May 16th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Blogging
At one time when blogs were new, you could privately blog your thoughts and feelings on the web and be pretty sure that no one was reading them unless you gave them a URL. But today, blogging is all about openness and transparency: this is me and this is what I think. That’s an […]
May 16th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Personal
Too Many Choices, Too Much Content
Sometimes it’s just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you’re behind. Take an […]
May 16th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Music, Twitter
Wiiizzz offers a way to discover what people on Twitter have been listening to and sharing on Twitter by aggregating tracks and posting them in a random order on the Wiiizzz homepage. Right now though, only the band names display. You can click the play button next to the band name to listen to […]
May 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
I take it all back, I want to drown in awesomeness! It’s one thing for Twitter to be down (I wonder what Corvida’s doing now?), but for Twitter and FriendFeed to be down at the same time? Noooo….
Seriously! I got this:
Can everyone just please send me your tweets in the comments? Help!….Oh and […]
May 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, Google, RSS
How excited was I when I heard that there was now a Google Reader Adobe AIR application that would let me browser through my feeds outside a browser? Pretty freaking excited! But then I thought "wait - why do I need this?" This doesn’t really help me solve a problem. With Twhirl, for example, […]
May 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in FriendFeed, social media
Neat! The World of Slippy blog recently posted some steps on how you can put FriendFeed into your Firefox sidebar in just a couple of steps. The trick involves using Christopher Finke’s Feed Sidebar extension. After it’s installed, you can just use Firefox’s Live Bookmarks feature to add your FriendFeed atom feed (click here) […]
May 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in social media
I’m following the discussion around my latest rant on RWW (“Too Many Choices, Too Much Content”) using YackTrack. If that was your kind of post, you’ll want to check out these related articles too:
He Beat Me To It!
Mark Evans Tech: “So Much to Do, Not Enough Time!”
More:
Video: Merlin’s New Time & Attention Talk
Content […]
May 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Fun, Time Wasters, Web 2.0, Web Apps
Do you agree with this? If not, you can join the debate going on at the web site CreateDebate. The site aims to take the classic internet flame wars and turn them into a more civilized event. Debates can spring up around any sort of topic and the homepage features the hottest ones. Expect […]
May 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Facebook, IM
OK, this could actually make Facebook Chat useful: you will soon be able to access it via Jabber. Tonight, Facebook is announcing that they will soon release a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. Via any Jabber-based chat apps, you’ll be able to communicate with your Facebook friends, see who’s online, view friends’ profile pics, […]
May 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in Personal
Again, apologies in advance for those that follow me both places, but here is another round-up of my recent articles at RWW:
Android Developer Challenge I Winners Announced
The Android Developer Challenge is a two-part contest whose goal is to encourage developers to build apps for the new Google mobile platform, code-named "Android." In this first […]
