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I keep talking about what my single social interface, which I have been wrestling with as part of my social graph. Figured I better clarify for some of you what the social graph is?A social graph consists of who an individual is connected to based on the type of connections, such as work, friendship, interests, and location.I am still grasping the definition of my social graph as I partic...

Everyone is getting in on the social media marketin...

I use the "Google Platform" to help me build and evolve my central "content platform". For either one project or across all of them. I too am a software developer so I approach very similar. I have been using Google Platform to organize and publish my thoughts for some time now. I have wanted to start blogging on how I do this and work to organize my thoughts in a way I can share with others. I was reading Read more →

It is fun finding new Google Features. I never really know when they come out, but when I find them they are new to me so I am blogging a...

All right I have a couple of new Google Features for Google Docs tonight. In addition to Taking an ordered list in Google Docs and highlighting and publish as a Google Presentation, I would like another one:I am working about 40+ documents in Google Docs right now. I would like to share them all with someone and have them help me work on some and generally allow them to acess them.So what do I have to do? I have to go th...

I have been using Google Notebook pretty heavily. I use it for about 80% of my data gathering in combination with the Google Notebook Firefox Add-on.I have permanent and temporary Google Notebook Folders for different purposes. I will export a notebook from a Google Notebook to Google Docs using the export feature available in the top right corner under tools.It really helps me internally publish gathered information to allow it to be more refined using Google Docs. ...

I was reading a post by Stowe Boyd called The Costs Of Being A Creative. This blog post really rings true in my world.I am constantly battling with my development life. I was taught that if you are a programmer that you are similar to being an accountant or insurance salesperson. I can't remember where I first got this perspective, but it was ingrained in me somewhere along the way.Only in ...

LinkedIn is just doing it the way it should be done. They fully embrace data portability as well as understand that they need to open their platform up via API's and taking part in OpenSocial. They provide what average users need in data portability as well as privacy. They also understand what us developers are looking for in a business class social networking platform.Check out their perspective by reading th...

Google quietly release another cool feature of Gmail today. Now that we have groups under the Gmail contact manager, you can email to groups of contacts now instead of just to individual contacts.Seems they are really growing their contact manager system and introducing more of the relationship management features moving towards social network management.They continue bringing it together.

Was introduced to GigaSpaces today by a friend at the University of Oregon. What an amazing application platform. It truly an infinite scaling application that just doesn't handle the back-end tier, it tackles the business layer as well.This is similar to the technology that Google and Amazon have built for themselves and their offerings. They also have an GigaSpaces Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is publicly available, a...

I am formulating my thoughts around data portability and how it will affect life as I continue to become 100% web-based in my work and personal life. I thought as I am working through it I would talk about here and help users understand their data portability, the standards and why it is important to have.So this first post I guess is about what is data portability. So in this Web 2.0 world we are increasingly interacting with other people and services online. Our data is sprea...

I went ahead and signed up for Bebo Social Network tonight. I was reading a blog post on Techcrunch called Bebo's Platform Now Open for All Developers and thought I should go ahead check it out for myself.I belong to most of the major Social Networks now and was reading the other day on how Bebo was named a...

So in the last year I have completely move online. Everything I do is web-based. Most of my world exists underneath my Google Account.However I use many other web services to get done what I do everyday. I can sit down at any computer pretty much and access my world online and get busy.One area I am lacking is a web-based code editor to manage develop my sites and web applications. I utilize the OWS Architecture for managing a lot of the content on our sites and

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