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Evan over a Flock has some news about the next version of Flock to come out: Flock Browser - Flock 1.1 is coming soon | Flock With the support for Yahoo! Mail and Gmail being built in, as well as Picasa joining the other photo sharing services, Flock is definitely aimed to gain more users.
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Yesterday the arrival of men and their tool belts hearkened the arrival of "the words".
Carrying the theme from our foyer, the Media Center and our new Usability Lab have now their own sets with such terms as "Print", "Social Media", "Discovery", and one of my faves "Browser Compatibility".
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Just a quick post to let the world know that we, as in Optiem, are looking to hire some talented folks to join in the fun in Cleveland. Please send in your resumes to career@optiem.com if you are interested in being a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Specialist, Online PR Specialist or an Account Manager. We are also going to be looking for a Project Manager. You can find out more at the Optiem careers page on our website.
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If you happened to be on the West side of Cleveland last week and were watching Cox45 you might have seen myself and fellow Optiem co-worker Ben Bykowski on your TV's.
We were lucky enough to be asked to appear on Talk 'N Tech, a show which helps explain technology. This time the questions, posed by host Darlene Zwolinski, were about RSS. If you missed it, I've embedded it below (with the kind permission of Dan & Matt from Cox) for your viewing pleasure.
I believe you can also get this show On Demand as part of Cox's cable package. It was a cool experience (I must smile more) and hopefully we'll get asked back.
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Like a lot of people I have profiles on a lot of different social networks. Flickr, LinkedIn, Facebook etc. I'm also on places that don't get my attention as much as they used to (Listal, MySpace, Pownce to name a few).
Some of this is due to a change in routine. Take for instance Last.FM. I got into this late compared to some, but I like the thinking behind it and the radio part got my tastes most of the time. The thing that changed my use of this, or more accurately the use of iTunes, was the arrival of an iPod. I won one and since receiving it I've hardly opened my iTunes at work - therefore Last.FM has gone on, sans my scrobbles.
Also a lot of the "stuff" I had to log in to the network to do has been replaced by Adobe® AIR™ applications, widgets or by using Flock so I don't visit the spaces too much. Add to the mix twitter, IM, email, blog posts and RSS feeds and there's a lot going on that doesn't revolve around any one source on the web.
I was thinking about this when I signed up for my Mahalo profile (I know, STOP for goodness sake) and wondered if I could get an RSS feed of the sites I recommend. Not seeing it readily available I contacted my man on the inside, who passed it my way (available to the public soon) and I scooted over to my YahooPipes to add it to the "follow me" pipe I was building.
My thinking is this...
Portable Social Networks are still a little ways off and even though Google's OpenSocial is out there I haven't seen much produced from it and either of these may still not do what I want. What I wanted is a place that I can start pulling all the "stuff" I'm doing online, open to people of different networks and the web at large as well as offering me the chance to put it anywhere I want. Answer = YahooPipes + RSS + Feedburner + SpringWidgets.
Is this going to revolutionize the Internet? No.
But what it does is illustrate that information about you, your company or your products can be easily be gathered, filtered and placed wherever you want it to be as well as offering subscription (through RSS/Feedburner), a shareable version (click options on the widget) and possibly a lot more.
So if you have to know all my tweets, blog posts, comments on other blogs, music & film preferences, bookmarks, recommended sites, photos I've taken, blogs I read or events I'm going to just grab the widget.
Let the stalking begin :-)
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I'm the Director of Emerging Technologies at Optiem, an interactive marketing firm based in Cleveland, Ohio.
I'm British. Love spicy food. Live and work in the US and have been "on the web" for over 10 years now.
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