Today is Quit Facebook Day. While I agree with the privacy concerns to some degree and it seems like Mark Zuckerberg might not be a trustworthy person; unfortunately, I don’t feel like there is a good alternative to Facebook, for that reason I think it would be difficult for me to live online without Facebook. I wanted to deactivate my… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: May 2010
Every Websites I’ve Worked on
Out of curiosity I compiled a list of all website’s I’ve ever touched in any sort of “developer” capacity — not including personal projects. Here they are in alphabetical order. I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting a good 6–12 from the early years of my career. Advance Electronics Aikins LLP B&D Auto Recycling Compusense Software Folkway Music HipHopDX Imperial Soup… Read more »
Flash On iPhone with Cloud Browse, Sorta
Double-U Tee Eff, it’s cnettv flash video streaming to my non-jailbroken iPhone, in Firefox? Yup. This is all thanks to the Cloud Browse app. The app details don’t give any information about how this is actually working. As far as I can tell the app makes a VNC-type connection to a virtual machine on Amazon EC2. Works like… Read more »
Dear Facebook Quitters…
There’s been a lot talk in the mainstream press about growing dissatisfaction regarding Facebook’s complete disregard for privacy. Prominent nerds are quitting or threatening to quit Facebook. On today’s Buzz Out Loud they suggested that if Facebook doesn’t change their course soon, this is going to be worst than the Myspace exodus. My only question is,… Read more »
Embedded Tweets Not Ready for Prime-Time
Twitter just launched a little tool designed to make it easier to embed tweets into your website. Currently blogs tend to paste in tweets whenever a twitter source requires reference, as Twitter explain in their blog post “…a pasted-in image of a tweet is a bit of a hack. We have a simple alternative to propose…” All you have to do,… Read more »