For those interested, I posted a follow-up comment over on FriendFeed to my Google Docs / Buzzword post. One important aspect I forgot to include in that post: offline access. GDocs has offline doc sync through Gears. You would think Buzzword would be a shoe-in for offline access through Adobe’s AIR platform, but so far, […]
Greetings new visitors! (and there’s a lot of you!)
I captured this shot of my blog stats this evening just as it had reset for the 13th. That first jump on the 4th was my first post about Toluu. Most of the traffic that day came from FriendFeed. The second jump was after my follow-up post on Toluu yesterday. Most of that traffic also […]
Toluu has gotten even better
My new favorite RSS feed suggester, digester, and recompenser Toluu (first talked about here) just released some nifty new features. My absolute top favorite is pictured below: Every feed in the system now shows how many people are subscribed to it, and you can click the tab to see who is subscribed to the feed. […]
What the hell is Toluu? And does it require a prescription?
After generally ignoring my blog for several days (as I am wont to do every now and again, especially when Twittering so much), I checked back in today only to find that I was receiving an unexpected influx of traffic from a site called Toluu. Curious, I jumped down the rabbit hole and followed the […]
Twitter is NOT blaming Scoble for their problems
It’s amazing. Everyone complained when Twitter wasn’t saying enough about their downtime. Now that they are working to be more transparent, they are being harassed for it. Alex Payne (no relation, as far as I know, though my youngest son’s name happens to be Alex) posted on the Twitter dev blog some answers to questions […]
Kevin Lawver leaves AOL…and Ficlets
Kevin Lawver, the AOL developer behind the amazing short collaborative fiction site Ficlets, has taken a position with another company after 13 years at AOL. I learned about it first in a tweet earlier this morning. That was followed not long after by a subsequent blog post on Ficlets. Kevin built an absolutely amazing site […]
My creative project for the past few days: Minific!
I haven’t crafted a drawing or written much fiction lately. Instead, I’ve been working on another creative endeavor: Minific. Minific physically is nothing more than a pretty front-end for the Twitter tweme #minific. Conceptually, it’s much more. It’s a store house for bursts of creative insight. A repository for a flash of fiction. An ever-changing, […]
Blogger getting a MUCH needed upgrade
I switched to using WordPress because Blogger simply lacked the tools I wanted to use. I wanted categories (tags), I wanted a customizable template (but not necessarily free-code), and I wanted speed and efficiency. I may have all that now. There’s now a beta Blogger available, Mike tells us. Here’s a rundown of some of […]
Netscape Navigators still digging?
The way Jason Calacanis made it sound, the digg users now on the Netscape payroll were going to be “exclusively” ‘scaping (god, I hate that term) for the digg-like social news system. However, a look at the submission history on digg for top users Wayjer and dirtyfratboy shows that they are still contributing to the […]
Save Digg? Does it need saving?
Evidently the person(s) responsible for setting up SaveDigg.com think so. The site is a fantastically interesting concept. Basically it aggregates all the news stories that those three top digg users now on Netscape’s payroll post to Netscape. The idea is that you see what they are doing over there, and you post the same content […]