A very nice article in Mercury News mentions Daniel Brusilovsky and his new venture, Teens in Tech. Daniel is a 15 year old podcaster and blogger, who I’m proud to say is also on MacMegasite’s staff.
Daniel and his 14 year old business partner Richard Escobedo gave a talk at SDForum’s Teens Plugged In forum yesterday.
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MacMegasite has another new sponsor, Second Gear LLC.
MacMegasite has a new sponsor, Mac Poker. I’m not too thrilled about it, but their site isn’t objectionable and they paid in advance. Thanks to their payment, I increased the memory & cpu allocation for my virtual private server, which should make all of my hosted sites faster.
I just added a few small enhancements to my FriendFeed iPhone app. It now shows only 10 items per page and lets you view more items a page at a time. It also now remembers the login cookie for 30 days or until you log out.
I’ve added some major enhancements to my FriendFeed web app (http://iphone-apps.net/ff). You can now add comments or like an item.
Clicking the ‘>’ at the bottom of an entry opens the comment form. Clicking the ‘+’ at the top of an entry marks that you like it. If you already like an entry, it will show [...]
I’ve added a few enhancements to my FriendFeed App for iPhone. It now makes links clickable and shows comments.
I’ve been getting really annoyed with FriendFeed on the iPhone, so I decided to whip up a quick web app. You can see the result at http://iphone-apps.net/ff. It only has minimal functionality - you can log in and view your friends, your items, or the public timeline.
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Since I’m using FeedBurner for this blog’s feed, I’ve activated Photo Splicer, so my latest photos on Flickr will now appear in my feed.
I’ve been playing with the FriendFeed API in Objective C, although I don’t have anything ready for public consumption yet.
Since the fetch methods basically work like RSS feeds, they can be handled easily using PubSub. Most of the code I had to write was to decode the entries returned into something more useful. The methods [...]
Facebook has added a new life streaming feature which automatically adds your activities from other services to your mini feed. However, the only sites it currently supports are Picassa, Yelp, Flickr, and del.icio.us. I’m sure they’ll add other sites soon.
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I still have I have 2 one Evernote invitation available for any of my readers who want one. Just leave a comment here. All of my invites are gone.
Checking my Akismet queue, I found several trackbacks from spam blogs scraping and reposting my content. They all seem to be using the same template, usually starting with “(some blog name) wrote an interesting post today…”, always giving it some random name linked to my blog.
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As you probably know, Flickr introduced their video feature earlier this week. Unfortunately their effort is half-assed and only detracts from the site. They only allow videos of 90 seconds or less, which isn’t really useful. It’s obviously meant for the short videos you can take with many point-and-shoot cameras or cell phones, but there [...]
I signed up for Google’s new App Engine beta and I’ve already started looking at the APIs. It looks very clean and well-designed. I’m not too familiar with Python, but it looks like it’s fairly simple to pick up. The language itself is easy and has some nice Lisp-like features that I really like. The [...]
I joined net4mac a few days ago, but so far I don’t see much point to it. This is a new “social network for Mac users”, but it’s severely limited by requiring their proprietary software. You can view public pages from a web browser, but to write anything or contact anyone, you need to use [...]
I’m now using both Socialthing and FriendFeed. Although both have some similarities, there are some big differences in their functionality. Socialthing is more attractive, although it supports fewer services than FriendFeed.
Socialthing automatically gets your friends and contacts from the supported services and doesn’t seem to let you add other contacts. It also doesn’t provide [...]
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Flickr has added a new feature, Find Friends, which can import a Yahoo Mail, GMail, or Windows Live address book and add anyone already a member of Flickr as a contact.
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Muxtape is a new web service that lets you easily create your own mix tape online. Thanks to Laughing Squid for bringing it to my attention.
I created my Muxtape at http://mike3k.muxtape.com/.
I’m starting to get pretty disgusted with Drupal 6. I took another look at it today and the module compatibility situation is still dismal. Common modules like CCK and Views still aren’t fully compatible with Drupal 6. For MacMegasite, I would lose the buddy lists, user points, and custom home pages. The situation is even [...]
It looks like spammers are using Google Calendar now to send spam as invitations from their calendar. These people deserve to die.
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