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Mollom – Spam Control and More

April 24, 2008

I came across this service a little earlier in the week and can’t wait to give it a try! It is quite possibly the first real competitor to Akismet for community spam filtering and control. The Drupal community is all up in arms with praise for the beta-service.
Sometime next week I think I’ll toss it [...]

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On Email Organization

April 22, 2008

For the last month or so I’ve been on a rampage, an email rampage. I haven’t quite hit Inbox Zero but inbox 30-40 suits me well actually. Here’s what I’ve done:

I now have only 2 visible email addresses, Gmail and my @jonathancoffman.com mail. Those other addresses (.Mac, Yahoo!, Mizzou, and my secondary Gmail) all now get [...]

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Introducing Google AppEngine

April 7, 2008

It’s Google’s first foray into application stack support and infrastructure and I for one am very excited to give it a try. I was planning to go to bed early tonight and get an early start to tomorrow but now I feel the need to wait until 9 PST to signup and be one of [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-11

March 11, 2008

Alright, productivity is low right now, so I’ll watch some TV for a while this evening. #
Good Morning Twitterville! #
Headed off to work, Tweet ya later! #
I’m in the Journalism School Lounge if you need me #
@adarowski no kidding! it’s like I can stop squinting again after I open ‘real safari’ #
I’m doing some server [...]

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Recent Facebook Application Launches

February 28, 2008

I recently launched several Facebook applications and thought I’d share them with you. All of them are essentially the same application with different content, they parse RSS feeds from blogs and newsrooms that I work with.

While these aren’t examples of huge viral applications, they have been gaining viewers and interactions day by day. (I might [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Comparing Current Offerings

February 21, 2008

Comparing Current Offerings
Amazon:

Very Inexpensive (+1)
Very powerful (+1)
Recently had its first major downtime event (-1)
Very flexible in terms of OS, applications, etc (+1)
S3 storage service provides a good platform for archive storage (+1)
Bring your own Machine Image is a good thing, use what you’re familiar with (+1)
You cannot upload and download files using FTP/SFTP as with [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-13

December 13, 2007

Having a baked potato out for dinner. #
Working on a Contributr presentation for tomorrow. #
At the Journalism school, preparing to give my presentation on Contributr, wish me luck! #
Rocked my presentation of Contributr… Show the problem they have with their website -> Show my solution to all their problems= FTW! #
Adobe Bio is awesome, I’ll [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-09

December 9, 2007

wow, it’s truly a winter storm, with ice pellets falling, and lightning and thunder, this is so weird! #
Kristy’s party was wonderful tonight, I had a lot of fun, and it’s always nice to see all your friends together. #
@deanpence what’s the latest religious drama about? #
@chrisbaskind I thought Apple’s support WAS the best in [...]

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Pudding Media – uh-oh ads for VOIP

October 28, 2007

Pudding Media
I presented this new company to my fellow Convergence Journalism friends last week and they were shocked… as am I. PuddingMedia promises free phonecalls (VOIP for now, cellphones in the future) if you’re willing to let them ‘listen’ to your conversations and serve-up relevant ads based on what you’re saying. Imagine if you’re making [...]

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yourminis – Widgets for the rest of us?

October 27, 2007

yourminis :: web widgets, blog widgets, desktop widgets, widgetize your content!
Well folks, here it is, the widespread simplification of widgetizing your content. While yourminis isn’t quite a plug-and-play, but it is a very strong AS3 API library for content creators to use. They already have big name partners like VH1, MTV, and others who hope [...]

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