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 a test!
UPDATE: I believe and claimed this as the first Google Wave embed in a blog [...]
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 asked to include why I was so interested to build my apps on my spare [...]
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” — our custom version of your Spy app.
It’s truly exciting to see big business gravitating toward [...]
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 in communications by a need to feel “official” instead making it feel robotic, monochromatic and [...]
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 with the other…
Jason Galep stopped by out of the blue and asked if he [...]
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 great posts… I mean the titles alone are classic, but they have some prefect [...]
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 posts on Twitter in the comments of his blog posts about a better Twitter Search.
Then [...]
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. The goal was to see how fast I could go from concept to useful application [...]
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 more and more folks to the value of Social Media.
Google App Engine really [...]
As Pete Cashmore of Mashable, Dan Farber of CNet and many others have reported Twitter and social media in general are playing a huge part in receiving accurate and timely information from the crisis in Mumbai.
While not in those leagues, in the last twenty four hours I’ve received notice of a number of posts [...]