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  • Everyman Links for November 29, 2009

    Sixth Sense. You know I don’t watch many minutes of online video, but I watched this TED presentation from India’s Pranav Mistry twice. Gestures and enhanced intelligence to interact with objects in the real world. 13.51 minutes, or drag the video to the half-way point to get a quick understanding of the potential of Mistry’s work. What strikes me is freedom from The Monitor. Then again, I don’t know if the whole world being digitally enhanced is that great an idea either. Rupert has balls. This...
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  • Teaching Kids Programming – Extending SmallBasic

    I’ve been pair programming with Llewellyn Falco and wanted to share a bit of what we’ve been working on.  We’ve written and published some extensions to SmallBasic on CodePlex and would love your feedback. To use these extensions, you’ll need 1) Small Basic – download it here 2) Small Basic Extensions – download here and then upzip 3) Create a folder named ‘lib’ in the Small Basic directory and copy the two unzipped filed into in ‘SmallBasicFun.dll’ and ‘SmallBasicFun.xml’ We’re also continuing...
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  • Nordic Track Book Club Review: Ignore Everybody

    Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity from Hugh MacLeod was a big surprise for me. I didn’t think I’d get much out of it, but I enjoyed it a lot. MacLeod is the man behind GapingVoid and creator of those business card-size sketched toons so pervasive on the web. He shares a personal perspective on “success,” which I put in quotes because by the end of the book you may define real success differently than you did before reading the book. 5-out-of-5 Nordic Track Ski Stars. _______________...
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  • Sueetie Now Serving Up ScrewTurn Wiki Sitemaps

    When ScrewTurn Wiki author Dario Solera tweeted that ScrewTurn now supported sitemaps, I was super excited. I couldn’t find it in my ScrewTurn 3.0.1.4 Sueetie bits, so I asked about it on ScrewTurn forums and was told by Dario that it was in the nightly build ZIPs. So I pulled down the latest source ZIP and extracted sitemap.aspx and the code-behinds, recompiled, and we’re cooking with sitemaps! Below is a screenshot, or you can see the real thing at http://sueetie.com/wiki/sitemap.aspx . I entered...
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  • Post-Turkey Day Geek Drippings

    The day after Turkey Day, or Fatpants Friday, is a good day to relax and do some light geeking. My Post-Turkey Day geeking included BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Restored my Sueetie development baseline to YAF 1.9.3 Sueetie Control Panel Membership updates BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Two days ago the Iranian Stallion, Keyvan Nayyeri, informed me that my blog comment notifications weren’t working. I can’t relax when I know something’s broken, so it was at the top of the Post-Turkey Day to-do list...

  • Everyman Links for November 24, 2009

    Website art and science. According to David Meerman Scott, the five essential website elements are Strategy, Content, Design, Technology and Measurement. On technology, so many Social Media books espouse crap like, “focus on the conversation. Don’t worry about the technology.” Yeah, right. Scott says, “Obviously an essential element is what technologies will be used at the back end.” To us geeks it is the “back end” that makes everything else possible. One of the things made possible by the back...
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  • Pragmatic Beer – Thanksgiving Edition

    Don and I are going to host a Pragmatic Beer night tomorrow November 24 at 6:30 PM. If you are in the area, please stop by and have a drink/dinner/etc. Where: Harvest Moon , New Brunswick NJ. When: 6:30 PM Date: November 24th, 2009 Topics: Open Follow Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Sueetie Member Services Seduced by YetAnotherForum.NET 1.9.4

    You'll see a much tighter integration of Sueetie Member Services with YetAnotherForum.NET as the seduction of YAF.NET 1.9.4 beta bits becomes complete.  I originally designed member services in Sueetie as a separate function, where a multi-panel account management page supported changing passwords, profile updates, friends and favorites, and so forth.  Most YAF 1.9.3 member services were ignored. The opposite will be true when YAF.NET 1.9.4 is released and Gummy Bear is the happy beneficiary...

  • My 65 Favorite Tweets of PDC09

    Microsoft did a fantastic job making PDC09 accessible to everyone, even to geeks as far away as Vermont. Their real-time HD video coverage of the keynotes and conference presentations was awesome. And what Microsoft didn't provide at http://microsoftpdc.com, Twitter did. The combination of microsoftpdc.com and the #PDC09 stream allowed me to feel like I was at the conference without having to fly across the country to get there. Fascinating, really, the ability to follow the flow of a PDC conference...
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  • Quick Tip #54: Inserting an email footer into forum notifications

    It's often the case that you may have a forum being used as a mailing list and you want to insert some content such as a notification, advertisement, etc into the emails that go out from your list. This tip shows you how to do exactly that. (Please visit the site to view this media) Here is some additional documentation that may help you take this even further: Advanced editing of email templates - This documentation will let you do more than you could edit in the control panel. Configuring mail...

  • Quick Tip #54: Inserting an email footer into forum notifications

    It's often the case that you may have a forum being used as a mailing list and you want to insert some content such as a notification, advertisement, etc into the emails that go out from your list. This tip shows you how to do exactly that. (Please visit the site to view this media) Here is some additional documentation that may help you take this even further: Advanced editing of email templates - This documentation will let you do more than you could edit in the control panel. Configuring mail...

