Category Archives: Social Media

Wow… ‘spy’ Plays a Small Part in Helping Volcano Stranded Travelers

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Ben

Photo: Sverrir Thor It’s so humbling to see simple social networking tools like spy which I created on a whim be discovered and serve purposes on a level I never would have anticipated. I first saw this when people found … Continue reading →

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Embedding my first Google Wave into WordPress!

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Ben

This is a test! Below I embedded my first Wave “Hello World… I mean Wave!”… The first of many likely… let’s see what it looks like out in public… I know many of you probably can’t see it… This is … Continue reading →

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Exploring your way into Social Media: The Presentation?

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Ben

This post exists because I was asked to create a presentation of the high points of what I’ve discovered in my exploration of social media that could be conveyed to others just getting started looking at the space. I was … Continue reading →

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HP keeping up on their social media “Buzz” powered by spy.appspot.com!

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Ben

I just received word from Pam Dearen at HP of some great launch news partially powered by spy.appspot.com! Our new internal Digital Marketing Community Portal launched as planned on January 15. One of its top features is our “HP Buzz” … Continue reading →

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The Birth of ConnectTweet – Combining Your Voices on Twitter

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Ben

ConnectTweet is a simple utility built under the concept [reality in my opinion] that all groups, companies or brands are just collections of many people whose passion, ideas and behavior completely shape it. Often those people’s voices are drowned out … Continue reading →

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Retweetradar.com gets a new design!

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Ben

I have to admit it’s nice to have people around you that can drop a killer new web design with one hand and build in, from the beginning, an understanding of how those designs can be executed on today’s browsers … Continue reading →

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I’m a “Web Development Elf” cool?… Yes cool!

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Ben

Didn’t want to let this pass in the night, blogger and strategist at Undercurrent Mike Arauz picked up on the apps I have been exercising my brain on lately (retweetradar.com and spy.appspot.com) out of the blue and wrote a couple … Continue reading →

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All feedback is good feedback… especially when it’s from Tim O’Reilly! – retweetradar.com

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Ben

Saturday afternoon Robert Scoble sent out a simple tweet letting people know he popped up on the retweetradar (much appreciated Robert!), we had been talking about use of interesting metadata, for instance retweeted information, possibly being used to rank quality … Continue reading →

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retweetradar.com – One days work from concept to launch with Google App Engine… Scobleized!

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Ben

So I was getting a little restless and decided to work on another Google App Engine app, this time without all the Python learning curve and with some real world experience with the Google tools under the belt from http://spy.appspot.com. … Continue reading →

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‘spy’ makes “15 Useful Google App Engine Applications” on LouisGray.com!

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Ben

My little Social Media ‘spy’ application http://spy.appspot.com makes “15 Useful Google App Engine Applications” on LouisGray.com written by Mike Fruchter! I just slid in there at 15… hoping to keep plugging along adding useful features and using ‘spy’ to expose … Continue reading →

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