Archive for July, 2007

07/25/2007

Should there be a link between Facebook and Community Server Sites?

I didn’t go to the Facebook developer garage last night in Seattle. Honestly I don’t have a laptop yet I can take that’s not pink and the geeks would have laughed at me. (Update – Realized it’s next tuesday.) But if I did go I was going to look into building a quick connection point [...]

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07/25/2007

Importing your blog into Facebook

Someone asked me today how people where reading my blog on Facebook and if I had to dual-post to my Community Server blog and my facebook account  Well, you don’t.  You can import your blog RSS feed into facebook. Here’s how: You can import your blog’s RSS feed into facebook as a “note”. Go to your [...]

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07/25/2007

Announcing: Social Networking and Communities Group in Dallas

I think this is a cool idea for anyone in the dallas area. Anyone interested in my starting a similar regular meeting in the Seattle area?   Announcing: Social Networking and Communities Group – Rob Howard's Blog Starting August 29th Telligent will host a monthly breakfast at our office in Dallas as an interest group [...]

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07/24/2007

My River of News is Dead… Someone Fix Google Reader

I’m not sure what the devs at Google are doing lately, but whatever it is they need to rollback to a previous version because my river of news has been dead for days.  Sure, it still works, but only in the way that your old, beaten, hand-me-down, car works 3 years after the first time [...]

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07/20/2007

After 3 Weeks at Telligent I’m Already Hiring

I left Microsoft to join Telligent on June 25th, and it's been an exciting three weeks.  I'm learning a lot, having tons of fun, and I think my team is worried about me since I haven't run away screaming yet.  Don't worry, I won't.  These are all fun challenges.    What's most exciting to me has been [...]

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07/19/2007

Seven Reasons Facebook is More Popular than Blogging

  I’ve been amazed at how quickly Facebook has taken off with my core friend group in Seattle. Out of all the people my wife and I routinely interact with there are only 2 that aren’t “facebooking”.  Watching the non-technical members of the group I think it comes down to a combination of factors. There [...]

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07/08/2007

I think my blog has more readers in Facebook

My link-post to the "open friends list movement" has two comments on Facebook already and none on ledgards.com.  I think what's interesting about this is that Facebook is acting like a notifier to friends that otherwise might have skipped over posts in their river of news.  You pay more attention to things that go across [...]

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07/08/2007

6 Days Outside of "The Soft"

So it's been almost 2 weeks since I left Microsoft for Telligent, but because of vacation I've only worked 6 days.  Here are some random thoughts I've been meaning to blog.  At first the "Company All" e-mails on random topics like surface computing seemed odd, then I remembered that those mails doesn't go to 60k employees.  [...]

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07/07/2007

No Sense Linking up Twice

I remember when I started working at Microsoft. Everyone there used MSN Messenger (if they used IM… most didn't at first) and I was the new guy from college that used AIM because all my friends where there.  If a friend was on both AIM and MSN I added them twice so that no matter [...]

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07/07/2007

Missing from Feedburner

There is something obviuos missing from Feedburner now that they’ve been purchased by Google.  It’s a link splicer for Google Reader.  I love sharing items in Google Reader and having a link blog, but what I really wanted to do was merge those links into this main blog feed. I attempted blog mirroring with Community [...]

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