CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-19 08:48:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

How to fix the new G+ layout with Stylish // I've been having some serious issues with the new #googleplusupdate  layout, so I've resorted to Stylish to customise the G+ #CSS . Here's my 1-click-to-install recipe :)

Based on code by +Todd Vierling and +Amber Yust. Thanks to +Nico Gerrits and +Stefan Münz for related research.

2013-05-18 22:21:01 (41 comments, 56 reshares, 115 +1s)

Who are your 50 Most Relevant People in Google+?  // I've been meaning to write about +Circloscope and this is a great chance. Circloscope is a great Chrome extension for managing your circles. The most recent feature (gets updated almost daily) allows you to create an image of your most relevant people on G+ (as determined by Google's algorithms) In order to create such a photo, do this:

Step 1: Head over to www.circloscope.com and install the latest version of circloscope premium (v2013.5.18) on your chrome browser (costs 5$ - it's some of the best 5$ I have ever spent on software :))

Step 2: Open circloscope by clicking on the icon on your chrome toolbar. And go to "Action > Visualize > 50 Most Relevant".

Step 3: Take a screenshot of your 50 most relevant people and edit the photo as you like :-)

Step 4 (optional): You cann... more »

2013-05-18 22:25:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

That silly moment when you try access the new Google Maps on iOS Chrome and get an error message that your browser is not supported and need to install... Chrome :)

2013-05-16 15:21:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

G+ doing OCR on images?
// It seems that a new feature of yesterday's  #googleplusupdate  includes reading people's name on images and sending them notifications like "An image of you was posted". And all that without the poster mentioning any name in the text of the post. Let's see if this works... :) 

2013-05-16 08:47:13 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 13 +1s)

Haha, I kid because I love. :)

#GoodOldDays  

2013-05-15 21:23:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Google+ 2.0 is here
// Yippie, I have the just announced new Google+ interface! Meanwhile it's been 4-5 months and I still don't have Facebook Graph Search...

2013-05-15 19:06:48 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

New #googleplus  design coming up!
// At Google  #io13  a redesign of G+ has been announced, featuring a tiled interface. Watch the video below!
#googleplusupdate  

2013-05-15 06:11:05 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Epic social media fail of the day: Samy&Amy

// Meet Samy and Amy of the Amy’s Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro, recently featured on Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares. It seems they have a bad temper which they showed on the episode.

- Gordon Ramsey: Your wife can not take criticism, why is that?
- Samy: Ask her that, I have the same problem

But they really went overboard on their FB page... :)

Read the hilarious posts on BuzzFeed http://bit.ly/180N6VF

That said, the next day they are saying they were hacked...  
Obviously our Facebook, YELP, Twitter and Website have been hacked. We are working with the local authorities as well as the FBI computer crimes unit to ensure this does not happen again. We did not post those horrible things. Thank You Amy &Samy

via +Howard Pinsky and +Sara Carter 

2013-05-13 20:34:24 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

Simple but effective : "My orientation toward Google+ (and social media in general) is what I call the NPR Model. My role is to curate good stories that entertain, enlighten, and inspire people 365 days a year. My goal is to earn the right to promote my books, companies, or causes to them just as NPR earns the right to run fundraising telethons from time to time."

2013-05-13 18:28:37 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Space rock: Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station covers David Bowie's classic "Space Oddity" and Canada is making people remember how cool space is :) 
http://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo

2013-05-12 17:14:13 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Mother's day on Google

// It's #mothersday  in many countries around the world today and Google has a special doodle. 
Read more about the process here http://bit.ly/12njTBO or dig through the #html / #css / #javascript code here http://bit.ly/ZSrTHV

Oh, and remember to wish your mother!!

2013-05-09 10:16:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

It seems that a lot of people misunderstand the blocking feature.  

I'm so well acquainted with this feature of Google+ that I thought I'd give everyone a little refresher course!

What blocking does (as in the image below - I used my husband's profile as an example, since he won't mind and I won't be blocking him LOL)

Blocking will only keep someone from commenting on your content.

