Tweet I was reading Get Live Firefox Chat Support from Mozilla over at LifeHacker and it reminded me of one of my application ideas from my notebook. They are offering live Firefox chat support now using an all volunteer support staff. They are just passionate Firefox users willing to lend a hand. I had made [...]
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Tweet Just saw a commercial from Mountain Dew about their new soda creation web site, www.dewmocracy.com. It was another interesting usage of Social Media Marketing that utilizes its pro-users or audience to facilitate research and development (R&D). They are encouraging customers to go to the web site and help decide certain characteristics of a new [...]
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Tweet I have been spending a great deal of time learning about “learning objects” from a site called Merlot. Wikepedia defines a learning object as: “Any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training” “Any digital resource that can be reused to support learning” “Web-based interactive chunks of e-learning designed [...]
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Tweet In a few of my last posts I talk about organizing myself and developing a routine. One thing I am working on is creating a platform and routine that I work on everyday to help organize my world both internally and externally. I have started by creating an outline in Google Docs that I [...]
Tweet I was syncing up some of my OWS Network systems with the complementing Google systems today. Such as when you post a blog entry to your blog it will post to Blogger, and when you post an calendar entry to your web site it automatically publishes to Google Calendar. So I started working with [...]
Tweet Was just reading a post by Ian Forrester called, Is having a Routine good, bad or indifferent?. It is nice to see other technology professionals struggling with the same problem. I am always working to have a balance between routine and “following the wind”. I would say I lean more toward “following the wind” [...]
Tweet I was just thinking how much information I am putting on the Internet. I pretty much migrated to a web-existence completely. Only think I store locally are temporary files and my music. I store all my thoughts in my Google Notebook, all my docs on Google Docs. This is a lot of trust. What [...]
Tweet I was playing around with the Paypal Storefront Widgets today and getting my head wrapped around what they offer. They are a flashed based widget that are pretty slick. You can manage your storefront look and theme and all the details about your products. You can change your settings on whether your storefront is [...]
Tweet I just finished BETA testing the DocSyncer tool which will keep mycomputer synced with my Google Docs account. At first I had settings turned on to upload .html pages, which was a huge mistake….instantly it started publishing thousands of files of my local workstation, be careful. Once I did get my 800+ word and [...]
Tweet So I jumped the gun and blogged about the new Amazon DevPay web service and realized I hadn’t even mentioned the other latest release from Amazon, the SimpleDB. This is something I have been waiting for. I was already utilizing Amazon S3 for heavy storage of files, images, and large text blobs. I use [...]
Tweet Amazon just added another quality web service to their killer lineup. They released Amazon DevPay in Limited Beta, which is a simple-to-use billing and account service that assists developers in getting paid for applications they build using Amazon Web Services. Its a layer built on their Flexible Payment Services and allows me to integrate [...]
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Tweet I am working on a web site / web application for Roseburg Forest Products right now. Most projects we do have some level of frustration in getting the information you need to get the project rolling and built to the clients expectations. I have been going back and forth on the information architecture behind [...]
Tweet Been spending more time lately thinking about Facebook Application Development for small businesses. Was reading Andrew McAfee talking about The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Businesses and their Leaders and talking about Facebook AS the Intranet. Was also talking with another acquaintance about the usage of Facebook as a learning platform for K-12. [...]