Tag: twitter
What Happened To Google Wave?
I was originally planning to do a post about Google Buzz this weekend, but then something reminded me about Google Wave. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t heard anything about Wave in weeks. It occurred to me that one of the most hyped products of 2009 might have fallen completely on it’s face. […]
Posted: February 13th, 2010 under tech.
Tags: Gmail, Google, google buzz, Google I/O, Google Wave, hype, twitter
Comments: 8
Quitting Facebook
Just over 4 weeks ago I decided to deactivate my Facebook account. I’ve had an account since freshman year of college (5+ years ago) and this was the first time I ever deactivated it. I used to be an avid user of Facebook. In fact, up until about 12 months ago, I would spend probably […]
Posted: January 26th, 2010 under personal, tech.
Tags: facebook, social, spam, twitter
Comments: 5
Smart Tips To Protect Your Online Accounts
As you may remember, over a month ago a hacker was able to gain access to hundreds of confidential documents from Twitter. The incident was covered heavily on tech blogs, and TechCrunch wrote a very interesting post describing the “anatomy” of the Twitter attack. I found the post to be extremely insightful and I’m quite […]
Posted: August 13th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: email, Gmail, hacker, online accounts, password, security, twitter
Comments: 1
Facebook Buys FriendFeed; Twitter Floods with Spam
In case you missed the HUGE news today, Facebook has just acquired the very impressive social network FriendFeed. FriendFeed might not seem like a such a big deal, and maybe you’ve never even heard of it, but it packs lots of cool features and loads of innovation. It focuses on bringing together all of one’s […]
Posted: August 10th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: facebook, FriendFeed, social, spam, twitter
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The Great Scalability Problem of 2009
If you’ve been following tech news this week you would have heard about the Twitter #FAIL that has users up in arms. I’m not going to bother typing up a full recap as this has been done many times already this week. However, I would like to reflect on the blog post that Twitter co-founder Biz […]
Posted: May 14th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: scalability, technology, twitter
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Spammers Find Twitter
As Twitter’s popularity continues to skyrocket, I’ve been noticing an increasing amount of spam content out there in the Twitterverse. Typically, when we think of spam the first thing to come to mind is usually email. Every morning I sift through my email accounts and remove a few unwanted messages. While spam filters can help […]
Posted: May 10th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: spam, spammers, twitter
Comments: 1
Writing Applications for Twitter
Oh hey! It’s been a few weeks (months?) since I’ve updated. It’s always tough to get motivated to blog because I totally hate writing… still trying to understand why I have a blog. Anywho, it’s been a busy few weeks! Lots of biking and working and biking. One of the more interesting things that has […]
Posted: May 1st, 2009 under tech.
Tags: code, php, TweetCounter, twitter
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5 Useful Apps for Mac OSX
Since a few of my friends have been getting macs over the past couple weeks, I decided it would be a cool idea to showcase some of the applications that I REALLY love. I decided to pick out 5 of my favorite *free* apps. Here they are, in no particular order. 1) Quicksilver (Download) Quicksilver is […]
Posted: December 25th, 2008 under tech.
Tags: apple, growl, handbrake, quicksilver, transmission, twitter, twitterriffic
Comments: 2
Portfolio, Mixtapes, and Social Software
One of my goals for this blog is to showcase some of my personal projects. I do a lot of web development for various people and organizations and it’s nice to be able to show off your work! So, on that note, I’ve added a Portfolio page to this blog. You can find the page […]
Posted: August 6th, 2008 under personal.
Tags: blog, del.icio.us, mixtape, music, twitter, web2.0
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