Monthly Archives: January 2011

Privacy is Not an On and Off Switch – "Do Not Track" is Not the Answer

Posted on January 30, 2011 by jessestay

Victoria Salisbury wrote an excellent blog post today on “Who’s Creepier? Facebook or Google?“.  I’ve been intrigued by the hypocrisy over criticism of Facebook’s own very granular privacy controls when sites like Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, and others have an … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Clients, Facebook, Google, Gowalla, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, information cards, open standards, open web, privacy, Technology, Twitter, WWW | 7 Comments

Facebook Quietly Launching Friendfeed-like Live Commenting

Posted on January 21, 2011 by jessestay

Tonight, in a moment of rare form, as I was singing Hakuna Matata on Facebook with Krystyl Baldwin and others (an occasion one must do often) I noticed a new feature pop up before my eyes.  Instantly, with no refresh … Continue reading →

Posted in Benjamin Golub, Bret Taylor, Facebook, Facebook features, FriendFeed, Hakuna Matata, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social network, Technology | 11 Comments

FamilySearch.org To Discuss Living/Dead Relationship Technology With New RootsTech Conference

Posted on January 20, 2011 by jessestay

One of my favorite things to do is research my family history.  Even more interesting to me is the technology that can make finding and exploring your heritage even easier.  As a former employee of OneGreatFamily.com, a former Consultant for … Continue reading →

Posted in Brewster Kahle, Facebook, Family history, Hewlett Packard, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Internet Archive, phil windley, social, social network, Technology | Leave a comment

Emailvision Acquires Social Media Marketing Company ObjectiveMarketer

Posted on January 19, 2011 by jessestay

I’m always giddy to report on people I know whose companies have been acquired.  Amita Paul’s ObjectiveMarketer announced today it has been acquired by Emailvision, a leading Software as a Service Email marketing company providing solutions to enable marketers to … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, cotweet, Emailvision, ExactTarget, guy kawasaki, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Services, social, Social media marketing, socialtoo, Technology | 5 Comments

Looking for a Facebook Internationalization WordPress Plugin

Posted on January 17, 2011 by jessestay

As I’m writing my book, I’ve come to realize that a good portion of you that visit here speak another language.  In fact, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Facebook’s 2nd largest market (Indonesia, with over 200 million population), just so happens to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bahasa Indonesia, Blogging, Facebook, facebook translations, Geeky, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Indonesia, Indonesian language, Language, Plug-in (computing), Technology, wordpress | 4 Comments

to End Poverty

Posted on January 13, 2011 by jessestay

If you’re wanting to do something good on January 21st and 22nd, save the date, book a flight and a hotel, and come to Utah for what is certain to be an unprecedented event.  The lack of precedence is perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Changing the World, end poverty, hack poverty, Homelessness, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, poverty conference, social, Technology | Leave a comment

Family Village – A Facebook Game I Can Get Addicted To

Posted on January 11, 2011 by jessestay

I’ve always avoided Facebook games such as Farmville, now Cityville, and other “Virtual Worlds” that seem to suck up your time while annoying your friends via your news feed.  The fact is that’s all they do – they fake a … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Family Village, FamilyLink, Farmville, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Paul Allen, Technology, utah, Virtual world | 4 Comments

Miss Those Old Style Retweets on Twitter.com? Try This Kynetx Extension

Posted on January 10, 2011 by jessestay

One of my biggest annoyances with the new Twitter API has been the migration to the new “retweet” structure where clicking the retweet button pulls the person’s Tweet into your own stream, with the person’s name and profile picture attached … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Application programming interface, Google Chrome, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Mozilla Firefox, retweet, social, Technology, Twitter, utah | 4 Comments

How is Quora Able to Auto-Like Posts on Facebook?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by jessestay

I’ve been contemplating a way to get Facebook like buttons to work with a brand’s own look and feel, so when you like it on a 3rd party site, it automatically likes the same Page (via Open Graph Protocol) on … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, facebook api, Geeky, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, like button, like button api, Quora, Technology | 8 Comments

Counting "Real" Likes on any URL – Evaluating the Salt Lake City vs. Fresno Campaign

Posted on January 3, 2011 by jessestay

In the last week I saw one of the most amazing campaigns of unity amongst 2 communities, Salt Lake City, Utah, where I live and where I asked for your help, and Fresno, California. Both cities were entered into Walmart’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, facebook application development, Facebook Application Development for Dummies, Food bank, Fresno California, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, like button, Ogden Utah, open graph protocol, salt lake city, Technology, United States, utah, utah food bank, walmart | 1 Comment