Archive for September, 2008
Social History – Now a Handy WordPress Plugin
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on September 22nd, 2008
Last week I stumbled across this blog post by Aza announcing his “SocialHistory.js” script, and it really inspired me to do better with the Social Bookmarks on this blog. So imagine my surprise when I realized that there was no WordPress plugin available yet!
I hadn’t written my first WordPress plugin, so I decided this would be a perfect opportunity. You can see it working below this post (and every other post on the site) – where you will find social bookmarking links for only those sites that we’ve seen in your browser history.
I’m still waiting for my submission to be accepted at WordPress.org, but if you simply cannot wait to get a copy for yourself, leave me a comment and I’ll send you the tarball.
Oh, and a big thank-you to the makers of Sociable – I borrowed liberally from their plugin for this one.
If any of you are interested in collaborating to make this a little less ugly, let me know!
Email address as OpenID
Just a strange thought I had this afternoon, based mostly off of a report I’ve been drafting (on the market opportunities of demographically-specific technology addictions), which highlights some interesting points:
Everyone on the internet uses email.
I’ve played around with http://identitu.de, which takes your Facebook account, and turns it into an OpenID. Which is wickedly cool – if you have a Facebook account.
But what if all you have, is email? Could we take email accounts, and verify them (using IMAP or POP3), and present THAT as your digital identity?
I think we can. Watch this space for my attempt.
Why I don’t Like Banks
Posted by admin in entrepreneurs on September 3rd, 2008
I’ve never gotten along well with Banks of any kind, but especially with those larger, faceless National Institutions of organized robbery.
For a long time I suspected I was simply bothered, not by their aggressive profiteering (especially at the expense of the lower- and middle-class), but by their sheer duplicity – having weaseled their way into the pseudo-governmental “Federal Reserve” and eliminated a constitutionally-guaranteed inflation-free currency, they nonetheless extract levels of profit considered by most historical examples as usury – all justified by some false representation of themselves as a public service(!).
But I realized today that my distaste comes from something much more concrete, and direct.
They cheat.
Here’s a case in point: Read the rest of this entry »
Ubiquitous Unique Username Search on WhoisSocial.com
Posted by toddicus in entrepreneurs on September 3rd, 2008
Yes…that’s right…who else could bring ubiquitous and unique together in an elegant, clean, sleek and sexy little technologically stunning package but the red hot and seriously smokin tinyapps team.
Looking for the same unique username across social networks and e-mails?
Of course you are… its what makes us human. And now you, too, can fulfill this most intimate desire at whoissocial.com.
Adding services by the milliweek. Let us know which one you want first!
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