Commentary on all different tech subjects from a real geek.

Looking Back on the Social Media Love-In

Posted: July 25th, 2008 | Author: Patrick | Filed under: Social Media | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Earlier in the week, Problogger had we he called a “Social Media Love-In“. A lot of Problogger’s readers are all cut from the same cloth, so we all exchanged addresses for our social media websites. I knew I would find some new friends and some new blogs, but a few days later, it’s obvious it is more than that.
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Plurk API coming today?

Posted: July 18th, 2008 | Author: Patrick | Filed under: Social Media | Tags: , , | No Comments »

There are a few loud whispers today that the downtime on Plurk this morning has to do with the fact that they will soon be releasing their API. I honestly can’t wait until they do, I want to write a plugin for WordPress using Plurk so naturally it is a ton easier when you don’t have to reverse engineer it.

Don’t forget to swing by and say hi on my Plurk page.



Twitter: What do you think?

Posted: July 7th, 2008 | Author: Patrick | Filed under: Rants, Twitter | Tags: , | No Comments »

I love Twitter, don’t get me wrong. It can be a fantastic tool for quickly blasting something out really quickly to a lot of people. There are plenty of people using it, and you can update it from any phone that can text message.

Twitter definitely seems that the worst of the problem is over. The ups and downs of being available, IM is still not working, and more. So what do you think?


Plurk Invites!

Posted: June 1st, 2008 | Author: Patrick | Filed under: Social Media | Tags: | No Comments »

Click here to join Plurk…it’s a new mini-blogging application. It’s like Twitter, but hopefully this will stay up!