  • Quick Tip #54: Inserting an email footer into forum notifications

    It's often the case that you may have a forum being used as a mailing list and you want to insert some content such as a notification, advertisement, etc into the emails that go out from your list. This tip shows you how to do exactly that. (Please visit the site to view this media) Here is some additional documentation that may help you take this even further: Advanced editing of email templates - This documentation will let you do more than you could edit in the control panel. Configuring mail...

  • Stylin: Adventure Time

    Super stylish background, borders and page elements. Increases confidence to make a purchase with a site layout as pretty as this and with as much attention to detail. Good balance among page content dimensions. On the UN-stylin side, there’s a spider dropdown animation that’s stupid as hell in my opinion. Link to Adventure Time | View all Stylin Sites Read More...
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  • Stylin: Wild Wings Safaris

    The low contrast between headers/footers and the body is what I liked about this. Link to Wild Wings Safaris | View all Stylin Sites Read More...
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  • Stylin: Safarista Design

    Very beautiful. Someone sweated the details here. Like the menubar. Nice execution of an attractive body area background on the site content pages. Link to Safarista Design | View all Stylin Sites Read More...
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  • Stylin: Boco Creative

    Unique borders on header and footer to the body if you look at an enlarged image. Info-rich and attractive slideshow in header area. Cool logo. Big “B.” We like that. Link to Boco Creative | View all Stylin Sites Read More...
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  • Stylin: Rumos do Brasil

    This isn’t an exceptionally pretty page, but it’s distinctive with several different elements comfortably integrated as a whole. I liked the author sketches, very WSJ. Pronounced font. Nicely proportioned menubar. Artistry demonstrated in both the sketches and page illustrations. Link to Rumos Do Brasil | View all Stylin Sites Read More...
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  • Nordic Track Book Club Review: Trust Agents

    Chris Brogan’s Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust is deceivingly simplistic. You read, “be helpful, connect people, be transparent, blah, blah.” Social Marketing concepts you already know and may perhaps practice, yet they are presented here in such a way that you realize you can do it better, much better. Chris Brogan has proven the effectiveness of his claims after all. The book was a solidly constructed hardback, a much nicer experience than many...
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  • Quick Tip #53: An Introduction To Widgets

    Widgets are foundational building blocks that let you highly customize the appearance and content of your Telligent Enterprise or Community pages. You've seen a number of other QuickTips on using widgets to do some of this customization, but perhaps you've basic questions about how widgets work and what they do. If that's the case, then these QuickTips are just what you need! Telligent Community (Please visit the site to view this media) Telligent Enterprise (Please visit the site to...

  • Quick Tip #53: An Introduction To Widgets

    Widgets are foundational building blocks that let you highly customize the appearance and content of your Telligent Enterprise or Community pages. You've seen a number of other QuickTips on using widgets to do some of this customization, but perhaps you've basic questions about how widgets work and what they do. If that's the case, then these QuickTips are just what you need! Telligent Community (Please visit the site to view this media) Telligent Enterprise (Please visit the site to...

  • Quick Tip #53: An Introduction To Widgets

    Widgets are foundational building blocks that let you highly customize the appearance and content of your Telligent Enterprise or Community pages. You've seen a number of other QuickTips on using widgets to do some of this customization, but perhaps you've basic questions about how widgets work and what they do. If that's the case, then these QuickTips are just what you need! Telligent Community (Please visit the site to view this media) Telligent Enterprise (Please visit the site to...

  • Quick Tip #52: My Favorite Forum Reports [Telligent Analytics]

    Telligent Analytics offers a lot of information across a multitude of reports. When it comes to reports dealing with the activity and behavior in your online forums, I have a few personal favorites I wanted to share. Understanding your forums time to solution, thread popularity and overall forum history is a great way to get a baseline for how well your forums are performing for your online users. (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...
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  • Quick Tip #52: My Favorite Forum Reports [Telligent Analytics]

    Telligent Analytics offers a lot of information across a multitude of reports. When it comes to reports dealing with the activity and behavior in your online forums, I have a few personal favorites I wanted to share. Understanding your forums time to solution, thread popularity and overall forum history is a great way to get a baseline for how well your forums are performing for your online users. (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...
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  • Everyman Links for November 16, 2009

    In the heady days of blogging. That LOL phrase puts this Buzz Canuck post in tonight’s #1 spot. Here it is in context, questioning the interactivity of some of today’s social media. “How much of social media is really social? Perhaps in the heady days of blogging (2003-2007 RIP) you could make the argument that social media had taken down walls, but media evolves and starts to look like the incumbent media before it.” Other good stuff, “the belief that virtual companies will not need a website of...
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  • Social Media Business Council Leverages Telligent to Create New Online Member Community

    DALLAS – November 16, 2009 – Telligent, a leader in community and collaboration software, announced today the launch of the Social Media Business Council’s new member community site. The Social Media Business Council, formerly the Blog Council, is a member-only, peer-to-peer community that helps large brands build successful social media programs. Social Media Business Council members gain instant access and advice from their peers – the heads of social media at the world's...
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