Pidgin is my instant messaging client of choice. It means my MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo, ICQ and other contacts are all in one place. Today I have taken that to the next level with three new plugins.
Skype Pidgin Plugin
I need to have skype installed and running, but now I can send / receive messages from within [...]
Tag Archives: Facebook
Magic pidgins
Posted in Open Source, Techy Also tagged facebook chat, off the record messaging, pidgin, pidgin extra prefs, Skype, twitter 7 Comments
Facebook is turning into MySpace
My biggest complaint with MySpace is, the profile pages get out of hand. They become outrageously long with vast numbers of images, videos and other junk. Facebook by comparison has always been cleaner, simpler and lighter. MySpace profiles take forever to load, even on broadband. Facebook profiles were snappy.
No longer.
I checked a profile today that [...]
Posted in Predictions, Techy Also tagged bloated profile pages, Facebook apps, MySpace, profile pages, social-networking 4 Comments
Cape Town Facebook Developers Garage
I was at the Cape Town Facebook Developers Garage last night. I have the badge to prove it!
It was an interesting evening. Pizza was generously provided by Butler’s Pizza. If I’m not mistaken their delivery staff arrive wearing a tuxedo shirt (whatever it’s called) and a bow tie! Fantastic. Drinks were supplied by Joyent (I [...]
Posted in Business, Events, Photos, Techy Also tagged butlers pizza, cape town, Facebook Developers Garage, joyent, memcache, South Africa 2 Comments
Affiliate Revenue Sharing
A friend recently told me about rakeback poker sites. When you play poker, you pay a small fee to the casino for the use of the table, this is called a rake. If I introduce you to Poker Website X, they will pay me a percentage of your rake. The latest affiliates offer to share [...]
Posted in Business, Ideas, Techy Also tagged Affiliate, Affiliate-Revenue, Callum, Callum-Macdonald, MySpace, Rakeback, Revenue-Share 1 Comment
Notorious nobodies – Times Online
Andrew Chant sent me a link to an article Notorious nobodies at the Times Online. It’s a great piece about Web 2.0 and how the user generated content revolution is changing the world. Well worth the read I thought.
Posted in Personal Also tagged Andrew-Chant, MySpace, User-Generated-Content, Web-2.0, YouTube Leave a comment
Free creates social noise
The proliferation of “free” is creating a society in which we are exposed to ever more content. It may seem at a macro level like just more crap on YouTube, but at a micro level it’s more crap our friends are creating, sending, forwarding, spamming. I’m calling this social noise. Crap we are exposed to [...]