Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-13
April 13, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- Here’s where I’m staying this week, The Signature: http://tinyurl.com/6pp8ez #
- I’m working on Contributr tonight, trying to get the demonstration sites and the iphone app back online #
- Good night world, have to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow to get to airport and catch flight to Las Vegas #
- Good Morning Everyone, time to load the car and head out. #
- Hitting the road. #
- How on earth did I manage to get to the airport this early? #
- Didnt get any blank stares going through security w/ my gadgets this time. #
- Plane just landed 25 minutes early, so were waiting for a gate to open. #
- Just arrived in my Suite at The Signature at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. #
- Headed down to grab some lunch, then to register for the conference #
- At the NAB/Rtnda registration area waiting for friends #
- Sitting in on the opening session of the conferences. #
Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-10
April 10, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- Looking over some NAB materials and hounding on my development team to get Contributr back online in time for the conference season #
- Trying to figure out what the heck my Contributr developers have been doing for the last several weeks, not being micromanaged, nor working. #
- Wow that last Tweet was a Twoosh! (The sentence was 140 characters by complete accident) #
- @rosshill Nice find! reTweeting: Restaurant that uses Tumbler as their web site: http://blackbirdbuvette.com/ #
- @rosshill I like all of the Twitter interface changes I’ve found so far today, let’s hope it doesn’t get ‘cluttered’ #
- Why didn’t anyone tell me Flickr released video today? I must be out of the loop this week. #
- It’s not as exciting as you might think but here’s a tag-cloud generated from my Tweets http://tinyurl.com/6o63pw #
- @coreygreenberg You’re using AMP? I don’t run into people who have tried, much less use Adobe Media Player. #
- @CreativeSage Are you campaigning against RickRolling?
# - @efortiz Yeah, it’s a decent enough app, I talked to some of the original devs from AMP last year and it’s "heart" isn’t in the right place. #
- @CreativeSage oic, I haven’t watched the episode yet, it’s on the list though. #
- Retweeting: ijustine: Wanting to hit all the btchr’s complaining about flickr video: http://tinyurl.com/6xbelc #
- @acafourek what hardware do you have again? I don’t think my old PowerBook could handle all that #
- @acafourek that’s a nice setup, I’m looking at MBP’s pretty seriously right now, I get this thing maxed out all the time #
- @britter @chrisbrogan I’m going to have to have my parents Tivo it or something for next time I visit them. I keep hearing good things a … #
- @gerik do you love your Flip video? I got one a couple weeks ago, but NAB next week will be my first big test of it #
- I got my new business cards in today-they match my online branding, Convergence Journalism and New Media Specialist, including my twitter@ #
- Good morning Twitterville, it’s raining really hard this morning #
- @thewebcoach, have direct mail campaigns for social networking sites been effective for you? #
- @conniereece I’m still making up my mind on Everyone being w/ other tabs but I think it’s more Usable now, I see myself clicking on it more. #
- Contributr.net is back online, sans our beautiful new design, the design is done, the coding for it is not #
- Anyone out there who follows me or not from Vermont? @ or DM me please! #
- @awest FlipVideo has a lot of amazing potential to be used lots of ways, it one of my favorite gadgets right now. #
- @digitalmlewis The people behind Kickapps are very good people, I’ve met with them, and it’s a great product #
- I’m meeting with the startup incubator interested in Contributr here in a couple hours, wish me luck! #
- @misslacey123 ugh? #
- @singlegalDC Thanks! Been a while since we’ve talked, everything going well? #
- @leeodden Congrats on 1,000 after 1,400. That’s a much higher conversion rate than I have with my 316/3370 ratio. UR a good value!
# - Headed home from my meeting with the startup people, I’ve got some "next steps" to get started on, first thing, my patents and ownership … #
My iGoogle Homepage Favorite Things
February 9, 2008 by Jonathan · 2 Comments
The iGoogle homepage is my personal portal of choice, for a number of reasons, once I just like having the Google search bar right there waiting for whenever I want. I don’t keep a lot of widgets and tabs saved onto it, but enough to get me the latest headlines from my news organizations of choice, and weather (although usually my weather reports come from hitting the Weather icon on my iPhone.
A couple other widgets that I keep on my iGoogle main page is a ‘Daily Einstein’ quotes box (I’m a big Einstein fan) as well as a Joke of Day widget (I only glance at it every couple of days, but sometimes there’s something funny there!).
One other favorite thing on my iGoogle homepage is the Google Gadget Editor, for those moments when I get fed up with going to a website and just want a widget, I use an RSS widget template and roll my own! I’m sure this is what frightens some PR folk, people rolling their own content widgets, but gosh if they did them themselves audience numbers are sure to grow!
Very soon I’m going to roll out some widgets and other gadgets on my blog, mainly different ways to read and access the information contained in it. Some things I’m currently thinking of doing in the short term include a Mac OSX Dashboard widget, iGoogle homepage widget, iPhone application, SpringWidgets widget, and maybe some extra RSS feeds so you can roll your own (just be sure to send me a link, I love seeing what kinds of cool things people can do given some unique content).
Widgets and Syndication
February 7, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Below you’ll find links to widgets and other syndication tools and applications that I’ve built while working on personal and professional projects. I have experience building Mac OSX Dashboard applications, Facebook Applications, iPhone Applications, Google Gadgets, Flash Badges and more.
Facebook Applications
- KOMU News Facebook App
- KBIA-FM Facebook App
- ColumbiaMissourian Facebook App
- Contributr Public Items App
- JonathanCoffman.com Blog Posts App
Social Media Projects
January 19, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Traditional forms of media and journalism constrain news-products to older methods. With the enhancement of traditional values and methodology in journalism with new- and social-media technology your information products can be far superior than your competition.
