Category Archives: Site News

Posts relating to the WinExtra site itself.

Disqus works with Seesmic to bring video comments

This morning Disqus flipped the switch that enable users of their comment platform to use the Seesmic video system to leave video comments on member blogs that had enabled the feature. I am told that by Daniel that the feature will be automatically enabled for new Disqus members as they join so if they [...]

Downtime - sorry about that

My apologies to anyone that tried to get to WinExtra for the majority of today but for some reason the site was toast for that time.
Actually I think I know what caused the problem but I don’t want to say much more until I have some more facts but I will say that [...]

WinExtra joins the Grand Effect Network

Yesterday I received an email from Sarah Perez one of the head honchos of a new blogger network called Grand Effect asking me if I would be interested in joining. Needless to say I was a little caught off guard by the offer as I didn’t think that this blog had reached a point [...]

Twitter as a blog promotion tool

Back on April 26th I wrote a post outlining an experiment that I was going to try here at WinExtra. One of the parts of the experiment was to stop using Twitter as a way to announce new posts and rely strictly on them being announced automatically on FriendFeed.
I wanted to see if indeed [...]

Time for an experiment

For the past week there has been an on-going conversation happening about how we use the many services that are available to us. Whether it be Twitter, our blogs, FriendFeed or any number of services we have a lot of options to get our message out. Throughout all this I have maintained that these [...]

Considerations in moving to web mail

As I continue in consolidating a bunch of stuff in order to make my daily web life a little easier to navigate through one of the things I have been considering the last couple of days involved totally rethinking my stance on web mail apps. I have stated before that I don’t like them [...]

It must be springtime

For the past few days I have been feeling kinda aimless and this past weekend’s little dustup over Shyftr and the conversation no longer belongs to bloggers didn’t really help matters all that much.
What it has shown me is that I need to make changes around here. I’m not sure what is going to change [...]

Not really a new direction but a new interest

Ever since I hung up my development stuff for a variety of reasons - some personal and some professional, I’ve had a chance to sit back and look at the whole application landscape without the preconceived notions of the programming language that I had spent the better part of 10 to 15 years working [...]