Kin Lane on August 24th, 2009

Tweet Alright, what gives?  My Facebook profile just beat out my blog www.kinlane.com for the number #1 search position for “kin lane” at Google. Wondering what in the algorithm would cause that? Is it because there is more activity on my Facebook than my blog? Is it because Facebook has more prominence? Interesting change in [...]

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Kin Lane on August 23rd, 2009

Tweet Going through all my spam comments, and editing a few recent posts.  Just don’t have time to blog lately.  So busy with WebEvents that I just haven’t found the energy. Have lots of material I will be working through soon.

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Kin Lane on August 16th, 2009

Tweet I am just gonna paste this article I came across on Mashable, called Two-Thirds of Marketers Now Use Social Media because it says it all: Earlier this year, we reported that 63 percent of companies planned to increase their spending on social media in 2009. Thus, it’s not too surprising that a recent study [...]

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Kin Lane on August 16th, 2009

Tweet I found the house for me. This 3-bedroom 2-story home sits on a beautifully landscaped lot and is waiting for your personal touch.  Move in and take your time renovating. And what makes it perfect is the address 1 Kin Lane, Rocky Harbour, NL

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Kin Lane on August 15th, 2009

Tweet I was listening to my NPR today and I just heard an episode called A Dark Journey Into A Killer’s Personal Effects.  It is a thriller novel about a serial killer, however I find very interesting is the are creating what they call a “multiplatform transmedia experience.” They do this by extending the story [...]

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Tweet I just answered a question for someone on the best screen scraping, data gathering, mashup tools out there.  I couldn’t remember the name of dapper for the life of me. So I figured I would record here so I could find in the future.  Love my blog for that. With these tools below I [...]

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Kin Lane on August 7th, 2009

Tweet When it comes to Google Wave, it can be tough to find truly new perspectives on how it works and its potential usage and adoption.  I just finished reading a great post by Anil Dash called What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way. He provides a perspective and analysis of Google Wave [...]

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Kin Lane on August 6th, 2009

Tweet Image via CrunchBase Just read another post with data backing up the growth as Google Android as an application development platform.    A post from ReadWriteWeb called “More Developers Start Working on Android Apps” has some good data from Flurry on application platform growth for Iphone, Blackberry, and Android. The post states: Flurry’s stats for [...]

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