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21times Hacker News Sneak Peek

November 1st we launched an early version of our new project 21times.org. Some members of the Hacker News community committed to launching an application by the end of November as an effort to fight off procrastination and get their projects out into the world. Since we were already working on 21times.org we decided we could [...]

Personal Online Code of Conduct

In my last post I mentioned that I was currently drafting a new Personal Online Code of Conduct. My goal is to move away from the need to be constantly connected and also to make sure the time I am connected is time well spent creating value, not just consuming and adding to the online [...]

The “Bog” That Is Constant Connectivity

Virginia Heffernan recently wrote an article for the NY Times titled Let Them Eat Tweets in which she discusses this recent phenomenon of constant connectivity. It seems the masses (myself included) are infatuated with the idea of being constantly connected to people, some of which they don’t even know offline. It’s an interesting topic and [...]

BlueSwarm.com is live!

Finally, we’ve soft launched BlueSwarm.com.  We’ve been working on this project for a few months now and we’re proud to finally have something that the general public can play with.  This is still a relatively early beta, but it’s functional!  So what is it?  BlueSwarm allows you to track your brand through online social media [...]

FriendFeedback.com – Quickly get anonymous feedback from friends

I’m proud to announce the launch of FriendFeedback.com. A simple application that lets you quickly and easily get anonymous feedback from your friends. The idea is that if you want some feedback on something from your friends, they may not always be willing to give you an honest opinion to your face. This application lets [...]

Top 10 Firefox Smart Keyword Bookmarks

Firefox Smart Keyword are keywords attached to bookmarks which you can then use to activate them. So for example instead of typing www.google.com in the address bar you could just type “g”. And you can go a step further you can add a variable to the url which can be handy for searches. So using [...]

CheckYesOrNo.info – Quick yes or no polls

Gordon Brander and I have launched another side project: CheckYesOrNo.info.  It’s a super simple site that allows you to ask quick yes or no questions.  It’s like those notes you used to get from girls back in Junior High.  Jump right in and check it out by answering this question: http://checkyesorno.info/5.

Townsquare.biz – the easiest way to get your business online

Gordon Brander and I are proud to announce the Beta launch of a new web application we’ve been working on for the last couple of months, Townsquare.biz.  Townsquare allows businesses to create an online presence quickly and easily.  The idea behind it is that there are a lot of small businesses that would like to [...]

Craigslist.org OPML Exporter

When I first started freelancing I was looking for a way to get an RSS feed of all the computer gigs on craigslist.org for every city in the USA.  Since most of these postings were telecommunting position it didn’t matter what city they were posted in.  But grabbing the feed manually from 300+ cities on [...]

Lorem Ipsum Bookmarklet

My thought was to create a bookmarklet that would insert a block of dummy filler text (Lorem Ipsum) in the input you currently have in focus.  This would come in handy when testing form submission.  I’ve been trying to figure out a way to do this for quite some time now without any luck.  This [...]

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