Kin Lane on September 30th, 2009

Tweet I was just reading ReadWriteWebs post on City of Portland, Oregon Officially Backs Open, Structured Data.   As a data professional and politically minded individual I feel this is a huge step.  Especially since it is in my home state. I firmly believe that transparency and sharing of data by city, state and federal government [...]

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Kin Lane on September 30th, 2009

Tweet As I was browsing Bug Labs listing of little programmable gadgets I was getting all excited and immediately wanted to share with my other geeky friends on Facebook. So I started looking around for a share button….nothing. It is common to see all the common share buttons on blogs these days.  Anywhere there is [...]

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Kin Lane on September 30th, 2009

Tweet I was just checking out BUG Labs do it yourself DIY gadgets.   They have created a sweet array of little open source programmable gadgets.   For those of us who spent our youths taking apart stereos, tvs and anything that plugged in when we were little….these are cool. Here is what they are all about [...]

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Kin Lane on September 28th, 2009

Tweet Google added two new features into their Google Docs – Forms tool.   You can now: Add Page Breaks – Breaks in your form allow a wizard style or multi-page form. Logic Branch – Which allows you to break your form pages up to have different results based upon answers to questions. Both these features [...]

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Kin Lane on September 25th, 2009

Tweet Google recently opened up Google Site and introduced an API as well as import / export features for Google Sites.  I think this will increase the potential for enterprise and other business adoption. You can now get your data out of Google Sites easily, which is key to adoption. You can also quickly build [...]

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Kin Lane on September 20th, 2009

Tweet Just read Matt Cutts latest blog post and he offers some of the best advice for achieving productivity I’ve heard in a while. Thanks Matt.

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Kin Lane on September 16th, 2009

Tweet I was just seeing which of my social network profiles show up in my top 10 google search results.   I was also maintaining the Facebook Page I setup for WebEvents Global. I like the page activity Facebook pages gives you.  It also gives your more reporting if you take out ads, regarding their performance. [...]

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Kin Lane on September 16th, 2009

Tweet I guess Facebook beating out my blog when searching for my name “Kin Lane” @ Google was a temporary thing .  The results are fairly normal now. I haven’t reported what my top 10 are for a while.  They tend to reflect the top social platforms out there. Kin Lane Flickr: kin.lane’s Photostream Kin [...]

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