In case you hadn’t heard, our local newspaper publishers (Gazette-Times/Democrat Herald owned by Lee Enterprises) have taken a giant step future-ward with the launch of the new mid-valley voice social network. If you are not local, I would hazard a guess that other historically print based publishers are doing a similar thing to try to . . . → Read More: No worries: this post will NOT suck you into a vortex
 13 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff  auto-blog, blog sourcing, community, community social network, Democrat Herald, driving traffic, feed, funnel, Gazette Times, go to hell, Lee Enterprises, local, meta, Mid-Valley Voice, no maintenance, recursive, self-referential, source, suck, traffic funnel, vortex, widget, yourminis This little TweetCC Twitter App makes it very easy for you to license your tweets, according to any of the various flavors of the Creative Commons License. All you do is press the button by your chosen flavor of creative commons, it tweets the appropriate message as a reply to @tweetcc, and then they will . . . → Read More: Creative Commons License your tweets 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Monetizing attribution, creative commons, derivative, license, noncommercial, remix, share alike, tweetcc, tweets, twitter, twitter profile After two pretty cerebral hard core posts in a row I’d better have something fluffy, but in a geeky way. So here you go — A Twitter Mosaic. If you have significant friends at all it generates a pretty hefty chunk of HTML code to slap into your blog. They will put a reduced number . . . → Read More: Twitter Mosaic: Get Yours 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff friends, graphic, grope, mosaic, T-Shirt, twitter, Twitter followers Helpful by tixrus . . . → Read More: Social Net Toonlet: Be Helpful! One comment - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Humor boob-gazing, boobs, geek mojo, girl geek, helpful, noobs, social, toonlet
Tixrus (my Twitter moniker) gets retweeted on Twitter from time to time. According to Retweetrank, tixrus is the 84th percentile for retweets. . . . → Read More: Retweet Rank RSS fun 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff autotweet, flash widget, retweet, retweetrank, RSS feed, sidebar, tixrus, tweet this, twitter, yourminis I just finished installing the latest version of the Tweet This WordPress Plugin. It renders my Tweet This Hack obsolete. As now you can configure the text that comes out. This is as it should be. I’m so honored! Richard Thripp, the author of Tweet This, even dropped by and made a comment on that . . . → Read More: New Tweet This Hack but Still no Monkeys 11 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing adjix, configuration, filthy rich, hack, monetize, money, monkeys, PHP class, PHP5, retirement, Richard Thripp, riches, shortener, solid waste port, support, tweet this, URL length, URL shrinkers, word press plugin Utterli seems like a lot like Twitter at first glance. The difference is that you can post voice messages, video, or stills directly to it from your mobile. . . . → Read More: Utterli: Twitter with media 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff API, audio twitter, CCNA, cell phone, embed, marathoner, media, moniker, still, tixrus, Twitter API, utterli, video, voice menu, voice message, web UI, widget One of the reasons why I always cringed from web front end in the past is that presentation is so “dirty.” We have all felt the flames. HTML was never really designed as a presentation language confusion of XHTML validations and the different DOCTYPES CSS is supposed to be for design browser wars and their . . . → Read More: Pssssst! Wanna learn JQuery? 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff ajax, browser wars, chile poster, clientside, CSS, image map, javascript, Jeffrey Way, JQuery, presentation, quick, Theme Forest, Tutorial, video, web 2.0, web front end, XHTML Is “shrinkage” ever a good thing? Actually, Jerry Seinfeld notwithstanding, yes! If you don’t know about shrinkage as it applies to the internet, learn the basics first , then come back and learn how to make money with it. I’ll wait. There are rumblings that TinyURL, the oldest and probably most . . . → Read More: Adjix: Monetize your shrinkage 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing adjix, Adjix.com, API, cloaking, CPM, DNS, DNS wizardry, domain, frame, FREE, monetize, PHP, Seinfeld, shrinkage, strip ad, TinyURL, tracking, URL shrinker |
Try my beta Word Press Plugin
Well, it had to happen. It is amazing that I’ve been using WordPress so long without getting into its guts. While hacking on the Tweet this plugin ever so gently, I started to get the feel for how WP plugins work. So I wrote a couple myself. The first one is serious old school, as . . . → Read More: Try my beta Word Press Plugin