A blog on Life, Love & The Pursuit of Techyness
Over the past few days, I’ve recruited a few millennials to the “dark side” (aka to join Twitter) after explaining what the “point” of it really is. I’m a little proud of this accomplishment, but it led me to write about the “next thing” that will become mainstream… now that random banks in Nebraska, a [...]
Continuing along with my current theme of managing your digital identity (or multiple identities if that’s more your style), I’ve realized that not everyone is aware that things could, well, be a little bit easier with the introduction of the right tools. Consider the following situations and my proposed answers (comment if you have something [...]
With the go-live of the facebook vanity urls when the clock struck midnight (no, I did not turn back into a pumpkin..) the rush to claim one’s digital real estate by the 200,000 people in 3 minutes truly makes even the most skeptical person believe that social media is making more than just a digital [...]
And what’s more official than a pie chart? Everyone loves colorful graphs, right? If FriendFeed had a business intelligence reporting platform, it would be GeekChart. This site pulls in your activity from a few (more to come) sites like twitter, flikr, stumbleupon, blog rss feeds and last.fm (facebook is coming soon) and displays where your [...]
…I’d have a really sweet tech setup. (I already have the green dress) [via Barenaked Ladies- shoutout] Nah, this is really just a way for me to show all the things I think are awesome… hopefully you do too. 10 Awesome Tech Gadgets and A Place to Store it All: 1. A Place to Call [...]
He’s amassed over 500,000 followers. Sure, that’s only about a half of Shaq or Oprah, but this time it’s not a celebrity or famous athlete. He’s a cat. What’s interesting to me about Sockington’s growth on twitter is that it just showcases our interest in animals that can talk and have distinct personalities. Sockington answers [...]
Sometimes one just has to make a shameless plug for the Alma mater – so, here I go. If you’ll be in the greater Syracuse area this Friday, April 24th, maybe I’ll run into you at the events on campus listed below: 2:30 PM – Women in Technology Panel, Room 111, iSchool. featuring yours truly. [...]
I’ve heard a lot of complaining lately about twitter and status updates, but, one thing to think about (and I’ve mentioned this before) is the power of the aggregate data. What if… you could track disease trends via twitter? Look no further. Sick City has arrived. A project launched by way of DIYCity, SickCity pulls [...]
There’s tons of content out there- we’re hit up in every direction with status updates via Facebook, what people are doing via Twitter, where people are from britekite, what people are thinking about from their blogs. A new trend is “de-friending” (removing people from your facebook friends list) and “un-following” (removing ‘friends’ from twitter. It’s [...]
There’s nothing more frustrating than going to a site and noticing that it’s down. Especially if there’s a great sale at J.Crew / your favorite online retailer and you can’t access it. It’s just frustrating. Instead of continuously hitting F5 (refresh) or trying to get into the site in a brute force kind of way, [...]