Beginning in mid 2008 I began solely focusing on social media and online communities. Some recent Social and New Media projects that I’ve worked on:
See more projects I’ve worked on for KOMU.com.
Google Gadget Development
Facebook Application Development
Social Media Experimentation
- Social Media Links and Resources link blog
- PBS Engage (see more about what I did for the Engage project on this page)
Google OpenSocial a Facebook Killer?
November 1, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Alright, I’m not the first one to report this but the Google Revolution has begun! I mean this is big, bigger than any other tech news I’ve talked about in a LONG time.
Google’s OpenSocial API is going to let developers like myself create one widget or web application and have a potential user-base of 150-250 million users, far more than anyone could reach with any one tool just 3 hours before now.
Google’s ultimate goal here is to create a layer on top of the traditional Web 2.0 world that we’re all used to that allows us to share and socialize just about anything.
Now, most of our web content is already highly commoditized, but this social layer adds to that.
No longer can you ignore the people and users that you didn’t even know existed, they can find you, your site, and manipulate your beloved content however they wish.
I’ve been wanting this for a long time, and I hope Google OpenSocial can live up to my expectations. In the meantime, I’m going to be garbling up all the information and blog rumblings I can in the next few days and report back again. Right now, the blogosphere is abuzz with theories that Facebook will now have to join the OpenSocial alliance just to stay in the game.
If I was Facebook and my boss had told me that we weren’t joining, I would be job-hunting. This just isn’t something you can ignore or take on.
I already have a list of about 15 quick and easy OpenSocial uses for my friends and clients to build and use immediately. Just give me a few hours and see what I can come up with!
I’ve already been evangelizing GoogleGadgets, and I’m thinking that using the OpenSocial APIs are going to be just as easy and just as useful as those were.
It’s my early understanding that these tools will be just a few lines of code away from making any web site or RIA (Rich Internet Application) compatible and loadable into over 150 million (my personal guess on actual users of the big social sites that signed on as of this blog post) profiles.
For more information, be sure to visit my Twitter feed which is linked in the right hand column or at http://www.twitter.com/jdcoffman As always please check out my site and portfolio for more information about me and what skills I can bring to your company! -Jonathan
Macs rule in university classrooms - Lost Remote TV Blog
October 15, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Macs rule in university classrooms - Lost Remote TV Blog
I’m slightly offended by the negative comments regarding the Missouri School of Journalism’s deal with Apple Inc. Yes, the faculty all get Apple laptops every couple of years, and the newsrooms get free gadgets to test and use for journalism purposes… but honestly, is it such a bad thing to make sure your students have the tools and resources they need to succeed in an ever-more competitive journalism marketplace?
There are still hundreds of college students graduating from the Jschool’s print program, many of which don’t understand nor have a desire to learn how the web is going to impact their lives and their jobs… This is not a good thing.
The Missouri School of Journalism is considered the world’s first and finest school of journalism in the world, and they’re taking big steps to make sure their students are prepared… part of being prepared means they need the tools to be able to create journalism in new and exciting ways, is it their fault that Apple already has those solutions readily available and accessible? I think not.
Coda - Holy Coderz PHP Man!
September 12, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Coda is a new application from Panic (the fabulous people behind such Mac OSX programs like Transmit, the best FTP app out there!).I first heard about Coda from Mike Chambers one of the people behind and in front of Adobe AIR in the Adobe Labs. He highly recommends Coda, and he doesn’t recommend very many apps. Neither do I for that matter, I happily use my education discount whenever I can but rarely do I invest in commercial software unless key technology players endorse it.This seems slightly counter-intuitive to my gadget and web nerd persona, but alas budgetary constraints keep my software library slim. Coda however, has just been moved to the top of my wishlist.I’m a huge fan of Transmit, it does everything a web developer needs in terms of FTP access. I manage a large number of web sites and Transmit handles all of my transfer needs with ease. I have a feeling that Coda follows closely in Transmit’s footsteps.Apparently, Coda is a dream come true, it offers CSS stylesheet design, code color-coding, troubleshooting and bugfinding, FTP services, and oh so much more.If there is a kind reader out there I’d love to get my hands on Coda, and if you have the means, I’d surely appreciate a donation to cover the cost!
A Quick KOMU Update
September 7, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
I continue to work regularly both on the clock and freelance for KOMU-TV in Columbia, MO. My duties include writing and editing stories (in fact I’ve written or edited over 1150 stories in the three years I’ve been here!) as well as develop and implement special projects.
Some of the recent projects that I’ve completed include (but not all get adopted for public usage):
- Internal blog system for reporter and producer notes on stories
- Internal training manual system based online using the Drupal CMS
- External blog and discussion board system using the Drupal CMS
- Several Google Gadgets featuring news, sports, and weather information for customer’s Google Custom Homepage.
- A Facebook application that pushes news content into the profiles of users
I’ve got a lot more ideas and projects on the table, unfortunately the funding and support has dried up for many of these projects, however I do hope to include many more details on my web site in the coming weeks as I build out additional pages.
Google Gadgets - Oh So Easy
August 31, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Google Gadgets are one of my favorite things right now, they provide a great deal of information at your finger-tips. In fact, I see and interact with Google Gadgets everytime I search on the Internet (I use Google almost exclusively).
.The gadgets are so easy to build, and the documentation so easy to understand that there shouldn’t be a news organization out there that isn’t taking advantage of the free traffic and views.
I actually created 3 Google Gadgets for KOMU.com in one overnight sitting. I’ll post again soon with links to those as soon as I finish cleaning them up a bit.In the meantime, go ahead and customize your own Google startpage, you’ll be glad you did.
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