Category Archives: social media

Impact of the Chip-In Widget

In May Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, was diagnosed with leukemia . Phil Burns is a local entrepreneur, blogger, and technologist and well known in the local technology scene. With the announcement of the news, fellow bloggers immediately responded by distributing the Chip In Widget (created by Jesse Stay) amongst their online presence and pitching in [...]

My first episode of WineLibrary.tv

I met Gary VanderChuk briefly at SXSW at the Wine Library Cork’d Party. I have been meaning to watch a full episode of his show for awhile now as I am a wine lover and because I am truly impressed with what he has done for an old industry through the implementation of the web [...]

Changes in Del.iocio.us

Del.icio.us (acquired by Yahoo in 2005) has been making some changes to their product. I like the new user interface on the pop-up box, think the suggested tags are “smarter” than previously, and like the new firefox toolbar that shows my recently tagged links. However, I don’t understand why they now have a limit on [...]

Finally Twitterpated

Last year I posted about my lack of understanding for Twitter. It seemed so pointless and I couldn’t derive a reason why I would actually want to use it. Yet, I kept reading articles and posts about how people just loved the service, so I stopped boycotting in May of last year. I first hopped [...]