Yay! Pownce gets an API!
Posted by Blake Shannon on October 30, 2007 in Social Networking, Programming. Comment (2)
Pownce finally got an API (application programming interface) today so now people can create widgets for me to use. Get started!
Google Buys Jaiku
Posted by Blake Shannon on October 9, 2007 in Social Networking. Comment (2)
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Today Google bought Jaiku a microblogging competitor to Twitter. Jaiku has a superior mobile support than Twitter. Google has been recently buying up mobile companies. Which leaves one question: When is the gPhone coming?
Picked Up Two New Books
Posted by Blake Shannon on October 7, 2007 in Social Networking, Ruby on Rails, Programming, Me. Comment (2)
Well today I picked up two new books at the Borders book store across the street from my hotel in NYC, which I conveniently located using Google Maps on my Blackberry. (I’m telling you Google is taking over the world.) So at this book store I bought a book Dirk recommended, Agile Web Development with Rails. Another book I bought was Everyware, which talks about what I call the “Big Brother Effect”. This “Effect” is where you are in constant communication with everybody and everybody is in constant communication with you. You are always watching and being watched. Everything anybody says or does is recorded and saved. Thats why you have to be careful about what you post on your Myspace or Facebook, because employers are now checking your profile and pictures. Anyway enough with the rant im goign to go finish watching Live Free or Die Hard.
Perfect use of Google Documents
Posted by Blake Shannon on October 7, 2007 in Social Networking. Comment
In my opinion Google Documents is a great tool. I love the ability to edit them from anywhere, but yesterday I found the perfect use for this program. I went inside a Nike store to look around for some new shoes. (Which is what most people do in the Nike Store.) After looking around for some time I found there customization section where you could build your own shoe. This is a pretty cool area with about 10 employees working on iMacs with clients. You couldn’t build your own shoe right then you had to make an appointment. So to let everyone at the stations know when there was a scheduled appointment they used Google Calendar to share the appointments and color coded them buy each employee. So one employee would be assigned the color red and when he had and appointment a red task would appear on the calendar at the time of that appointment. And when he didn’t have one it would say “no appointment” in his assigned color. I though this was a great way to use a free tool thats available to anybody. So my question is: Are many major retailers using Web 2.0 products?