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Entries from April 2008

Twitter did some Spring cleaning - stale accounts pruned?

April 22nd, 2008 ·

While doing my typical searches for new and interesting people on Twitter to add to the flow, I noticed something indicative of Spring cleaning. You see, when you search Twitter, you usually get pages of people who haven’t updated in a year or accounts with zero updates - ever - and six months stale.
None of [...]

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Tags: Flow · Prediction · Twitter · Web Services

Direct links to MP3s for the Democratic candidate’s WMMR call-ins

April 22nd, 2008 ·

Here are direct links to the Clinton and Obama call-ins on WMMR’s Preston and Steve program (reverse chronological order)… I’m looking forward to McCain calling in during the general election so I can post all three.
Obama - 4/21/2008
Clinton -4/11/2008

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Tags: Uncategorized

Flow - Jabber/XMPP as an RSS over HTTP replacement

April 18th, 2008 ·

Twitter on XMPP is just the beginning…

Courtesy NASA Glenn Research Center
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I’ve been using Twitter as a main source of news and entertainment (it’s entertaining and informative to have commentary coming in with links, events, articles, and photos). Most everything pertinent to my areas of interest are discussed, so the latest news is passed around as [...]

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Tags: Architecture · Flow · FriendFeed · RSS · Web Services · XMPP

The morning habit of highly effective people - wake up for yourself

April 17th, 2008 ·

Early Sunrise in Valley Forge - 2003
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In Stephen R. Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, shared traits and behaviors of effective people are described (at the strategic level). I’ve found one habit, at the functional level, which seems to span every effective person I’ve met. I do it too.
It’s waking up and doing [...]

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Tags: Managing · Nike+ · Running

Hints of grad school - I want my MBA

April 13th, 2008 ·

Galina and I went on our first bike ride of Spring (pics). We rode past the Philadelphia Art Museum, along the riverfront and over to UPenn. A large part of the day was spent at a Wharton volleyball tournament with some great friends.
We met some new people while sitting in the bleachers and hanging out. [...]

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Tags: Bicycling · Education

Back in my routine - daily running, RSS+flow, and dev

April 11th, 2008 ·

Latest run results… Almost to my goal of < 7:00 pace…
Today is special… It marks the first day of getting back in to my preferred routine. Here it is:

Get up early and hit a good run.
Read RSS (and now some flow) over breakfast.
Drive to the office (while continuing to read RSS).
Have a productive day of [...]

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Tags: Nike+ · Running · iofy

SnapTweet - a Twitter photo service review

April 9th, 2008 ·

To date I have tried three services. Twitxr, TwitPic, and now SnapTweet…

The exploring of Twitter integrated photo services continues… Today’s post is on SnapTweet, a service working towards announcing Flickr image uploads via Twitter updates.
Before continuing, here’s my philosophy on how a perfect Flickr/Twitter integration works:

Images posted to Flickr are optionally announced on Twitter.
No additional [...]

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Tags: Flickr · Photography · Social Networking · TwitPic · Twitter · Twitxr · Web Services · iPhone