“Well, I’m wrapping up Advertising and Affiliate Week, and it’s been a bit hectic - so I haven’t been able to put up as much material on these topics as I would have liked. Nonetheless, next week we’ll be talking about blogging and social media as we wrap up the eMoms Birthday Party Contest (and I’ll have plenty of time to write more and more about this stuff in the future!).
Monday we’ll be celebrating the Blog Birthday by giving out the following prizes:
- A FREE copy of Uncommon AdSense - by Eric Giguere
- 2 FREE years of GoStats analytics tracking from Richard Chmura
- A FREE SEO site analysis and improvement plan from Viperchill
(I know, I know, better late than never!) - FREE hosting for a year from Bill Hartzer
- The book Meet and Grow Rich by Joe Vitale and Bill Hibbler
- A $500 Coupon off of a ticket to Elite Retreat donated by the Elite Retreat founders themselves!
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Random Page Redirect For Wordpress Blogs
April 21, 2007
Wordpress' founder Matt Mullenweg just created this small plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-redirect/
Its based on the idea from the latest StumbleUpon toolbar where you can Stumble random page on a certain site like CNN, YouTube and Flickr, but lets you see random pages on your blog.
It allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion.
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Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox Now a Reality
April 20, 2007
If it seems cooler to you today in places where it's normally fairly warm, or even burning hot, there may be deeper forces at work than mere global warming changes in the atmosphere. The department of Microsoft's development team delegated to interoperability and open standards have released what might have seemed the least likely product ever to emerge from Redmond: an officially sanctioned Windows Media Player plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. "When the [Open Source Software Lab] was created at Microsoft people thought it to be another Microsoft marketing ploy," writes OSSL developer Hank Janssen on his team's blog today, in a post entitled, "We're Writing Firefox Plug-ins?." "Well I can tell you that that is certainly not the case here at OSSL." While Firefox users have generally been able to play MP3 audio files, and MPEG2 and MPEG4 videos, using Apple's QuickTime player plug-in, streaming of some Microsoft-specific formats such as WMV has sometimes been elusive. Depending on your setup, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And Web sites that depend on access to the WMP console - including, admittedly, Microsoft co-owned and operated sites such as MSNBC.com - have sometimes responded with cryptic messages saying videos are unavailable. Up to now, MSNBC.com told viewers using Firefox they couldn't see videos from the site…with a video showing an MSNBC anchor delivering the apology directly. Read more If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! April 18, 2007 *WARNING* Do NOT click the link mentioned in this post! It could cost you your job or something worse! Taken from TechCrunch: Desktop Tower Defense illustrates that you don’t need fancy graphics or big budgets to build highly addictive online games. In Desktop Tower Defence, all of the main graphics are hand drawn. I first discovered this on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, where he warned “The lack of posting here in the second half of this week (especially to my linkblog) has been a direct result of attempting to beat this highly addictive game. Whatever you do, please DO NOT click the link and start playing that game. You may find yourself in the very same time warp that I did…” So of course I clicked on the link and have been “testing” the game ever since. It’s free and Flash based, and very simple. Bad guys come at you in a highly predictable way. You build defenses that take them out. If any get through, you lose a life. I’ve gotten to level 72. Can’t get past it. Until this, Kdice was my addictive online game of choice. Now, I have them both open in separate browser tabs. If you do get hooked, and want some advice on how to get up into the higher levels, watch this YouTube video Source: Techcrunch If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! April 18, 2007 Tagspace* is a social bookmarking service for software professionals** that encourages sound sleep and sweet dreams by enabling you to be better informed, better connected, and more productive. The more you use Tagspace, the more you'll wonder how you survived for so long in the cramped quarters of your Web browser's Favorites folder. WARNING: TAGSPACE IS ADDICTIVE. REPEATED USAGE MAY CAUSE INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY. For more information about Tagspace, see: Screencast (direct stream): intro2tagspace.wvx Source: MSDN Blogs If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! April 16, 2007
"Your Xbox LIVE® friends list is about to get a whole lot bigger. Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Windows Live™ Messenger on Xbox 360™, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft® Windows®-based PCs and Windows Mobile®-powered devices. With this update to Xbox 360, friends and families can easily connect and chat directly from their television using Windows Live Messenger, a network of more than 20 billion relationships and more than 260 million active accounts. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! April 12, 2007 Being an optimist has its drawbacks. For example, if I’m watching a TV show where someone knocks on a fictional door, I get up and answer my actual door, fully expecting some good news. This happens to me more often than I should admit. I even check my door when the other people in the room assure me that the knocking sound is coming from the TV. I’m not persuaded by other people’s opinions in these matters, even when the fictional characters on TV get up and answer their doors. I can’t rule out coincidence. So when I hear a knock, I check my door, just in case it’s some sort of prize committee with a freakishly large check. So far, no prize committees, but I think some of them might have left while I was arguing with people over whether there was a knock. I also get fooled by car horn noises on the car radio. Any time that I think people are honking about my driving, it gives me an immediate vegetarian-sized dose of road rage. It’s not enough rage to make me start shooting at other motorists, but I seriously consider flashing a dirty look at the car behind me. Then I realize that most people can beat me up while simultaneously applying eye liner and compiling a shopping list. So instead, I pretend to be a disabled guy in a borrowed car. Observers can only see me from the neck up, so it takes some acting. But I think I pull it off. Lately I’ve been experiencing a bad case of Qtek S100 Vibration Syndrome, or QS100VS. With this condition I am positive that my Qtek is vibrating in my pocket, only to discover that it is my imagination. About ten times per day I feel the vibration and think “Ooh, it’s an e-mail/text message with good news!” So far, the only good news is that my pocket is vibrating, and that’s okay because it gives me hope that the condition might spread to the rest of my pants. This discussion makes me wonder if you could treat unhappiness with a bell. If Pavlov can teach dogs to salivate when he rings a bell, he can teach you to feel happy when he rings a bell. Or at least Pavlov could do that if he weren’t unmotivated by being dead. The point is that you could imagine training a person with a bell so that he expects something good to happen after hearing it. Eventually you could stop rewarding the guy after the bell and he’ll still feel happy by automatic response. At least in the short run. Over time, he’ll realize what an asshole you are for training him with a bell, and he’ll kill you. But I think we can all agree that you have it coming. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!Desktop Tower Defense Should Be Banned
Introducing Microsoft Tagspace
*Tagspace has been shown to be effective in helping to prevent and reduce memory decay.
**No animals or software engineers were harmed in the making or testing of Tagspace.
Screencast (on MSN Soapbox): intro2tagspace.wmv
Text Overview: Tagspace Beta Refresh Overview
Product Roadmap: Microsoft.Community Today and Tomorrow (…because this is just the beginning.)
Tagspace: In the NewsInstant Messaging Comes to Xbox 360
Pavlov’s Consultant
