For those of you that have never heard of StumbleUpon, it's a website that allows you to randomly "Stumble Upon" websites. You install a toolbar in your browser and click on a button that says, "Stumble!" and it will start to present you with websites. There are categories that you can select so StumbleUpon will only present you with websites that contain the content that Continue Reading
Archives for 2008
WordPress 2.6 Released
WordPress 2.6 has been released and here's a video from a post by Matt. If you don't want to upgrade but you want to play with WordPress 2.6, you can always install it locally on your PC. Read How To Run WordPress 2.6 beta 1 to run WordPress locally. The easiest way to upgrade is to use the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin. Have Fun!! Continue Reading
Social Networks Will Make You Cool
In Daniel Scocco's article Are Social Networks Like the Fashion Industry? at DailyBlogTips, Daniel presents an argument on whether social networks are like the fashion industry where one social site becomes popular for a period of time and then everyone moves on to something new and cool, and then - rinse and repeat. Daniel asks, "Are we looking for something that will add Continue Reading
Storytelling with Ira Glass
Here are four videos by Ira Glass on YouTube about Storytelling. Ira Glass on Storytelling #1 Building a story Making listeners/readers want to keep listening/reading for some reason Speak naturally Ira Glass on Storytelling #2 Know when to abandon crap Get rid of the boring parts Failure is a big part of success More failure brings a situation where Continue Reading
TweetDeck: Another Twitter Client
TweetDeck is a Twitter client that runs on your computer using Adobe AIR. It seems to be taking off in popularity and while they are designing it and taking input, I thought I'd write about a few things I would like to see and introduce you to TweetDeck as well. Here are some TweetDeck features: Is an Adobe Air application in public beta Evolve the existing Continue Reading