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Entries Tagged as 'Social Media'

What Happens When WordPress Stats Fails

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s an error message that I’ve never seen before. It’s from the WordPress Stats plugin for WordPress blogs.

Aren’t error messages fun?

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Tags: Blogging

Inaugural Ames Tweetup a Success

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

The very first Ames Tweetup went down last night at Olde Main Brewing Co in Ames. Due credit is given to @mrdallasjmoore, @jkeyla and others who were involved with planning the event. It’s been a long time coming to have a tweetup in Ames. I haven’t seen an exact head count, but I estimate that [...]

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Tags: Social Media

TweetDeck Continually Improves the Twitter Experience

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve used a lot of Twitter applications. I’ve reviewed at least four on this site. I generally don’t stick with a single application for more than a week or two. TweetDeck has become the only exception to that rule - it has changed the way I use Twitter. I started using it back when it [...]

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Tags: Software · Twitter

WPTouch Skins Your Blog for iPhone Look and Feel

November 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This morning I was alerted (by @trutter) of a WordPress plugin that greatly improves the UI experience for iPhone and iPod Touch users called WPTouch. When a user hits your blog with a user agent resembling that of these two devices, WPTouch takes over and transforms your blog into something that fits with Apple’s look [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Analysis of Twitter Client Statistics

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Tracker has been running since August 6th (almost 3 months) so it’s time that I look at what it’s reporting to see how useful it can be. If you’re not familiar with the methodology that’s employed by Tracker, read the description before reading the analysis. Here are some stats related to traffic and tweet analyzing:
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Tags: Musings · Twitter

MLB ScoreBot: End of Season 1

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

So, the Phillies are the 2008 World Champions of baseball. My Cubs made it to the dance but turned out to be the dorky kid standing on the sidelines yet again. Looking back on ScoreBot’s run…

There were a couple hiccups along the way, but I’m pretty happy with the way ScoreBot performed. For its inaugural [...]

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Tags: Sports · Twitter

Follow NBA Scores on Twitter with NBA ScoreBot

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

By now, you know the drill - another season, another ScoreBot. This one’s for the NBA. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of the ScoreBot, check out MLB ScoreBot and NFL ScoreBot. For now, NBA ScoreBot will be limited to Twitter. If there’s a good enough demand for it on other networks*, I’ll port it [...]

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Tags: Social Media · Sports

WordPress Releases Version 2.6.3

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Someone found a security flaw in Snoopy, the technology that WP uses to grab feeds on the admin dashboard. There are two files that need updating, so this is a pretty minor update. Now would be a good time to remind you of the article I wrote in early September, Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion. My [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Akismet Launches Stat Tracking

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

In a recent announcement, Akismet has launched some pretty nice graphs for WordPress blogs. The graphs are just a part of the new statistics features that come with the release of Akismet 2.2. Since the release of 2.2, version 2.2.1 was released, which fixes a few bugs.
Akismet stats tracks the nature of your comments and [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Plurk Updater Issue Fixed

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Well, some people were complaining that their plurks weren’t being sent when their posts were published. Naturally, my first inclination was that something was broken with my plugin, so I dove in and tried to figure out where the code was misleading me. In the end, the cookie needed for the plurking process wasn’t writeable, [...]

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Tags: Plurk