Blocking someone keeps you from seeing THEIR posts in your stream, but if you never had them circled, you wouldn't anyway, so kind of pointless there Google but whatever.

Blocked people STILL SEE YOUR PUBLIC POSTS <-- most common misconception.

Blocked people are removed from your circles IF you had them circled to begin with.  If you did not have them circled, obviously nothing happens.
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2013-05-07 16:00:49 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Free eBook for web designers
//  +Smashing Magazine is promoting it's Smashing Library service and they are offering a free eBook with a collection of some of their best articles. Contents include: 
- Designing For The Reading Experience 
- Logical Breakpoints For Your Responsive Design 
- Sketching A New Mobile Web
- Towards A Retina Web
- Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Free
- Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
- Building Something That Your Users Will Actually Want To Buy
- “But The Client Wants IE 6 Support!”
- Passive Income Strategies For Web Designers
- Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers
- The Art Of Film Title Design Throughout Cinema History
- Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?

Follow the link to download it (you also get signed up to the theirnewslett... more »

2013-05-06 19:18:39 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

First video of Google Glass interface

// Over at +Android Police, +Ron Amadeo has probably the first video of the #googleglass  interface, recorded with a macro lens (which is why the quality of the image is not great).

See the video below and read the first impressions here http://bit.ly/ZBGlUL h/t to +Chris Foote for the link

2013-05-06 16:36:38 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

10+1 Google Plus Rules of Engagement

Probably due to some algorithm change on Google's part, recently I have started being added by quite a few new "just signed-up" users. As a small thank you, here are some tips on starting out on G+ written by +Alex Garcia (plus one at the end from me)

These are not the 10 commandments. Just a basic list of things you should consider when you interact with others and what to expect as a result.

1) Followers are not a free gift granted for completing your profile.
Unless you are a celebrity or a known brand you will have to build your own audience.

2) Signing up does not entitle you to interesting stuff streaming in your home page.
All you get it's "What's Hot". Probably the most overrated content in G+. If you don't like it, you can remove it with the tool... more »

2013-05-06 06:54:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

OMG, it's full of cubes!
// More +three.js fun! :) 
h/t +Misha M.-Kupriyanov 

2013-05-05 21:41:58 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 10 +1s)

No, this isn't Flash either

// Scary (in terms of the data) / awesome (in terms of the development part behind it) example of +three.js, a #javascript  library for creating 3D scenes. 

See it live here http://bit.ly/w-arms

2013-05-03 16:50:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Fillerati: Jules Verne and more instead of lorem ipsum
// Cool alternative to lorem ispum!

h/t +Giorgos Grispos

2013-05-01 23:36:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Jazz up your web page with Spritely
// A simple and fun 3D effect using a background sprite.

2013-04-28 18:54:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is not how HTML/CSS should be used! Part II
// CSS taken to Hyperspace! Next stop? :) 

2013-04-27 23:14:14 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

"Cute device"

// Legendary science fiction writer Bruce Sterling tried on #googleglass  on a +Robert Scoble presentation at the +NEXT Berlin conference. His response: "Cute device" and "There's a very 1980's feeling about it" :)

See the video http://bit.ly/186Tqcg at 8:58', overall an interesting discussion with the audience on the ramifications on every day life, privacy and the ways we interact with each other. 

2013-04-27 17:11:51 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Logstalgia: Visualising Apache logs

// Argh! The moment of anger when you find a cool weekend project but realize you don't really have a free weekend sometime soon :) 

Logstalgia is a website traffic visualization that replays or streams web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and an never ending torrent of requests. Requests appear as colored balls (the same color as the host) which travel across the screen to arrive at the requested location. Successful requests are hit by the paddle while unsuccessful ones (eg 404 - File Not Found) are missed and pass through.

