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- Save Yourself From Even More Twitter NoiseNovember 7
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Back in September, I recommended some tips on how to turn down the noise and distractions of the social web.
Up until very recently, I’ve had Twitter displaying all tweets from everyone I follow. And while I was at my computer, I’d read them — all of them.As you could imagine, this really effected my productivity because whenever a tweet came in that way directed to a Twitter user that I don’t follow, I’d go visit their twitter profile to see what was being responded to.
Preventing The @reply Noise
A few days ago, I rediscovered an amazing feature of Twitter, which is setting which replies you want to see in your friends’ timeline. Changing this setting to either “@ replies to the people I’m following” or to “no @ replies” will certainly boost your productivity, even if it’s just the tiniest bit.
I’ve set this to “@ replies to the people I’m following”, since I want to see the conversation, I just don’t want to waste my time visiting all of those Twitter pages to follow t
- Easy AsidesOctober 26
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The following is a quick run-down of the code, first listing the original template code and then the modified version.
I’ve had a bunch of people ask me how to set up asides on their blog, and I’ve had to go through every step carefully with them, because I couldn’t think of a brilliant way to express it in a way that would work for most themes. I set up my asides simply by taking a look at how Matt did it, and then I modified it a bit to fit my liking.
Earlier this week, Rupert Maspero tweeted a link to a tutorial, which happened to be pretty close to how I set up mine. Check it out if you’d like to set up asides on your blog — I’m sure it’ll turn out good.
- The GrabUp Stats Page Shows PersonalityOctober 18
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In that time businesses could have wasted $1,043,658.00 in paying staff. 1,288 football matches could have been played. You could have had 242 full nights of sleep. Walked from London to Edinburgh 23.86 times. Walked from NY to CA 3.25 times. Run to the moon and back 0.08091 times.
I really love companies that have personality, and don’t mind showing it. GrabUp’s stats page shows personality and creativity in a brilliant way.
- Apple: To Our DevelopersOctober 1
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Apple Drops NDA From iPhone Development —
However, the NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software.
- Do We Have Too Many OpenIDs?September 29
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Yesterday, @webmacster87 sent me an @reply on Twitter, stating that the OpenID technology “has a backwards effect,” because we have so many OpenIDs. I agree on some level, but not on another level. Let me explain.
Geeks Can Have One Constant OpenID, and Switch Providers.
There’s a lot of OpenID providers, and some of them are doing some very unique things with the technology, which causes me to switch to them as my OpenID provider. There’s also many services that give you an OpenID when you signup for their services — like Flickr, Yahoo and WordPress.com. There’s a problem, though: when we have this many OpenIDs, you might forget which one you used for which service. That’s where the geeks get the advantage.If you have a website (it doesn’t matter if you maintain it or not), all you need to do is add a couple of meta tags to the head section of your website. 1 Then, whenever you visit a website that requires you to enter in your OpenID, simply enter in your website address (in my case, chris24.ca). You’ll get redirected to your current OpenID provider to authorize the request.
If you’d like to switch your provide