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You: I don’t like that. Facebook: Yes you do.

Apr 23 2010 / 4:27 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I have to hand it to Facebook.  Tons of people despise the service openly, but everyone and their mom is still there. You are probably still using it aren’t you? Sure there are a decent number of people who deactivate their account in anger when the staff opens up [...]

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Love, Hate and Third Party Comment Systems

Jan 19 2010 / 2:14 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Fresh out the box, WordPress comments just are not enough for me. I don’t want someone to have to fill out any extra forms to comment, especially when I despise doing that myself. It is not like this place is some hotbed of conversation so I can understand if people would see extra work to [...]

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You May Have Missed These

Jun 12 2009 / 12:26 am Was written by Amber View Comments

In case you have been in a black hole, here is a list of stuff you may have missed: Google Wave It looks awesome, but a bunch of the features already exist with a combination of services (mostly Friendfeed). Bing Microsoft’s “new” search engine. The name will probably work better than the Live branding. Facebook [...]

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7 Resources For Creating Habari Themes

Apr 5 2009 / 1:31 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

As mentioned here before. on my personal blog I decided to install Habari. While I still enjoy working with WordPress here and elsewhere, I have found Habari suits my personal blog quite well since I do not need all the bells and whistles which I use elsewhere. Unfortunately, the one thing the platform does lack [...]

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In Case You Missed It

Aug 17 2008 / 2:23 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Was unfortunately not able to be near a PC most of the weekend and did not have a Software Saturday prewritten so that will be doubled up next week. Still a bit overwhelmed, but wanted to share some amusing things found in the interim. Hope you enjoy any you had not gotten wind of. In [...]

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Only A Google+Apple Outage Could Turn Focus Away

Aug 11 2008 / 5:52 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

If you believe in the no news is bad news model….Google and Apple getting awesome press right now. Gmail is currently snoozed, and MobileMe is MIA. Louis Gray has posted the information on his blog. He got there first so he gets a big link : Google outage info c/o Louis Gray. It has a [...]

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Plea to Zemanta

Aug 8 2008 / 11:59 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

You guys are great. Lots of bloggers love your tool. Most of us even dig promoting you with a Zemified or Reblog link. My question is….when can we just make the Reblog link a permanent link in our blog templates, like a feed flare? Being steady users of the service, it is going to be [...]

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