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How to Customize Your Facebook Page
I get asked a lot how to customize your Facebook Page (that’s with a capital “P”, not to be confused with your personal profile). I wrote an article over on Tamar Weinberg’s (author of “The New Community Rules” ) blog showing you what you need to do to get ...
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It’s Time to Free the Twitter Client
Dave Winer wants a programmable Twitter client. I think it’s a great idea. It’s something the browser has had for quite awhile now via extensions, frameworks, and plugins. Up until this point Twitter clients have been closed systems that can’t really be extended in any way. ...
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The Future Has No Log In Button
Since last week’s Kynetx Impact Conference I have gained an entirely new vision for the open web. I now foresee a web which the user completely controls, lives in the browser, syncs with the cloud, and has no boundaries. This new web completely makes the entire Social and Real-time ...
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Twitter – TIMTOWTDI
I love Twitter for its variety. In many ways it’s a lot like my favorite programming language Perl , whose mantra is “ There is more than one way to do it. ” Some people choose the messy, spaghetti code way, while others choose nicely formatted, object-oriented way, even ...
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This is What an RSS Reader is For
Yesterday Robert Scoble wrote a critical post claiming Chris Brogan was using Twitter wrong , stating Chris isn’t separating his content on Twitter well enough. As one who had to create multiple Twitter accounts to separate out my activity, I am one of the first to support this method. ...
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All Your OS Are Belong to Google – Why Aren’t We Worried?
All Your OS Are Belong to Google – Why Aren’t We Worried?
staynalive.com — I’m following the stories of the Google Chrome OS release today and am a bit concerned about... some of the claims that are being made. Mashable even goes to the extent of predicting Google is going to “ destroy the desktop ” with it. ... (more) All Your OS Are Belong to Google – Why Aren’t We Worried?
Kynetx Kills the Portal, Launches Identity Platform for Developers
Today at Kynetx Impact Conference Kynetx is changing the future of Web Identity and privacy as we know it by taking the power away from the server and moving it over to users’ desktops, mobile phones, or other client-based technology. Dr. Phil Windley , company CTO and co-founder in his ...
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Phil Windley, CTO and Co-Founder, Kynetx
Phil Windley, CTO and Co-Founder, Kynetx In this video I interview Phil Windley about his company, Kynetx, and what they're doing to change the focus of the web from the server back to the client. Phil's expertise in identity makes this change even more interesting.  ...
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Earth Misses Meteor by 13 Miles
Okay, maybe it’s not that cut and dry (the earth hits meteors all the time – they just disintegrate before hitting ground). Tonight about half of all my Utah friends all at one time reported a light, as bright as day, ascend in a blue-green aura from East to West. For some reason ...
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Want to Learn How to Write Facebook Apps? Now’s Your Chance
On Thursday morning I’m doing a free webcast for Safari Books Online (moderated by OReilly’s Laurel Ackerman) in which I’m going to go into further detail than I have before on how to get started building Facebook apps. I’ll take you from start to finish, focusing this ...
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MuseBuzz Sends You Song Notifications Signed, Sealed, Delivered
I love new music. When I was younger I would spend my evenings and weekends surfing the used CD stores finding that rare track or remix no one had heard before. I would spend hours at Blockbuster Music (remember them?) previewing every CD I could to find the perfect album or single. Maybe ...
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Come Learn About SocialToo At LaunchUp
I’m opening the books tonight on my company, SocialToo . I’ll be presenting tonight at Launchup , an event compared to be a “community barn raising for entrepreneurs”. The event happens every couple months and has featured such Utah companies as TodaysMama (whom I am ...
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Does Twitter Have An Internal iPhone App?
staynalive.com — Awhile back I was surfing the Twitter developers wiki and noticed 2 suspicious images uploaded by Ryan... Sarver , Twitter’s Platform Project Manager. One of the images looks like a very rough status message entry screen, with a toggle button ... (more) Does Twitter Have An Internal iPhone App?
Twitter Hires Another Facebook Veteran
According to Twitter’s Team list , Brian Sutorius , who, according to his Facebook profile , was previously on Facebook’s Platform Policy team, is now Twitter’s newest API Support team member. After the loss of Alex Payne moving to more operational roles, and Chad Etzel , who ...
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Screenshots Emerge of the New Twitter Retweet Feature
Nick Shin just wrote me mentioning he has the new Twitter retweet feature on his account, @marketwire . He wrote about it on his blog which you can read here . It would appear it works very much in a similar way to how Twitter original mentioned. To start, users with this feature will have ...
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Paypal Pays Off With Paypal X Innovate Conference
Paypal has spent awhile now planning a conference for developers which they would be able to announce their new Paypal X developer platform for flexible payments. I’ve talked to Sudha Jamthe , in charge of many of their social media promotion efforts for awhile now, and I know ...
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Ebay Suggests Identity API – Can They Do it Alone?
Ebay’s CTO, Mark Carges, today announced at Paypal X Innovate plans by Ebay, Inc. to begin incorporating the Paypal login process as an identity platform for consumers to eventually open up to developers. The platform, Carges said, aims to use the existing Paypal login ID which includes ...
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“X” Marks the Spot for New Paypal Development Platform
“X”. It’s a common variable used in many a code base. It’s one of the most common variables of any code base. It’s what counts. That’s what Paypal wants to become in the hands of developers, as they stated in their kickoff Keynotes this morning at the ...
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Services Need to Stop With the Twitter Kool-Aid
Tonight for about a full hour many Rackspace sites, including their own Slicehost service, inquisitr.com , Laughing Squid-hosted sites, Posterous , Tr.im , and even my own SocialToo.com . Ben Parr of Mashable even noticed , asking if a bunch of websites has all just crashed. I was reminded to ...
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