Jesse

Wishing @shelisrael all the best. You’ll be in good hands at Stanford Med.

Sending thoughts and prayers your way, Shel. —- It’s fascinating how Connection works. This is the first time I’ve worn this shirt since Shel Israel’s Twitterville book launch party. (I finally lost enough weight to fit into it.) And then I read Shel’s blog post on his upcoming operation and it makes sense. Connection. You …

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BlackBird Pie Tweet

BlackBird Pie – A Quick Way To Serve Up Tweets On Your Site

BlackBird Pie is a little script created by @robinsloan at Twitter Media that allows site publishers to easily display tweets.

The usual process for displaying tweets is to type them in then hyperlink to the original tweet. Or, maybe a site will go farther and take a screen shot of the tweet page then crop the image and add a hyperlink to the original tweet. It takes time.

Personalization with Facebook

Site Personalization With Facebook

I’ve been overwhelmed by all the Facebook changes. Things are moving as quickly with Facebook as they are with Twitter. So I thought I’d review the Facebook changes one chunk at a time and see some of the practical implications, for sites and for users.

One of the changes Facebook just launched is its site personalization services. This allows external sites to display content based on information from a user’s Facebook account.