I Got Your Motivation Right Here…..

With Holidays bring very little news. Little news means I have nothing to rant about and post up for you guy. So I’ve decided to post my collection of funny motivational posters. You know, those posters with a funny picture and caption to go along with it? See my collection here. If you want more, like 414 more, click here. 

Disclaimer: These are MMORPG Posters that often use jokes that gamers would get. If you don’t get it, you are not nerdy enough.

Have a great holiday!

Lists of Friends and Lists of Feeds

Today I went on an undertaking bigger than Poverty, more important than World Hunger, and will achieve more than exploring outer space: Organizing my Friendfeed Account.

If any of you gave listened to Robert Scobles 20 ways to being a bigger friendfeed monster than Guy Kawasaki, you’ll realize that Friendfeed is a very power tool. You can easily share things with others, sort people into lists, join rooms….

Wait, what was that? Organize People into rooms? Man that feature is cool. I can basically make an entire new list of entries from the people I choose that is very customizable. I take any room or friend, and put them into my list. Then I can either choose just to have it limited to the people I choose, or make it more like a home feed where I see what those people liked. Very good stuff.

Robert, Michael, Loic, You’re all WRONG

That is right, I said it. You’re all wrong!

Incase you haven’t been following all of this blogosphere hysteria, here is everything you need to know about the debate on: Twitter Search: Followers vs Value. Michael Arrington first brought this idea to the masses after Loic Le Muer posted asking for a feature to sort through large amounts of tweets by the number of people that follower the person who tweeted it. In numerous Friendfeed disscussions, most of the top bloggers have been arguing with people on this subject.  Robert Scoble has posted numerous times on the issue, and seems to be one of the main people backing up the idea that tweets should be ranked on Retweets and the number of links/replies the tweet gets. Most of the conversations can be followed by looking through his profile.

NewsCred: Credibility Ranking at its Best?

Newscr… nope.

Newscre…e… nope. One more time

Newscre…e….e….e…d! Finally got it out. Newscred [crunchbase] is a ‘News’ aggregator that was founded in July ‘07 and came out in private alpha testing May ‘08, then finally released a public beta in August ‘08. Its a very simple service. The idea of it is to rank newspapers and blogs based on credibility. You see an article, you read it, and you rate whether you think the article is credible or not. This vote later affects the credibility ranking of the author who wrote the article as well as the source.

What You got in that OtherInbox?

As Joshua Baer put in OtherInbox’s Techcrunch50 presentation, we all have that other inbox that we send certain things to so it doesn’t show up in our work email account. One of the most annoying things is to have a list of emails that you just don’t want. OtherInbox is a great way to control these emails. After using OtherInbox for a few months, I’ve decided its become such an important part of the way I work, that I want to do a complete review of it.

AlertThingy: Upgrade? You Decide

I am currently sitting in front of 2 monitors and a laptop. On one screen I have Windows Live Writer, and the other screen is equally divided between ‘Alert Thingy v2’ and ‘Alert Thingy for Friendfeed’, while my laptop holds the old version of Alert Thingy. These 3 applications hold most of my entire online presence, all beeping at me every 2 minutes with a nice popup in the lower right hand corner of the screen. These are the tools I use everyday in order to stalk.. err… I mean ‘follow’ you guys. So lets dive right in!

Some cool stuff…

After not being able to post over the weekend, I’ve decided to make it up to all of you who were actually looking for content with this nice list of remarkable content I’ve found over the week. Enjoy!

2008 Latest Edition – Did You Know 3.0 – From Meeting in Rome this Year

This video gives very interesting facts about our current would and the exponential growth rate it currently has. Created by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod and set to the tune of “Right Here, Right Now” by Fatboy Slim.

This is, Unoriginally, the Social Media Post.

Every, single, blogger, will someday come to the awful conclusion that their next post will be titled: “How to use Social Media”, and the content of that post will somehow relate to that. I know what you are thinking, and No, I don’t plan on doing something different.

In short, there are a lot of new sites out there. This site can attest to that. You would be surprised who you can find.

….. (Here is where I stop to check the TWhirl Notification that popped up)….

Die Embargo

 

Michael Arrington is fed up with PR firms and Embargos (The request that information not be posted until a certain time/date), and I fully agree with him. As he describes in this Techcrunch post, the most annoying thing for a news site is if another site breaks the embargo.  Instead of producing better content than the competition, sites will break embargos 5-10 minutes early to grab the spot on TechMeme and Google News, leading to more displayed advertising. 

Now doesn’t that sound stupid?

Say Goodbye to the Cycle of Apple

In a story spreading faster than California’s Wildfires, Apple has recently annouced that Macworld Expo 2009 will be its last. And if you thought that Steve Jobs would be there for the last ‘Hoorah!’… you will only be met by the fact that Apple will be sending Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. Many people asked whether the lack of Steve Jobs at the keynote would be related to his health, but as Techcrunch points out, this is probably just because they want to lower expectations