John Young Photo Gallery. NASA Astronaut John Young. The two features Twitter should have been working on. Now that the new Twitter home page has rolled out to nearly everyone in the free world except for me and Chris Pirillo, I'd like to say a few words about it. I don't like it. How can I dislike something I haven't tried? Well, for the record, I have actually tried it. #NewTwitter rolled out to the TechRepublic Twitter account and I've tried it there.
But, that's beside the point. Even if I hadn't tried it, I wouldn't like it. Sure, it's spiffy and all, but the bottom line is that this is not the stuff the Twitter team needs to be working on -- not when there's core functionality still missing from the Twitter platform. Here's what they are. 1. Twitter executives recently said that Twitter is not a social network.
Chirrps, the Twitter search utility, now lets you check in at your favorite websites. Top 10 Ways to Annoy with Retweets. Want to Share a Message on Twitter? Talk About Twitter. The line between book and Internet will disappear - O'Reilly Radar. A few months ago I posted a tweet that said: The distinction between “the internet” & “books” is totally totally arbitrary, and will disappear in 5 years.
Start adjusting now. The tweet got some negative reaction. But I’m certain this shift will happen, and should happen (I won’t take bets on the timeline though). It should happen because a book properly hooked into the Internet is a far more valuable collection of information than a book not properly hooked into the Internet. It will happen, because: what is a book, after all, but a collection of data (text + images), with a defined structure (chapters, headings, captions), meta data (title, author, ISBN), and prettied up with some presentation design?
An ebook is just a print book by another name Ebooks to date have mostly been approached as digital versions of a print books that readers can read on a variety of digital devices, with some thought to enhancing ebooks with a few bells and whistles, like video. An API for books For instance: Internet Explorer Input Type Image Issue - Web, Twitter, Social Networking & Foursquare Thoughts. During the final phases of a project Internet Explorer (in this case 8…not the dreaded 6!) Bit me on the behind. In fairness this was my fault: I should have checked earlier – I’d done a quick CSS check in IE6 and done some fixes but I hadn’t checked the functionality. My bad. …the problem that hit me was to do with the web forms; the functionality of the site. …and this problem is not unknown so (again) more fool me. The issue was this. The website design I’d been given had quite a few image based submit buttons. This worked fine in my day to day weapons of choice Google Chrome & Firefox BUT clicking the image submit buttons in IE did not achieve the desired affect…something was not working.
The bottom line was this: Internet Explorer, for input type=image form submissions does NOT send the value back to the server. e.g. On most non-IE browsers the serverside code will receive some data like this: Array ( [cmd_x] => 31 [cmd_y] => 7 [cmd] => doSomethign ) Array ( [cmd_x] => 23 [cmd_y] => 12 ) Do You Convert an Oops! Moment into an Opportunity to Build Trust? by. What do you do when you make an embarrassing mistake on the social web?
I have been seeing different behaviors and wanted to pen my thoughts on how your behavior affects the trust others place in you. Yesterday, a well-known person in the tech world tweeted a screenshot about what she thought was a new feature in Gmail. After I pointed out that it probably wasn’t a new feature at all, she simply deleted her tweet. At the same time, a tech blog picked up her tweet and wrote a blog post describing this ‘new’ Gmail feature. After I @replied the blogger, rather than updating the post, they deleted the post entirely. (They later reinstated the post after I publicly voiced my disappointment). Many months earlier, the same person had retweeted a TechCrunch tweet that had a sensational headline, but a bad URL link. Contrast this with the following examples. Yesterday, a prominent Indian celebrity’s Twitter account was hacked, and it started tweeting malicious URLs. Twitter Is Not Your Inbox - Web, Twitter, Social Networking & Foursquare Thoughts.
I think a common misconception Twitter newbies have is that you have to read ALL the tweets from the folks you are following. You don’t. The normal tweets from folks you follow is NOT an inbox. They are NOT expecting a reply or a response from every single public tweet they make. You don’t read everyone – you dip in an out – we all have different amounts of time to spend on social media. . ….However (there’s always a catch isn’t there?) People DO expect answers to tweets sent directly to you – whether as a @reply (or perhaps ‘mention’) or as direct message (DM). If this is obvious to you then great. Here endeth the sermon ;) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device Like this: Like Loading... Shorvon and Hunter : Facebook Top Trumps, 2009. Foursquare courts the rest of us | The Social. Yesterday morning, thousands of New York-based users of geolocation service Foursquare received a "check-in" that had nothing to do with a friend announcing her presence at a Starbucks or a co-worker logging a breakfast meeting in midtown: It was a news alert from The Wall Street Journal, informing them that Metro-North commuter rail service was suspended due to a fire on a bridge over the Harlem River.
If you were, say, a Philadelphia-based Foursquare user who "followed" The Wall Street Journal account, you wouldn't have received the alert. Nor would it have shown up on the screen of your smartphone, if you were a New Yorker who had recently checked in out of town. But Foursquare's already grown up beyond what Dodgeball ever was, even when you discount the obvious technological advances that took place in the meantime (the proliferation of smartphones with data plans, the rise of app platforms).
