j.ere.my’s perspective on life, death and social technology
Well. I did it. I hope it’s worth the price. But knowing Apple it will be.
Feel free to send gifts of food or money, if you wish to support me while I’m trying to bring my bank account balance back up.
It kindof concerns me when the standard unsubscription footer in a mass e-mail I received looks like this:
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Makes you wonder. If it’s an “unsubscribe link,” what are they going to do with my address if they’re not actually unsubscribing? Hmm..
Personal pet-peave.
Just designed some new business cards and a microsite to match.. what do you think? I’ll be handing these bad boys out at SXSW Interactive next week!
In 2007, my last post of the year recapped some of my accomplishments and set forth some goals for 2008. I’d like to do the same this year, with the addition of reflecting on how I did on last year’s goals.
Since there’s a lot to say here, I’m going to divide it up into several parts.
Let’s start with the new feature, a review of last year’s goals and some play-by-play about how I did.
Build up my own business
Well I haven’t quite got there yet, but it’s certainly been a work in progress. I’ve thought a lot more about what I really want to do with my own business, come up with a name, and nearly completed my first product.
As I’ve been re-delving into the new world of the web, I’ve learned quite a lot this year, and I hope to be able to share what I know with the rest of the world, that greatly needs to embrace the social Internet in order to communicate with the public.
Complete my facebook application
Uhh.. Oops.. Definitely dropped the ball here. Luckily, I believe my application is still unique and will be of great value when I have the time to complete it.
Complete some other software development projects
2008 has been a year of new ideas for me. Luckily, it’s seen the near-completion of my one big idea, foto:blip. So I guess this one is a sortof success.
Start a writing regimen, including blogging as well as poetry, fiction and nonfiction
Regimen.. hmm.. not quite. But I have been blogging and Tweeting a lot more than before and with a lot more MEANING. I’ve been working towards making this blog less of a personal rant page and more into a tool for promoting my professional experience.
Travel to new york city more often
Epic Fail.. It just didn’t happen this year. Still something I’d like to do more of, but finding the time is always the hardest part. I guess, in my defense, I’ve been embracing the wonders of my own city of Philadelphia a bit more this year, and having less longing for the big city to the North.
This year I feel a lot like Charlie Brown, and those of you who know me well have probably noticed it as well.
For some reason, I’ve been particularly bothered by the commerialism of the season and have, in response, completely tuned out from the Christmas season.
I can’t say I regret it.
There’s something just so sickening about the way Christmas is celebrated now. It’s no longer a religious celebration. Obviously this is nothing new, but to me taking a year off from the normal Christmas jazz has probably been a good thing.
I went to Target to do my shopping just a few days ago. Traffic was a nightmare. The frantic people were so annoying. What’s all the rush for? Really.. It’s just so dumb. And all this talk of recession and decreased revenues. Where, may I ask, are people cutting back?
I navigated the carts and shoppers to the nearly-barren seasonal section looking for some sort of Christmas cards. It took me ages to find something that didn’t embrace the stereotypical Christmas trees and stockings and candy canes and the like. Blah! Finally I found some lovely wintery holiday cards, which I must say made my day.
Battling traffic on the way out was again absurd. What a mess.
Oh how I long for something simple. Something meaningful. Something that isn’t surrounded by fake smiles and forced gift-giving and lying through your teeth that you love that sweater Aunt Trudy bought you.
Maybe next year? I guess since it’s not midnight yet, I can make that my Christmas wish.
If you’ve been following my blog, Twitter, Facebook or just know me in person, you’ve probably heard rumblings of a project I’ve been working on: foto:blip
foto:blip is a photo-based microblog. What the heck is that, you might ask? Well, combine Flickr and Twitter, and that’s what you get.
foto:blip is designed for those of us who use our mobile devices or cameras to capture the events of the day. The images are small and the captions are limited. Blips are designed to be quick and to share the moment with your followers and friends.
Some features include:
Connections- add users to your connections and all of their posts show up on your homepage when you log in
Facebook sharing- any public post on foto:blip can be shared to your Facebook profile, allowing all your Facebook friends to see and comment on your post
Twitter integration- save your Twitter account information and your blips can be automatically posted to Twitter
Browser-based foto:booth- this is cool for all users who have built in webcams. Use the
Flash-based foto:booth to take a quick picture without uploading any files
More.. you’ll have to check it out to see.
Well, primetime is almost here. The site is about 95 percent complete, and I’d like to open it up to a few more people to test it out and get some feedback. Please feel free to visit the pre-release version of the site at: http://staging.fotoblip.com and sign up for an account.
Any feedback, questions or problems you have, send them on over to help (at) fotoblip.com
This is like a dream come true.. Christmas for a CI developer…
Check out CodeIgniter Advent on Michael Wales’ site.
I found today’s post, about protecting against CSRF exploitation extremely useful, and I look forward to seeing the rest of the series.
Have you twied Twollow yet? I’m excited about this service, but I await further developments and refinements that’ll make it even better.
My experience so far has been pretty cool. For about a week I added CodeIgniter as a keyword, amongst some other nerdy web keywords. My Twitter account pretty much immediately started getting flooded with new followees.
It was exciting to see the number of CodeIgniter users out there, that I can now connect with. At the same time, the mass add-age of people was a bit overwhelming, and I eventually conceeded to remove many of the keywords from my Twollow settings.
It seems now they’ve added some new features, which I have yet to twy out, but, I hope that being able to monitor the Twittersphere for keywords will become more fun and useful without auto-follow activated.
Saw this article on Mashable from yesterday and had to repost a portion and the link.. definitely a good read. I’m always interested in the effects of social networking on offline life, and this is an interesting presentation of one aspect of that collision of two worlds.
My favorite scenario from the article on social network de-friending stories:
9. Don’t use my personal life as leverage in business negotiations
Doug Cone works hard and plays hard. After getting a little behind on a project, Doug’s colleague took advantage of their social networking friendship at work by using Doug’s posted Facebook photos of his weekend rafting adventures. In team meetings, his jealous colleague would complain, “…and you are sending pictures having fun in rivers with a bunch of girls.” Now de-friended, the colleague doesn’t seem so distracted by Doug’s weekend adventures.
Check out the full post on Mashable: 12 Great Tales of De-Friending
welcome to grand rapids.
i’m here this week for the internet ministry conference with several of my current and former colleagues and some other folks i’ve worked with in some capacity along the way. cool!
looking forward to spending some time this week reconnecting with my web 2.0 mojo. this being my 4th time, i always find the week to be an intense time of sleep deprivation, overcaffienation and inspiration to continue to strive for using the interwebz for more than just an online brochure.
anyway, that’s all i’ve got for now. i’m stuffed with a chicken quesadilla right now and looking forward to frivolity later this week involving my coworker Liz’s birthday and the giant water slide aimed at a tiny pool which sits just outside my window. should be a real bang.. or splash.. not sure how deep the pool is..
hot tub here i come..
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