Archive for March 2008

From the Pipeline 3.31.08

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: Pipeline

First off what is with people not being able to tell the date for crying out loud. I can understand the folks down under getting a jump on this stupidity we call April Fool’s Day but WTF is with North Americans - you can’t even wait until after midnight to pull lame ass hoaxes. It’s [...]



Did Anyone Miss Me?

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Bill Vincent | Category: Odds & Ends

    Didn’t think so, but here I am. Your long lost Software Review writer. I had a spot of financial trouble that necessitated being offline for a few weeks, but I’ve got that squared away for the moment, and the reviews are to resume.
   That in mind, I’d be interested in some input from the [...]



Okay which one of you pissed off TechCrunch

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: Odds & Ends

If Michael Arrington’s latest messages on Twitter are any indication some-one has really pissed him off this time.

Apparently Michael will be posting full details to the TechCrunch blog soon - so stay tuned folks.
[tags]TechCrunch, lawsuits[/tags]



Merging your social networks with your inbox

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

As you have probably noticed already the news about Xoopit the application that is being billed as the first application for webmail to let you discover all those photos, files and other assorted rich media that is hiding in your inbox and then share them with your friends on the various social networks. At [...]



Get your Disqus comments inside of Google gReader

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

I just got an email from Paul Arterburn over at blog!167 about a new extension and bookmarklet for Firefox that will let you view Disqus comments in Google gReader. Below are a couple of screenshots I snagged from Paul’s page for the goodies
Closed Position

Open Position

I’m not a user of Google’s gReader but a heck of [...]



Visual words

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: Odds & Ends

I found this statement evocative
They always smile. I think it makes their mind tickle.



Google Maps + Lijit = Live search viewer

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Web

I just start back using the Lijit service for blogs after not using it for quite some time and for reasons I don’t quite remember any more. For those of you who might not know of the service it provides blog search and stats tools for bloggers. Anyway I was over at their site last [...]



Are bloggers being stiffed by one of their own?

Mar 31st, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

I’m all for bloggers making it head financially after all that is part of the dream about blogging - being able to make a living doing something we obviously love. So when I saw the post on TechCrunch that Scott Karp’s Publish2 just snag a nice $2.75 million round of funding I was happy [...]