Testing Google Friend Connect

When Google talks, I at least pay attention. Whether you like them or not, no one can deny that Google has a great deal of KLOUT on the interwebz. This Google Friend Connect thing is the latest scuttlebutt. Of course I have to try it, even though I’m not insanely hopeful that it’s going to do anything for me. Most Google thingies seem to follow the biblical model (paraphrased by me):

To them that hath, more shall be given, and thou that hath not spinneth thy wheels in vain.

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Social Net Toonlet: Be Helpful!

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Win 2000 EC: Elect Dork President of the Blogosphere

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The other day I got to thinking, why shouldn’t I be the President?
Maybe I could be president of the blogosphere….. OK….. Since I’m now a politician I have act like one and promise you GREAT things. Your weenie will grow so big you’ll have to coil it up like a lasso. A suckling pig in every pot! (bleah!) You will lose 40 KG by eating cotton candy. All the celebs you love will be pursuing you! Your HDTV will grow so big you won’t be able to get it out of your house. Your blog subscriptions will positively explode! Am I getting the hang of political promises or what?
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Free link juice in a blogalicious flavor

If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless as a digital camera manual.  Besides, any cook knows that the flavor  is in the fat.   Not useful but people like it better.   That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet.  Even so, for some unknown reason Hot Dorkage seems to lighting up the boards with social action this week. First I get reviewed, then I get tagged. This social stuff is all new to me as a participant.  Like most geeks I just used Google to search for technical info. When I hit paydirt I said thank you and I stumbled it or dugg it if I really found it useful. But never social memes until today.

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Hot Dorkage gets reviewed

Woot!   Social action!!!  Hot Dorkage got reviewed   on pisiosplugs. and on Today’s Blog Reviews  I won’t quote the reviews, that’s what links are for.    I will say that I think Pisio is spot-on with his review, and so is Shen. I’m very happy to be reviewed. If truth be told I’d . . . → Read More: Hot Dorkage gets reviewed

WTF is Ping.fm?

ping.fm logoPing.fm purports to let you update a bunch of social sites all at once. It is in beta now, and you have to have the current betacode to get an account. The current betacode is “letmeping”. They keep changing it. I have no idea how long that code will be good.

I found a valid betacode somewhere, and was let onto the system.

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Scoutle: another layer of automation?

scoutle logoI have been struggling to get started with Dojo and Ning lately. Both these technologies are fairly new and the number of books about on Dojo is severely limited, and as far as I know there are no books on Ning. So I would like to hook up with some other developers who are knowledgeable about these technologies, because I learn best from humans. I’m in several social networks, but they are general, and I haven’t had much luck finding anyone with these narrowly defined brands of geekery. I have been hearing about Scoutle. Supposedly it scurries around the web and locates people for you. That did it for me. I’m kind of a tryer of new things, and anything with the word “automation” in it gets my attention. Apparently, once you’ve installed Scoutle, every time someone visits your site, your Scoutle agent takes two steps toward finding your online soulmates.
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Ning makes top 20!

I nabbed this graphic off a-stat-a-day
Did you know we have a ning site of our very own? So if you visited it before these stats were compiled, your visits were included in these stats. And if not, it’s not too late to . . . → Read More: Ning makes top 20!

Twitter — the birdsong of 500 lb. canaries with bullhorns?

What is the deal with Twitter? I just don’t get it! I’m with Kathy Sierra on this one. (For those who don’t know, Kathy Sierra is one of my all-time heroes — a brilliant educator, writer and blogger who shut down last year due to misogynistic death threats. Would the bullying have been so egregious, or would it even have happened at all if Kathy had been a male? We’ll never know, but you should really check out her link. Kathy makes her points eloquently and there’s no point in me paraphrasing it. Let her speak for herself beyond the cyber “grave” of self-banishment.)

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