I was reminded today of Office Max’s classic series of commercials set to the tune of Rubberband Man by the Spinners and starring Eddie Steeples who now stars on the television show My Name Is Earl. I absolutely loved these commercials when they came out; you can’t help but dance in your seat with that [...]
Read More for fun, get inspired, marketing, social networkingMy code for displaying Twitter posts on your site is pretty handy, but it does have drawbacks. Each page load involves calling a remote URL, downloading a resulting XML file, and parsing the results, increasing your load times and using bandwidth. To minimize the impact, you can really only display a handful of the most [...]
Read More database, fwdvault, lifestream, mysql, open source, seo, social networking, TwitterA few months ago I published an article describing how to output a Twitter stream on a page using PHP, and later followed up with two more to polish the display. The article content and code examples have since been tweaked based on feedback and my own debugging. If you haven’t already had a look, [...]
Read More lifestream, php, programming, regular expressions, social networking, TwitterIf you missed my post a few days ago detailing the pros and cons of four major social networking tools — AddThis, ShareThis, Add to Any, and iBegin Share — you owe it to yourself to quickly review it and then get to the comments. First Pat Diven, Founder of Add to Any, responded with [...]
Read More social networkingUpdate: Make sure you check out the comments! My post is just a launching point for some great commentary from staff at iBegin Share and Add to Any. Every site with timely or useful content should utilize some on-site bookmark sharing tool. I’m talking about the bar of links to social networking sites like Facebook, [...]
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