This is why the Huffington Post succeeds so beautifully, it is because of all of the little things they do, like suggesting I install their Google Chrome extension, that makes them such a force to be reckoned with.
My question is, why don’t tech blogs such as @Mashable, @TechCrunch, @TheNextWeb and ReadWriteWeb (@RWW), pursuing such context with their readers?
I, for one, would be totally into it.
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There are freelancers that are struggling for work, and then there are freelancers with too much work. Based on the little experience I have in this up and down industry, you’re either getting a lot of work requests on a very regular basis or very little work requests on a sporadic basis.
One of my favorite bloggers and respected web designer, Sam Brown, wants to solve this problem with his new project Endor.se. While I do not have access to Endor.se yet (closed beta) and cannot do a review, you can still learn a lot about the project over on Sam’s blog. The post details what Endor.se is, and what it is not. From what I am reading and seeing, I don’t think anyone will be disappointed, and I am looking forward to doing an in-depth review in the near future.
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Fuck You, Leave Mark Alone – AlexWilhelm.com
We all need to calm the fuck down. Really, it’s getting to be a daily occurrence that some person in tech, be it a blogger, an idiot, a CEO of a company in an unrelated space, lays into Zuck for one reason or the other. Mark is too immature! Mark needs to have a Carol Bartz moment! Mark needs to step aside! Mark is melting down! Resign! Fired! Mark is, is, is, is, is blah blah blah. Shut the fuck up.
He cusses a bit more than I usually do, but I agree with every word.
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If there exists one great thing about living in a no name town as a tech blogger, it’s the fact that I am not surrounded by tech geeks like me at all times. I am forced to deal with people who basically know how to open up Internet Explorer, go to Facebook.com, then play some games such as FarmVille. The people I regularly talk to don’t give a damn about their privacy settings, lists, API’s and what have you.
I am dealing with the mainstream user on a daily basis.
Some things I have learned from the mainstream users:
These are all things that Apple understands beautifully about their customers, and that is why I was mostly excited to hear that FarmVille was coming to the iPhone. While I may hate the game, my friends do not, and it is another reason for them to hop on the iPhone train. So while many of us nerds laughed about FarmVille being on the iPhone, just look at your friends who are considered mainstream on your Facebook account, then tell me how silly it is.
Steve Jobs and his team are not stupid, and whether you like to admit it or not, games as popular (and IMO, as stupid) as FarmVille are a bigger deal to consumers than the silver band around the iPhone 4 acting as an antenna.
Android and other competitors should be taking note.
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Many people are applauding the reports of Google ditching Windows in favor of OS X and Linux in the name of ”security”. Besides the fact that I have little patience with people labeling OS X and Linux more secure than Windows, my main problem is the culture that Google is creating with this new policy.
Google has always promoted choice and being open. It is two of their favorite buzzwords to use, and used oh so lovingly at Google I/O to insult the fruit-that-must-not-be-named. So why isn’t Google taking their own advice they are spewing to the tech world and their competitors?
Whether Google likes it or not, people do like Windows, and while Google is already an Apple/Linux centric community, IMO, Google needs to let their employees embrace their competitors by letting their employees choose what OS they want to use. If Google continues to restrict what their employees can use, they are going to create an environment that is not supportive of one of their favorite buzzwords, choice. This will eventually lead to ignorance to what their competitors are doing, and also create an air of superiority that no company should have.
While I am not worried about that happening quite yet, I hope the Google of the future is nothing like this, and that these restrictions are kept to a minimum. If they continue to dictate what their employees use in more extreme ways, don’t be surprised if this attitude carries over to consumers as well. Microsoft has already done that once, and we just dug ourselves out of that hole. Let’s not do it again.
ShareWhoo! Can you believe it? I only have ten more days of High School.
As I wrap things up the last few days before my graduation, I am going to be secluding myself from the online world a bit at least until June 11th. I simply don’t have the time to socialize with my contract work, regular job and graduation plans.
Also.., I won’t lie to y’all… I want to spend time with my friends and going to various events around town when I graduate.
After all that is over, I will be back to posting regularly again with some pretty large plans in store 
Since the only thing that people are talking about is Facebook’s privacy issue, or non-issue, for the past week, I have nothing to write about. Personally, the only reason I care about this Facebook debacle is because I can’t really find anything that interesting to write about involving tech. This is why I am going to tell you ten things about me you probably don’t know.
Boredom and lack of opinion will do this to you.
That’s all, folks
Is Farmville more powerful than Facebook? | TechYell.
Mark Nielsen asks if Farmville is more powerful than Facebook.
In short, no.
Farmville is an important part of the Facebook environment, but it is only some of the glue that holds Facebook and the ever increasing engagement rates together. If Farmville were to outright leave today, I would say the effect would be minimal because someone would come along seizing the opportunity to replace them.
BUT
If Facebook were to piss off the long-tail of games on their platform, as well as Zynga, well then…
Facebook will have a problem.
It’s the long-tail that has the power IMO, and Facebook is known for pissing people off, it is just a matter of time before they tick off the dudes smaller than Zynga.
What do you think?
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People Louis Gray Is Going to Hire
See comment here- I laughed my ass off when I saw that comment while at work today. I am not quite sure if I laughed so much because it was truly funny, or because I was just that bored with my life, who knows. Nonetheless, that is the reason why I changed the title of my post.
Here are just a list of people I think startups will be pitching in hopes to get that big break required to succeed.
I am sure I will have more to add to the list as time goes on.
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