If you do have a free weekend and some Apache logs, get the source code here http://bit.ly/c-logstalgia

#ftl

2013-04-24 22:18:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Cutting things down: the art of refining a design?
I've been obsessively removing stuff from my site, initially things like social media buttons and random photos, and now more drastically tag clouds, recents comments and even the full sidebar in the posts pages. Am I on the right path? :) 

(Btw, try out my G+ comments on the page :))  

2013-04-23 17:29:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Social media cross-posting with Friends+me
// A look at a new service for people who use Google+ as their main social network, +Friends+Me

2013-04-22 20:51:18 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Newton's playground: Javascript physics engines

There's been quite a lof of progress in this field lately, using technologies like #canvas and #WebGL, here are some recent developments.

Thanks to: 
+Justin Windle +Veljko Sekelj +Lo Sauer +Steve Mayne

2013-04-20 08:56:47 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Look, I have a notification about... something

// The badge icon says I have a notification in the #Google+ app. So I open it, and click app's notifications counter.

And I see this. Some (specified) people did something but it doesn't tell me what. Some other people whose names are mentioned did something else (or perhaps the same action) in probably another post, which could be one of my own or someone else's. But on the next one I'm lucky and it fits to mention that someone +1d my post! And so on, and so on...

I'm not sure if my frustration with this terrible #UI #design choice has been made apparent by now... :)

2013-04-19 06:21:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Blogger and the Holy Grail of unified comments

// Google announced an amazing feature for people blogging on G+: integration of all comments about Blogger posts with the comments on the original Blogger post. This is my first post on Blogger but it could also be the last. Read my concerns, join the discussion :) 

2013-04-18 18:55:01 (12 comments, 5 reshares, 3 +1s)

Google+ Comments now in Blogger, soon everywhere?

// Probably the first step towards a full-fledged commenting system, #Blogger now integrates it's comments with #Google +. So #comments on shares of a link of a Blogger post will appear in the comments section of said post. This post is actually a comment made on the post announcing the new feature. Did I make you dizzy already? :) 

This could tempt me to move my blogging to Blogger... :) 

Crazy thought: how about also integrating the comments of re-shares of any G+ post in the comments of the original G+ post? ;)

2013-04-18 05:57:00 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Now this IS parallax!

// I'm not a big fan of parallax scrolling sites. Mainly because it is CPU-intensive which means that you will have people with a bad experience and by definition you are constrained to a small number of "pages" which means that you can only use it for small sites and you can't upgrade such a site easily (you will end up re-designing it). 

But this 2012 wish card mini-site of Soleil Noir is simply beautifully done: 
- Vertically scrolling that makes sense: the content is linear (you're supposed to read each page after the other) and extremely short so quick flipping through it is actually needed as opposed to clicking on a menu where the use pauses to think about what he needs to do
- Animations are not only part of the scroll but continue after you've reached a key point giving the impression of a "livep... more »

2013-04-12 01:45:17 (17 comments, 81 reshares, 70 +1s)

This is not how HTML and CSS should be used!

// Some fun coding by Peter Westendorp: "Tunnel vision 3D" with CSS. As Peter writes: "This is an experiment to demonstrate the power of CSS and modern browsers. This is not how HTML and CSS should be used." :D

See it live here http://bit.ly/10SvqbK

2013-04-10 05:02:04 (2 comments, 6 reshares, 13 +1s)

This is the Internet!

// Openly accessible data + open source development + open technologies = awesome :) 

The people at Teehan+Lax have developed a method to create timelapse videos using imagery from Google Street View. They call it Google Street View Hyperlapse and you can see the amazing video that you can produce as well, along with links to the source code here http://vimeo.com/63653873

2013-04-04 09:28:39 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Full size photo uploads: G+ winning the tech war on Facebook

// In the latest #googleplusupdate, you can now upload the full-sized photos and G+ will serve them accordingly: Initially you get a reduced (but great quality) version but you can zoon and pan to see more detail!

How to have this: To enable full-size desktop uploads, just visit your settings at https://www.google.com/settings/plus, and check "Upload my photos at full size." Afterwards, any files larger than 2048px will count towards your Google storage (up to 5GB free). Photo storage at 2048px or smaller remains free and unlimited.

