August 27th, 2008 | Published in Technology | Comment
A couple of friends and family have been asking:
What’s up w/ the status updates I see quite often?
What’s w/ the “@” (at symbol) next to names on your status?
What the heck is a tweet?
Rather than pointing them to Twitter’s site, I rather just show them this video:
I hope that makes sense. Thanks to Common Craft. They have done a great job explaining it “in plain english” =)
Update
Some Twitter terms written by Peter Cashmore on Mashable.
January 19th, 2006 | Published in Uncategorized
Other than it’s bold ORANGE color, FeedXS launched yesterday. A Netherland-based company,
FeedXS gives everyone in the world and every business its own personal feed. By creating a feed, everyone who subscribes to your feed, will always be on top of your latest news.
It’s totally FREE!
Meanwhile, while this looks like a promising web application, I wonder how it will effect the Blogosphere. By reading the Personal Feeds tour section, I understand that you pretty much just add entries and publish them to your feed. Somewhat like the workflow on Blogger.com (or any blogging tool) but instead of publishing your latest entry on a webpage, it updates/appends your latest entry to the feed.
Will we see a decrease in blog-site creation in the future because of services like FeedXS? People are always wanting to take the easy route. I see this as one of those things. But, bloggers are a different class of their own. They seem to want everything they create and write under their complete control; for me at least. Also, what would happen to those bloggers who get some cheese by writing great content (i.e. Om Malik, Andy Budd and Michael Arrington to name the least)?
Interaction. What willl happen to the communication that blogs thrive on between the author and his/her readers? I guess this is a drawback. Instead of just posting a comment on the entry page of the post, one will have to click on the entry’s archive page URL; that’s even if the author has a site. I guess I just see this product as a one-way service. Even though it’ll be easy for everyone to publish an RSS feed, it does not provide the readers a way to give a way to send feedback or thoughts back to the author. Or does it?
December 23rd, 2005 | Published in Technology
One of the “weaknesses” that I have (other than a sucker for FREE food) would probably be the fact that I like to learn a lot of new things. How can this be a weakness? Well, it’s kind of like playing sports. You would like to get into each sport you see on TV or the ones that your peers love to play. By doing so, you get to become a great athlete. However, a downside to that would be you not being able to become a great player of a particular sport. Now, this might not be true for everything and everyone but collectively, it is.
Lately, this weakness have been getting me in the world of technology, more specifically web-technology. With all of this “Web 2.0″ boom going around in the air, it just makes you wonder when this “upgrade” will be set. Applications left-and-right are coming at you at ludicrous speed. Trying to keep up with every single one of them is a chore, but also exciting, educational and inspiring.
With the boom comes competition. The will to succeed and ideology “to be better, smarter and more efficient than the next guy” are what fuels these new breeds of think-tanks and Web 2.0 innovators.
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coComment Helps Us Remember What We’ve Said
April 29th, 2006 | Published in Technology
I was actually thinking of something like this. I was going to make it my first RoR project but that might just be to ambitious. Anyways, plain and simple,
One con (at the moment), is that “users can only track comments from blog posts that they have actually commented on, and only comments left by other cocomment users are shown.”[1] But this was a day or so ago. I have to check the new version out myself as I’ve just signed up a few moments ago.
Along with their news yesterday about version 0.4c being released, the team also mentioned the fact that there is now a Firefox extension for coComments. This addition, for sure, will make things a bit easier than having to use a bookmarlet on the user’s computer.
There might be one small gripe though. As I was taking a look at coComment’s Blog Integration section which lists which browsers and blog/CMS/site-platforms it supported, I read that Movable Type blogs must have the following format,
Otherwise, the comment (in coComment) will show up as “(untitled)”.
So, seeing that, there might be an issue of having everyone involved have a standard way of templating their TITLE-tags. I, for one, see this as a big thing (so it ain’t “small” after all). If this is true, and hasn’t been addressed in it’s next iteration, coComment is pretty much forcing everyone to do “this and that.” Then again, we’ll see how this plays out with Microformats. So if you are listening/reading this oh-Lords-of-coComment, please do let us know. (Then again, I just signed up and haven’t gotten to play around with coComment that completely yet.)
All in all, the service is practical and very useful for those that like to read and interact with different blogs. It’s great for coComment to have gotten around and implemented something useful to the millions that are very involved with interblog-interactivity. In it’s current state of version 0.4c, I just can’t wait to see the other features it will have when it rolls out from “beta”. Pretty much, like all the other “Web 2.0″ application-sites. =)
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