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James Little on the Web

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James Little
on March 14, 2009
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You can find me involved with lots of stuff online, here are some of my favourites:

James Little, Linkedin

Flickr is my favourite photo sharing service. I’m also quite a fan of their photo map that allows you to position photos of your travels anywhere in the world.

YouTube is on of the video content services that don’t pay for your content – that isn’t google way. But they still dominate online video and you can find most music videos and funny snippets here.

Facebook is the “now” social network, I’m also on Orkut, Bebo, Hi5, MySpace, ShareMyNZ, OldFriends and several others; but most people I know are on Facebook. If you would like to connect please include a message explaining why, it’s usually advisable to only conenct with people you know.

Linkedin is a more professional social network, if you would like to be connected please offer me a job.

Last.fm is a really cool music library that you can use to find hot new stuff or cool old stuff – and to see what your friends, colleagues and random people are listening to; and what you listened to yesterday, this can be used to focus you to new music that fits your tastes, like google search tailors searching to match your clicks.

Twitter was one of the first micro-blogging applications. It doesn’t allow you to use more than 140 characters and it does allow you to SMS updates. Handy for people covering events and has been used in conjuction with Google maps to provide live updates on natural disasters.

Stumbleupon is my favoured bookmarking application, I’ve used others like Digg, Delicious, Yahoo MyWeb 2.0; but Stumbleupon has the quickest tagging mechanism – someone else has already done it. And Stumbleupon has the stumble feature. Unfortunately stumbleupon is unaware that some content isn’t english (though you can select other languages) and everything gets garbled as Latin1.

Friends connect through Google, OpenSocial, Yahoo and Facebook

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James Little
on September 12, 2008
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Providing connectivity quickly and easily to web services appears to be the next battleground.

Google has delivered Friend Connect, named very similar to Facebook connect. However the latter appears to be a more useful approach, Facebook allows quick activation of user website accounts using limited Facebook account information. Google Friend connect only seems to allow users to play with widgets attached to the website.

There may be power in that, allowing your website to build its own OpenSocial network, but I don’t see how it enriches any self-respecting website. The google article “A friend connected web” talks up the features, which are cool but specifically targeted at a non-technical audience.

James Little live

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James Little
on September 8, 2008
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It can be quite time consuming creating an internet presence. I’ve set up a domain name, selected web hosting, installed this weblog and am now going through my checklist of application plugins that I will be using to help this blog find an audience.

The purpose of this blog is to support some projects I have been working on recently… and may be working on in the future:

  • Feed reader application for Facebook
  • Website for a Dunedin Joinery company
  • Sports result and membership web application

I’m also hoping that this blog will help me extend my professional career and help me focus it in directions of interest to me and benefit to my future employers and business partners.

I’ve installed applications to enable search engine optimisation, semantic web friendliness and social network sharing.

  • Tagaroo allows integration with the Calais semantic search system and also provides sensible content tagging and flickr image sharing.
  • Uberdose provide the All-in-one-SEO package with page title renaming and dynamic content metadata.
  • Feedburner feedsmith takes some of the strain off your web hosting and provides tools to monitor your feed subscriptions.
  • Sociable enables quick and easy sharing of your content around lots of social bookmarking and networking web sites.

These are import aspects of getting your application visible, it is very easy to be hidden and a sophisticated online strategy needs to be matched offline. Pardon the english – I’m from New Zealand.