Archive for Category: Technology

random observations about twitter

Monday, March 10th, 2008, 11:31 pm
Filed under: General, Opinion, Technology, Web 2.0

After pontificating on the newly available Twitter AIR clients available last week and how they were impacting my usage of of said microblogging service (versus Facebook’s status updates), I figured I’d write a bit of an addendum now that I’ve had a couple of weeks to use it on a more regular basis.
Twitter has [...]

accumulated web site marketing tips & tricks

Thursday, March 6th, 2008, 1:56 am
Filed under: General, Technology, Web 2.0, Work

I was asked recently to put together a list of site marketing and SEO-related tips and tricks based on the last few months (and years, with other projects) of experience I’ve had trying to help build traffic on Protagonize.
(Beware, this is pretty long, but I hope it’ll be of use to you.)
Curiously, until I [...]

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twitter vs. facebook: microblogging thoughts

Thursday, February 28th, 2008, 12:44 am
Filed under: General, Opinion, Technology, Web 2.0

I just spent a little time composing a reply to a thought-provoking question by my cousin Gagan over on LinkedIn and thought it might be something valuable to blog about as well.
The question I responded to:
How often do you update your various statuses (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)? Why?
Interested in knowing your motivation of why you participate, [...]

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tutorial: customizing the yui button widget

Thursday, February 14th, 2008, 7:08 pm
Filed under: General, Technology, Web 2.0

You may recall that I posted a tutorial about customizing the YUI TabView control to generate rounded tab corners a couple of months ago. Having spent some time recently tweaking the YUI Button widget, I thought I should post something about my experience customizing it for use on Protagonize.com.
First things first: the Button widget in [...]

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facebook applications: use or be used

Monday, January 28th, 2008, 8:12 pm
Filed under: General, Opinion, Rants, Technology, Web 2.0

I’ll admit, I was an early Canadian Facebook adopter — once they opened things up for non-students in September of 2006, of course. I had looked at Facebook long before that (the popular web application had been around for over two years prior to opening up to the general public), and unhappily had not [...]

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