Foursquare Fail Page
Latest in my series of website fail pages is Foursquare, who, late on a Sunday evening of all times, served me up this:
Technology
I Heart Gnomes
In observance of National Public Service Week, I’d like to recognize some of my stellar peers who are contributing to making GCPEDIA the brilliant, vibrant place that it’s becoming. Specifically, I want to offer my thanks and a small token of my gratitude to the gnomes and gardeners who are toiling regularly to make our [...]
Unlimited Gmail aliases
A helpful tip from Google, if you didn’t know about this already: Gmail doesn’t offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com. You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, [...]
A Typical Day at the Post Office?
You. Must. Watch. This.
Last.fm Fail Page
I’ve been on last.fm since late 2006 and don’t recall ever getting a failpage before: Hopefully it’s a good sign: of increasing popularity, and not just inadequate infrastructure due to declining revenues and diminishing paid subscriber base.
ONLY YOU Can Prevent Edit Wars
Recently, I resolved an edit war on GCPEDIA. Well, that’s a bit of an overstatement I suppose. I intervened in a situation where a couple of users were beginning to revert each others’ edits and exchange words via the edit history comments. I smelled smoke, then stomped out the sparks before any serious fire could [...]
Building an RT Twitterbot
Creating a ReTweeting Twitterbot used to be easy. My colleague Peter Smith originally pointed me towards Tweetalert, a service which scanned Twitter Search for the hashtag of your choice, then retweeted the associated posts via your own Twitter account, or another you’d created for that specific purpose. This is how the GCPEDIA and GCconnex Twitter [...]
Goodbye Google Buzz
Another day, another social media tool I’m divesting myself from. Why? Well, on one hand, it has been as rife with privacy problems as Facebook. In their rush to get the product out to market to as many people as possible, Google sacrificed the sort of quality control testing that comes with gradually released beta. [...]
Goodbye Facebook
So, it’s a month to the day since I posted my most recent tirade against Facebook, but this time I’m writing to report that I finally kicked Mark Zuckerberg’s travesty to the curb. Granted, there wasn’t much left there to delete… And that was the aspect that made it more difficult, actually. I didn’t have much [...]
It’s Your Job to Edit GCPEDIA: Add It to Your PLA
I consider editing (and administrating) GCPEDIA a part of my job, and I always have. If you read the wording of your job description, there’s probably some significant wiggle room for creative interpretation, provided that your primary product or goal continues to be produced or achieved on time. For example, do your duties specify that [...]
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