Social Media Snubbing

I’ve been taking some time lately to look for interesting and relevant people to add to my list of people I follow on Twitter and doing so has meant that I’ve had the opportunity to meet some really exciting individuals.  It’s also meant that I’ve had the opportunity to see who is / isn’t following me already and more importantly… who has blocked me. Yep, there are people out there who have blocked me from following them. I’m not embarassed to say so… It doesn’t even really bother me.  I just think it’s silly....

Make A Difference With Touch To Give

During my weekly search of the latest and greatest in the Apple App Store I happened upon something that actually caused me to pause and reflect a bit. An app that allowed you to give to charity. A bit of background as to why I liked the idea of this app so much. When holidays and my birthday comes around, I typically tell folks instead of buying me material gifts take that money and donate it to a charity in my name. For a while my family couldn’t grasp that and I’d still get the package of socks or the new pair of dress pants. Soon enough though, they caught...

Why WordPress 3.0 Will Be So Good

Fresh on the heels of  WordCampSF many of us users, enthusiasts, business people and developers are anxiously waiting the forthcoming major release to WordPress. Version 3.0 will bring about some much sought after functionality to the CMS/blogging platform that has seen tremendous growth in its user base within the past couple of years. There are numerous enhancements, but here I’m going to focus on what I feel are the Big 3 (in no specific order). 1. Multi-Site The functionality that was once only available to the WPMU (Multi-User) folks on a custom install of...

PlacePop Review

Review post courtesy of @Dr_Malcolm on Twitter. Ok, here I sit reviewing a website as a guest blogger for @ErinBlaskie, and of the 3 sites she was looking at I drew Placepop. It’s basically a mish-mash of FourSquare and Twitter, and so far as I can tell, it doesn’t do either of them very well. I signed up only to find the damned thing has a city in Ghana as the default hometown of everyone who signs up. It took me a whole 5 minutes to realise this though, and a further 2 to change it. I would like to have those 7 minutes back, really, as they were really...