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Do you "follow" me on Twitter? If you do, then you definitely know that over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a video commenting plugin for WordPress powered by Viddler’s API. Update: This plugin is now available to everyone! I’m happy to announce that as of ten minutes ago, we’ve distributed a private-beta…

If you run a web service, I want you to take a moment to learn from the recent response by 37signals regarding their 2hours of downtime they had the other day. Here is what I said about it on my linklog. "37signals responds to downtime, perfectly. They start with an explanation of what happened, then…

When I launched the Photos section of this site in September 2007 (wow, time flies) I had said that I wanted to spruce up the index page once I thought I had published enough photos to make it look nice. "The index page is no where near completed but I wanted to have at least…

So I couldn’t come up with an exciting way to tell you that I’m testing out Google Adsense on my blog for the months of January and February. Sue me. So here is how the ads work, why I’m doing it, and what my goals are. How my system of ad placement works I believe…

I enjoy writing. I don’t think I’m particularly great at it but I enjoy it nonetheless. When asked what I’d do if I wasn’t doing what I am doing now – I’ll usually say that I’d like to either write Macintosh software or write for a newspaper. For those of you that do not know,…

While my friend Chris Masto, whom I met through Viddler, and I waited to go to lunch on Thursday in New York City he mentioned to me how much he likes to use Hahlo as his Twitter application of choice on his iPhone. Chris was probably the tenth person in a week to tell me…

I was watching my friend Robert Scoble’s show where he was getting a demo of the latest version of Bloglines from the General Manager of the service, Eric Engleman. When Mr. Engleman was asked how he describes feeds to those who are yet unaware of them and he replied: "They are like a time machine…"…

I love watching the trends of the traffic on my blog; even if said traffic is not that high. In fact, I think it is much easier to monitor my site’s traffic trends then it is for us at Viddler because I’m able to keep a much closer eye on even the smallest of trends.…

While I await a new build of Camino that works a little better on Leopard I thought it a good opportunity to take Safari 3 for a spin. After using it since my upgrade from Tiger to Leopard I’ve found that Safari 3 is almost as good as Camino and in some ways even better.…

You may have noticed a new section of this Web site called Photos. This section is something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. I remember when I first signed up for, and uploaded to Flickr I thought I’d use that as my "photolog". Over the last 3 years and 11 days…

I suppose I might as well semi-live blog the second day of WordCamp. (Somehow, this post has been dugg, you’ve been warned.) 10:45am – The first session of the day HyperDB and High Performance WordPress lead by Barry Abrahmson and Matt Mullenweg focused on making WordPress run smoothly when dealing with high traffic sites or…

The first day of WordCamp 2007 sucked. But only for me. I ended up getting really, really sick in the early afternoon and had to go back to where I am staying for rest. What started out as a headache earlier in the day quickly progressed into just feeling horrible! Fantastic weather! However, the entire…

Over the years I’ve met up with many people that turned out to be insincere or bogus. In fact, I’ve even fit this description at times. Often, though, this reality isn’t apparent until after initial contact. Example: You meet someone at a party/event and it seems as though you really connect with this person, or…

Cira Center – Philadelphia, PA – Circa April 2006 This Wednesday evening through Friday evening I’ll be in Philadelphia attending Blog Philadelphia. I’m looking forward to this conference for many reasons – the first of which is because it is in my home state! The schedule looks promising with there being plenty of time for…

Before I begin gushing about the iPhone I have to mention, especially for those of you that do not have one yet, that you can win one of two free 8Gb iPhones that we’re giving away over at Viddler just for doing simple MeToday videos. Each video you do (one per day per person) is…

The new Docs UI Google announced a redesign of the main Google Docs dashboard that gives you quick access to all of your documents and spreadsheets that you have on Google Docs. In many ways this new interface is much better than the old one – except that Google has seemingly taken tags, or labels…

Hello, Skitch! Well, that was fun. I feel like all that I’ve been doing over the last few days is giving out Skitch invites and inviting more people to try it! I think we should back pedal a little to explain what exactly happened and why I’m surprised at the response. Ever since I got…

You may have read my overview of Skitch or maybe you saw the countless images tagged with skitch on Flickr – and perhaps you want to join in on the fun? Update at 11:34am EST: plasq is planning a full scale release of Skitch in a matter of hours. Until then, read below. Update at…

One of the most difficult things about building a software product is dealing with feature requests. They come from everywhere. At Viddler we’ve got a forum specifically for jotting down feature ideas, because we all realize that people will have really great ideas on how Viddler could be of use to them. Then, and I…

Every single day I feature a video at Viddler. Since joining the team in January of this year I’ve strived to do this everyday, even while on vacation. Though I’ve missed many days since my track record has slowly improved as we were able to improve the featuring system (you can see how well I’ve…

