Blogstring Live Podcast Episode 4

August 13, 2008

We’ll be doing our weekly show at 3:30PM EST on blogtalkradio. You can hear the show using the player below, or by going to blogtalkradio. Give us a call at (718) 506-1372 Tweet

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Do I Want Targeted Ads, Or Do I Just Hate CiCi’s Pizza?

August 12, 2008

I’ve had enough. Nearly every day I see an ad for CiCi’s pizza buffet. Their tagline is “Almost too good to be true!” Almost? I beg to differ, CiCi’s. Here’s the problem: CiCi’s runs national TV commercials almost nonstop. The problem? They don’t have a location within HUNDREDS OF MILES of where I live! I’m [...]

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There is no such thing as social media. There are no assertive hammers. There are no malicious popsicles.

August 8, 2008

Today I hit a breaking point. One of those rare moments in life when you break out of the autopilot that is every day human experience and stop. Something that you’ve taken for granted suddenly changes in your mind. Your entire construction of reality up to that point is called into question, and you are [...]

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Is cuil really better than Google? Um, it’s a day old- take it easy

July 29, 2008

Yesterday Cuil, a brand new search engine, launched and boy did bloggers notice. Look at any tech blog and you’ll find an opinion of cuil. Either it’s a google killer or a failure. Regardless of the fact that cuil is a day old, the comparisons to google are widespread, and it’s hard to write an [...]

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Data Availability- Um, What’s That?

July 27, 2008

Yesterday MySpace announced the availability of, well, Data Availability, their contribution to the data portability movement. Back in May, MySpace made the announcement that they were making user data available to Yahoo, ebay and Twitter. Now they’ve opened up to developers. What’s Available? After using oAuth to authenticate a user and retrieve an authorized Access [...]

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podcamp Boston Discovery Panel

July 17, 2008

Blogstring will be representing full force at podcamp boston this coming weekend (meaning Sarah and I will both be there, but it sounds better when I refer to "blogstring"). I will be there as a kind of split personality, as I will be wearing the blogger hat (not literally, unless I can find a hat [...]

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Don’t Bother With Buying A .me Domain: GoDaddy Blew It.

July 17, 2008

This morning was one of those times when I realized what a true web dork I am. I found out yesterday that the .me domain names were going on sale at 11 this morning, and I desperately wanted to get aweso.me. Godaddy had a little countdown timer for the days, hours, minutes and seconds until [...]

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Twitter Teddy Bear

June 17, 2008

How 2.0: How to Make a Twittering Teddy Bear from My Home 2.0 DIY on Vimeo. Tweet

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Let’s Try This Again

June 16, 2008

Image via Wikipedia So….. I’ve had this site for years. I used to use nathanwburke as my “personal” blog, but that was in addition to my work blog, my tech blog, my multi-author blog, and on and on. So I finally decided I’d had enough and just stopped using this one. Well, lately I’ve been [...]

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Blogged.com Live on matchmine Media Discovery Platform

June 11, 2008

Full Disclosure: I work at matchmine. Just saying. Today matchmine announced that blogged.com has gone live on the matchmine Media Discovery Platform. It’s weird to say it as “matchmine announced”, since, well, I’m part of matchmine. Almost like when people do their “about” page in the third person, but I digress. Here’s what that means: [...]

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