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Facebook’s Video Chat Will Kill And Save Skype

July 6, 2011 by Chris Smith

Facebook’s announcement today included information about the much talked-about video chat. Now, video chat is nothing new or particularly special. It’s been consumer available since the mid- to late 90′s (CU-SeeMe, anyone?). However, it’s always been something that hasn’t been accessible to many folks, especially the less tech savvy among us. Think about it for [...]

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UPS: Please help.

April 16, 2011 by Chris Smith

This is an email I sent to UPS today (to the referenced Twitter and Facebook account emails in hopes of getting an ongoing issue fixed). Tracking number: -redacted- This is at least the fifth time I’ve been in this identical situation. It has happened EVERY time I have a package being delivered to UPS. I [...]

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Twitter As An Authoritative Backlink

September 12, 2010 by Chris Smith

A while back, I did an experiment trying to prove that while Twitter links are marked as nofollow, that they actually ARE followed. I had a registered, but never-used domain. Google searches for the domain name yielded zero results. I published a simple, static HTML page (no possibility of trackbacks/pinging/RSS/etc.), and tweeted a link from [...]

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Open Graph Protocol For Facebook and WordPress

April 28, 2010 by Chris Smith

Recently, I toyed around with the Open Graph Protocol implementation on Facebook. I think there’s a very possible way to elegantly promote WordPress posts on Facebook while taking the responsibility of actually pushing it to Facebook off of the reader. Robert Reinhard’s post mentioning the incompleteness of it got me to thinking about how to [...]

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