One of the most horrible April Fools’ jokes possible wasn’t even played on me yesterday, but I’m praying that’s exactly what happened: an April Fools’ prank that went too far. Yesterday, quite a few of you who are following me on Twitter noticed that my site was down not once, but twice! It only got […]
Read moreWill Social Networks Burst Like The Dot Com Boom?
Social networks are all the rage these days. You tell me one person who isn’t on one. From Facebook to Myspace, Twitter to FriendFeed, we’re all socializing somewhere, but is it all just a phase? Will this pop just like the dot com boom did? I wonder if these networks and services will evolve instead […]
Read moreWhy SheGeeks Is So Awesomesauce
Today I got a reply on Twitter from FaceySpacey.com that said: "I’m just entering the blogging space. How have you done so well?" Well, let’s recap: RSS Subscribers My subscriber count has skyrocketed this month (in my opinion). According to my Feedburner stats, I went from having 19 subscribers on March 1st, to 188 subscribers […]
Read moreAnd The Winner Is…
On March 11th, I ran a Worthy WordPress Theme contest. To recap, I basically asked my audience to help me decide on whether to keep my new theme, or if the GridFocus theme by 5thirtyone might be a better choice. Well, you all were split neck and neck, and that’s including the Twitter replies that […]
Read moreAggregation And Lifestreaming: What’s The Difference?
Frederic of The Last Podcast as an interesting rant about aggregation not being the same thing as lifestreaming. Here’s an excerpt that sums up his frustrations pretty nicely: Everybody seems to be hellbend on calling every new social media aggregator a “lifestreaming service”. But have you looked at the ‘everyone’ feed on FriendFeed? Nothing on […]
Read moreFriendFeed and Disqus Are Next Generation Services
FriendFeed Adds New Services You can now stream your Disqus comments through FriendFeed! Personally, I think this is a major step in the right direction to solving the conversation fragmentation controversy. Here’s what the developers of FriendFeed had to say: We had a “Fix-it Day” at FriendFeed on Friday, which means we spent all our […]
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