Meanwhile, Facebook still can't keep up, probably not having enough servers/storage to handle better quality in their photos. See also this experiment by +Mike Elgan http://bit.ly/10y7JUH 

Finally, a reminder on how to zoom (try it on this 2448 x 3264p... more »

2013-04-03 20:10:56 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Social media cross-posting with Fotostat

// I've been expanding the number of social networks I use, almost like an addict lately :) So I've been looking for a way to administer my addiction in an easier way. I had an automation between G+, Twitter and my Wordpress blog (so I was only posting on G+) and additionally was cross-posting to Facebook and LinkedIn through Hootsuite. 

Today I'm trying out +Fotostat, a new service currently in beta for posting your photos (but also text, this post was written on fotostat) as well as gather statistics about them. To copy the service's description: 
- Save time by scheduling your uploads to multiple social photography sites, blogs and merchant facilities.  
- Discover how well each photo is performing by seeing all available statistics from each of your networks.  
- Interact with your followers bycom... more »

2013-04-03 09:22:55 (1 comments, 28 reshares, 12 +1s)

Just because you can: GUI icons with pure CSS

// Inspired by an elegant piece of CSS code by +Lea Verou, creating the WiFi code (see it here http://bit.ly/wificss), I searched for other examples of this and found this little gem: A demo of 84 icons created with just CSS by +Nicolas Gallagher.

Nicolas calls it's a "technical exercise" but given that this was done back in 2010 and support for the methods used is much wider now, the code should be working in all modern browsers. 

You can see it in action and dig into the code here http://bit.ly/css-gui-icons

2013-04-01 15:19:44 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Charts with Javascript: even more ways to kill Flash

// Javascript-powered chart solutions is a favorite topic of mine, so here are a few more options for you

- NVD3 (http://nvd3.org/) builds upon the powerful D3 library and currently supports 11 different interactive chart types

- Rickshaw (http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/) also built on D3, can be used for live-data time graphs with 4 customisable chart types 

_ gRaphaël (http://g.raphaeljs.com/) is based on Raphaël and has 4 different chart types including a dot chart

- YUI charts (http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/charts/) is part of the YUI library and supports 7 chart types

- Polychart.js (http://polychartjs.com/) has 5 chart types which can be combined. 

Depending on your situation and needs any of this could work, but surelyNVD... more »

2013-03-31 19:13:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Draft: cloud text-editing for any anything anywhere

// I've written about #Draft already a few days ago http://bit.ly/g-draft when it was "just" a web-based text #editor for #Dropbox and Google Drive with version control and collaboration features. 

But I need to write again as a #Chrome extension was released that redefined how you can use Draft. I'll just copy the developer's (+Nathan Kontny) description: 

Any webpage that you can write on, you can now use Draft with. Your blog, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, even comment boxes on websites like Reddit and Hacker News. Just place your cursor in the box you want to write in, click the Chrome Draft extension, and Draft will open up in a new Chrome Tab. Choose an already written document or something new to write in Draft (any text from the original text box will carry over). When you're done,t... more »

2013-03-30 07:37:00 (0 comments, 7 reshares, 3 +1s)

Twitter Cards: Engage!

// Just 6 days after my submission for inclusion on the #TwitterCards program, I got in and in the screenshot you can see the result: whenever someone tweets a URL of my blog, an "expanded view" will be available with a title, short description, thumbnail, my name and #Twitter  handle

It also works on the mobile (iOS at least) app. See it live here http://bit.ly/t-cardtweet and read more about it here http://bit.ly/g-twitter-cards

2013-03-24 15:21:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Improve links to your site on Twitter with Twitter Cards

// Announced since last July, Twitter Cards is Twitter's equivalent (or "answer" if you like tech drama) to the Open Graph. By defining a set of #meta #tags in your #HTML code you can provide instructions to #Twitter in order to display an "expanded" preview of your page, when your page's URL is included in a tweet. 

Twitter Cards come in 3 types: 
- summary: The default card, which includes a title, description, thumbnail image, and Twitter account attribution.
- photo: A Tweet sized photo card.
- player: A Tweet sized video/audio/media player card.

