What I Need is a Universal Receptor Protocol

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Have you ever grumbled that a particular application you use doesn't work the way you want it to, or doesn't have a specific feature you want? Sure you have. I have too. Everyone has. But what makes coders and developers different is that they usually hunker down and implement the ...

Digsby News: Facebook Chat Support

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Today, Digsby announced an unexpected new feature: direct support for Facebook chat! As far as I know, Digsby is the first multi-IM client to support Facebook chat, and it's a feature that many Facebook users are looking forward to. They say in a blog entry that messaging, buddy icons, ...

Tell Me About Digsby

Friday, April 25th, 2008

You're on AIM, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. You have Google Talk through Gmail and you still have that old ICQ account lying around. You think you have it covered with Trillian or Pidgin. Perhaps you think you are a step ahead of your coworkers because you are using Meebo. Think again.

TwitKit - The Perfect Twitter Sidebar?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

In the course of reviewing different Twitter add-ons to Firefox yesterday, I noticed there was an entire page of betas that required a login to install. One of the betas that I noticed was called TwitKit. Apparently, I'm too lazy to create a login, but I did ...

Gary Vaynerchuck Twittered It Out

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I recently wrote a review of Twitter, so I wanted to share a related video with you, from Gary Vaynerchuck, founder of Wine Library. In this video he is speaking about Twitter vs Facebook from his personal video blog. I really think he's really on to something here.

Tell Me About Twitter

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

It has generated a lot of buzz in the past year, but for many, what Twitter does is still a mystery. Why do we need to log in somewhere just to type in a sentence worth of text? Isn't that what Instant Messaging is for? I heard it is just like Dodgeball. I have ...

..But What About the Content?

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Over the weekend I spent probably too much time tweaking the appearance of this blog. I installed and tweaked a select list of WordPress plugins, got my Google ads set up the way I want them, etc. Actually, I could just do this for days -- partially because time just ...