Posted on 05 June 2009
Some really good posts and information for Social Media and Wordpress integration
Beyond TweetBacks: Introducing TweetSuite | Dan Zarrella – Nice plug-in for integrating Twitter and Wordpress.
SocioFluid – another social bookmarking plugin for wordpress | ImproveSeo.info – A good looking plugin for Wordpress to display the social bookmarking buttons for digg, reddit, … I like the [...]
Posted on 22 March 2009
I am hard on headphones. I have become very adept at destroying them. I get them caught in seat belts, tangled up in my bag, or jumbled in an indecipherable mess in my pants pocket and occasionally they go through the washing machine. My preferred brand is the V-moda Vibe Duo which has a microphone [...]
Posted on 05 January 2009
Thanks to my friend Aaron Fulkerson at MindTouch for adopting a penguin on my behalf. I will name him “Ike”.
Posted on 18 December 2008
Normally I don’t post stuff like this but here’s a cool holiday offer from MindTouch, the makers of open source wiki and social collaboration software, deki. They will donate and adopt, from the World Wildlife Fund, an emperor penguin in any company’s name when they upgrade to MindTouch Standard or Enterprise license from an existing [...]
Posted on 25 November 2008
I was going through my email today and found a recent email from Matt Rechenburg of OpenQRM who just released OpenQRM version 4.2. In the latest addition OpenQRM has support for provisioning server images in the cloud.
Here’s the list of features:
This new version comes with additional support for VMware ESX, an integration with Puppet for [...]
Posted on 29 October 2008
One of my favorite business authors, David Meerman Scott, is running a contest on his blog in relation to his discussion of the book, The Cool Factor by Del Breckenfeld. His little contest comes with a very cool prize, a guitar signed by Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top.
The goal is to define cool in [...]
Posted on 25 October 2008
Congratulations to The Pitt Rugby Club that won its 4th ARU Championship in 7 years last weekend with a 24-17 win over Slippery Rock University. Pitt became champions by winning the game and scoring a bonus point (4 trys scored) to top WVU by one point in the SLS system.
Back in 1990 I was one [...]
Linux
Posted on 02 May 2009
As a long time fan of the Linux desktop I was interested to see the the Linux desktop usage number for personal computers increase to over 1.02%. I suspect it’s partially fueled by the popularity of Linux netbooks from the Dell (who offers an Ubuntu option) and Asus (that’s uses a special version of Xandros [...]
Marketing/PR
Posted on 05 June 2009
Some really good posts and information for Social Media and Wordpress integration
Beyond TweetBacks: Introducing TweetSuite | Dan Zarrella – Nice plug-in for integrating Twitter and Wordpress.
SocioFluid – another social bookmarking plugin for wordpress | ImproveSeo.info – A good looking plugin for Wordpress to display the social bookmarking buttons for digg, reddit, … I like the [...]
Mozilla
Posted on 13 June 2008
I have been resisting using any of the Firefox 3.0 beta’s because of my reliance on Firefox extensions not yet ready for 3.0 but it seems like my Firefox 2.0 keeps bogging down (Perhaps due to my inability to close old tabs). With all the hype about the speed of Firefox 3.0 I decided to [...]
Online Community
Posted on 30 September 2008
The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” examples like Skype and Wikipedia but no open source software examples. Given Intuit’s proprietary nature I guess I [...]
Systems Management
Posted on 06 January 2009
Starting in 2009 popular, autonomic configuration management tool, Cfengine will be commercially supported by a company formed by Cfengine author, Mark Burgess. Cfengine has a laundry list of brand names that are using their software –AT&T, Bloomberg, IBM, Nokia, and many more. I suspect that many of them would pay for commercial support:
Here’s the news [...]
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