I’d seen Skitch pop up on Flickr and various Mac-related web sites for quite awhile before I got my hands on a copy. I’d wanted to try it but there is no open beta yet available. I thought this was because Skitch was unstable or simply not ready for the public eye. Boy was I…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Lachlan Hardy, or the guy I broke bread in Austin with courtesy of Ma.gnolia‘s own Larry Halff and an openID discussion directed by Chris Messina, recently jotted down his thoughts on "sharing the love". "We spend a lot of time on the web. We’re building software that makes people spend even more time on the…

Gary Vaynerchuk in London Photo credit: The hard working Tara Hunt For those that do not know Gary, Wine Library TV, or Cork’d – let me take a second to catch you up to speed. Gary Vaynerchuk is the Director of Operations for Wine Library and began his career in wine at the ripe age…

Last night the next-iteration of the Viddler.com web site and video player launched. The development team did a nearly 18-hour development cycle in some borrowed office space we managed to secure in Santa Clara. The latest version of Viddler really add some fantastic features, which will be detailed much better on the Viddler blog once…

Overlooking Denver, Colorado So what do you do when you’re tens of thousands of feet above the Earth, looking down at nothing but the clouds that most people are seeing above their heads? Well, I write – finally – about heading to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo. The entire Viddler team is converging…

I’ve been playing around with Google My Maps ever since they were released and I’m still having trouble using embedded videos. At first I thought that I somehow had to ask Google to whitelist Viddler as a video provider. But since then I’ve tried random YouTube videos to test and I have even had trouble…

I signed up for del.icio.us in November 2004. I bookmarked a few URLs in the first few months, then didn’t use the service for over a year. I was always teetering between wanting actual browser bookmarks and wanting to have a publicly available list of bookmarks. I used del.icio.us on and off but ended up…

My friend Alex Hillman sent me an IM yesterday: "hey, i think twitter might have switched something up on you, on your blog your twitters are there but the time isnt" After doing a little sniffing around I’ve found that Twitter has indeed updated their JSON output for my personal timeline on Twitter and removed…

Pickles just chillin’ Before I get questions about his nails, we use soft nails on both of our cats and I personally can not recommend them enough. The cats are not subjected to the pain of removing part of their bodies (which is obviously less traumatic to the cats at an early age) and your…

A meme, started by Esther Lee on Viddler with her 5 random things about her, is beginning to spread across Viddler and various blogs. It is a video meme and all you have to do is divulge five random facts about yourself. I took part in it, and here is my 5 random things about…

I’ve already mentioned this on The Viddler Blog – I had the privilege of representing Viddler on The Vloggies while at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. We talked about how I got Scobleized and Viddler. Watch the show below (if you are in a feed reader come to my site). Me on the Vloggies.…

I have the privilege of hitching a ride with Viddler to the South by Southwest Interactive and Film Festival in Austin, Texas this coming weekend. Rob and I – February 2007 Look us up in Austin! Having never attended SXSW I’m looking forward to seeing what all the hubbub is about. I’m also looking forward…

MeToday, the Flickr group where a group of us have been posting a single photo per day and one of the ways that I "blog", has reached a milestone of 3-months. To celebrate, I’ve put together a short video highlighting some of the photos I’ve posted there, as well as a few that were not…

For a long time I wanted to create a way for people to easily follow the most-recent happenings with the diet. A way for non-feed savvy people to get a glimpse of the activity that is going on, week in and week out, with all of the dieters. I’ve finally been able to create The…

So this past week was not that great for the diet. Over 20-inches of snow fell in our area which pretty much locked us inside for about three days. So for the better part of last week, there was low if little activity (though there was some shoveling). Fast forward to the weekend and we…

So Chris, Mike, Matt, Eliza and I headed to Philadelphia for the Webloggers meetup as well as other activities. This meetup was kind of bittersweet for me since there was so many people that attended it wasn’t possible to get even just a few minutes with each person to "meetup". When we first arrived Jen…

Right after I wrote my "I’m doing just fine and I actually like the gym" post for week thirty two, the entire schedule got blown away and it has been more miss than hit with the gym. My basketball schedule has been lax since winter started though I get to play at least once or…

I would start a meme out of this, but those are just plain annoying to most people – so if you feel compelled to follow suit, please trackback this post, reply to my 9rules note, my Viddler forum post, or comment on this blog post. Or, do all of them! Choices! Here is a short…

9rules, former employer of yours truly and quite possibly the fastest growing brand in blogging, has recently redesigned their site; which was codenamed Ali during development. I am not a huge boxing fan (since I don’t watch boxing all that much I wouldn’t want to call myself a fan for fear of being ridiculed) but…