Sol Young

It’s day two of discovering and opening up the flow… (not to be confused with ‘Flow Theory‘)

A couple days ago, after months of thinking about how to consume more information, I was inspired by Scoble’s post to switch off of a standard HTTP Twitter API polling application (Twitterific) and move to a Jabber based client [...]

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Red Planet
I got to catch up with the Windows 2008 Server ads today. The first thing that came to mind was AMEE from Red Planet. That was a scary malfunctioning robot…

Microsoft’s Win2k8 ad, Crouching Robot
As an IT professional, will you nickname Win2k8 ‘AMEE’?

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I completely dig Scoble’s method of using Twitter. I’ve been wanting to consume mass tweets and watch information pass…  It’s simply not possible to ‘flow’ when you’re using apps like Twitterific and only follow a hundred people (this setup is great for smaller numbers).
I’d been using Twitterific for a while, but it was clunky and [...]

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As developers, if you’re building services your customers can share, you need to plan on announcement integration.
I keep thinking back to February when I wanted a better way to integrate Twitter. Others wonder about Twitter being a source of lost content, as Cartoon Barry describes well. If a visitor is on my site I want [...]

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This weekend my wife and I got an early start Friday to finish off our bathroom’s tile. I’ve been photo-blogging it to Flickr and periodically putting up notes on Twitter. The last couple weekends have been similar, doing plumbing, floor tile, prep work, etc.
Though there is so much [...]

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A video on the sub-prime meltdown…

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Google Reader has a great feature for sharing articles. It’s been a terrific way to share interesting and pertinent information affecting iofy and to give like-minded folks easy access to my favorite RSS feeds.
You can access my shared page here.
Or pull the feed here.
And with any luck, a drop of the most recent items will [...]

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