What's new in Foursquare 2.0? Foursquare, meanwhile, opted to keep turning up the volume. BP searches for new head of PR. Latin Text Generator for Mac OS X - LittleIpsum. LinkedIn Buys ChoiceVendor: ‘Yelp for B2B’ LinkedIn announced that it had acquired ChoiceVendor, a small-business oriented vendor review site. This is how founder-CEO Yan-David Erlich described it at launch back in September of 2009: “a website that helps business professionals find and manage their vendors—anything from payroll to IT to catering.” He also wrote about the future of recommendations in a July, 2010 piece in Forbes in which he said the following about ChoiceVendor: ChoiceVendor, the business-to-business review site I founded, displays the role and industry of the reviewer to help business decision-makers find reviews written by people who hold roles similar or relevant to their own.
We also reserve the right to request invoices for services provided to create an additional level of guarantee that the reviewer has actually done business with the vendor he or she is reviewing. Erlich spent a fair amount of time thinking about the local segment and trying to find an angle. OK Go - White Knuckles - Official Video. Prompster™ Procaine. "Allocaine" redirects here. It should not be confused with Allococaine. Procaine is a local anesthetic drug of the amino ester group.
It is used primarily to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin, and it is also used in dentistry. Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain, in some regions procaine is referred to generically as novocaine. It acts mainly by being a sodium channel blocker.[1] Today it is used therapeutically in some countries due to its sympatholytic, anti-inflammatory, perfusion enhancing, and mood enhancing effects.[2] Procaine was first synthesized in 1905,[3] shortly after amylocaine.[4] It was created by the German chemist Alfred Einhorn who gave the chemical the trade name Novocaine, from the Latin nov- (meaning new) and -caine, a common ending for alkaloids used as anesthetics. Pharmacology[edit] Procaine application before removal of a decayed tooth The primary use for procaine is as a topical anaesthetic. Adverse effects[edit] Chemistry[edit] Make personal finance social with AmEx + foursquare. I don't retweet all the good tweets I see. I have favorited a bunch more: Enjoy!
jQuery Regular Expressions Review (Rev:20100921_1700) © Jeff Roberson Created: 2010-Sep-21 Edited: 2010-Sep-23 Revision History Update 2010-09-23: Most of the recommendations described below were implemented into the jQuery codebase 2010-09-22. (Git commit: 9dc6e0c572b9c809a3a4c123071d96d48a01dd1c) Introduction jQuery is a very popular Javascript framework which internally utilizes a number of regular expressions.
Note: The improvements presented here are offered freely to the jQuery project, and come primarily as a result of applying efficiency techniques gleaned from Jeffrey Friedl's classic work: Mastering Regular Expressions (3rd Edition) (MRE3). Table of jQuery Regular expressions. The following table presents a subset of the jQuery regular expressions organized by file name, line number and variable name, along with recommended improved versions. Notes: Eliminated unnecessary use of capturing group. As per note 18, there are still a number of literal regexes in the jQuery codebase that have not yet been cached.
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Instance variables inside the widget allows you to avoid having global lookup hashes, and similar code smells. Easy developer cooperation. What we use Widgets for at Citrusbyte The Small Time Stuff Our home-grown tab library (show/hide various divs, custom events & callbacks) Togglable on/off switches jQuery UI Built-in widgets for draggable, droppable, resizable, and the rest. Shared widgets between clients. For instance: I Still Have A Soul. For The Love of Boxing. Researcher Claims 'Evercookie' Can't Be Removed.
Working at Twitter. How Businesses Are Unleashing Their Employees' Social Media Potential. Josh Bernoff is Senior Vice President, Idea Development at Forrester Research and the co-author of Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010). We know it's a brave new world for consumers and brands. If United breaks your guitar, or your Maytag doesn't work properly, you can take on the company that messed with you via social media — and you may well win. But technology empowerment works both ways. Consumers can take a stand against poor business practices, and brands can empower their customers like never before. Mobile is a hotbed of innovation in this department.
To take it one step further, companies that invest in technology and innovation can not only sell more products with digital tools, but empower their own employees. Workers Already Use Third-Party Tech for Business Don't be surprised if this proposition elicits echoes of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Principles at Work The Rise of Empowerment "Heroes" Celtic Manor :: Newport, UK. Virtual Worlds News: SEE Virtual Worlds To Launch Michael Jackson MMO. SEE Virtual Worlds is building an officially licensed MMO-slash-virtual-world based on the career and image of the late pop star Michael Jackson.
The virtual world will also focus on exploring various global and social issues that concerned Jackson during his lifetime. Called Planet Michael, the world will be split into "continents" patterned after different aspects of Jackson's musical work and life. SEE plans to build Planet Michael as the first of a series of "interconnected planets," with each planet based on a different major license from film, TV, music, sports, or other mainstream media. "When we first approached the Estate and talked about creating Planet Michael, one of our primary goals was to build an interactive environment where fans from all over the world come together to affirm Michael’s life-long dedication to fostering global friendships," said SEE Virtual Worlds CEO Martin Biallas, in a press statement.
Downloads | Trevanian Legg. 8 Unconventional Ways to De-stress and Release Tension | zen habits. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jai Kai of SharingSuccess.tv. As we move through our daily routines we are often faced with obstacles and challenges which can lead to some degree of stress and anxiety. So to become more relaxed and free of tensions it is important to break away from your ordinary routine and find ways to de-stress. This process can be very simple or more in depth, but why not try something new and different? Here are 8, not your everyday ordinary, ways to de-stress and release tensions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. As we get caught up in the moment of being busy sometimes we just need to step back, let go of what we are doing and pursue new little passions that dissolve tension and creates stress free, happy experiences. Jai Kai is a Success Coach, Yoga Instructor and Blogger for SharingSuccess.tv.
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