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At Last — Disqus Supports Pingbacks!
Tonight, I got a SMS message from Disqus on Twitter. The tweet was pretty succinct:
Disqus for WordPress 2.03 released.: This release includes trackback/pingback and pagination support as we.. http://tinyurl.com/5z98kh
That was enough for me! Disqus’ lack of PingBack support in WordPress was really something that I missed, as you can probably tell from this article’s title. [...]
Diigo Tests Group Thumbs
Now, if you are a member of a particular group in Diigo, you can give certain URLs a thumbs-up if you think it is especially helpful.
The Social Media Burden
For me, even when social media is a joy, sometimes it is also a burden.
Good Stat Summary of Twitter’s Competitiors
This weekend Twitter has been more reliable than Identi.ca. Steve Gillmor ‘dented a threat about returning to Twitter. And Dave Winer tweeted that he was thinking of mirroring his tweets to Identi.ca.
During the conventions, and up to and including this weekend, Identi.ca has found out what Twitter already knows: the Jabber chat protocol “firehose” can [...]
AFK, Going to PAX
I’ve been looking forward to PAX (or Penny Arcade Expo) for months now. I bought my pass and plane tickets and it’s finally right around the corner!
Announcing Reblogging on DISQUS
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Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can publish a quotation of the comment to your blog. This quote is cited with the original author, the blog where it originally appeared, and a link back to the original comment to give the discussion full context.
At the moment, we’re supporting [...]
WordPress for iPhone!
This will be a short note because I am writing it on my iPhone’s touch keyboard. But, I thought it fitting. Why? Because now I can write updates (however painfully) directly from the iPhone!
Developed by Effigent for Automattic, it seems like a very sweet little app! You can learn more about it at iphone.wordpress.net.
Below, hopefully, [...]
Advanced FriendFeed Tip: The Imaginary Friend
As it turns out that people use the ‘imaginary friend’ feature in different ways. Here is what we know about imaginary friends on FriendFeed.
Toluu Learns to Hover
Caleb has added a new feature to his socialized RSS feed sharing app, Toluu today. Now, anywhere in Toluu when you see a feed name and you hover your cursor over it, you will get a pop-up dialog with the feed name and the last 5 articles titles.
Mea Culpa
In Latin, mea culpa means, “my fault.” Mea – me, and culpa – culpable. In this case, I have to apologize for not updating in a few days. You can probably guess the reason why.
Scribkin is Now a Book!
I found a great little service called Feedbooks. I have them convert my site feed into a PDF and e-book free of charge!
Su Reviews Idee’s TinEye
If you assume that the Tin Man has eidetic memory and a talent for finding pictures that look like each other, you’d be getting close to what TinEye does.
