The .me top-level domain was opened up for purchases today, and people didn’t hesitate to snatch up the names. Pricing for a .me domain is $19.99 per year, and you have to buy two years when you sign up. I’ve heard accounts on Twitter of people buying 4 or 5 domains just to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web'
.me Domain Name Shenanigans
July 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Rants & Raves · Web
PHP Shells
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
One of the main things I like about scripting languages like Python and Ruby (*shudders*) is that they have an interactive shell mode. This allows a developer to quickly write some sample code and see what the result of that code is. In the web development industry, this isn’t quite as common. [...]
The New Facebook
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been hearing rumblings for quite a while about the Facebook redesign, and even saw a few screenshots. The whole time, I remained skeptical of its ability to draw me back in to viewing it as a useful and productive application. It’s currently too cluttered and is next to impossible to glean any [...]
Tags: Social Media · Web
MLB ScoreBot
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
MLB ScoreBot is a service I created for Twitter and Plurk. ScoreBot runs through current results and broadcasts the score when the game finishes. Each day at 6 AM, ScoreBot downloads the schedule for the day. Starting at 11:00 AM, ScoreBot checks MLB.com to see if any games have finished. If [...]
Tags: Social Media · Sports · Web
Social Media and Web 2.0
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
There’s a phenomenon occuring as we speak that could change the way people receive and react to the news. It’s called Social Media, and it’s sweeping the nation. Social Media is different from traditional media (newspapers, TV, journals, etc) in the fact that anyone can participate. It relies heavily on participation in [...]
Tags: Social Media · Web
Google Reader
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments
For the last couple days, I’ve been experimenting with Google’s take on RSS aggregation, Google Reader. For the most part, I’m happy with its performance. The main gripe I have against it is that it’s a web-based application when I would prefer one of the desktop variety. The Reader, like many other [...]
Tags: Web
Integration
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
One of the great things about Open Source Software is that there’s generally someone who is willing to toy with it and integrate it with another product. One of my favorite (and most used) integrations is between Lightning (a Thunderbird extension) and Google Calendar. The plugins, with some tinkering, give a user full [...]
