Archive for July, 2008

Aweber and Apple MobileMe Emails Being Banned

Just a quick note. I just notified Aweber that they are currently blocking me.com email addresses from being registered as a subscriber on any Aweber mailing list. Me.com is, of course, the new MobileMe service from Apple.
For a long time, it used to be that people who signed up to a mailing list using [...]

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My Blog Was Hacked (I Think) - The Story

Part of having a website online - especially a popular one - is that, well, shit happens. And it can become a target for hackers. I am not sure if what happened to PCMECH was a result of intentional hacking or something else. Nonetheless, PCMECH was down for close to 16 hours.
The only reason it [...]

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Iphone Coverage: Damn, Apple. You’re Good

Hello my name is David Risley and am one of the few people in the tech community NOT buying an Iphone 3G today.
In more proof that Apple is GOD when it comes to marketing, nerds everywhere are in line at Apple stores everywhere trying to get their phone. And, as usual, Twitter tells the story.
 
I [...]

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MicroBlogging Is About to Go All McDonalds On Us and I’m Tired Of It.

It seems like every week sees another launch or yet another new social media website. And right now, microblogging seems to be the fad. Twitter created the fad by being the standard bearer. Everybody jumped on board. The early adopters all wanted to have little baby whales with the Twitter.
Then, Twitter started to crack up. [...]

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Playing With the Layout

I am playing around with a design change on this website. Things might look a bit weird as I fine-tune things. You can catch the name and link to the theme in the footer (pretty nice theme). Now, I am doing my customizations.
So bear with me. Thanks for playing.

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Lively.com? What the F**k Is Google Thinking?

Remember Orkut? The social network might be popular in Brazil, but it is a tiny fish when compared to Myspace or Facebook.
Now we have Lively, a new virtual reality site which, as Andy Beal puts it, will be the the Orkut to Second Life.
My question? WHY?
As Google posts in their blog,
A while ago, I looked [...]

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FriendFeed Etiquette

A post by Chris Pirillo got me thinking about this subject. On FriendFeed, he said:
Removing my Twitter stream from my FriendFeed stream. Why? Ping.fm supports posting directly to FriendFeed now. Social networks, untied.
The general reaction on FriendFeed was positive to this. Bwana, for example, says:
My name is Bwana, and I approve this message
Now, it [...]

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TwitScoop Shows What’s Buzzing on Twitter. Awesome.

It is so cool to see some of the sites which are built atop Twitter. These are sites that could be integrated with Twitter at some point to create one of the best social platforms ever devised. It looks like Summize is being bought by Twitter, but this one emphasizes the "right now" nature of [...]

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Posterous Is Blogging For Everybody Else

Running a real blog is a lot of work. Posts take time. Of course, anybody can start a blog and that is the beauty of the platform. Wordpress is the absolute easiest web application to install - EVER - and you can even use one of the many free hosted options if you won’t want [...]

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Iran to Kill Bloggers?

When you see stories like this one, it makes you step aside and really think. As you know, yesterday was July 4th - Independence Day - here in the United States. I am actually able to make a living by blogging. We don’t have any governmental agency trying to regulate us (yet). But, over in [...]

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