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Using Community Server to build your Life Stream

Like a lot of you reading this I have spent a lot of time recently using and working with Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook , LinkedIn , MySpace , Community Server (!!) and more social networking applications and platforms. One of the more interesting…

Make Jaiku presence updates programmatically

A couple of weeks ago I wrote post about updating your Twitter timeline using the Twitteroo Core API . Recently I dug into the Jaiku API to learn how to do the same. The Jaiku API docs don’t offer many examples or details, but the basics are…

Hedging my bet on Twitter with RandomJaikus.com

A little over a week ago I announced my latest little fun site: RandomTweets.com . It was a nice little site to build and working with the Twitter API was fun. Then along comes the news yesterday about Google acquiring Jaiku . The microblogging…

More Twitter Fun - RandomTweets.com

While looking at the Twitter API last week I found myself taking a glance at the public timeline - basically just to see what fields the RSS and XML feeds offered. I didn’t really pay the content all that much attention, but one of the updates struck…

WhatIWantMost How to post to your Twitter timeline

Last week I attended a presentation about Web 2.0 that described the recurring concepts behind the buzzword and looked at how (as well as if and when) those can be applied to enterprise systems and organizations. One of the points of the presentation…

Professional Community Server Themes

I had the pleasure of working on a great project earlier this year with two very talented co-workers: Wyatt Preul and Ben Tiedt . I served as the Technical Editor for their new Wrox book, Professional Community Server Themes . Between the awesome…

My daughter discovers the telephone

My 9-year-old daughter just came into my office and said, “Dad, I was talking to my friend on the phone for 40 minutes. Can you believe it?” I replied, “You are getting more and more like your mother every day.”

Are you delivering absurd customer service?

My blog posts are all over the map. The last one was about Popeye’s vs Hooters’ Buffalo Shrimp , the one before that about Community Server theming , some about web development, some about pet projects, some about my family, some about cooking…

SnowScene, SnowFlakes, and CSTeam blog themes

SnowScene, SnowFlakes, and CSTeam blog themes

Following the lead of Jose , Jayme (one of the newest CS Team members) and Kevin … My three entries for the Community Server 2007 Theming Extravaganza were all blog themes.  SnowScene is a fairly simple alteration of the Vanilla theme that adds…

Error on blog RSS link in Community Server when using FeedBurner

Error on blog RSS link in Community Server when using FeedBurner

I ran into an issue today that I had not seen before where clicking the RSS link from a Community Server blog presented an error message like this: At first I thought there must be something wrong with the feed, but after a bit of troubleshooting…