Basically, you can use the first for article pages (think of blogs), the second for pages where the main content is a photo (e.g. Instagram) and the third one for pages of videos (e.g. YouTube). ... more »

2013-03-23 20:31:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Tracking shares before they happen (or even if they don't happen)?
// A tricky question poped up in my Quora home page: Is it possible to check, if somebody requested your site's #meta #tags ?

The logic behind this is that you could track social shares even if the user doesn't complete the process (load's up the URL on Facebook or a sharing widget) and then quits. 

My suggestion and response on Quora was that one can use the og:image tag. Declare a specific image that is only used on the og:image tag. Then check the Apache logs for requests to that image.

You will have when someone started the sharing process. You won't have when the shared page is shown in Facebook, because what is shown is a cached thumbnail that Facebook keeps. On that thought, you might want to have a dynamic URL for the image because the first time someone... more »

2013-03-23 13:29:02 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 5 +1s)

HTC cloned Jony Ive!
// The "evidence" :) 
1) Video of Jony Ive on Apple's unibody process http://youtu.be/lJx6cF-H__I
2) Video of HTC's Daniel Hundt on the zero-gap process http://youtu.be/pDjfh5mFWUc

2013-03-22 11:50:53 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Quora, a Google+ blogging alternative?
// I generally detest article headlines that pose questions rather than provide a definite position, but I'm undecided on this one. 

Recently, #Quora upgraded their Boards feature, renaming the Blogs. The standard features include:
- a quora.com subdomain of your choice
- set a title, logo/avatar image and #blog description
- choice of set of basic categories that show up on the right side of the pages, acting as navigation links to your blog's archives
- categories are linked to Quora existing set of topics
- your blog posts can be linked to either your main categories or other Quora topics
- limited HTML editor for your posts
- statistics on views per post, with monthly archives, including which specific users viewed your posts
- multiple authors per blog allowed
- easy posting... more »

2013-03-21 17:38:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How to create an infographic from your Google Analytics data
// Well, there's not much to say here. People love #infographics for visualising information and numbers in an easy to consume manner. People also love #GoogleAnalytics for an endless amount of #statistics about their website. 

Now you can combine both with a few clicks on the free tool by Visual.ly. The process is relatively simple, you connect +Visually with your GA account, select the website you want the report of, and you're done. You get a result for the last week, like the one shown on the screenshot (you get the typical long form, but I've re-arranged it to fit better on a page). You can also set to have a weekly report sent to your e-mail address. 

Try it out here: http://bit.ly/visually-ga

Found via +Jules Stuifbergen 

2013-03-19 16:59:03 (4 comments, 10 reshares, 15 +1s)

Does your company know what the internet is?
//UPDATE: The situation has been sorted out, the project is back online normally http://www.chartjs.org/

// Yesterday I wrote (http://bit.ly/g-chartjs) about Chart.js, a new library for javascript/canvas-based charts. A day later, the site is down with a note shown in the screenshot, basically explaining how the developer's employer doesn't like the idea of #OpenSource . 

Here's the outcome so far after a few hours:
- The code was removed from the original Github repository but of course has been copied (here http://bit.ly/chartjs-fork along with at least 92(!) forks) and it's not about to be ever deleted completely
- The angry commentators at Hacker News are already looking for the name of the company http://bit.ly/chartjs-hackernews

This is bound to get some press soon...
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2013-03-18 13:32:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Chart.js: cross-browser, animated, HTML5 charts
//Non-Flash charts is a favourite topic of mine (see more here http://bit.ly/g-chart), basically because charts have been one of the last things Flash could do that HTML couldn't. This of course has been changing a lot the last few years. 

