I spent the weekend at Momentum’s Digital Hub. I did some work on source code control. One of the questions it raised in my mind is around collaboration. The tools chosen are those that you’d expect from a bunch of techies and developers. There was a split about using facebook, and I reconsidered how one…
Read moresteemit, a bit of writing, bit of moola
steemit is a web site that lets you interact with the steem blockchain. The steemit blockchain is a system which uses virtual currency to reward users who post, comment or rate posts or comments.
Read moreNaymz & Klout
I am mailed once/month by Naymz who tell me that they have discovered something interesting about me. I often login to see, but it rarely seems to be that interesting. I have not connected all my networks to it, keeping it out of Yahoo and Facebook which I treat as mainly private networks. This week…
Read moreNextscripts: Social Network Autoposter
I had a quick look at Nextscripts: Social Network Auto Poster. It claims to be able to forward posts to other social networks. These include as targets, twitter, linkedin and facebook. The also offer Google+ but that needs an additional library which may be chargeable. I need to work on this a bit more. Since…
Read moreGoogle Gadgets
Notes on integrating Google Search and Google Friend Connect to my site. This includes some google code that never worked on snipsnap, and doesn’t work here. 28 June 2013 Google Search Can I make a google search of the site? I experimented with the snipsnap field macro and tried to make http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=$query+site%3Adavelevy.info, where $query is the results…
Read morePlazes
I used Plazes for a couple of years, until they turned it off. Like everything it has a wikipedia page; one of its delights was the automatic way that once configured your laptop would record your itinerary, and publish it through a web widget. Bit spooky. Obviously built by people that ‘got’ social, and in…
Read moreShare This
See http://sharethis.com/. Another syndication tool. It’s still there, but I stopped using it a long time ago.
Read moreSecond Life
Is this the future collaboration platform for the Internet, or another amazing waste of time. The EU Commission took it seriously for a while, and it’s still going. Here are my notes and links,
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