Archive for June, 2007

Facebook the Transformers of Social Networking

I saw this funny post by social networking expert Stowe Boyd yesterday:
I have been exploring a bunch of the new stuff on my Facebook account.
Question: Why does Facebook only allow me one blog to be imported? I write three, and they represent different sides of my character. This is a show stopper in the long […]

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Food Fight on Facebook Gets Your Profile Messy

While not a very useful application, Food Fight does demonstrate the intrinsic power of playful social interaction over glitzy effects.  Food Fight, developed by David Gentzel of Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!), extends the psychology behind the poke.  As in MMORPGs like Warcraft or with virtual roses in Hotornot, users of the application spend a virtual currency on […]

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Click.TV Player Will Be Shut Down

That’s the subject of a short email from Mike Lanza today.  Videos using the Click.TV player will stop working as of June 8.  To those worry that this cool piece of technology will go away, Mike reassures us:
While I regret this shutdown, I am very excited by the reason behind it.  You’ll be seeing Click.TV […]

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Optimize Wordpress Tables with Fix Database Plugin

I’ve been seeing an unusual number of spam comments awaiting moderation lately.  Normally, Akismet does a great job keeping them out of the moderation queue.  The ones that do make it to the queue, I usually let expire automatically.  This new crop, I decided to delete manually.  When I did, I got this error:
Unknown column ‘pingback_views’ in […]

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