Another very recent (released yesterday!) example of is Chart.js. It packs: 
- 6 animated chart types: Line, bars, radar, pie, polar area and doughnut
- Canvas-based vector output which means crystal clear graphics at any resolution
- Cross-browser support on modern browsers, support for IE8 and below through ExplorerCanvas
- No Flash = Mobile-ready (kind of obvious since it's HTML5 but worth noting) 
- Lightweight and very good documentation (for a 0.1 release) 

Get Chart.js here http://bit.ly/chartjs

(Found via +Michael Mahemoff and+Step... more »

2013-03-17 12:16:48 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 2 +1s)

Text editing on the cloud: Draft
// I've been using Dropbox for some time now to access work files from home or when travelling. But when I've recently had to work on a closed down Windows PC that I couldn't install anything, I had to get further "deeper" into the #cloud. :) 

I've been keeping quick notes in text files stored in Dropbox so how could I edit them without login on Dropbox, downloading them, editing them and then uploading them again? 

Luckily, I've found an excellent new service for that, Draft http://bit.ly/draftincom It combines a clear interface focused on writing, #MarkDown support for formatting and connections to #Dropbox , Google Drive, Evernote and Box. Any change on the document is automatically saved back to the service it originated. 

On top of that, you can keep multiple versions of yourdo... more »

2013-03-16 22:03:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Blog redesigned - comments?
// I hadn't touched my blog's design for a bit over year, so I thought it was time for a refresh. Yes, In case you haven't noticed, I have a blog at which contains a full (an indexed) archive of all my Google+ posts. 

So over the last 20 months I have ended up writing about a big variety of topics and I realised people probably would not want to scroll through the entire article to get to the next one. So the content on the homepage and category pages needed to be "compressed". Also the big header was taking up to much space, pushing everything down. 

With that in mind, this redesign set out to achieve the following: 
- Provide a cleaner layout with emphasis on content (kind of obvious but still) 
- On the home page and category pages, give instant access to more content 
- Improve navigation options byrepl... more »

2013-03-15 12:49:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Google Reader is dead, long live Feedly

// As I was writing (http://bit.ly/YvRWmi) when the #GoogleReader death was announced, the race is on for a new king of #RSS readers. 

Of the 4 that I tried the last 2 days, here's the outcome: 
- The Old Reader: imported everything (but only current copies of the feeds, not the Google #Reader archive (which has about 1000 more unread article  and works fine (with the exception of photos on the Shorpy feed but that is something none of the readers get right)
- Netvibes: imported everything including the article archive but the interface is not very appealing 
- NewsBlur: in order to manage the extra load, they reduced their capacity of 64 feeds to 12 for the free account so that case is dropped for me.
- #Feedly: imported all feeds and article archive, has an excellent interfacewith m... more »

2013-03-14 01:10:12 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Google Reader's death is an opportunity, but for who?

// So #Google is killing Google Reader, messing with the image they have been building for years that "Google can do everything for everyone". #Reader has been the definitive #web-based #RSS reader service for years. That said the race is one for it's replacement. And things are not looking good in terms of instantly responding to demand. Here is my experience so far: 

The Old Reader imported 3 out of 20 subscriptions and is giving my a message that the rest are being imported in the background. That was some 40 minutes ago. The 3 subscriptions are loading fine though, with the exception of photos on the Shorpy feed  http://theoldreader.com/

Netvibes imported all of my subscriptions but loading feeds is very slow or does not happen at all at the moment http://www.netvibes.com/... more »

2013-03-10 11:53:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Today on the other hand...
//
- Can be the first day of the rest of your life, if you so choose. Choose wisely.
Is an opportunity to decide if you like the path you're on, or if you need new direction.
- Is an opportunity to start building new habits, changing the you of tomorrow.
- Is an opportunity to say "yes" to something you normally say "no" to. New experiences bring growth.
- Is an opportunity to say "no" to something unhealthy that's a part of your routine. Change is good.
- Is an opportunity to make one better decision than you did yesterday, in life, love, health, or wealth.
- Is an opportunity to be better than you were yesterday.
- Is an opportunity to do NOW what you were going to put off until tomorrow.
- Is the ONLY thing you can truly control.

Proceed accordingly. 

Source:... more »

2013-02-21 04:55:06 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

Public service announcement

// Then again, I'm afraid the internet would be half empty if we followed this rule... :)
via +Kay Kulkarni