Tag: Services
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I'm going to Yahoo! Communities Meetup
I will be going to first(?) Yahoo! Communities Meetup event this Wednesday, at Blitz Megaplex Pacific Place, Jakarta. So, what is it all about? From its event page at Upcoming: It’s a gathering of community members from Yahoo!’s community-based services, particularly Yahoo! Answers, Flickr and Koprol. This is your chance to meet your fellow community…
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Flickr Helps You to Connect with Friends
I haven’t used this Flickr’s “People you may know” feature yet. If you’re using Flickr, you will see another box there on the sidebar giving you some contact suggestions. It seems Yahoo! wants to make Flickr more social these days. As a Flickr user, I can find also find friends based on their data on…
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Bloglines will be closed on October 1, 2010
If you use Bloglines, it’s time to move to another RSS reader services/tools. Bloglines will be closed on October 1, 2010. More details about this can be found in a blog post. A little bit background, Bloglines is a web-based RSS reader. It was pretty popular few years ago, and Ask Jeeves acquired this service…
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Flickr Photo Upload using Gravity? This is good!
I have Gravity installed on my Nokia 5800 XM mobile phone, and so far this is one of my favorite application. If you’re not familiar with Gravity, it’s a Twitter client for S60 platform. It also support Foursquare, Facebook and also Google Reader. Very nice! It’s not free, but it’s not expensive also — I…
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Yahoo Maps powered by Ovi Maps. And more!
Some of you probably have heard about this news: Nokia and Yahoo! have an agreement to work on they really’re really good at. According to the press release: Today, Yahoo! and Nokia announced a worldwide strategic alliance to extend the reach of their industry leading online services and offer people rich experiences that keep them…
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Posterous as Media Sharing Service
Few weeks ago, I posted a question about media/image sharing provider as Twitter companion. I asked about the better solution between TwitPic or TweetPhoto. Andre Siregar (@dregar) mentioned about using Posterous as the image sharing provider. Right now, I’m enjoying Posterous. Posterous offers many features that are easy to use, especially — of course —…
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WordPress, Amazon S3 and CloudFront
In the last two days, I was working on an experiment to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon CloudFront together with WordPress. It’s not primary for my blog, but for my friend. There are many tutorials and good recommendation on this. Since my friend using WordPress as the publishing platform, and it is…
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Beware of those 'get more followers' services!
Recently, I see many updates in my Twitter timeline containing updates about that so called “get more free followers”. The idea is to encourage you to join a service that will boost your number of followers. Sounds familiar? A simple question: what does those number mean (for me)? What do I want to prove by…
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JaikuEngine released as an open source project
In 2007, Google acquired Jaiku. I have an account there, but I don’t use Jaiku actively. I don’t know why, but I just felt that this service is not for me. This month, JaikuEngine was released as an open source project. It’s available at Google App Engine. Google will not develop Jaiku code base and…
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Xoopit for Gmail
Xoopit for Gmail is a Firefox extension to enhance our Gmail account, including Google Mail and Google Apps for Domain. Using this extension, we can: Search our stuff (messages, photos, videos, and other files) Browse photos and videos from other services like Youtube, Flickr, etc. That’s only some features offered. Go to Xoopit for Gmail…
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New design for this blog
I have been very busy in the last few weeks, many things to do. I needed to recharge my energy. And this is the result: a new design for my blog. I created this theme for fun, at least to keep my mood in balance, to bring my mood back to the other design work.…