Yesterday afternoon, I sat down with the goal of creating my first FeedBurner FeedFlare. I wasn’t sure just how hard it would be, so I was ready for a grind. As it turns out, creating a working FeedFlare was not that difficult.
A rare weekend post today, on a topic that most people probably will not find interesting and some people will find extremely awesome. I am speaking, of course, of the dozens of plugins, mods, and other bells & whistles that I have added to this blog over time.
Feel free to skip right over this post unless you love this sort of stuff.
Just a quick newsworthy note, this site uses a community-based comment system called Disqus. I’ve been really happy with it so far, and they just made it better!
According to their blog, they now have more information in their popup profile. This is the bubble of info you get when you hover over someone’s picture in the comments section here or in any other Disqus-enabled blog.
The popup profile now not only lists the Disqus user’s registered services, but also their most recent comments and their last tweet, if they are on Twitter.
Every modern operating system comes with a web browser. On Windows, it is Internet Explorer. On a Mac, it’s Safari. Linux usually comes with more than one, but usually has at least Firefox. All of these (arguably) are decent web browsers and do the job of displaying web pages. Generally, you should never need to install another browser on your computer, except for maybe on Windows. There, many people are not satisfied with Internet Explorer for a number of reasons, and tend to install Firefox as their primary browser.
So, why switch to a new browser? Isn’t it possible to do everything you want to do with the one you are using, via plugins or mods? Well, perhaps. But maybe you will find a browser that works just as well as the one you are using, and provides a level of integration and convenience with services and sites you already use. Maybe that web browser is Flock.
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 a few friends who LOVE Twitter.. but they can’t really explain why!
None of my friends use it.. why should I sign up?