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Find Friends on Flickr
I find myself really liking Flickr more and more. I’m really pleased with the features and how usable, and very importantly, how extendable it is. You can find me on Flickr.
However, one area where Flickr falls really short is finding your friends. Sure, if you have a GMail or Yahoo! Mail account you can find [...]
Site Performance as seen by Google
I mentioned earlier that I had moved my sites over to Slicehost. My reasoning for this was performance. Here is a graph that proves that performance out as seen by the Google robot. This graph shows the response times that Google was seeing when it spidered my site. The crazy noise on the left is [...]
Power WordPress Presentation Materials
I’m doing my Power WordPress presentation at Minnebar today. I decided to do the presentation today without any slides but instead give everyone handouts with the relevant tips & tricks. To share the wealth here are links to the PDF files for the three sections I’m covering, Performance, Plugin Review and SEO Basics.
Minneapolis Getting Comcast Love
This rolled by in my newsfeed a few days ago and caught my eye. The New York Times had a short piece on Minneapolis getting some new high-speed options from Comcast. I found the release on Comcast’s website about it as well.
Comcast is rolling out this new DOCSIS 3.0 technology and it promises to give [...]
TED - Podcast You Should Be Watching
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED has an annual conference that in recent years has become a pretty amazing event. Getting into TED is not easy. On top of a very expensive entry fee, you actually have to write an essay expanding on your accomplishments and what you expect to achieve in the coming [...]
How Software Is Built Interview
A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to do a phone interview with Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell who are doing a series of interviews regarding How Software Is Built. The interview was a lot of fun and really hit around the general theme of how open source is changing the way software is [...]
FriendFeed Duplication via Mashing
I’ve been working with financial news for years now and there is a really common problem in financial news, deduplication. The issue is when several news outlets will cover the same story or even redistribute another sources story, creating duplicates that readers find annoying. As the web becomes more mashable, I saw the first sign [...]
More FriendFeed Fun
I wrote earlier about FriendFeed and I’m continuing to really enjoy it. I’ve played in the past with aggregation and this is by far the best solution for “life streaming” out there yet. Here is the perfect example of why FriendFeed is cool.
The Twitter and Flickr actions tied together; open and mashable in a “Web [...]
Publisher Party at Hearst Tower
I got a fun opportunity to attend a really nice event hosted by True Ventures, Automattic, Sphere, New York Times and Hearst Interactive at the Hearst Tower. It was a collection of who’s who in the publishing/media sector and some great companies with some innovative web stuff. Big thanks to Raanan over at Automattic for [...]
FriendFeed is Pretty Cool
In September 2007 I came up with the idea of using a Yahoo! Pipe to create the Thingelstad Superfeed. The basic idea was to provide one feed that you could get all my “stuff” with. It seems it was a good idea, since a couple of companies are now doing exactly this. I setup a [...]
