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WordCamp Victoria 2012
I have had the absolute pleasure of hosting WordCamp Victoria for the last 3 years, and we are set to have another one on January 14th, 2012. Unlike the last 2, I am going to speak at this one. My topic is Social Comment Systems: Integration and Comparisons. To make it easier for people to comment on your blog, there have been numerous social integrations in the past few years. The goal is to make it easier for people to authenticate themselves, and make it easier to login. So, rather than creating an account at every blog you post a comment on, you can login using Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Google, …
A Subjot about Heello … Well, it's better than TwitPic!
You probably heard the news that on the very same day that Twitter started hosting images directly on Twitter.com, the makers of the popular Twitter picture sharing tool TwitPic also coincidentally launched their new Twitter-like service, called Heello. It had been rumoured for awhile, but we can presume the launch had something to do with Twitter’s new feature. It looks like a misspelled “Hello,” but if you pronounce it like they say it’s pronounced, it sounds like a place in Hawaii. Being an easily distracted social media addict, I naturally jumped right in. Hot on the heels of Google+, though, this is getting to be a bit much. Initially, I like …
Is Google Buzz the Twitter Killer?
Some have compared it to FriendFeed, some have called it Google’s answer to Facebook, and some are just annoyed and can’t wait to turn it off (in GMail, you can scroll to the bottom and click on “turn off buzz”, by the way). Others have predicted Google Buzz will annihilate Twitter! They make a compelling argument. It’s a sophisticated broadcast notification system, much like Twitter. It’s public. You can send images (and you don’t need third party applications like TwitPic). You can automatically feed Buzz from other services (Blog RSS Feeds, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, etc.). Your Google profile is now your Google Buzz profile, and has much more information …
Happy 5th Birthday Firefox!
The Mozilla Firefox browser is 5 years old! Now that Internet Explorer isn’t nearly as awful as it once was, and Google Chrome has started to raise some eyebrows, we often forget the effect Firefox had on the world. They made a cool site, and a cool video. And, of course, they published it on Twitter and Facebook. Admittedly, I use Chrome most often these days. But Firefox is still an amazing product, and perhaps one of the best examples in the world of how a great open source community can contribute to a better world – literally.
