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Posts from June 2007

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29 June 2007 @ 2pm

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Blog of Note

I stopped by to check email today and noticed that my blog was listed as one of Blogger.com’s blogs of note. That’s a cool little achievement, thanks Blogger team. You’ll all be hearing from me again next week when I return from vacation, its been a lovely week here at the shore.


Working with Facebook Platform

I’ve been busy on many fronts lately, but last week I found a little time to play around with Facebook Platform. John Edwards, whose presidential campaign is based in my own backyard, lacked a Facebook App, so I set to building one for him (unofficially, of course). Techpresident covered the app last week, [...]


Social Networks Case Study

Over on the Complexity and Social Networks blog, the team has posted a case study of aSmallWorld.net, an exclusive social network for rich people who love to go clubbing and buy luxury goods. The authors write:
Yesterday, our teaching case on aSmallWorld.net was released. It is publicly available on the PNG working paper series site.The [...]


In-Between Places

This morning, I was reading an interesting post from Chris Messina. In it, he talks about his in-between blogging behavior. Messina says:
I also screenshot as a way of in-between blogging, I guess. Y’know, like Twitter, Tumblr, Ma.gnolia, Plazes and Last.fm (among others) are all forms of in-between blogging. They’re where I am in [...]


Hacking Fun: Never forget a birthday

For a long time, I’ve wanted a little robot to mail me and remind me of birthdays. Yeah, I know there are some online services that do this, but they are notoriously spammy. So last night I took a few hours and wrote my own, and I’m sharing it here with you.
The program [...]


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10 June 2007 @ 1pm

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Has FB made it too easy to spam your friends?


The Subscription Curve

Yesterday, I found myself frustrated as I looked at the number of unlistened podcasts in my iTunes queue. With no long plane flights on my immediate radar, where was I ever going to find the time to listen to 16 podcasts! This led me to pondering how my patterns of media consumption, supposedly [...]