Wow! Do you want to know where your friends or collegues are hanging out? Well, you can call them, of course, but hey: phones are soooo last millennium! Look what I found today: a mashup of Brightkite and Microsoft Surface… The future is now! 
The next trick I discovered “by accident”, when I realised it is, in fact, very cool:
If you’re on Twitter, you can use your browser or client on your phone (iPhone, BlackBerry) to mark (or unmark) a tweet as a Favorite with just one single click. This allows you to quickly mark a tweet while you’re on the road and read it later on, when you’re comfortable behind a computer with a nice big screen.
When you go to the page of your Twitter account and click Favorites, you’ll see the orange RSS icon in the address bar of your browser. Click it, to see the address of the RSS feed of your Twitter Favorites.
This RSS feed you can use on your weblog and use it yourself, but it also allows you to share your Favorites with the readers of your weblog!
Tip: You can manipulate or add stuff to your Twitter Favorites RSS feed by feeding it to Yahoo Pipes and if you make a Feedburner feed out of it, your list of Favorites suddenly becomes an “intelligent” feed, allowing you to add interaction to it. Read my Crash Course FeedBurner for more information on the use of FeedBurner. And if you’re really into it, you can even use TwitterFeed to have your newly added Favorites tweeted to your followers! Now, how cool is that?!?
I once advised a girlfriend to put in the sugar first, as it would dissolve better without the cream, so that’s exactly what she did: first sugar, than cream and finally stir…
I never considered WordPress and Joomla! to be competitors, but more like apples and pears. WordPress is a Blogging Platform and Joomla! is a Content Management System.
During the Dutch Joomla!Days 2009 I saw a Google Chart which made me realise the huge development WordPress has gone through lately. I’ve been very alert ever since and I watch the differences closely. I admire WordPress for its fast and innovative features, while, at the same time, Joomla! is the robust “engine” that big websites use without anyone knowing about it; invisible, ungrateful and yet super reliable… And guess what? In the US WordPress is more popular than Joomla!, although the numbers we get from Google Trends should be interpreted: the chart doesn’t show the install base, but rather the amount of information Google hosts on both topics. And besides: these charts can easily be used for propaganda, as an image is easier remembered later on, than the explanatory guidelines, telling you exactly how it was to interpret the image…
About Google Trends: It’s great fun: you can truly match anything against everything (provided that Google has enough data): you can literally compare apples and pears and if you want, you can even throw in a refrigerator as well. It doesn’t matter to Google. Whatever you want. they find. Think of the possibilities…
Funny as it may sound, it feels as if I see more and more WordPress around me. Even websites that I considered to be “real” websites 
WordPress is clearly doing well and I think their big advantage is being more recognisable than Joomla!, but I could be mistaken (Guido thinks I am)…
Anyway: I hope Joomla! 1.6 will bring us a lot of good *soon* and I hope they may inspire one another for a long, long time!
Some things you can prepare ahead, but when it comes to email, you can only write drafts and keep them until it’s actually time to send them out.
Free service Deferred Sender lets you send your emails now, allowing you to have them actually sent out at the time you decide.
Be careful! Make sure you read the Terms and Conditions very well. As you may know, email crosses the planet in plain text and delivery between sender and receiver always goes through hops, rather than directly. Without special measures anyone can read your incoming and outgoing email (Deferred Sender changes nothing about that).
Do you care about privacy? Then, consider the use of encryption. Contact our office for more information about encryption and email.
ShareAre you using Citrix’s (free) XenServer and would you like it to shutdown its vm‘s (virtual machines) (was well as the Xen host itself, of course) after the light has gone out in your server room? Article Citrix Knowledge Base article CX119910 Citrixdescribes how to do this. Mind you: You need a Windows Server with APC PowerChute installed…
Make sure your Xen host is plugged in to the same UPS as one of your (physical) Windows Servers. Install Citrix’s management software (XenCenter) on this Windows Server. XenCenter contains a tiny program named xe.exe, which allow you to shutdown your vm’s and eventually your host. Write a batch file shutdown.cmd that your Windows Server executes after power blackout and Bobs your uncle!
Be aware: this shutdown.cmd file needs proper protection, as it contains paswords, necessary to shutdown the vm’s and the host!!
CTX119910 – How to Integrate XenServer and APC PowerChute – Citrix Knowledge Center
ShareA new phenomenon in Social Networking I discovered today, is Aardvark.
Aardvark is a network that allows you to ask questions or to answer them. You can link your Twitter account to, for instance, your Windows Live Messenger account, which Aardvark will then use to ask people’s questions (if they match your expertise or interests).
There’s nothing to it! No software to download or install. Just click the link and get your free account.
In your Aardvark profile you can indicate your areas of expertise and off you go!
I subscribed earlier today and I already helped people get answers to their questions. Whenever you help somebody, Aardvark tweets that you did on your behalf.
Are you offline? Don’t worry. Aardvark will email you the answer to your question. Does Aardvark send you a question that you can’t answer? Reply lmk (let me know) to Aardvark and it will ask the user to share the answer they got with you eventually. It’s great!
Try it yourself and maybe we’ll be in touch soon. Who knows!
2009-07-15. Example: Writer @VeronicavS was looking for a logo for her books on profiler Althea Sang Min Molin. I didn’t know that, until I checked out the facts afterwards… Yesterday I got a question through Aardvark from somebody in Sweden, who wanted to know how Althea is written in korean. I explained him how it’s done and click this link to see what happened. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the power of Aardvark & Social Networking. Great!
2009-09-18. There’s an Aardvark App for your iPhone!
ShareI really love my BlackBerry and I really love WordPress. Earlier this week, an application was released that brings the two together: WordPress for BlackBerry. Great!
Now, I speak more than just one language and I’m using WPML to make my weblog multilingual. Great!
Problem is: I can’t use WordPress for BlackBerry to post in any other language than the native language of my weblog (which is Dutch). Now, I could post using my BlackBerry and change the language with a browser afterwards, but that’s probably the least interesting option. Besides: I understand it probably doesn’t make sense for WordPress to add built-in support for just WPML. Therefore I think it could be interesting for WordPress to investigate the possibility of supporting plugins within a wider context.
If the owner of a WordPress blog uses and trusts a certain plugin, why wouldn’t the WordPress for BlackBerry (don’t forget the iPhone) app “inherit” additional database fields, post features and offer there through the app?
Amir told me he hasn’t got a BlackBerry (yet) so I posted a few pictures to illustrate:
Thanks for reading this and feel free to comment or contact to me.
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