Archive for Facebook

If you can’t stay away from yet another social network, kind of like me, then by all means stalk me on Google+ too. Prefer Facebook, well I’m still there too.

I had to take down the Stream page, which featured posts from across various social networks, because the WP-Lifestream plugin started to act up. Again. That one can never stay working for more than a couple of weeks, it seems. Will look into it later, for now just follow me on Twitter and fan me on Facebook, will you?

Facebook (fan me!) will most definitely give Disqus and others a run for their money when they launch their hosted commenting service. I’ve got clients asking me about Facebook’s solution already. Question is, do we really want comments to be Facebook users only? Not due anytime soon it seems.

Delicious, another casualty of search

I used to love Delicious, I really did. It was the bookmarking tool, one of many, that made sense to me back in the day. But things change, or in the case of Delicious, they don’t and that was the problem. Today’s Delicious isn’t far from the service I used on a daily basis years ago. And now it is shutting down, as widely reported.

Maybe that’s the reason why I’ve added a mere handful of bookmarks to my account this year, and not even once looked anything up. I used to do that you know, but no more.

Why? Well, there just isn’t any need for bookmarks in that sense anymore, search is that good.

There might have been a place for Delicious in today’s social web. After all, it could be a bookmark/link discovery engine and I’d like to think that could’ve complemented Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader in some way. That is, if Yahoo and Delicious had been on the ball earlier in the game.

That ship have sailed. So long Delicious, and thanks for the early years at least. You used to matter, there’s always that.

Zuckerberg called early Facebook users dumb fucks – so what?

This isn’t exactly new, but it surfaced again with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting everything was true and that he was young and stupid once upon a time. Younger rather, the guy’s just 26 years old, so that part of the whole story is a bit moot. Then again, everyone’s getting old and experienced really quick these days.

So what did Zuck say then? SAI had it back in May, now confirmed true. Continued →

The quick and dirty way to add a Facebook Like button to your WordPress blog

Facebook have opened up its Like functionality, allowing you to Like posts all over the web and hence automatically post your Likings to your Facebook account. Adding this to your WordPress blog is really easy, this code snippet is all you need:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php the_permalink();?>%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:400px; height:40px;"></iframe>

Put that in your WordPress theme template wherever your want the Like functionality to be shown. This is usually single.php or index.php, depending on theme and setup. It will add an iframe with the Like button, being 400 pixels wide and 40 pixels high. You can hack that yourself with the width and height parameters at the end of the code.

Of course you could hunt down a plugin as well, there are a few, but I can’t vouch for anyone as I haven’t tried them out myself. If you have a recommendation, do speak up in the comments below.

Just a reminder to fan med on Facebook if you’re interested in my writing. Most of my notes on that end up there.

If you’re a fan on Facebook you already know that the code downloads for Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog are on the way. Thought I’d share it here too.

I decided to finally get that fan page up on Facebook. It is all about my writing, in English only, and a place to be for freebies and competitions as well as tidbits from my work. So fan me on Facebook, if you dare!

Webapps and the cloud are changing software forever

There are 4 programs I launch every morning when turning on my computer:

  • Chrome, my web browser of choice.
  • Tweetie, my Twitter client of choice.
  • TDHmail, my email client which is actually Google Apps for the domain tdh.me.
  • Facebook.

These stay open throughout the day, and all are standalone applications, although the latter two could just as well have been running in any web browser, and Tweetie could be replaced by Twitter’s web interface. Continued →

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