• Posts Tagged ‘internet’

    Pheed Sharing Settings: How Not to Set Defaults

     • October 22, 2012 • 0 Comments

    An odd tweet showed up on my account tonight. It was a message saying that I had posted something on Pheed, a similar sharing/social network. And that did happen — I setup a new account on Pheed and did a test post to see what it looks like. But the automatic cross-post on Twitter...

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    Our New House is on Google Street View

     • October 21, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    This is the first time I’ve ever seen Casa McGee on Street View. New house, or old house. Google drove some of the main streets in our area about two years ago, or maybe more, but it didn’t do a thorough photo shoot in our old neighborhood at the time. So the old house...

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    Google+: A Ghost Town in Our Mid-Sized Town

     • September 16, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    I’ll believe that Google+ is catching on when I can look at the “Nearby” circle and see content that’s newer than a day old. I took the screenshot below a couple nights ago. It’s not like the Tri-Cities is the middle of nowhere. We have 253,000 people in the metropolitan area (2010 census). We...

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